Serra (YC S23) - Find the best talent with AI

Hi everyone, Alan from Serra here! Excited & nervous to launch haha! ✅ Our goal at Serra is to make it easy to find better, more relevant candidates immediately through natural language search. We accomplish this by building a vector-based search engine on top of ~1 billion candidates across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Github. 🔍 A search works in 3 steps: 1. Type who you're looking for. This can be as simple as "show me people that sell to SMBs" or as complicated as "Find senior data scientists in SF with expertise in ML, Python, and R in a healthcare setting, and have STEM degrees from the top 10 engineering programs in the US"! 2. Check the generated keyword filters. You can edit fields ranging from "Past Job Titles" to "Funding Stage" or rely on the ones Serra generates out of the box. 3. Sit back and let Serra do the rest! We take your search parameters, display the results, and rank them in terms of best fit. We also surface summaries for each profile and why they showed up in your search. 📣 For the free options, we're doing 2 free searches limited to ~40 results each, and no email contact info. We're early and iterating daily, so please do let us know any and all feedback! If you're interested to find out more about the premium version, book a demo with us at https://calendar.app.google/5CkC...!

Looks really promising! Great job team. A quick question: does it also prioritize people who are looking out for a job "Open to work". I understand most of the people who are not actively looking out for something might increase the bounce/no-show rates. Nonetheless, great product, excited to see it doing wonders!

Where do you get the candidates' database from?

Nice! Seems like a very useful tool in the HR process. Where would one source the candidates tho?

Congratulations on Serra's launch! 🥂 This is an intriguing recruitment solution. The ability to search in simple English and rapidly find the top candidates seems time-saving.

1. How does Serra handle niche industries or very specific roles? 2. Do you train custom models for different sectors?

Serra seems very promising to improve HR daily work, congrats ! Do you plan to expand to other languages ?

I truly believe in the approach that Serra is going with Talent Search. All the knowhow and data feedback are built into AI that distills intelligence from mass data and let human to decide and act. This is also how we are building Influencer Search.

@alan_wang5 super useful!

Super cool! Definitely looks like a way better move than hiring recruiters from an agency.