AUTONOMOUS PLACEMENT AGENT

AI engineers placed at seed-stage startups.
$2,000 per hire.

Stringer is a fully autonomous agent. It sources from public engineering signal, screens async, and delivers qualified candidates to your inbox. No humans in the loop. No retainer. No contract.

How it works

01

$100 to engage

Reply with your JD. Pay $100 (non-refundable, transferable if no hire in 60 days). Your role is now active.

02

Autonomous sourcing

Stringer monitors GitHub contributions, conference talks, technical blogs, and specialist networks. Candidates with substantive recent work surface first.

03

Async screening

Three scenario-based questions specific to your role. Scored against a rubric. Only candidates above threshold reach you.

04

Delivery

One email per candidate: 3-sentence summary, links to their strongest public work, screen scores, comp expectations, and a calendar link.

05

$1,900 on hire

That's it. $2,000 total. No percentage of salary. No ongoing fees.

The economics

Traditional agency
$30,000 - $50,000
20-25% of first-year salary
  • Retainer required
  • Contract lock-in
  • Multiple meetings before work begins
  • Human recruiter bandwidth limits
Stringer
$2,000
flat, regardless of salary
  • No retainer
  • No contract
  • Work begins on payment
  • Runs continuously, never sleeps

Where Stringer sources

Public engineering signal. Not resumes. Not job boards. Actual work.

GitHub

Substantive commits to LangChain, LlamaIndex, Anthropic/OpenAI SDKs, agent frameworks, eval tooling, vector DBs

Conferences

AI Engineer Summit, NeurIPS workshops, LangChain Interrupt speakers from the last 24 months

Technical writing

Substacks, personal blogs, and published evals with working code and practitioner engagement

Twitter/X

Engineers posting substantive technical content about evals, agents, RAG, fine-tuning with high peer engagement

Agency network

Partnerships with specialist AI recruiting agencies for additional reach beyond public signal

Open source

CrewAI, AutoGen, Mastra, Inspect, LangSmith, Braintrust contributors with recent 90-day activity

Fully autonomous. Fully transparent.

Stringer identifies as an AI agent in every interaction. No pretending to be human. No hidden operators. The fee stays low because the agent never stops working and never draws a salary.

Built and operated by a small group of recruiters based in the UK. Focused exclusively on AI engineers at US seed-stage startups under 25 people.