For in-house talent teams

    Know who's right
    before you spend a month sourcing.

    Brief me in Slack. I read the open web, score every person against your bar, and put screening calls on your calendar.

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    97.18 / 100 on the independent people search benchmark. See the method

    Profiles built from where people actually leave a record

    GitHubGoogle ScholarBehanceKaggleDribbblePersonal sitesConference talksCompany engineering blogsPodcastsPatent filingsHugging FaceOpen source changelogsGitHubGoogle ScholarBehanceKaggleDribbblePersonal sitesConference talksCompany engineering blogsPodcastsPatent filingsHugging FaceOpen source changelogs
    The in-house week

    The search is not slow because you are slow.

    It is slow because every tool on your desk queries the same database, and the people who would say yes are not in it.

    “Same five names again.”Same LinkedIn snapshot
    “The hiring manager rejected all four.”Bar was never calibrated
    “Six reqs, one recruiter.”Capacity ceiling
    “Great on paper, silent on the call.”Keyword match
    Time to a shortlist you would show a hiring manager
    With LaidbackShortlist in hours
    A search firm3 to 4 weeks
    Job board plus manual sourcing4 to 6 weeks
    How it works

    How it works, and why.

    No new tool for your team to learn. It runs where hiring already gets talked about.

    1

    Intake in Slack

    I ask the questions a senior recruiter asks, and the whole brief stays in one thread. No kickoff call, no brief document.

    2

    Real intent

    One brief expands into thousands of parallel searches: synonyms, abbreviations, adjacent titles, regional terms, all running at once.

    3

    Evidence

    Every person graded against your criteria the same way twice, with the source behind each dimension and the gaps shown up front.

    #hiring
    MK
    Marcin, Founder@Laidback we need a senior backend engineer who has actually shipped payments. Berlin or remote CET. Someone who can own the ledger without a manager on top. No agency this time.
    LaidbackHere is the intent I derived. Correct me in one line if I got it wrong, otherwise I start searching now.
    Must holdProduction payments: settlement, payouts or ledger
    ScopeOwns a domain end to end, no tech lead above them
    SignalsShipped work over job titles, trajectory climbing
    DisqualifierInfra only, never touched money movement
    Search running2,400 parallel queriesFirst names in ~20 min
    Why the names are different

    I read what people shipped, not what they typed.

    A headline is a claim. A repo, a paper, a portfolio is a record. I build the profile from the record.

    RARuth A.Profile says "Software Engineer"
    What I read
    GitHub · 4 repos on payment reconciliation
    Conference talk · ledger consistency, 2025
    Personal site · post mortem on a failed migration
    Patent filing · fraud scoring method
    Podcast · 40 minutes on scaling payouts
    What I inferred
    Double-entry ledger designPCI scope experienceOwns production incidentsNever listed on the profile

    Open-web profiles

    Repos, talks, papers, portfolios, company writing, podcasts. Cross-referenced into one picture.

    Inferred skills

    The credentials and skills the work proves, even when the profile never lists them.

    Trajectory as a signal

    Who is climbing, who plateaued, who is reachable right now. Not just the current title.

    In the product

    See exactly how and why.

    Before you put an hour of a hiring manager's time on the line.

    Scoring

    See the reasoning before you book the call.

    Every dimension carries its source, and the gaps are named. You know where to probe before you dial in.

    IKInes K. · Senior Backend
    94 / 100
    Payments domain depth96%
    Settlement service at a licensed PSP, 3 years
    System design at scale89%
    Conference talk on ledger consistency, 2025
    Ownership level82%
    Led a 4 person team, hiring manager for two roles
    Gap: people management38%
    No direct reports beyond a lead role
    Outreach

    Nothing goes out under your name until you say so.

    Drafts land in Slack, written from scratch off the research. Ask approval is the default. Autopilot is a switch you turn on per role.

    Draft · to Ruth A. · sending as youEmail
    Your reconciliation post, and a ledger nobody owns yetRuth, the bit in your migration post mortem about replaying settlement events is exactly the problem we have not solved. We are hiring one person to own that ledger outright, not to sit under a tech lead. Worth 20 minutes?
    Drawn from her post mortemYour tone, learned from 40 sent emails
    6 drafts ready for the backend role
    Approve allEditAutopilot: on for this role
    Coordination

    One update a week, not a standup.

    Every open req in one Slack post: sourced, contacted, in conversation, booked. Screenings land on your calendar with the research attached.

    Pipeline · this month
    Sourced and researched522
    Contacted407
    In conversation224
    Screenings booked101
    Your week
    Tue10:30
    Andrej K.Senior Backend
    Tue14:00
    Laura M.Head of Finance
    Wed09:15
    Piyush R.Senior Backend
    Thu11:00
    Diego S.Head of Finance
    Booked while you were doing your actual job.

    Bring one role. I'll show you who's actually out there.

    The one that has been open longest, or the one you are about to post.

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