A search needs continuous hours. Everyone already has a full-time job that is not this one, which is why founder-run pipelines stall in the gaps between deploys and customer calls even when the bar itself is clear. Mira runs the loop. You keep the brief, the bar, and the interviews.
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 usage. Company-reported delivery clock lives on the interview-scheduling page.
Same loop as the rest of the product. The bar, the outreach approval, and the interviews stay with you.
You still own the brief, the bar, and the interviews. Nobody else has to.
A paused search decays. Mira keeps it moving while you ship the product.
Mira keeps sourcing, approved outreach, screening, and scheduling moving while you run the company.
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.
Ask how hiring is going and you hear about the pipeline. Ask to see it and you find twelve tabs, a spreadsheet last touched nine days ago, and four half-written messages. None of the stages is hard alone. What is hard is that they arrive continuously, and the person doing them is also closing a customer, fixing a deploy, and raising a round. A sourcing seat makes the finding stage faster for whoever operates it. If the operator is the founder, in the gaps, the seat changed nothing.
No sourcing muscle, no dedicated recruiter. Write the role once, and interviews land while you ship. Hiring managers in the same bind have their page.
The reply from Tuesday is not frozen while you ship a launch. The loop keeps moving when you do not. That is the arithmetic, not a character test.
SHRM's published contingency band is 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash. The $99 Starter subscription is a different shape. Fee analysis.
Plans step up to 5 AI Agents and 27,000 Credits at Scale. You still approve outreach and take interviews.
Credits meter usage: 10 per contact unlock, 100 per Deep Search list, and 3,000 per additional AI Agent above the plan allowance. Annual prices are billed yearly.
Monthly list prices. Annual equivalents: $89 / $179 / $269 / $449 per month, billed as $1,068 / $2,148 / $3,228 / $5,388 yearly. Trial: 14 days, one-time 1 AI Agent + 500 Credits, no card.
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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.
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.
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.
The subscription bills for the selected term. Credits meter contact unlocks, Deep Search lists, and additional AI Agents, not candidate outcomes.
Write the brief once, then take fourteen days with no card while the bar stays where you set it.