How does it find candidates?

It reads the open web and builds its own profiles from repos, talks, papers, portfolios and company writing. Every person is researched before a message goes out. It looks beyond that, simulating who would fit in your company, who the people working at your company are. What's also important is that Laidback looks beyond criterias, but takes into account if it and your team will be able to take someone out of his current job and analyzes every persons career trajectory.

Why does the outreach come from us and not from Laidback?

Because a note from the person you'd work for, about the thing you built, gets answered. A note from a recruiter or agency doesn't. It writes it, you send it, and it handles everything after.

Do we need our talent team involved?

It works for whoever owns the role. If you have a recruiter, it writes to the ATS from day one and sends under whoever owns the req. If you don't, it's the sourcer you don't have.

Why a flat fee instead of paying on hire?

Fifteen percent of an €80,000 salary is €12,000, every hire, forever. Laidback is a working for its salary whether you hire once or six times, and the people it finds stay in your ATS.

What do we actually have to do?

Onboard it once. Calibrate each role until you recognise the person. Approve meetings, give feedback after calls, say yes or no when someone interesting turns up.

No. Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and Workday stay where they are. It writes notes, stages and outcomes back to them.

Laidback | Talent sourcing that runs itself

Laidback finds & schedules missionaries over mercenaries by focusing on upward growth trajectory and raw slope of talent, while handling hiring ops.

Laidback

97.8%

Juicebox

78.2%

Exa

74.6%

Parallel

70.9%

Brave

66.3%

Open paper

It runs your outbound hiring alongside
your team, learning every day.

Share whatever you have. Laidback gathers context from your brief, conversations, interviews and past hires, then simulates different talent pools so you can calibrate the search before it starts. Matthew

MatthewTest candidates on Moritz so you can learn the right pools.

LaidbackI'd challenge a literal experience floor.I'm testing three personas against Orpex's real pace, ownership and reachability constraints.Candidate simulationsFounder → builderOwns product end to end · 0→1 pace · reachableBest fitBig-lab standoutExcellent proof · compensation and interest mismatchExcludeSeasoned operatorStrong background · too senior for this environmentExcludeRun founder-to-builder search

Tell Laidback who you need.

Share whatever you have. Laidback gathers context from your brief, conversations, interviews and past hires, then simulates different talent pools so you can calibrate the search before it starts.

Laidback

#founding-engineer

Context gathered47 signals

Role brief12 signals

Slack18 signals

Interviews9 signals

Ideal profiles8 signals

Live search model

Production AI agentsHard gate

0→1 ownershipHard gate

Founder → builderRank up

Experience floorRemoved

CALIBRATION · ORPEX

Matthew 9:20

@Laidback test a few candidates on Moritz, so you can learn the pools to scale later.

Laidback APP

I'd challenge a literal six-year experience floor. Moritz wants someone unusually sharp who can learn fast, not a senior title. I'm testing how three candidate types perform inside Orpex's real environment.

Role briefSlack threadIdeal profileHiring feedback47 signals

Candidate simulations

How each persona fits the team, pace and constraints

Live model update

01Best fit

Founder → builder

Ex-founder now shipping agents at a 13-person AI company

Owns product end to end · 0→1 pace · reachable

02Exclude

Big-lab standout

MTS at a frontier AI lab with founder experience

Excellent proof · compensation and interest mismatch

03Exclude

Seasoned operator

Principal AI engineer and former CTO

Strong background · too senior for this environment

Run founder-to-builder searchModel updated: reachable, hands-on, 0→1

Reply with yes, maybe or no to keep calibrating

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Candidates love Laidback.

“okay, you clearly did the homework. you knew about the rollout i led before anyone posted about it. let's talk this week.”

linkedin · sales candidate

“your email read like you already understood my career, not just my title. booked a call for thursday.”

email · engineering candidate

It runs on it's own and keeps you informed.

Laidback shares updates, nudges you when something is waiting, handles the ATS hygiene and asks for approval when it's needed without causing friction at work.

pipelineFounding Engineer · week one

16screening calls booked in week one, from a single job description.

where 10,549 candidates are right now

Sourced & researched

10,549everyone

Active outreach

1631.5% of sourced

In conversation

4427% of outreach

Screening calls booked

1636% of conversations

booked per dayweek one, day by day

2Mon

1Tue

3Wed

4Thu

3Fri

2Sat

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Sender and channel

It decides who each message comes from and where it lands. The hiring manager for a senior candidate, the recruiter for the rest. Email, LinkedIn or WhatsApp, depending on where that person actually replies.

Where the role is headed

It captures context from your ATS, your tools, your team's feedback and every calibration. The search keeps moving toward the best fit, and it doesn't give up on a role.

Human-in-the-loop

Approve a meeting. Give feedback after the call. Say yes or no when someone interesting turns up. If your team forgets about it, it nudges.

Reports and pipeline

It keeps your ATS clean and logs activity itself. Ask it anything about a candidate. It reports Monday morning and posts the numbers Friday at four.

TestimonialsTeams on their new sourcer.

“We handed it one role on Monday. By Friday the pipeline was full of people we would never have found ourselves.”

Gabriela KedziaConsid

71%Report zero manual ToF

“It gets to people nobody else surfaces. The research behind each name is so concrete we can tell in one read why that person, and not a lookalike.”

Rich MossRiviera Partners

10.5 hourssaved weekly per person

“The outreach reads better than mine, and I've done this nine years. Replies started on day two.”

Monika PawlakStello Talent

$420kAdded value yearly/user

“Hiring manager approves in Slack, pipeline keeps moving. That is the whole review now.”

Kacper RaciborskiInnovations Hub Foundation

“Not gonna lie, this thing is scary good. We gave it the second role the same week.”

Weronika CzaplewskaEnvirly

Bring one role. Find who's actually right.

No tool to learn or app to use. Just Laidback getting the job done.

Hire without playing hiring manager.

Hiring shouldn't pull your best people away from their real work. But every new role quietly turns a leader into a part-time recruiter.

Your best people stop doing their job

Every tool resells the same database

The people you want aren't applying

Laidback finds & schedules missionaries over mercenaries by focusing on upward growth trajectory and raw slope of talent, while handling hiring ops.

It runs your outbound hiring alongside
your team, learning every day.

Tell Laidback who you need.

Candidates love Laidback.

It runs on it's own and keeps you informed.

Sender and channel

Where the role is headed

Human-in-the-loop

Reports and pipeline

TestimonialsTeams on their new sourcer.

Bring one role. Find who's actually right.

FAQ

Hire without playing hiring manager.

Hiring shouldn't pull your best people away from their real work. But every new role quietly turns a leader into a part-time recruiter.

Your best people stop doing their job

Every tool resells the same database

The people you want aren't applying

Laidback finds & schedules missionaries over mercenaries by focusing on upward growth trajectory and raw slope of talent, while handling hiring ops.

It runs your outbound hiring alongside your team, learning every day.

Tell Laidback who you need.

Candidates love Laidback.

It runs on it's own and keeps you informed.

Sender and channel

Where the role is headed

Human-in-the-loop

Reports and pipeline

TestimonialsTeams on their new sourcer.

Bring one role. Find who's actually right.

FAQ

It runs your outbound hiring alongside
your team, learning every day.