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00:00:00:00 · TOPSIDE 1.1×REEL 01 · EXTRACTION

Meet Cobb, your recruiting agent.

Recruiting, done for you. Describe the hire in plain English and Cobb finds the people, runs the outreach, and brings you the replies.

Start searching

Free until you find someone you like.

THE PROBLEM

In a small team, sourcing is somebody’s second job.

Five hundred profiles that match a title. Cold emails nobody answers. An agency that takes a fifth of the salary to do the same thing slower.

The person you need shipped something last week, and never heard from you.

Five levels down

LEVEL 01The briefSay it in plain English.your time · 10 s
senior backend engineer, payments, early-stage⌘↵
rolebackend · payments infrastructurelevelsenior to staffsignalshipped in the last 90 dayswhereNew York, or remote (US hours)
LEVEL 02The searchA log, not a progress bar.your time · 0 s
32
profiles read against the brief, out of 1,106 that matched
00:00:03Here's how I read that: senior backend engineers in San Francisco or remote, Go or Rust00:00:03Searching LinkedIn, Hacker News and GitHub00:00:14LinkedIn: 1,106 matches, pulled 2400:00:14Added 8 from Hacker News and GitHub, all actively looking00:00:31Ranked 32 by fit
LEVEL 03The listTwenty-five who would actually leave.your time · 2 min
25 ranked · the first fivescores uninflated on purpose
MOMaya OchoaStaff engineer · Ramp · NYCshipped this week91
DADevin AslanPayments lead · Berlinactively looking88
PRPriya RamanBackend · Monzo · London84
AOAde OkaforInfrastructure · Stripe · remote79
TRTom ReyesPayments, no startup experience55
twenty more below, every one of them read
LEVEL 04The emailOpens on what they shipped.your time · 0 s
New Message_⤢×
ToMaya OchoaCc Bcc
Subjectthe ledger rewrite

Maya,

You shipped the double-entry ledger rewrite at Rampin March. Your write-up is the shape of what we're building.

Nine people, pre-Series-A, payments is the whole product. Worth twenty minutes?

Send▾Aa⊘⌘⋮Drafted by Cobb · you edit, you send
LEVEL 05The replyDrafted in your voice. Waits for you.your time · 0 s
Maya OchoaRe: the ledger rewriteGoogle Chrome • mail.google.com
31Maya Ochoa acceptedTony <> Maya (hirecobb.com) · Thu 2:00 PMGoogle Chrome • calendar.google.com
Devin AslanRe: out-of-order payoutsGoogle Chrome • mail.google.com

The people, emails and replies in this walkthrough are invented.

Free until you find someone you like.

THE LEDGER

Searches on Cobb this week.

The role and the numbers, never who searched.