Multi-source breadth
We source where the talent is.
Most candidates come from a leading external data provider with reach across 850M+ profiles. Some come from our own 1M+ network. The rest from our recruiter bench.
About
We built the candidate side first. This is the natural next step.
Sprout has spent the last year and a half building the AI job-search platform that 1M+ working professionals use to find their next role. We know who's serious, who's exploring, who's ready to interview. So we started bringing those people directly to companies that want to hire them.
Why we built this
A middle path between job boards and agencies.
Recruiting is broken in two specific ways. Job boards make companies do all the work — sift, screen, schedule, follow up. Agencies do the work but cost 20–30% and run on retainers. There's a middle path that AI makes possible: a recruiter that works at software speed, with a software cost structure, and signal humans can't access.
Most AI recruiting startups are trying to build that middle path by sourcing from scraped LinkedIn data and shipping unscreened lists. We do source externally — across 850M+ professional profiles via a leading data provider — but every candidate goes through a real screening call before we send them. And for the slice of candidates pulled from Sprout's own platform (a paid consumer app working professionals use to find their next role), we have an extra layer of behavioral signal that lets us reject mass-appliers up front.
That's the asset. We use it to filter, not to flood.
Three things that make us different
Signal, breadth, workflow.
Real screening
Every candidate, on a call.
Before you see a name, we've talked to them — interest, comp, timeline, skill claims, fit. The shortlist comes with screening notes attached.
Native ATS
Your workflow stays the same.
Candidates push straight into Ashby, Greenhouse, and Lever. No "log into a different system" friction.
By the numbers
What's in the platform today.
850M+
professional profiles indexed across our network and external sources
100+
data sources powering every search
90-day
replacement guarantee on every hire
Team
Builders, operators, recruiters.
Aaron Paul
CEO
Engineering at Waterloo, prior YC founder, prior exit. Builds consumer AI products. Signs off the team and writes long-form on hiring.
Dillon Sanchez
CMO
Ex-Deloitte. Growth and UGC operator who has driven large-scale content and view volume. Owns the company-side go-to-market.
Mike Tanaka
CTO
Ex-AWS. Deep engineering experience across big tech and startups. Owns the platform, the matching model, and the ATS integrations.
What's next
Where this is going.
We're not building another LinkedIn alternative. We're building the recruiter that has already done the work before you call. The candidate-side product gives us the data. The recruiting service is how that data becomes hires. Down the line, the same data layer becomes the foundation of an AI-native professional network — but that's three steps from here.
For now: real placements at real companies, made with real data no one else has.
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