Build the team your company deserves.
At a startup, every hire either compounds your momentum or quietly drains it — and you feel it for months. PerfectLaunch vets every candidate with structured interviews and live AI coaching that cuts past the pitch, so you hire on clear evidence, not a gut feel.
Free to start · Set up your first role in ~5 minutes · No credit card
Every candidate, scored against your rubric and ranked on evidence.
The stakes
What a wrong hire actually costs you
Widely cited estimates put the cost of a bad hire at roughly a third of their first-year salary — and that's before the runway and momentum you never get back.
~30%
of first-year salary
A commonly cited estimate for the cost of replacing a bad hire — recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity.
Months
to notice and unwind it
You rarely know in week one. By the time it's clear, you've lost a quarter you can't rerun.
Your roadmap
the real opportunity cost
Every week spent managing a mis-hire is a week your product and your best people don't move forward.
One structured process is far cheaper than one wrong hire. PerfectLaunch is free to start.
Candidates are optimized to sell themselves.
Your job isn't to get excited and hire — it's to vet until you're sure. PerfectLaunch keeps you honest at the two decisions that matter:
Reduce the risk of who you hire
Score every answer against a rubric built for the role. When a stage score and a hire recommendation disagree, we flag it — so charisma never quietly overrules the evidence.
Reduce the risk of when you hire
Structure the pipeline so no one advances on a single good conversation, and so you bring on the right role at the right moment — not in a panic.
How it works
Hiring, run like an engineering process
Craft role-specific questions
Build a rubric for each role from scratch or from a proven template. Every question maps to what actually predicts success.
Add the right stages
Design a multi-stage pipeline so candidates earn their way forward on evidence — not on one impressive chat.
Get coached live, then scored
An AI notetaker joins the call, feeds you the follow-up questions that cut past the pitch, then scores every answer against your rubric — no gut feel, no bias.
Decide on evidence
A clean scorecard ranks candidates on results, surfaces disagreements, and gives your team one place to weigh in.
No credit card · Your first role live in ~5 minutes
See it in action
This is what hiring on evidence looks like
Scorecards
Every answer scored — with AI call analysis
An AI notetaker matches each answer to your rubric and suggests a score; the interviewer's score always wins. Weighted questions roll up to a stage score, and stages roll up to one overall hire recommendation.
One process per role
Structured stages, one rubric for everyone
Design the pipeline once — AI resume screen, then the stages you choose, each with a fixed template and assigned interviewers. Every candidate runs the same gauntlet against the same bar. Save it as a reusable plan.
Coached live, then scored
An AI notetaker on every call
The notetaker joins the interview, records it, and produces a synced, speaker-labeled transcript — so scores trace back to exactly what was said, and nobody has to take notes while trying to listen.
It doesn't stop at the hire
Ramp plans and reviews, built in
Once someone's hired, a 30/60/90 ramp of check-ins and reviews is scheduled automatically — with reminders, coaching, and a feedback loop that tells you which interview templates actually predict strong hires.
Everything in one place
Email candidates without leaving the workspace
Connect your inbox and every message with a candidate is synced to their profile — one shared thread the whole team can see, with saved templates and personal booking links, so nothing lives in a private inbox.
Why I built this
I used to wake up at 2am, sweating.
I'd built a startup and watched it lose momentum. Not for lack of an idea — because I didn't have the right people. Every day was a new fire, and I knew that sooner or later I'd have to drop everything and jump in to put it out myself.
My hit rate on hiring was about 50%. A coin flip. Recruiters pushed résumés with the lightest screening imaginable, so we burned weeks interviewing people who were never going to deliver. Every wrong hire cost me months I didn't have.
Everyone repeats “hire slow, fire fast.” Nobody tells you how to hire slow well. So I did what an engineer does: I turned it into a system. Questions built for each role. Real stages. A rubric for every answer. Evidence over excitement — every time.
“The wrong hire nearly cost me my company. PerfectLaunch is the system I wish I'd had.”
Recruiter marketplace
Need candidates? Hire a recruiter who feeds the funnel.
Bring on a specialist recruiter from the marketplace. Every candidate they source drops straight into your structured, AI-scored pipeline — volume at the top of the funnel, without ever losing rigor at the bottom.
Browse vetted specialists
Filter by function, region, and pricing. See each recruiter's sourced count, 12-month hires, location, and LinkedIn before you ever reach out.
Scoped to your roles
Engage a recruiter on specific roles only. They see just those funnels — candidates, stages, and comments — and nothing else in your workspace.
Recruiter payments, handled
Request, they accept, you pay a flat monthly rate through the platform — or a success fee, never both. 30-day terms, with auto or manual renewal.
Works where you work
Plug hiring into the tools you already use
Email from the workspace
Connect your inbox and email candidates right from their profile. The whole team sees one shared thread, with saved templates and personal booking links.
Source in one click
Our Chrome extension adds an “Add to PerfectLaunch” button to any LinkedIn profile — one click drops the candidate into your pipeline, pre-filled.
Drive it from your AI
Connect Claude or any MCP client and run hiring from your AI: add candidates, open roles, and pull stats — no tab-switching.
Add a candidate in seconds — details autofilled from LinkedIn, the résumé parsed by AI.
Community templates
Interview like the best startups in the world
You don't have to invent the perfect interview from nothing. Unlock a library of interview templates crafted by top founders and leaders who've hired hundreds — the exact questions and rubrics that separate great hires from expensive mistakes.
Templates from operators at the companies you admire — refined by people who've made the hire, and lived with the results.
Sign up to unlock
Start free. Upgrade when it pays for itself.
A single mis-hire can burn tens of thousands in salary and months you can't get back. PerfectLaunch costs a rounding error next to that — and seats are always free, so your whole team can weigh in.
Free
Everything you need to run your first scientific hire.
$0
- Three active roles
- Ten AI-scored interviews
- Community templates from top startups
- Unlimited team seats
- AI notetaker, rubrics & scorecards
Pro
For teams hiring seriously and often.
$99/mo
then $3 per extra interview
- Unlimited seats & roles
- 50 AI-scored interviews / month
- Integrations — connect your email & more
- Live coaching, team scorecards & comments
Your next hire is being decided this week.
Don't bet the company on a good interview. Set up your first role in minutes and give the decision the evidence it deserves.
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