01
Craft over clutter
Every screen is hand-drawn. We obsess over the small things — the kerning of a job title, the hush of a hover state, the rhythm of a list — because those are the things you'll feel for the next eight hours of your day.
A calmer
way to hire.
We built HireGeneral for the teams who care how a company is made — who believe that the people you hire shape every decision that comes after. It is opinionated software, made slowly, with taste.
These pages are an attempt to explain how we think about the craft of hiring, and why thousands of modern teams have chosen to put their next ten years of growth in our hands.
The essay · Four principles
Built on convictions,
not on trends.
02
Signal, not noise
A predictive ranking model surfaces the candidates worth your time and quietly archives the rest. No inbox to triage. No spam to sift. Your morning starts with a shortlist, not a flood.
03
Honest economics
Flat, predictable pricing. No per-applicant fees, no surge pricing, no upsells dressed as optimizations. You pay for outcomes — closed offers, accepted handshakes — and nothing else.
04
Built for the long arc
Hiring isn't a sprint. We measure ourselves on a decade — on the engineer who joins your team this Tuesday and is still there at the IPO. Every product decision is graded against that horizon.
◆ Measured outcomes
Slow software,
fast results.
Every number below is a rolling 90-day average across our active customer base. We update them each Monday.
2.4M
Vetted candidates
Every profile is human-reviewed before it appears in search.
14d
Average time-to-hire
From open role to signed offer. The industry average is 44 days.
92%
Offer acceptance
When you find the right person, they almost always say yes.
−38%
Cost per hire
Versus equivalent campaigns on legacy boards.
Plate I
“Hiring is the most consequential thing a company does. We treat the tools for it with the same reverence as the people they help find.”
The HireGeneral team
The comparison
The new way,
and the old.
Capability
HireGeneral
Legacy boards
Curated, vetted candidates
Predictive ranking, no triage
AI co-pilot for outreach
Flat, predictable pricing
Per-applicant fees
Endless template spam
The voices
In their words.
“
The first hiring product that feels designed by someone who has actually hired. We closed three senior roles in a month without writing a single sourcing message.
Anna Liu
Head of People, Linear
“
We replaced three tools and a contractor with HireGeneral. The pipeline is calmer and the candidates are better.
Marcus Bell
Founder, Stratos Inc
“
It's the calmest piece of software in our stack. Recruiters fight to use it.
Priya Shah
VP Talent, Halcyon Health
The fine print
Questions,
answered.
We're a curated marketplace, not a database. Every candidate is vetted, every role is hand-published, and the ranking is opinionated. You won't get a thousand half-fit applicants. You'll get a shortlist.
◆ One last thing
Hire calmly.
Build slowly.
Post your first role in under ten minutes. We'll surface a shortlist by Friday.
Signed,
The HireGeneral team
San Francisco · New York · Atlanta