2024 – 2026
We built the engine that put one thousand recruiters to work.
SeekLab connected fast-growing companies to a network of industry-specialised recruiters through performance-based bounties: software instead of retainers, outcomes instead of invoices. This is what we shipped, and what it added up to.
The ledger
Two years of hiring, in five numbers.
Every placement was paid on outcome. Every bounty was earned by a recruiter who knew their market cold. Nothing here was billed by the hour.
Companies
Hired with teams building what’s next.
From startups to healthcare to hardware: a sample of the companies that ran hiring on SeekLab.
The whole loop
Role posted to recruiter paid, in six steps.
Price the role
Set a fee, a guarantee window, and a salary band, live in minutes. No retainer, no lock-in contract.
Under 5 minutes to postReach the network
The role goes out to a thousand recruiters who already work your niche, not a black hole on a job board.
1,000 specialised recruitersMatch on requirements
Every candidate arrives with a scorecard and the reasoning behind it: a case to read, not a keyword match to guess at.
Reasoned, not keyword-matchedVerify the submission
Client and recruiter both confirm the submission before it counts, so nobody argues later about who found who.
Dual sign-offMove the pipeline
One pipeline, one truth. Client and recruiter watch the same stage update live. Nobody's writing a status email.
Shared, real-time stagesPay on outcome
Payment triggers the moment the hire is confirmed. Seven figures moved through the system, and nobody had to chase an invoice.
Seven figures paid outThe product
A full recruiting operating system, built by three people.
Bounty posting, AI candidate matching, submission verification, a shared pipeline, and payouts, one platform. Everything below is the real interface, running on sample data.
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Product video
See the product in motion.
A short walkthrough of the recruiting operating system: bounty posting, matching, pipeline, and payouts.
In their words
What the two sides said about it.
“They helped us hire three people in under three months, and stayed flexible enough to present candidates exactly the way we wanted.”
“Great to work with from the start, and genuinely responsive every time we gave feedback.”
“We’d spent three months striking out with other agencies and platforms. SeekLab found us the one candidate that mattered.”
Timeline
How it went.
SeekLab starts
Three founders, one thesis: recruiting should be priced on outcomes and run on software, not retainers and spreadsheets.
The marketplace goes live
First bounties posted, first placements paid. The recruiter side of the network crosses 250.
YC companies pile in
Thirty Y Combinator companies hiring on the platform. AI matching ships, and the recruiter network passes one thousand.
One hundred placements, seven figures paid
Seventy-five companies hired through SeekLab. Every bounty settled, every recruiter paid.
Onto what's next
The three of us are building again. If any of the above is useful to you, the fastest way in is a message.
The team
The three of us. Reach any of us directly.
Justin Diraddo
Co-founder & CEO
Ran sales and financial operations: every client relationship, the commercial model behind the bounties, and the money moving through them.
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Lucan Laurence
Co-founder & CTO
Owned the supply side: recruiting, vetting and running the 1,000-strong recruiter network, and built the majority of the platform as technical lead.
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Fernando Kuniy
Co-founder & Founding Engineer
Helped build the platform: the matching pipeline, resume parsing, third-party services and the infrastructure it all ran on.
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