Prism is an AI-native recruiting agency.

Tell Prism who to hire, and they find, engage, and deliver candidates ready to interview. Their people search scores 21+ points clear of published competitors on the leading industry benchmark.

Congrats on the launch, @theokitsberg & @AxelLaPira1!

https://ycombinator.com/launches/QOK-prism-ai-native-recruiting-agency…

Launch YC: Prism: AI-Native Recruiting Agency | Y Combinator

Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QOK-prism-ai-native-recruiting-agency Hey everyone 👋

We’reTheoandAxel— cofounders ofPrism.

TL;DR

Prism is an AI-native recruiting agency. You brief us on a Slack channel. We source, engage, and screen the candidates. You step in to interview and make the offer. You pay 15% of first-year salary when someone we find signs.

The engine underneath is the best people search in the world. We score 89.6 on the Public Sourcing Benchmark. This puts us 21+ points ahead of every published baseline and the benchmark was built and published by one of our direct competitors.

**Ask:**Hiring, or know someone who is? Reply here, DM, or grab a slot:https://cal.com/theokitsberg/30mins

❌The Problem

Hiring is a company killer. Founders spend a third of their time on it. Bad hires cost more than missed quarters. Good hires change companies.

And yet the work itself is brutal. Inbound is 95% noise. Outbound competes with everyone else’s outbound. Agencies are slow, expensive, and opaque. Software dumps thousands of half-relevant profiles on your desk and walks away.

The hardest part of hiring isn’t picking the tool. It’s doing the work.

🛠️Our Solution: an AI-native agency, built on the best people search in the world

**The best people search, independently verified.**89.6 on the Public Sourcing Benchmark. 21+ points clear of the next system. The benchmark was built and published by Lessie, one of our direct competitors. The judge is Gemini, not us. The methodology was pre-registered and the queries and harness are public. Anyone can reproduce it. Read the full paper here:tryprism.com/papers/people-search-benchmark.pdf

**Calibration, not just keywords.**We extract the hidden hiring criteria buried in your JD and your past hires. A few thumbs-up / thumbs-down on early candidates and the search converges fast.

**Outreach that converts.**We engage candidates across LinkedIn, email, and WhatsApp, with messages calibrated to the role and the person.

**Scale agencies physically can’t match.**We run dozens of searches in parallel today, every step instrumented. A traditional agency on a senior role has one human reading 20 profiles at a time. We read the whole web at once and use human time only where it actually matters.

**You brief us on Slack. We hand you a shortlist.**You handle the parts a founder should, which in our view are the interviews and the offer. Everything else is on us.

Pricing:$500 retainer to kick off a search. 15% of first-year salary when someone we find signs.

👬The Team

Theo (CEO)— Cambridge dropout. Built and ran recruiting and training for a UK crisis helpline. Published research with MIT’s Media Lab.

Axel (CTO)— Oxford dropout. Previously founder associate at Alan, the French healthtech unicorn, where he worked on internal recruiting infra.

(+ anamazing founding engineerandamazing in-house recruiter, both hired with Prism!)

🙏Our Ask

🔵**Hiring?**Run a search with us. Reply, DM, or grab a slot:https://cal.com/theokitsberg/30mins

🔵**Looking for your next role?**Meet Ray, our AI career advisor. One conversation and we’ll match you with companies hiring people like you. Freehere, takes a few minutes

Thanks!

Theo & Axel