Better hires start with better access.
Simplify is a recruiting firm and hiring platform for high-growth companies and startups. A private network of 2 million candidates, trusted referrals, and intelligent screening to find your perfect hire.
Recruiting Beyond Public Candidate Profiles
Everyone fishes from the same pond.
Recruiting agencies, job boards, and AI sourcing tools all lead you back to the same people: the same public profiles, the same active applicants, and the same inboxes every competitor is already crowding.
Finding someone isn’t the same as reaching them.
The strongest passive candidates aren't actively looking, and they aren't convinced by a cold email.
Reaching them takes different access, and a different way in.
Everyone competes over the same visible candidates. The rest never hear about your role.
Private Talent, In-Network Referrals, and AI Candidate Sourcing
Three unfair advantages.
A referral engine built on user trust. A private two-million-candidate network we built. AI candidate sourcing and screening backed by expert recruiters.
The best candidates aren't looking. Their friends know it.
We put a bounty on your role and our network gets to work – candidates referring former teammates, classmates, people they'd vouch for. A warm intro from someone they trust reaches people no cold DM ever will.
It works because 2 million people trust Simplify with their job search. That trust can't be rented – and it's unique to us.
First-party data on 2M+ profiles – not available publicly.
We don't blindly source on LinkedIn. We built our own pond.
Two million candidates actively use Simplify to job search. A quarter of them went to a top 20 university. When we source, we're searching people who opted in – not just scraping the same public profiles every recruiting agency and AI sourcing tool is already using.
AI finds the person. A human closes the loop.
Our AI recruiting agent reads your role the way a great recruiter would — then screens 2 million profiles for real signal, not keyword matches. Every candidate it surfaces gets a call from our team before you ever see them.
The ones that land in your Slack are interested, qualified, and ready to move.
Self-Serve Hiring Platform or Full-Service Recruiting Firm
Two ways to hire.
Scale your startup hiring on your own terms. Choose between smart, self-serve job postings that deliver candidates straight to your ATS, or let our full-service recruiting team manage the entire search for you. Powered by our active network of over 2 million candidates.
Post a Job
Post the role on Simplify's hiring platform. Our algorithm pushes it to relevant candidates across our 2M+ candidate network. You review and process the inbound.
Dynamically priced based on applicant volume.
Full Service
Our full-service recruiting team posts the role, sources passive candidates, and runs referral bounties. A curated list lands in your Slack — you just interview.
Every monthly payment is credited toward the placement fee.
Explore our FAQ section to learn more.
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 private network we own: 2 million candidates who use Simplify in their job search, 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 our 2 million-person base 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 candidate data from more than 2 million profiles 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.