Superposition

Building the recruiting agent for startups at https://t.co/u5CdYqMo25

Superposition is an AI headhunter built for startup founders who are losing half their week to sourcing engineers, salespeople, and operators. The agent handles sourcing, outreach, and scheduling, and surfaces interested candidates directly in Slack so founders interact with it like a teammate rather than another dashboard. It starts with a voice intake, usually around 30 minutes, where the agent learns the company, its values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring , which is the practical mechanism behind the launch film's thesis that good hiring comes from being asked the right questions about what you are actually building. The company is run by Edmund Cuthbert and Xiang Li. Cuthbert spent seven years as a recruiter and placed engineer number one at Brex, and is one of the rare recruiters who can also code, while Li was the first employee at Vitable Health (YC S20) and brings a fast-shipping product and design sensibility. The team rebranded from Boolio to Superposition earlier in 2025 after candid customer feedback. This launch matters because founder time is the scarcest resource at early-stage companies, and traditional search firms are expensive and generic. Superposition charges $500 per agent per month plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only, not equity or bonus, compared with the 20 to 30% first-year salary fees typical of retained recruiters who run a generic search across multiple clients at once. The agent instead goes deep on a single company, researching thousands of candidates to bring back specific fits, with interested candidates typically flagged within days and an average time to hire of about six weeks. The accompanying short film, a monologue from a fictional billionaire named Roger Mondrain, is the pitch in narrative form, arguing that excellence is not a sortable category and that hiring works only when a founder can say precisely who they are and what they are building.

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