AI-Enabled Recruiting Sprint
Your Next Hire,
In Your Dashboard,
In 7 Days.
Arx runs a fully async, AI-powered hiring sprint for senior roles at growth-stage companies. Fixed-scope. Fixed-price. Five pre-vetted candidates in a live pipeline — without a single recruiter call.
Candidate Pipeline
● Sprint Active — Day 5Alex M. — Staff Engineer
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Priya K. — Sr. Backend Engineer
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Jordan T. — Engineering Manager
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The Industry's Dirty Secret
Traditional Agencies Are
Failing You on Purpose
"You pay 25% contingency and wait 90 days."
Most placements happen 2–3 months after you need them. Your revenue-generating seat sits empty.
"You get a weekly call, not a pipeline."
Status updates are theater. You have no visibility into who's been contacted, screened, or declined.
"You fired one recruiter and hired another."
Every contingency agency does the same thing: blast your job to LinkedIn and pray. The process never changes.
“The best agencies don't sell a search. They sell an outcome you can see moving in real time.”
The Arx Difference
A Hiring Sprint, Not a Search
7-Day First Slate
Five pre-vetted, async-screened candidates in your portal within one week of kickoff. Not sourced — ready.
Live Pipeline Portal
See every candidate, every status, every note in real time. Approve or pass with one click. No email threads.
Zero Calls Required
Role briefing is a form. Updates are portal notifications. Scheduling is automated. We work; you review.
Fixed-Scope, Fixed-Price
One engagement fee covers the full sprint. No hourly billing. No scope creep. Clear deliverables, clear timeline.
to your first candidate slate
profiles searched by AI
recruiter calls required
placement guarantee
The Process
From Signed to Slate
in One Week
Kickoff
- •You complete a role brief form (15 min, async)
- •Portal access activated — your branded pipeline view is live
- •Sprint fee collected
- •Async kickoff summary delivered: what we're doing and when to expect results
Sourcing Sprint
- •AI searches 800M+ profiles using your role criteria
- •We screen the top candidates via async video interview
- •Five pre-vetted profiles — with video responses, resume, and fit notes — land in your portal
- •You get a portal notification: "Your first slate is ready."
Feedback to Offer
- •Approve or pass candidates in the portal with one click
- •We run a second sourcing pass based on your signals
- •Interviews scheduled automatically through your calendar integration
- •Offer stage support: comp benchmarks, offer letter templates, closing guidance
What Never Happens
✕No intro call before we start
✕No weekly status call
✕No candidate spreadsheets over email
✕No "we're working on it" updates without portal visibility
What You'll Actually See
Your Hiring Dashboard,
Live From Day One
Director of Engineering — Pipeline
4 candidatesSarah Chen
Sr. Engineering Manager · San Francisco, CA
Marcus Johnson
Staff Software Engineer · Austin, TX
Elena Rodriguez
Director of Engineering · New York, NY
David Kim
Principal Engineer · Seattle, WA
“We had three qualified candidates to review by day 6. Our previous agency took four months and placed no one.”
— VP of Engineering, Series B SaaS (placeholder)
Transparent Pricing
One Fee to Start.
One Fee When You Hire.
Hiring Sprint
Engagement Fee
$5,000 – $10,000
Collected Day 0. Covers portal setup, AI sourcing, async screening, and your full 7-day first slate. Fee scales with seniority of the role.
Success Fee
10–15%
Of first-year compensation. Only owed if you make a hire. Below market rate because the sprint fee subsidizes our costs.
Placement Guarantee
If no qualified hire within 60 days → additional search cycles at no charge to you.
Traditional retained search firms charge 33% of salary — all upfront. We charge a fraction of that, and you only pay the success fee when you hire.
Who This Is For
We're Built for One Type
of Hiring Problem
This is for you if...
- ✓You're a founder or hiring manager at a 25–300 person company
- ✓You have a Director, Head of, or senior IC role open right now
- ✓The role has been open for 30+ days without results
- ✓You can move fast when you see the right candidate
- ✓The empty seat is costing you revenue, velocity, or your own time
This is NOT for you if...
- ✗You need to hire 10+ people at once (we're not an RPO)
- ✗Your role pays under $80,000 base
- ✗You need a 6-month committee approval to spend $8,000
- ✗You want someone to manage your entire HR function
“You've been trying to fill this role for 90 days. We put your first slate of five pre-vetted candidates in a dashboard in 7 days. Sprint fee is $8,000. Success fee is 12% at hire. Want to start Monday?”
Why It Works
Built on AI. Run by Operators
Who've Done This.
800M+
profiles
AI-searchable candidate database across 60+ sources
7
days
Median first slate delivery (guaranteed)
10–15%
success fee
Success fee, below the 20–25% contingency market rate
Rob Lara — Founder, Arx Talent
Background in AI recruiting technology and business development. Arx is built on the same tools and workflows used by elite recruiting operations — available to growth-stage companies that can't afford a $50,000 retained search retainer.
Your next hire is
7 days away.
Book a free 15-minute scoping call. We'll confirm your role is a fit for the sprint model and tell you exactly what to expect.
Book a Scoping Call →No commitment. No pitch deck. Just a conversation about your role.