Hire your first people without a recruiter on staff.
Write the role once. Mira keeps the search moving while you build, and interviews land on your calendar.
A founding-engineer brief goes in. Metix AI runs the search. Booked interviews come back on a calendar. I dropped anyone whose last three years were a 80-person platform org with no product ownership. Founding seats fail when the first engineer expects a recruiter and a manager. 142 cleared the bar and were contacted. I ranked the 6 who came back by whether they have already been employee two or three.
Founding engineer. Booked interviews out.
I dropped anyone whose last three years were a 80-person platform org with no product ownership. Founding seats fail when the first engineer expects a recruiter and a manager.
Credits meter product usage, not candidates or outcomes.
Teams already hiring through Metix AI: MiniMax, Dyna Robotics, R3D3 Ventures, Snaplii, SagaLab.
One anonymized account · 6 weeks
No recruiter on the team. Still a full pipeline.
Metix AI contacted 1,596 unique people for this account. The bars show how far those conversations went.
Read the full customer case →- People contacted
- 1,596
- Said they were interested
- 141
- Resumes received
- 71
Company records through 12 August 2026. Each bar is a share of the people contacted. Interview booking was not switched on for this account, so its record stops at resumes. This is one account, not a forecast for your role.
A paused search goes cold. This one does not pause.
A search needs continuous hours. A founder has them in the gaps between deploys and customer calls.
What the week actually asks of you.
- 01 You · once
One brief, kept current
Role, bar, range, and dealbreakers, written while the need is still fresh.
- 02 You
You approve every message
Outreach goes out under your name, so approval is a real checkpoint.
- 03 Mira
The search that never pauses
Sourcing across 900M+ profiles, replies handled, and screening against the bar you approved.
- 04 You
You interview and decide
Calendar blocks arrive with screening evidence. Decision, offer, and hire stay yours.
Not sure the role is hireable yet? Run a Fast Search first. It uses 0 Credits and shows how many people fit before you put the role on an Agent. How Fast Search and Deep Search work.
How the product does this: Mira, the loop with no handoff back
The shortlist, the outreach, and the interview.
Hi Imani, this is a founding-engineer seat. There is no recruiter on staff. The founder still owns the interviews…
Needs your approvalProduct walkthrough for a sample role: Founding Engineer at Kite. Demo data, not a customer result.
Try it on the role you have open.
The free 14-day trial includes a one-time 1 AI Agent and 500 Credits. No card required.
Start free. Plans from $99 a month.
No card required. 500 Credits cover 5 Deep Search lists, and running a Fast Search uses 0 Credits.
Start with your hardest role →Credits meter usage: 10 per email unlock, 20 per phone-number unlock, 100 per Deep Search list, and 3,000 per additional AI Agent above the plan allowance. Work inside an active Agent's workflow uses 0 Credits. Full plans and annual prices.
Where this fits, and where it does not.
A good fit
- Your first engineer, or your fifth, with no sourcing muscle on the team.
- A search that stalls every time product work takes the week.
- A hire where an agency fee is the wrong size. SHRM's published contingency band is 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash. Fee analysis.
Not built for
- Skipping the interviews. You still take them and make the call.
- An applicant tracking system. Metix AI is not an ATS, and a calendar and an inbox are enough at the start.
The longer version
Pause a search and it dies, and that is not a metaphor. The candidate who replied with interest on Tuesday is talking to companies that have someone whose whole job is keeping that conversation moving, and by the time you circle back the reply is cold, which is how founder-run pipelines lose people they already had. Mira is the loop that does not wait for a gap in your calendar. You still decide. You just stop being the operator of every stage that is not a decision. Not sure the role is hireable yet? Run a Fast Search first: it uses 0 Credits and shows how many people fit before you put the role on an Agent.
Before you start.
What does a founder still have to do when Mira runs the search?
The employer-side work is four items: write and approve the role brief, approve the outreach that goes out under your name, keep the hiring bar current when Mira asks for a decision, and take the interviews. Everything between those points, sourcing, outreach, screening and scheduling, runs inside the loop. This site has not published an hours-per-week figure.
How is this different from buying a Recruiter seat and doing it yourself?
A seat is a search tool you still operate. Mira is the loop that keeps running when you do not: sourcing, approved outreach, screening, scheduling. You still write the brief, approve messages, and take interviews. Plans are subscriptions with usage Credits and AI Agents.
Do I need an ATS before using Metix AI?
No. Candidates arrive as booked first interviews with the screening evidence attached, so a calendar and an inbox are enough at the start. Teams that already run an ATS keep it; Metix AI is not an ATS and does not replace the system where you track applications, scorecards and offers.
What happens if no candidate clears the bar in a month?
The subscription bills for the selected term. Outside an AI Agent workflow, Credits meter contact unlocks, Deep Search lists, and additional AI Agents, not candidate outcomes. Work inside an active Agent's workflow uses 0 Credits.
Other desks and markets
The search keeps moving
while you build.
Write the brief once. Fourteen days, no card, and the bar stays where you set it.