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Contrario
The AI recruiting platform powered by expert recruiters
332 followers
The AI recruiting platform powered by expert recruiters
332 followers
Recruiting tools won't get you the hire. The right team will. Contrario combines a network of expert recruiters with AI agents built for hiring. Our recruiters and agents handle 90% of the work — sourcing, screening, coordination, and closing — all from Slack via natural language. With every decision, the system learns your bar and surfaces better candidates over time.
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Hey Product Hunt! Arya here, Co-Founder & CEO of @Contrario
My team and I have spent the last 18 months building Contrario in the recruiting space. What’s happening now is that SaaS and AI recruiting tools are everywhere, with people claiming they have proprietary tech that can help you find the most “cracked” talent.
What people do not tell you is that even the best recruiting tools can’t guarantee that strong talent will reply and interview at your company. That is just not how it works. After working with 200+ businesses and going through YC, what we learned is that the real way to win talent is the best expert recruiters working for you — curating targeted outreach messages, doubling down on what's working, and selling the company's vision in every interview.
So we built Contrario to do exactly that. Check us out: https://www.contrario.ai/
You import your open jobs, and Contrario will:
generate a curated JD with ideal profiles, companies, and more
find and assign expert recruiters who already made similar hires
surface high-quality talent interested in working at your company
schedule interviews for you based on your availability
and learn from feedback until we find the right candidate
So instead of a slow manual recruiting agency or paying for first-gen AI tools, you get an agentic platform that does everything for you.
A few outcomes:
An AI marketing startup hired their core engineering team of 4 in 15 days.
A people data company hired 2 AEs and 2 operations people in <1 month.
And 150+ candidates hired in <12 months since starting Contrario including @Wispr Flow
The future of recruiting is humans and agents working together as one. Contrario is leading this wave.
Who is Contrario for?
Founders making hires. Engineering managers expanding the team. Heads of talent and in-house recruiters looking to grow the team. Anyone who has to hire but doesn't want manual processes and a lack of high-quality candidates to be a bottleneck.
🎁 For the PH community:
Try Contrario today, and if it clicks, get 20% off your first hire, no matter the role.
Get started by booking a demo: https://www.contrario.ai/book-a-demo and select “Product Hunt”
What’s the next urgent hire you need to make?
Akiflow
@arya_marwaha cool stuff!
Does Contrario integrate with an ATS too, or is Slack basically the whole interface?
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@thamibenjelloun Hey Thami! Yes Contrario integrates with all major ATS providers (Ashby, Lever, Workday) so you can use that alongside the Slack interface.
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@thamibenjelloun wondering which ATS system you need supported?
We work with the Contrario team at Listen and appreciate the human recruiters + AI agents approach to recruiting. We've seen great candidates come through the platform for our growth team. Curious which types of roles have been the strongest fit so far across customers?
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@dianadlim It’s been great partnering with the Listen team! We have definitely seen the highest liquidity among GTM/ops and remote engineering roles just from a supply standpoint. However in-person engineers are always in demand and it’s interesting how the talent flows based on how well that particular company is doing. For example, a well known Series B startup can command much better engineering talent than earlier Seed companies who are more reliant on referrals.
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Hey! CTO & co-founder here 👋
Really proud of what our team built here at Contrario. Excited to launch today and would love any feedback from the PH community!
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@soodadityab Aditya is the brain behind our incredible software and product. If anyone has any tech specific questions, he's here all day to answer!
Mindra
Cool stuff, how much time does it take human recruiters to perform a background check and verify the Recruiter Agent was not manipulated or lied into hiring a candidate?
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@yamanbicer Hey Yaman that’s a very important question! Right now we still use third-party software to confirm background checks and aren’t reliant on agents. On verifying the recruiter agents, they’re primarily responsible for tasks related to scheduling, coordination, and auto-filling submission notes for now, rather than high-stakes decisions like hiring a candidate. When do you think an agent, if ever, will be ready to take on these tasks?
Is this only for tech roles or can it work for ops, sales, and GTM hires too?
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@tigran_karapetyan11 works for ops, sales, and GTM hires too! In fact fill rates are faster for these types of hires!!
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@tigran_karapetyan11 Curious, what specific hire titles are you looking to make right now?
the curated jd feature sounds lowkey useful. writing job descriptions is the one task i always procrastinate on. does the agent suggest which companies to poach from or do we provide the list?
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@priya_kushwaha1 Appreciate it. We include green flags, red flags, ideal candidates, + ideal companies based on the intake transcript. Either you can manually tell us what companies to include, or our agent auto-suggests companies in similar industries to list. As long as we don't actively work with them, we can list them on the internal recruiter JD! Wonder if this agent would be a useful feature for you on ideal companies and candidates?