Seed and Series A
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Hire your first ten
without a recruiter or HR.
You are eight people. Your time is the constraint, not the budget. You have never hired before and you do not yet know what good looks like for the role. Every hire is existential. Picked runs the screen, the assessment, and the first-round interview. You read three short profiles on Friday morning. You pick one. You get back to building.
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What you said, last quarter
Three things seed and series a leaders told us.
Mon 23:04
"I have eight people and nine open roles and a board meeting on Thursday. The last thing I have is two weeks to read CVs."
· Founder · Seed AI, 12 people
Wed 06:30
"I have never hired a designer before. I do not know what to ask. I do not know what good looks like in a portfolio review."
· Founder · Seed consumer, 9 people
Fri 17:55
"I made a hire in month four. It was a mistake. The wrong-hire cost is two months of runway."
· CEO · Series A SaaS, 18 people
How Picked addresses each
Three answers. One pipeline.
Your week stays yours.
Post a role in eight minutes. The screen, the assessment, and the first-round interview all run without you. Three finalists arrive in your inbox on Friday with the full transcripts and the score breakdown. You read for ten minutes.
↓ Triage and AI screen
You do not need to know what good looks like.
The rubric is built from eight years of psychometric science, ported from Neuroworx. We calibrate it per role family. For your first product hire, your first sales hire, your first head of engineering, the bar is encoded. You can tune it after you have hired three of the role and developed your own taste.
↓ Decision engine
Three real people, not eighty CVs.
The existential decision is between three vetted candidates, not a stack of paper. Each one has a real conversation on record, a role-fit score with evidence, and a behavioural interview. The wrong-hire risk drops to the risk of disagreeing with the AI, which you can override.
↓ Ranked shortlist
What Friday looks like
Three founders' first hires,
in one quarter.
3
vetted finalists, per role
48h
post to shortlist
$23
total spend on a 23-candidate role
1
hire made, week eight, still there
From the beta
"I had no idea how to hire a head of engineering. Picked screened forty-one applicants, ran the interviews while I was on a flight, and sent me three. I picked one. He is still here. The whole thing cost me less than one agency intro call."
Founder · Seed AI
12 people, Series A in progress
Quotes paraphrased from beta sessions, May 2026. Named, consented quotes ship with V1.
For seed founders, the alternative is:
DIY with LinkedIn and your inbox
Free, except the 60 hours per role
The time cost is the real cost at this stage.
A specialist seed-stage recruiter
$8k to $25k per hire
Usually 20% of first-year salary, with retainer.
One agency intro call
$500 per hour
Discovery, no candidates.
Picked.ai
$0.99 per AI-vetted candidate
First 50 free. No contract. Stop any time.
Your time is the cap.
First role.
Friday.
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