For anyone who hires

Hire without
a recruiter

The best person to recruit for your team is you. Describe who you need, reach out directly, hire on your terms.

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Your team, handpicked by you.

What most managers don't know

You don't need a recruiter to hire great people. You just need their email.

2–3x

Higher reply rates

Candidates are far more likely to respond to the actual hiring manager than to a recruiter. Your email isn't spam — it's a personal invitation from a future colleague.

10 min

To your first outreach

Describe who you're looking for in plain English. We find matching people, draft an email from you, and resolve their contact info automatically.

50

Emails to fill a role

Most roles can be filled with 50 well-targeted, personal emails. Not thousands of recruiter blasts. Precision over volume.

The difference

What changes when you reach out yourself

Through a recruiter

  • Someone else pitches your team
  • Candidate has no idea who you are
  • Weeks before you see anyone
  • Locked into their process
  • Generic outreach, low reply rates

With Handpick

  • You pitch your own team, your way
  • Candidate sees a real person, not a recruiter
  • First emails go out in 10 minutes
  • You control everything
  • Personal emails, higher reply rates
Who uses Handpick

Anyone who'd rather hire their own team than outsource it

Engineering leads

Building out a backend team. Need someone who's worked with your stack, at your scale. You know what to look for — you just need to find them.

Design managers

Hiring a senior product designer. Agencies keep sending portfolios that miss the mark. You'd rather pick someone whose work you've actually seen.

Founders & leaders

First sales hire. First head of ops. Key roles where culture fit matters as much as skills. Nobody can pitch your company better than you.

How it works

Three steps. No training required.

1

Describe who you need

Type what you're looking for in plain English. "Product designers in NYC with B2B SaaS experience" or "Sales leaders who've scaled a team from 5 to 20." AI finds matching people instantly.

2

Reach out

We draft a personal email from you. Tweak it or send as-is. Contact info is found automatically — you never think about it.

3

See who replies

Replies show up in your inbox and in the app. See who's interested, schedule calls, share profiles with your team. That's it.

The secret

You know who you want to hire. Go get them.

Your next great teammate is one email away. And that email is better coming from you.

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