What Superposition does

Superposition (legally Boolio Inc., DBA Superposition) is a New York-based AI recruiting platform founded in 2025 that operates as an autonomous AI headhunter for early-stage startup founders (pre-seed through Series A). Its core product is a multimodal recruiting agent that conducts voice intake conversations with hiring managers to capture role requirements including personality, values, and cultural fit, then autonomously sources candidates from across the open web, runs FitCheck AI evaluations producing tiered matches (Bullseye/Fit/Wildcard), writes personalized multi-step email outreach referencing candidates' actual work, monitors replies, and coordinates interview scheduling via calendar integration.

The platform is built on several integrated modules: FitCheck (AI candidate evaluation reading candidates' code, open-source work, and writing), Headhunting Campaigns (personalized outbound sequences), Pipeline Management (structured funnel from Sourced through Hired), Insights (a learning engine that improves matching over time from hiring decisions), and Interview Scheduling. The company has shipped bidirectional Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, making it the first recruiting platform to integrate with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini) and to connect to Notion and Linear for context. Integrations span Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, Calendly, and custom MCP servers, with a public Jobs API for rendering open roles on external careers pages.

Superposition operates a hybrid go-to-market combining sales-led 'Book a Call' CTAs targeting startup founders with self-serve sign-up through app.superposition.ai. Revenue is generated through a $500/month per-agent subscription plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary (excluding equity and bonus) for successful placements, backed by a 90-day replacement guarantee. The company has raised $1.6M from Betaworks, True Ventures, Salesforce Ventures (via Slack Fund), Flybridge, Ardent, and F4 Fund. Named customers include ESAI (CTO hired in 8 weeks), Plastic Labs (platform engineer hired in 5 weeks), and Trampoline AI. The founding team consists of CEO Edmund Cuthbert (career recruiter who placed engineer #1 at Brex and was Product Lead at Omnipresent through its $120M Series B and Deel acquisition) and CTO Xiang Li (founding team of Vitable Health, YC S20, taken from pre-seed past $10M ARR).

Name

Superposition

Legal name

Boolio Inc.

Website

https://superposition.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Superposition is an AI-native recruiting platform deploying autonomous headhunter agents for pre-seed to Series A startup founders. The agent conducts voice intake, sources candidates from across the web, runs FitCheck evaluations, and manages personalized outreach and interview scheduling.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Recruiting Software

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

Keywords

• AI recruiting platform
• Autonomous candidate sourcing
• Talent acquisition software
• Executive search automation
• Candidate evaluation AI

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Monthly Agent Subscription: $500 per agent per month operational fee for access to the AI recruiting agent, candidate sourcing, outreach, and pipeline management.
2. Success Fee on Placement: 15% success fee on first-year base salary charged when a candidate is hired. No equity or bonus included in calculation. Aligns incentives with successful placement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Superposition sells an autonomous AI headhunter agent that runs end-to-end recruiting on behalf of startup founders and hiring managers. The agent conducts a voice intake conversation, sources candidates from across the open web, runs AI FitCheck evaluations against role requirements, sends personalized multi-step email outreach, monitors replies, manages the candidate pipeline, and schedules interviews. Pricing is $500 per agent per month plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary of any hire, with a 90-day replacement guarantee.

Product overview

Superposition is an AI-native recruiting platform delivered as a single unified product — an AI headhunter agent — with several integrated modules. The core offering is the autonomous recruiting agent that conducts voice intake, sources and evaluates candidates via FitCheck, runs personalized outreach campaigns, manages the hiring pipeline, coordinates interview scheduling, and learns hiring preferences over time via Insights. The platform also includes a Remote MCP Server for embedding recruiting data into AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini), an External MCP Integration for pulling context from Notion and Linear, and a Public Jobs API for rendering open roles on external careers pages. Specialist domain agents are available for Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations, and Product hiring, with custom agents available on request.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Headhunter Agent Autonomous AI recruiting agent sold to startup founders and hiring managers. Conducts voice intake, sources candidates from the open web, runs FitCheck AI evaluations against role requirements, writes personalized multi-step outreach, monitors replies, manages the candidate pipeline, and coordinates interview scheduling in either Review First or Full Auto modes. Configurable per role type (Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Ops, Product, or custom).
• Managed Delivery Paid add-on high-volume email sending infrastructure for the AI Headhunter Agent, providing warmed-up domains, per-role send limits, bounce and unsubscribe suppression. Targeted at customers whose outreach volume exceeds what their connected Gmail mailbox can safely send.
• Public Jobs API Standalone, no-auth REST API that returns a company's published job listings from Superposition for rendering on external careers pages. CORS-enabled and intended for direct browser-side consumption.

Quantifiable outcome

• Hired CTO/Head of Engineering in 8 weeks from 18,410 candidates reviewed, 28 curated matches
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability9 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Recruiterflow: AI-augmented ATS and recruiting CRM with sourcing, outreach automation, and pipeline management. Comparable workflow automation and AI assistance layer for small recruiting teams.
• Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent): Startup-focused job marketplace and recruiting platform with candidate discovery and ATS. Direct overlap on early-stage founder hiring, though more marketplace/portal model than autonomous agent.
• Apollo.io: Combined sales and recruiting platform with AI-assisted outreach, contact discovery, and workflow automation. Comparable autonomous outreach and pipeline management capabilities with broader go-to-market motion.
• Dover: Startup-focused recruiting operations platform with sourcing, outreach, and pipeline tools. Highly comparable customer segment (early-stage startups) and GTM motion, though more recruiter-tool than autonomous-agent.
• hireEZ: AI sourcing platform with multi-channel candidate discovery and outreach automation. Directly comparable on sourcing breadth and outreach scale; positioned more for talent acquisition teams than founders.
• Gem: AI-augmented sourcing, outreach, and CRM platform for in-house recruiters. Competes head-to-head with Superposition's outreach and pipeline management features, though with a recruiter-centric (vs. founder-centric) workflow.
• Juicebox: AI-powered sourcing and outreach platform that uses LLMs to find and engage candidates, targeting startups and growth-stage companies. Most direct functional overlap with Superposition's headhunting agent and personalized outreach.
• SeekOut: AI talent intelligence platform with candidate sourcing, fit scoring, and pipeline analytics. Comparable on AI-driven fit evaluation (FitCheck analog) and broad web sourcing, positioned for enterprise TA teams.

Broad incumbents

• Eightfold AI: Enterprise talent intelligence platform with AI-driven matching, fit scoring, and talent mobility. Comparable on AI-driven fit evaluation, but enterprise-focused and broader in scope than Superposition's founder-vertical.
• LinkedIn Recruiter: Dominant incumbent in recruiter tooling with the largest candidate database and InMail channel. Superposition explicitly positions against LinkedIn Recruiter's keyword-search limitations; LinkedIn could ship competing AI agent features.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/superpositionhq

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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