Your first candidates in hours, not days.
An AI recruiter for managers building a team. It joins your Slack or Teams, understands your field like a specialist, and writes to candidates from your own LinkedIn and email.
$25 a day per role, credited against a 10% success fee.
15 minutes with Matthew. Within 24 hours you get 10 people we would approach for your role. No account connected, nothing to pay.
Why it beats an agency
Knows your work.
A recruiter knows recruiting, and at best one niche. The agent understands your field like a specialist.
Knows your company.
It starts from your briefing. Connect GitHub, Jira or internal meetings if you want it to go deeper. An agency never gets this, and your plans stay inside your team.
Writes from your account.
Candidates hear from their future manager, not from one more recruiter, so people who ignore recruiters answer. That is how you reach hidden talent. You approve the approach before the first message goes out.
Always there.
Ask how the funnel looks at any hour. Send feedback or another meeting transcript. The agent takes it in and asks candidates what you still need to know.
It has the whole market mapped, so better people reach you sooner.
Your office went home. Your recruiter didn't.
How it works
Brief it.
15 minutes with Matthew. The agent asks who you need, why, what they will do and what they must have.
See who we'd target.
Within 24 hours you get 10 people we would approach, and the message we would send. Nothing connected, nothing to pay.
Connect your LinkedIn and email.
If you like who you see, you build the message together and set how many go out. The agent starts when you approve.
Meet your candidates.
First replies usually come the next day. You make every hiring decision. The agent brings you the opportunities.
You stay in control
You set the volume.
Start with a few messages a day and raise it as you come to trust the agent, up to the limits of your LinkedIn plan.
You build the message.
You and the agent write it together. It stays short and simple: a standard note, with one line tailored to each person.
Illustrative example. Everyone here is made up.
Looking for
- Has led a platform team
- Has scaled infrastructure
- Knows B2B SaaS
Who you would see
Candidate A
Engineering Manager, Platform at a Series C fintech
Highlights
- Grew a platform team from 3 to 11
- Led the Kubernetes move across 40 services
What sets them apart
Has already built the team you are building, at your size.
Candidate B
Staff Engineer turned manager at a B2B SaaS company
Highlights
- Moved into management 18 months ago
- Cut deploys from hours to minutes
What sets them apart
Still close to the code, so strong engineers will trust them early.
Candidate C
Head of Infrastructure at a 120-person scale-up
Highlights
- First infrastructure hire at the company
- Ran on-call for 30 engineers
What sets them apart
Has gone from nothing to a working function, and wants a bigger team.
The message you approve
Hi Anna, I am building a platform team at Northwind. You led the Kubernetes move at Acme, which is close to what we need next. Open to a short chat?
From brief to 31 interested candidates
A real search for a go-to-market lead to open a new country. Names and details are changed. The pace was the manager's choice, and yours will be too.
- to brief the agent
- 17 min
- candidates contacted automatically in a week
- 200
- wanted to meet
- 31
“The questions were really smooth. Great tool.”
Across 18 roles, last 30 days
- response rate
- 27.6%
- want to meet
- 18.1%
$25 a day per role while sourcing. A hire costs 10% in total.
The first 10 people are free. Once you start, it is billed monthly in advance, about $750 a month. Everything you paid counts toward the 10% success fee when someone the agent introduced is hired within 12 months, so you only pay the difference. If it already covers the fee, there's nothing more to pay.
| The agent | Agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Understands your field | Like a specialist | Reads your job description |
| Knows your company | From your briefing and tools | From a job description and a call |
| Candidates hear from | You | A recruiter |
| First candidates | Hours | Days |
| Works | Around the clock | Office hours |
| Cost of a $120,000 hire | $12,000 | $24,000 at 20% |
Stay with an agency if candidates must not know who is hiring, if you would rather not connect your own LinkedIn and email, or if you want someone else to run the whole process through to the offer.
FAQ
What is Laidback?
An AI recruiter for hiring managers in any industry. It joins your Slack or Teams, understands your field like a specialist on your team, and writes to candidates from your own LinkedIn and email. It costs $25 a day per role, credited against a 10% success fee.
How much does the agent cost?
$25 a day per role while sourcing, about $750 a month, billed in advance and credited against a 10% success fee on first-year base salary. On a $120,000 hire you pay $12,000 in total.
How fast will I see candidates?
Matched candidates within hours of your briefing. First replies usually come the next day.
Does it work in my industry?
Yes. The agent understands your field like a specialist, so it reads a role the way your team would.
Do I have to connect anything?
Not to see who we would target. To start, only your LinkedIn and email, so the agent can write as you. Everything else is optional.
How does the agent look after my LinkedIn account?
It works the way a person does. Every action stays within your LinkedIn plan's limits, up to 25 invitations a day and 100 a week. It follows the hours of your own timezone, goes quiet at night and connects from your own city, so everything looks like you. These limits are built in, so nothing can push past them. You choose the volume, and you approve the approach before anything goes out.
What can the agent access?
Only what you connect. Your LinkedIn and email let it write as you, and anything else is your choice. You can stop it at any time.
Where is my data kept?
Each workspace has its own isolated environment on Google Cloud, encrypted in transit and at rest. EU workspaces stay in EU regions. Your data is never sold and never trains models for other customers.
How does this work with our recruiters?
The agent works alongside your talent team, in the same channels. They keep control of the process, and it takes on the sourcing and outreach.
Do I need Slack or Teams?
No. You can also talk to the agent and connect your channels in its own simple app.
Who decides who gets hired?
You do, every time. The agent is GDPR and AI Act compliant.
Your first candidates in hours, not days.
$25 a day per role, credited against a 10% success fee.
15 minutes with Matthew. Within 24 hours you get 10 people we would approach for your role. No account connected, nothing to pay.