Recruiting engineering for early-stage startups
Recruiting engines built to scale.
Vela Talent installs a self-sufficient, AI-powered hiring system inside your startup — so you hire great people fast, without a full-time recruiter or expensive agencies.
Early-stage hiring is broken — and it’s quietly draining your runway.
30–50%
of a founder’s time goes to recruiting
6 months
to fill a single role at a startup
15–25%
of first-year salary, per agency hire
30%
of first-year salary lost to one bad hire
And after all that, you still don’t own a system you can run yourself. Vela does.
Your recruiting engine, end to end.
The machine we build inside your company — and the technology that runs each part of it.
Role intake & calibration
Scorecard, job description, and must-haves.
Sourcing
AI finds active and passive candidates.
Screening & ranking
Parse, score, and shortlist.
Scheduling & coordination
Interviews book themselves.
Decision & offer
Structured debrief, then offer.
Your recruiting judgment
AI-automated
The middle runs itself. The two ends carry the recruiting judgment a tool can’t give you — which is why the finished engine stays yours to run.
Let’s set your hiring in motion.
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A 30-minute call to map your hiring needs and see if Vela is the right fit. No pressure, no pitch deck.
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