The empty seat is the expensive part.
Every working day that engineering seat stands empty costs you €443. We are paid when somebody agrees to meet you, and not before.
Free to post · billed only on a yes
The problem
Volume is up. Hires are not. Waiting is the cost.
A startup hires five to seven engineers a year. Finding the ones who qualify takes weeks, proving their claims are true takes weeks more, and the seat sits empty through all of it.
What your own funnel costs
93% of what a hire costs you is the waiting.
Every input below is measured data, and the caveats sit here rather than in a footnote.
€443Per working day of empty engineering seat, blended across eight of the ten markets, taken at the conservative end.
× 44–54Working days open. 62 calendar days for a startup under 25 people with no recruiter. Weekends are not costed.
+ €1,240To €1,710 of interviewer time, at 21 to 29 hours per technical hire. Screening the applications is excluded.
= €20,800To €25,400 per hire, 93 to 94% of it the waiting rather than the work.
Where this argument does not workPer interview, your own funnel is €69 to €95 of internal time, so we are fifteen to twenty times that and we do not compete there. We sell days removed from the vacancy.
The measured gapA startup with a recruiter hires in 42 days; one without takes 62. Our entire engagement is €7,200. We are priced at what having a recruiter is measured to be worth, without the salary.
From posting a role to an accepted meeting
Post a role, with the salary on itSalary range is mandatory, and five hard requirements at most. Free, in every market we open, however many roles you run.
Query the pool by criteriaCategory, seniority, skills, location, salary band. Their full profile becomes visible only once the candidate accepts your request. Every claim carries the register it came from and the date it was confirmed.
Send a request in your own nameYou choose who to approach. The request carries your name, the role and the salary range, and the candidate accepts or declines. Sending it is free.
You pay per accepted meetingOne charge each time a candidate accepts a meeting, and nothing else. Posting roles, searching and sending requests are free. The charge is €800, €1,500 or €2,500, depending on how scarce the role is.
CoverageSeven categories.
Seven categories.
No other bucket.
Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Product and Security. Our position is depth inside a category, not breadth across every job on the market.
Pricing
One billing event, priced by scarcity.
The unit is a single accepted meeting. There is no retainer, no subscription and no charge per application. If nobody agrees to meet you, you owe nothing.
€800Volume and mid-level
€1,500Senior
€2,500Leadership and scarce
What one role bills
€1,440× 5 =€7,200
€7,200 is sixteen working days of that vacancy, against a measured baseline of forty-four to fifty-four.Why per meetingIt is the first moment the value is provable. Agencies bill before the hire, tools bill regardless of outcome. A rival offering unlimited introductions is paid whether or not anything works. We are not.
Your exposure is cappedYou cap spend per role before it goes live, and a role that accumulates accepted meetings without an offer triggers a free stop-and-review.
The position
We are priced at what having a recruiter is measured to be worth, without the salary.
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