Meet your always-on recruiting team.
Vela builds and runs an AI-powered hiring engine inside your startup — sourcing, screening, and booking interviews around the clock. Hire great people fast, without a full-time recruiter or agency fees.
Engine running · 24/7
Senior Product Designer
Sourced
142
MR
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94
JT
•••• T.
91
AL
•••• L.
88
KP
•••• P.
86
Screened
28
DS
•••• S.
A
NV
•••• V.
92
RB
•••• B.
Booked
6
PL
•••• L.
EM
•••• M.
94
The 24/7 recruiting engine · our flagship
Keep hiring moving 24/7.
Three agents run your top-of-funnel around the clock, so qualified people are landing in your pipeline even while you sleep. Explore the full flagship →
Sourcing agent
Finds active and passive candidates matched to your role and reaches out — personalized, and on repeat.
Screening agent
Holds real two-way conversations, scores everyone against your scorecard, and returns a ranked shortlist.
Scheduling agent
Books qualified candidates onto your calendar with a full briefing — reminders and reschedules handled.
Sourcing
Your pipeline fills itself.
The moment your scorecard is locked, the engine starts hunting — continuously, and matched to your role by skill and trajectory, not just keywords. It reaches out with personalized messages and follows up, so strong people don’t slip through.
Where do the candidates come from? Not just LinkedIn. The engine searches a talent index built from across the open web — professional profiles, portfolios, code, writing, and more — so it reaches great people who aren’t actively looking and aren’t trapped on one platform.
MR
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Product Designer
passive
94%
JT
•••• T.
Design Lead
active
91%
AL
•••• L.
Senior Designer
passive
88%
+ 139 more sourced this week
MR
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Senior Product Designer
Strong · 94
Product craft & portfolio
Strong
0→1 startup experience
Strong
Cross-functional work
Adequate
Systems & scale
Strong
Screening
Every candidate, scored fairly.
When someone’s interested, the engine has a real two-way conversation, then scores them against the exact scorecard you approved — with the evidence behind every rating. You get a short, ranked shortlist instead of 200 resumes.
Interviews
A calendar that fills itself.
Once a candidate clears your bar, Vela books them straight onto your calendar with a full briefing — score, highlights, what to probe. Confirmations, reminders, and reschedules are handled for you, so no-shows drop and you stop playing calendar tag.
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Why it’s different
This isn’t a resume-matching bot.
Anyone can paste a job description and a stack of resumes into an AI and ask who fits. That only ranks the people who already applied. Vela is a different thing entirely — it goes and finds people who never applied, has a real conversation with each one, and books the best onto your calendar.
DIY
A resume-matching prompt
Only ranks applicants you already have
No sourcing — can’t find passive talent
No outreach, no follow-up
No real screening conversation
Same generic scorecard every time
Agency
A recruiting agency
Finds and screens people for you
Slow — limited by one recruiter’s hours
15–25% of first-year salary, per hire
You never own the process
Black-box shortlist, little evidence
Vela
The Vela engine
Sources passive candidates who never applied
Runs 24/7 — never limited by hours
Flat monthly fee, never a % of salary
Real conversations + evidence-backed scores
A scorecard tuned across many searches
The system stays yours to run
About
Why Vela.
The reason the engine works isn’t the AI — it’s the judgment poured into it. I’ve run enough searches to know what a real scorecard looks like, where AI sourcing goes wrong, and how to tune it so it surfaces the right people instead of noise. That calibration is the part a founder running a resume-vs-JD prompt in the corner simply can’t replicate — and it’s what makes Vela feel like a recruiter, not a filter.
Why founders need this
Getting hiring wrong is expensive — every way you cut it.
Whether you do it yourself, wait too long, or reach for an agency, early-stage hiring quietly burns time and cash. These are four separate costs — and Vela is built to spare you all of them.
Do it yourself
of your week lost to recruiting
Wait too long
average time to fill a startup role
Use an agency
of first-year salary, as a fee per hire
Hire wrong
of salary lost to a single bad hire
Vela replaces the DIY grind and the agency fee with a flat-fee engine that finds and screens the right people — so you avoid the slow fills and the costly misses too.
How to work with Vela
Two ways to put hiring in motion.
Flagship
24/7 AI Recruiter Service
An always-on engine that delivers candidates, interviews, and hires each month. You get the results; we run the machine.
Continuous sourcing & outreach
AI screening & ranked shortlists
Interviews booked to your calendar
Explore the flagship →
For a role or two
Fractional Services
Senior recruiting help that plugs in when you’re in a bind or not ready for a full-time hire — full-cycle or sourcing-only.
Fractional or sourcing-only
Transparent flat monthly rate
Rate steps down after 60 days
See fractional pricing
24/7 sourcing
Flat monthly fee
Never a % of salary
Passive candidates, not just LinkedIn
Human-vetted shortlists
A system you own
Questions
The things founders ask first.
How is this different from us just using AI to compare resumes to the job description?
Where do the ‘passive’ candidates come from — LinkedIn?
What tools do you use under the hood?
What does it cost?
Let’s set your hiring in motion.
A 30-minute call to map what you’re hiring for and see if Vela’s the right fit. No pressure, no pitch deck.
Book a discovery call