We Find the Builders
No One Else Can

We map the top 1% of frontier builders and connect them to the companies pushing what’s possible.

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Our Focus

The Frontier Talent Stack

The frontier isn’t just models. It’s a full supply chain — from the physical infrastructure that powers compute to the teams that ship products to millions. We recruit across every layer.

The frontier talent stack — from energy infrastructure through compute, intelligence, systems, to distribution
Distribution

Product surfaces, go-to-market, and delivery that expose model capabilities to end users.

Systems

Infrastructure, safety layers, and orchestration that turn trained models into production services.

Intelligence

The development loop that turns research, data, and compute into trained models.

Compute

Chip architecture, networking, and the toolchain that turns hardware into usable processing capacity.

Substrate

Materials, manufacturing, and facilities behind AI’s foundation: silicon to data centers.

The Challenge

The Best Talent Is Invisible

Frontier talent doesn’t apply to jobs, doesn’t respond to recruiters, and doesn’t show up in any database. The tools to find them were built for a different market.

Scarce

The people who build at the frontier are rare, busy, and rarely looking. By the time they seem available, the best teams are already in conversation.

Noisy

Traditional tools optimize for volume over relevance, flooding candidates with low-signal outreach. Great builders learn to ignore everything.

Hidden

The best builders rely on trusted peers for new opportunities. Many never formally enter the market, making them invisible to standard recruiting.

The Frontier Talent Graph

A Living Map of Builders

We combine a patent-pending search engine with proprietary datasets built from hands-on recruiting at the frontier. The graph finds the market. Our network opens the door.

How It Works

From Brief to Hire

01
Calibrate

You describe the role and what you’re building. We go deep — not just on skills, but on what makes someone thrive in your specific environment.

02
Search

Our engine surfaces high-match candidates with full context on fit, availability, and warm introduction paths across our network.

03
Connect

We facilitate warm introductions with candidates who are already excited about who you are and what you're building.

04
Close

We support through the finish line — candidate preparation, compensation strategy, offer negotiation, and market signals.

Frontier Operators

Built by People Inside the Market

We’re not recruiters who learned AI. We’re AI builders who learned recruiting. Our team has built and scaled products and teams at the frontier firsthand.

Shalin Mantri
Shalin Mantri
CEO, Superlink
GoogleUber
Tyler Lambe
Tyler Lambe
CTO, Superlink
Deep Atlas
Peterson Conway
Peterson Conway
Paypal Mafia Talent
Founders Fund8VCA* Capital
Kumar Chellapilla
Kumar Chellapilla
VPE
InceptionStripe
Jennifer Anderson
Jennifer Anderson
VPE / Stanford PhD
GoogleUber
Thuan Pham
Thuan Pham
CTO
UberCoupang
Akash Garg
Akash Garg
CTO
MoonPayAfterPay
Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang
MTS
AnthropicOpenAI
Gautam Gupta
Gautam Gupta
CFO
UberOpendoor
Eric Ries
Eric Ries
Lean Startup Author
LTSE
Shaherose Charania
Shaherose Charania
Partner
Unshackled Ventures
Kittu Kolluri
Kittu Kolluri
Founder
Neotribe Ventures
Jairam Ranganathan
Jairam Ranganathan
CPO
UberMotive
Indrajit Khare
Indrajit Khare
Product
GooglePerplexity
Asheesh Birla
Asheesh Birla
SVP
Ripple

Partnership Inquiries

We partner selectively with teams hiring for roles where the right person changes the trajectory.