Clera is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps high-growth startups hire exceptional talent faster - without the overhead, fees, or friction of traditional recruiting. Instead of sifting through hundreds of inbound applications or paying 20–35% contingency fees to agencies, hiring teams get a curated pipeline of pre-qualified, intent-verified candidates introduced directly by Clera's AI talent agent.
Built for founders, hiring managers, and talent teams at venture-backed companies, Clera combines a 100,000+ startup candidate network with conversational AI to surface only the people who actually match your role, comp band, stage, and culture.
Key features for companies:
• Curated Candidate Pipeline: Every intro is vetted against your role requirements, comp range, location, and dealbreakers. No spray-and-pray, no irrelevant resumes.
• Intent-Verified Talent: Clera only introduces candidates who have explicitly opted into your role, eliminating cold outreach and ghosting.
• Warm, Context-Rich Intros: Candidates arrive with full context on your company and the role, and you receive a clear breakdown of why they're a fit.
• Massive Talent Network: Access 100,000+ engineers, PMs, designers, founding team members, and GTM professionals actively represented on the platform.
• Faster Time-to-Hire: Candidates average 8 days from first chat to first interview, dramatically compressing your funnel.
• Built for Startup Hiring: Designed around the realities of early- and growth-stage companies, from founding engineers to forward-deployed roles to GTM leadership.
• Transparent, Success-Based Pricing: You only pay when you hire. No retainers, no per-seat fees, no wasted spend on candidates you never meet.
• Founder-Friendly Workflow: Skip the ATS chaos. Review candidates, schedule intros, and move fast - all with Clera handling sourcing and screening in the background.
Clera is ideal for seed-to-Series C startups that need to hire high-caliber technical and operational talent quickly, without building a full in-house recruiting org or burning budget on traditional agencies. Whether you're filling a single founding role or scaling a team, Clera delivers the right candidates, with the right context, at the right time - turning recruiting from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.
