For NYC startups hiring engineers 1-10

Hire engineers who already show up.

Every week we run the rooms where New York's founder-minded engineers meet each other. The ones who build on weekends, ship open source, and quietly outperform the LinkedIn candidate pool. You can meet them before your competitors do.

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28,800+

Engineers in network

Events per year

NYC

On the ground

5 days

Avg time to first intro

The honest problem

NYC hiring got boring and everyone is losing.

You and every other seed-to-Series-B startup in New York are hitting the same 500 LinkedIn profiles. The replies take forever. The best candidates are booked six months out. Your hiring managers burn cycles on people who are already saturated by eight other offers.

Meanwhile the engineers who will define your stack five years from now are not on those lists at all. They are at our events.

They are the ones running weekend projects, presenting at demo nights, asking the hard questions from the back of the room. They are the talent pool nobody is scraping because nobody has access.

How it works

A partnership, not a job board.

You tell us the shape of the engineer you need. We introduce you to the ones who match, warm, with context. Nothing cold. Nothing sprayed. Three ways to engage:

Warm intros on demand

Send us your top three roles. Within five days we come back with names, with context, with why each one fits. You email them. We have already primed the conversation.

Monthly talent digest

A shortlist of engineers new to the network this month, filtered to your ICP. Names, links, and one paragraph on why each one might be worth a conversation.

Who we work with

You already know if this is for you.

Seed to Series B startups in New York - usually hiring engineers 1-10 over the next twelve months.
Teams that already lost a candidate to a competitor - because the other shop moved faster or had warmer signal.
Founders who would rather have a real conversation at a dinner than scroll another LinkedIn filter at 11pm.
Companies hiring for roles that rarely show up on job boards - the early product engineer, the first ML hire, the one who touches everything.

"The best engineers I ever hired came from rooms, not resumes."

- every engineering leader, eventually

Questions we usually get

Straight answers.

How much does this cost?

We price based on the shape of the engagement - warm intros only, a sponsored event, or the full partnership with digest + intros. You tell us what you need, we come back with a proposal the same week. No seat-based pricing, no platform fees.

How is this different from an agency?

Agencies rent you access to a funnel. We introduce you inside a community we actually run. The engineers meet you because a friend vouched, not because a recruiter cold-emailed them with your logo attached.

What do you need from us to start?

One thirty-minute call. You walk us through the role, the stack, the stage, the personality of the team. We walk you through the engineers who fit, with real context. If there is a fit on both sides, we move.

Do you do senior roles? Staff+? VP Eng?

We do the early-through-senior band - engineer 1 through staff engineer. Above that, we often know the person but the placement takes longer and the path is different. Start the conversation; we will say yes or point you somewhere better.

Start the conversation.

One email. One thirty-minute call. Either we see a fit and move fast, or we tell you straight and point you at whoever is a better match.

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