We hired our GTM lead in <1 hour.

As an early-stage company scaling fast, hiring our first Go-To-Market (GTM) lead was one of the most consequential decisions we faced. We needed a rare combination: strategic clarity to shape our commercial strategy, deep industry fluency, and the hands-on grit to execute high-velocity outreach from day one.

In an early-stage startup, a hiring search of this magnitude usually derails engineering and product priorities for weeks. Founders often spend 30+ hours scouring LinkedIn, drafting custom inmails, triaging cold applications, and running repetitive 30-minute intro screens.

We didn’t have 30 hours to spare. We had a product to ship.

Instead of hiring an external recruitment agency or drowning in manual sourcing, we handed the search over to Ava.

We spent less than one hour defining what exceptional looked like for the role: the ideal commercial background, the specific market signals that mattered, the key competencies we needed, and the nuanced questions to test in the initial screen.

From that moment forward, Ava ran the entire recruiting engine autonomously.

Ava took over end-to-end sourcing, outreach, candidate sequencing, and preliminary screening. She identified high-caliber passive talent across our market, initiated personalized outreach, and evaluated applicants against our exact technical and commercial rubric.

Every candidate interaction was handled with speed, precision, and context. Ava answered candidate questions about the role and company culture, maintained an up-to-date knowledge bank, and conducted rigorous initial screens.

Meanwhile, we stayed completely focused on our roadmap. There were no lost afternoons, no context-switching between code and resumes, and no recruiter back-and-forth.

Within days, Ava had narrowed down hundreds of potential profiles to the highest-signal candidates and booked 8 top finalists directly into our calendar for final interviews.

When we walked into those final conversations, every candidate was already deeply vetted, excited about the mission, and fully aligned with the role expectations.

We conducted 8 final interviews and made 1 hire. He is the perfect fit for our team, culture, and GTM strategy — and Ava found him.

Hiring world-class talent should not come at the expense of shipping product. For founders and scaling teams, Ava changes the math completely: you maintain the highest hiring bar while eliminating the dozens of hours normally lost to administrative overhead and manual sourcing.

Ava doesn’t just assist your hiring process — she gives you back the time to build your company.