Recruiting agencies are incentivised to fill roles, not find the right person.
JobCompass flips the model. AI sources thousands of candidates at scale. Human recruiters vet the top 1%. You get 1–3 people who actually fit — in 48 hours.
Traditional recruiting is broken for startups.
When agencies earn a percentage of salary, speed beats precision every time. You end up with 20 loosely relevant CVs, a 5–10% hire rate, and a 20–30% bill.
Volume over quality.
Agencies send 10–20 CVs to hit their KPIs. You spend hours screening candidates who were never a fit.
Generalists placing specialists.
A recruiter who doesn't know the difference between banking fraud and startup fraud can't evaluate either candidate.
Opaque, inflated fees.
20–30% of first-year salary with retainers, exclusivity clauses, and no guarantee you'll actually hire.
Weeks of waiting.
Traditional agencies take 2–4 weeks to deliver a first shortlist. Startups can't afford to wait that long for a critical hire.
AI sources at scale. Humans vet for fit.
We built a hybrid model that combines the speed of AI with the judgement only experienced recruiters can provide.
AI layer.
Processes thousands of profiles, matches keywords, maps career trajectories, and surfaces the top candidates — all within hours, not weeks.
Human layer.
Senior recruiters assess intent, cultural fit, and risk tolerance. They read between the lines of the brief — something AI can't replicate.
Precision delivery.
You receive 1–3 candidates with a match rationale for each. No CV dumps, no noise. 50% of candidates we send get hired.
Transparent pricing.
12% flat placement fee. Simple monthly plans from $2K. No retainers, no exclusivity, no hidden costs. You only pay when you hire.
Built on principles, not buzzwords.
Every decision we make — from pricing to process — traces back to these beliefs.
Precision over volume.
Fewer candidates, higher hit rate. We'd rather send two perfect fits than twenty loosely relevant CVs.
Speed as a feature.
48-hour shortlists because startups can't wait 6 weeks for a critical hire. Time-to-hire is a competitive advantage.
Radical transparency.
Published pricing. No retainers. No exclusivity clauses. If we can't find the right person, you don't pay.
Four verticals where generalists fail.
We recruit exclusively in verticals where domain knowledge is the difference between a great hire and a costly mistake.
Financial Crime
AML analysts, fraud ops, KYC officers, MLROs, transaction monitoring.
Payments Ops
Payment ops managers, merchant ops, chargeback and risk analysts.
Insurance Ops
Claims managers, underwriters, compliance and risk analysts.
RevOps & GTM
RevOps managers, GTM ops, sales operations leads.
Founded by operators, not recruiters.
We've been on both sides of the hiring table at startups — and we built the service we wished existed.
Scaled a bootstrapped AI company from $1.5K to $270K/month. Built JobCompass because he kept getting burned by recruiters who didn't understand niche roles.
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Talent acquisition specialist with deep expertise in compliance and risk hiring across fintech. Runs the recruiter network that vets every candidate we send.
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