AI executive search

Hire founding AI engineers and AI CTOs

Your first AI engineers define your product, your culture and your technical bar. We recruit founding engineers and CTOs for venture-backed AI startups: people who can build fast, make sound calls and attract the next hires.

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What we screen for

  • Zero-to-one product building
  • Full-stack AI engineering
  • Model selection and evaluation
  • Architecture
  • Hiring the founding team
  • Startup judgment

Startup-ready candidates

We screen for ownership, speed and comfort with ambiguity.

Equity-minded

Candidates who understand early-stage trade-offs.

Network effects

Great founding engineers bring their network with them.

Frequently asked questions

How fast can you deliver candidates?+

It depends on the role and the market. We agree on a timeline when we scope your search, and expert cohorts for data projects can often start sooner because we draw on people already in our network.

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