We embed a recruiting team inside your startup and deliver 15 to 25 vetted, culture-matched candidates in week one, on a flat fee that pays us the same no matter what your hire earns.
For venture-backed software and AI startups, Pre-Seed to Series B and beyond.
Trusted by venture-backed founders
$4M ARR in 5 months
Founded by Ian Crosby
Founded by Alex Steele
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Answer a few quick questions about the role. If we're a fit, you'll book a call at the end, and we immerse in your team and launch the search.
Results depend on role requirements, market conditions, candidate availability, and founder participation in the hiring process.
Pricing & economics
Flat $25,000 per search, or $40,000 for leadership roles at $400k+. See what that saves you against a contingency agency.
A percentage of first-year salary, paid on placement. The fee rises with every dollar you offer.
Executive search, paid in thirds whether or not they deliver. Typically 25–33% of first-year compensation.
Recruiter marketplace. Typically 20–25% of first-year salary, or a set bounty of roughly $10k–$30k per role.
Embedded recruiter, roughly $8k–$15k a month, billed whether or not the seat gets filled. The longer the search runs, the more it costs.
Salary plus tooling, before a single hire and before ramp. Hard to justify below a steady pipeline of roles.
Flat, per search. $40,000 for leadership roles paid above $400k. It does not move when the salary does.
Comparison rates and timelines are typical published ranges for each model, not quotes. Market time-to-hire is the 2026 benchmark for the selected role; each model is adjusted from it using published time-to-fill differences. Output not lost uses our own model for an open senior seat. Your numbers will vary, so bring them to the call. Role time-to-hire benchmarks: TechHiringCost and Talmatic.
No monthly fees, no long-term contract. A defined search with a clear outcome.
A full-time recruiter runs $100k–$150k+ plus tooling and ramp time. You get the whole function on demand, per search.
Speed, placement, and replacement guarantees cover every version of "what if it doesn't work?"
The process
The timeline isn't a promise pulled from thin air. It's a sequence.
For founders
You raised money to build a product, and now you're the bottleneck on hiring the people who build it. Screening resumes is the most expensive way you could spend an hour. Hand off the search and get back to product, customers, and the raise.
The third option
Doing it yourself costs you weeks you don't have. Percentage agencies get paid more when your hire costs you more. ConnectPath is the third option: an embedded, internal-style recruiting system with agency-level output, internal-level fit, and a flat fee that puts us on your side of the table.
Your recruiter
Founder & Head of Recruitment/Operations
Alland runs every search like it's his own company on the line. He works founder to founder: embedded with your team, inside your process, accountable to the 21-day clock and the guarantees behind it.
Head of Systems & Tech
Adamo builds the systems ConnectPath runs on: the sourcing tooling, the screening rubric every candidate is measured against, and the live dashboard you watch your search through. He works alongside Alland on client success, and he also owns how the offer is positioned, including the words on this page.
The mechanism
Why this works when everything you've already tried failed. Four pillars, none of which a traditional agency can copy.
Proprietary AI sources qualified candidates at a speed manual recruiting can't touch, and it gets smarter with every search. An agency's sourcing is the same on day 1,000 as day one. Ours compounds.
AI finds them. A senior recruiter vets them. Every candidate is screened and interviewed against a role-specific rubric before you ever see them. You get a shortlist, not a resume pile.
We spend time inside your company, meeting your team and learning how you actually work, so the engineers we send fit the way you build. And stay.
We're paid the same whether your engineer earns $200k or $400k. Zero incentive to inflate salaries. We optimize for best fit, fastest close, most cost-effective offer.
Proof
The pattern is always the same: vetted candidates in week one, first hire in 21 days.
The ad network for AI, serving millions of native ads a day inside LLM conversations.
Autonomous AI bookkeeping for software startups, from Bench founder Ian Crosby.
AI marketing optimization from ex-Tesla growth leaders, backed by Caffeinated Capital.
Roles we place
Senior engineering first. Key leadership when it matters most.
And dozens of other tech-startup roles, sourced and vetted the same way.
Old way vs ConnectPath
Contingency recruiting orbits the same problems. The embedded model removes them.
The old way
The embedded model
Fit check
The engagement fee is itself a filter. It ensures we only work with companies serious enough to move.
This is for you if
This is not for you if
Bonuses
If your hire leaves in the first 90 days, we refill the seat at no additional fee. Risk, removed.
Know exactly what it takes to attract top talent in your market without overpaying for it. Included free.
After your first placement, jump the line on your next hire within 90 days and keep building momentum.
The triple guarantee
Speed
If we don't present qualified candidates within the first 14 days, we continue the search at no additional cost until we do.
Placement
If we don't deliver a qualified hire within 21 days, you choose: we keep working free until we do, or you take a full refund and walk.
Replacement
If a placed candidate leaves within 90 days, voluntarily or for cause, we run a free replacement search at no additional professional fee.
An open senior seat is never neutral. Every week you wait, the math gets worse. Here is the monthly damage on a $250k role. Close it in 21 days.
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