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Describe the role. Meet the people you'd actually hire.

Search Clera's candidates, your team's network or the whole web. Clera does the outreach and makes the intro.

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How it works

Search Clera's candidates, your team's network, or the whole web.

  1. Founding backend engineer, Go and Postgres, New York

    • Clera's 274,426
    • Your network
    • Whole web

    Step 1

    Describe the role

    One sentence in plain words, then pick where to look. Searching is free.

    1. Mon 9:14Asked Maya about the role
    2. Wed 10:02Sent a follow-up
    3. Wed 4:31Maya said yes
    4. Thu 9:0510+ fake-candidate signals clear
    5. Thu 9:06Intro queued for you

    Step 2

    Clera does the outreach

    Clera asks people who aren't looking, follows up, and keeps the ones who say yes.

  2. To Sam, Maya

    Maya, meet Sam. You two should talk.

    Maya: Thursday at 2 works for me.

    Step 3

    Meet the ones who said yes

    One email introduces you both. You take it from there.

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Find a founding backend engineer in New York. Go and Postgres.

Searched Clera's candidates · 38 want the move

  • Maya R.

    Rebuilt a payments ledger in Go. Said yes Wednesday.

  • Daniel O.

    Ran Postgres at 10k writes a second. Wants to be engineer one.

Want intros to both? Say the word and Clera sends them today.

Pricing

You pay when you hire. Nothing before.

Searching, outreach, vetting and intros cost nothing. If you hire someone Clera introduced, it's 15% of their first-year salary. No seats, no credits, no plan.

Your bill

Hiring Maya R. · Founding backend engineer

38 people searched
$0
Cold outreach to 212 people
$0
Vetting, 10+ fake-candidate signals
$0
Intro to Maya
$0
Seats, credits, plan
$0

When Maya signs

15%

of her first-year salary

Hear it from teams
that hired with Clera

5 out of 5 stars

Platform Engineer hired in seven weeks

“We've been incredibly pleased with the talent that came through the platform and just really really astounded by the engineer through Clera... [he had] just an immediate positive impact.”

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Aranya

Christian Ondaatje

Co-founder and CEO at Aranya

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Questions about sourcing

Describe the role in one sentence. Clera searches, reaches out, follows up and vets, then sends one email introducing you to each person who said yes.

No. You only meet people who said yes to your role, and every match shows why it fits, requirement by requirement.

Everyone Clera introduces clears 10+ fake-candidate signals first, like a phone shared with a confirmed fake or an employer that didn't exist yet.

Nothing. Searching, outreach and intros are free. You pay 15% of first-year salary only when you hire someone Clera introduced.

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