Better hires start with better access.

Recruiting marketplaces hand your role to freelance recruiters, and AI sourcing tools scrape the same public LinkedIn profiles — both end up competing over the exact candidates every other company is already emailing. Simplify is an AI-powered recruiting firm and hiring platform built on a community of 2M+ job seekers, plus the trusted people they refer. Our AI recruiter reads your role for real signal instead of keyword matches, and a human screens every candidate before you see them — so you reach strong, hard-to-reach talent that never surfaces in a marketplace or a cold sourcing tool.

Simplify is built for startups that need to hire fast without a full in-house recruiting team — including many YC and venture-backed companies filling hard-to-fill engineering and technical roles. If your strongest candidates aren't actively applying, don't answer cold outreach, and are already being chased by every other company, our network and referral engine are designed to reach exactly those people. You get the reach of a recruiting firm and the speed of an AI recruiter, priced for a startup budget.

When you run a search, Simplify puts a bounty on your role and advertises it across our network. Our AI recruiter surfaces candidates from Simplify's 2M+ job-seeker community who fit the role — and beyond inviting them to apply, we invite them to refer someone great from their own network, because the best candidates know other strong candidates. To keep quality high, each person can endorse only one referral at a time, so they stake their reputation on a single best match rather than spamming names to chase the reward. Simplify funds the bounty, so it costs you nothing beyond the placement fee.

The monthly fee funds an active search — an AI recruiter working your role continuously, human screening on every candidate, and the referral rewards we pay candidates who bring us their best people. It keeps both sides committed and credits in full toward the placement fee, so if we place your hire in month two, you didn't pay extra — you paid early. For a startup, it's a fraction of a traditional recruiting agency retainer, with hiring that compounds through referrals instead of one-off cold outreach.

Every placement comes with a 90-day replacement guarantee: if your hire leaves or isn't the right fit within the first 90 days, we restart the search and find a replacement at no additional fee. Because our candidates come through warm referrals and human screening rather than cold sourcing, they tend to be more genuinely interested and more likely to stay — but the guarantee puts the risk of a bad hire on us, not on your startup.

Plenty of startups are great places to work but lose candidates because their story doesn't land. We help you build a company profile on Simplify that's genuinely competitive, informed by first-party data on what candidates on our platform actually care about — compensation, remote flexibility, team, mission, and growth. Then we help you close: warm referral intros and the trust candidates already place in Simplify mean top people are far more open to a conversation than they would ever be from a cold recruiter email.

You get a curated shortlist of vetted candidates — each with recruiter screening notes on fit, motivation, compensation expectations, and availability — delivered to a shared Slack channel (or your inbox and ATS). You reply with a simple Interview or Pass, and we handle scheduling, follow-up, and all the referral logistics. No digging through hundreds of inbound applicants: just qualified, interested candidates who are ready to move.

Simplify is best suited to hard-to-fill roles at startups, especially engineering, AI and machine learning, data, infrastructure, product, and other technical positions. We work with founders and hiring teams to define the role, identify the right candidate profile, and confirm that our network is a strong fit before launching the search.

Yes. Simplify combines first-party signals from its 2M+ job-seeker community with referral bounties and recruiter outreach. That allows us to reach passive candidates who may not be applying to jobs or responding to ordinary cold outreach. Candidates are contacted based on their experience, preferences, compensation expectations, and fit for your specific role.

For full-service searches, Simplify's AI recruiting agent identifies candidates based on the role and company requirements. A recruiter then speaks with each candidate to confirm their experience, motivation, compensation expectations, location, availability, and genuine interest in the opportunity. You receive qualified candidates with screening notes rather than an unfiltered list of profiles.

Yes. Simplify's self-serve hiring platform lets you post a role and distribute it to relevant candidates across the Simplify network. Applicants are delivered directly to your ATS, and your team owns the screening and interview process. Full-service recruiting adds managed inbound review, passive candidate sourcing, referral bounties, recruiter screening, and curated candidate delivery.