Run early hiring yourself without building a recruiting team. Turn a role brief into a ranked shortlist, approve outreach before it is sent, and review structured SAM interview evidence before you decide who to meet.
AI handles search and first-round screening. You decide who to meet and who to hire.
Before a startup has recruiting headcount, every search, message, and first conversation competes with building the company.
There is no recruiter to write the search, find candidates, and run first screens, so the work falls to founders and early team leads.
Searching profiles, writing messages, and running first calls pulls the same people away from product, customers, and fundraising.
Agency searches are usually priced per placement. ConnectDevs uses a flat monthly plan with no placement fees. Plans start at $99/month with transparent, flat-rate pricing. No hidden fees, no per-hire commissions, and no percentage-based markups. You can upgrade or downgrade anytime — no contracts or commitments.
When whoever is free runs the first call, candidates for the same role get asked different questions and are hard to compare.
Only capabilities that are live in ConnectDevs today. You approve outreach and decide who to meet.
One workspace from brief to interview evidence, so a founder can run a search without stitching together separate tools.
Describe the role in plain language. Scout ranks relevant public profiles so you start with a focused list instead of a blank search box.
Pick the people worth talking to and send each a secure interview link via email, without booking a first call yourself.
Compare transcripts, strengths, and follow-up areas before you spend founder time on interviews.
ConnectDevs takes repetitive search and first-round screening work off a founder's plate. You still write the brief, approve every outreach campaign, decide who is invited to interview, and decide who to meet and hire.
Hiring decisions stay with people; ConnectDevs organizes evidence for accountable review.
ConnectDevs does not claim guaranteed response rates, guaranteed time-to-hire, elimination of hiring bias, or background and reference checks. Plan to run those steps, and your own final interviews, yourself.
An AI recruiter for startups should let a founder turn a role brief into a focused candidate search, keep outreach under the founder's approval, run the same structured first-round questions for every candidate, and return reviewable evidence, while the founder decides who to meet and hire.
ConnectDevs is aimed at founders and early teams hiring without recruiting headcount. Evaluate it against one live role, not a generic demo.
This page focuses on founders hiring for their own startup. Agencies should see the staffing-agency page, and hiring managers who own a requisition should see the hiring-manager page.
| Founder need | What to test | ConnectDevs stage | Your checkpoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| No recruiting headcount | Can you run a search from a plain-language brief? | Role brief + Scout | Approve the brief and criteria |
| Focused shortlist | Relevance of ranked candidates to your brief | Scout + enrichment | Choose who is worth contacting |
| Outreach you control | Messages reviewed before they are sent | Pilot | Approve every campaign |
| Consistent first screens | Every candidate asked the questions you would ask | SAM interviews | Review reports before meeting anyone |
| Predictable cost | Monthly plan vs. per-placement fees | Pricing | Pick the plan that fits your volume |
Use ConnectDevs to search, shortlist, reach out, and run structured first-round interviews from one brief. Do not treat it as a replacement for your own final interviews, reference checks, or the decision about who joins the team.
The same workflow covers technical and non-technical roles. Scout searches 800M+ public professional profiles, which is most useful where candidates have a public professional footprint.
Plans start at $99/month with transparent, flat-rate pricing. No hidden fees, no per-hire commissions, and no percentage-based markups. You can upgrade or downgrade anytime — no contracts or commitments. There is a Free plan to start; compare credits, emails, and seats on the pricing page.
Start free or book a demo with a live role, and see the shortlist and interview evidence ConnectDevs produces from your brief.
Answers for founders hiring without a recruiting team about workflow, time, outreach, interviews, pricing, and who decides.
AI recruiting for startup founders is software that helps a founder run early hiring without a dedicated recruiter: turning a role brief into a candidate search, building a shortlist, reaching out, and running first-round interviews. ConnectDevs connects those steps in one workspace, and the founder decides who to meet and who to hire.
ConnectDevs is built for founder-led hiring. Scout searches 800M+ public professional profiles from your role brief, you shortlist the people worth contacting, and SAM runs structured first-round interviews. You still own the brief, the outreach approvals, and every decision. Many founders keep a recruiter or agency for specialist or senior searches and use ConnectDevs for the rest.
You stay involved where your judgment matters: writing the role brief, reviewing the ranked shortlist, approving outreach, and reading SAM interview reports before deciding who to meet. ConnectDevs handles the search, runs the first-round interviews, and organizes the evidence in one place, so those steps do not have to be rebuilt across separate tools.
You do. Pilot runs email campaigns that you review and approve before anything is sent, where outreach is available on your plan. Candidates you invite to interview receive a secure interview link via email.
SAM asks every candidate for a role the same structured, role-specific questions and returns structured role-specific interview evidence for recruiter review, including transcripts and summaries. SAM interviews are currently conducted in English. Use the reports to decide who to meet; they do not replace your own interviews.
No. ConnectDevs does not reject, hire, or make offers to candidates on its own, and it does not run background checks. It organizes job-related evidence so you can review candidates consistently. Hiring decisions stay with you.
There is a Free plan to start. Plans start at $99/month with transparent, flat-rate pricing. No hidden fees, no per-hire commissions, and no percentage-based markups. You can upgrade or downgrade anytime — no contracts or commitments. Review current plans, credits, and seats on the pricing page.
Run one open role through the full workflow with a written definition of who you would want to meet. Check whether the shortlist matches your brief, whether outreach stays under your approval, whether the interview reports give you enough evidence to decide, and what the plan costs per month.
The product pages this founder hiring workflow builds on.
