Co-Founder & CPO @metix_ai
AI-native hiring: interview-ready candidates in 24h
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Most AI hiring tools optimize the wrong clock.
They shave minutes off search.
They do nothing for the three days your hiring manager sits on feedback.
I used to think the bottleneck was sourcing volume.
After enough broken pipelines, it is almost always definition + decision latency.
If your brief is soft, speed just multiplies the mess.
@rachelwolan@lennysan No farm system is a req choice.
Half the PM job moved into FDE.
Then the bar went to 5 years on a title most briefs still describe like last year's PM.
I used to think that was sourcing.
The expensive week is the one where nobody can say no.
The 47-step slide is the tell.
I used to ship the tools that made that workflow look complete.
Sourcers don't have a second job because they're slow.
They have a second job because the brief still has holes, and the model will not fill them.
Botsitting is what a soft intake looks like at 2am.
Tuesday was empty.
Open role. Three recruiter seats, paid for. Nobody coming in.
The seats looked busy. The week didn't.
I used to ship software that made this look fine.
Recruiting marketplaces sell access. More seats, more resumes, more search.
Speed goes on the feature page.
A hiring manager sitting on feedback for three days never hits the dashboard.
I didn't catch it. The dashboard wasn't built to.
Sourcing volume is a nice bottleneck. You can see it. You can buy more of it.
The expensive part hides in a soft brief, and in someone who will not say no.
If the brief is soft, a faster list just multiplies the mess.
I wrote that in July. Still true.
Most teams are not buying a clock. They are buying a seat that waits.
The seat can work all month. Tuesday stays empty.
We still fight about "24 hours" internally.
I don't mean a same-day call.
I mean a slot on both calendars, and the clock starts when the brief is sharp enough that no means no.
I have shipped the other kind of speed. Looks like progress. Does not fill the week.
Hiring is not a search problem.
Search was never the expensive part.
Waiting was.
I need to watch this bot be cute more often from now on.
It's really good at giving out perks - huge cup sizes and amazing self-promotion skills.
I haven't seen many people actually use it, but everyone says it's amazing.
Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta.
Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.