The recruiting team embedded inside your startup.

ConnectPath exists because founders were forced to choose between huge agency fees and bad hiring outcomes. We built the third option.

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What every engagement delivers

Week 115–25 vetted candidates
Day 21First hire on your standup
Flat feeSame regardless of salary
90 daysFree replacement coverage
US & CanadaWhere we place
Pre-Seed–Series AThe stage we serve
Week 115–25 vetted candidates
Day 21First hire on your standup
Flat feeSame regardless of salary
90 daysFree replacement coverage
US & CanadaWhere we place
Pre-Seed–Series AThe stage we serve

Why we exist

You had two ways to make a critical hire. Both quietly cost you the company. So we built a third.

Doing it yourself is "free," but it costs you the company: 10 to 15 hours a week pulled directly from product, fundraising, and customers. Traditional agencies take 15 to 18% of first-year salary, which means they're paid more when your hire costs you more.

ConnectPath is an embedded, internal-style recruiting system: agency-level output, internal-level fit, priced on a flat fee that puts us on your side of the table.

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Two bad options vs. the third
Do it yourself10–15 hrs/week lost
Percentage agencyPaid to inflate comp
ConnectPathEmbedded · Flat fee
Your first hire21 days

Process

Your path to the hire.

Five phases, one clock. The 21-day timeline, laid out day by day.

JanuaryYour search, day by day
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Days 1–2Intake & calibrationWe align on the role, comp, rubric, and your culture
Days 2–7Sourcing & outreachWe deliver 15–25 qualified profiles in week one
Days 7–12Vetting & shortlistWe screen and interview before you ever see anyone
Days 12–19Founder interviewsWe schedule, run feedback loops, and flag standouts
Days 20–21Offer & closeWe guide comp and support you through to acceptance
Always on

Full transparency, the whole way through

A weekly update call and a live progress dashboard: sourced, contacted, responded, qualified, in-process. You always know what happens next.

What makes it un-copyable

The Embedded Hiring Engine.

  • Compounding AI sourcing. Learns from every search across every company we run. It only gets better over time.
  • Human vetting layer. A senior recruiter screens and interviews every candidate before you see them.
  • Culture immersion. We work from inside your company, so hires fit how you actually build.
  • Aligned flat fee. Paid the same at $200k or $400k. Zero incentive to inflate salaries.
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Candidate scorecard · Staff SWE● Vetted
Technical ability9.2
Relevant experience8.8
Ownership & problem-solving9.0
Culture matchStrong fit

Stop paying for the empty seat.

An open senior seat is never neutral. Every week you wait, the math gets worse. Here is the monthly damage on a $250k role, and it dwarfs our one-time flat fee. Close it in 21 days.

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Cost of the empty seatMonthly
Lost product velocity (one senior hire of output)–$20,800
Founder time on sourcing (10–15 hrs/week)–$12,000
Team drag & context-switching (existing engineers covering)–$7,500
Roadmap slip risk (delayed milestone toward next raise)–$9,000
Estimated cost per month unfilled–$49,300
Illustrative model for a $250k senior role. Your numbers vary, but the direction never does: every month open costs multiples of our one-time flat fee.
Alland Ali

Founder & Head of Recruitment/Operations

Alland Ali

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Alland built ConnectPath for founders who raised to build, not to recruit. Every search runs founder to founder: embedded with your team, inside your process, accountable to the 21-day clock and the guarantees behind it. Selective by design, so the promises hold.

US & CAWhere we place
$200k+Comp band we work in
Adamo Mezzomo

Head of Systems & Tech

Adamo Mezzomo

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Adamo builds the systems ConnectPath runs on: the sourcing tooling, the screening rubric every candidate is measured against, and the live dashboard you watch your search through. He works alongside Alland on client success, and he also owns how the offer is positioned, including the words on this page.

15–25Vetted engineers, week one
21Days to first hire
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