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Clera
An AI agent matching candidates to the right roles.
658 followers
An AI agent matching candidates to the right roles.
658 followers
Meet Clera: your AI talent agent for finding roles you actually want. Clera gets to know what you’re looking for over iMessage and WhatsApp. It surfaces roles you’d actually be excited by and makes direct intros to relevant companies. You hear about good opportunities without spending hours searching and applying.
Nice product, slick UI and like the fact you can use iMessage / WhatsApp in the onboarding. Curious what is your vision longer term (post 5 years) for the future of traditional jobs and how do you see Clera adapting to that?
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@jasondainter good question - I knew this was to come with the launch video that hinted towards the end of typical work. I think there are going to be a lot of changes that all lead for a stronger need for support in the job market. Those include:
Increases in layoffs and more frequent job changes, more needs for specialised skills etc
Increased war of talent for the best talent who will have more leverage with AI tools. We already now see the difference between good and excellent talent getting bigger with AI
Working becoming more "optional" -> even as this happens (with universal basic income or societal shifts), people will be striving for meaningful things to do in their time and we also think we can help with that
@alexanderfarr thanks interesting answers!
@alexanderfarr also re: 3) I think this is a very interesting topic. Eg whether we'll end up on a basic universal income or to borrow from Elon, a high universal income. Either way interesting angle that we'll likely still be looking for meaningful things to spend our time on.
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@jasondainter what else are we going to do in the future?
@alexanderfarr indeed. I guess there's the dystopic view of the divide getting bigger and bigger and some kind of "matrix" esque situation. Not optimal, I definitely side with the more optimistic side and probably basic/high universal income theory!
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@jasondainter thank you so much Jason! In my opinion there will always be information asymmetry in a market (especially when it comes to companies and workers). We are trying to fight this! Who knows how this will look like in 5 years, maybe the changes will not be as big as we expect right now!
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Hey Product Hunters! 👋 this is Alex and I started Clera with @sebastian_scott3 and @daniel_wintermeyer.
With everything being built right now, there has never been a better time to work at a startup. But if you're looking for the right team and environment, you won't find it by just "applying" to roles. Clera is an AI talent agent that talks to candidates and hiring teams to build the kind of deep understanding that makes great matches possible. Then it introduces you directly.
Also introducing our $3m pre-seed fundraise. Find more info on https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jsebastianscott_we-just-raised-a-3m-pre-seed-to-kill-the-activity-7454786594009489408-X7Kb
Here's how it works:
Tell Clera what you're looking for: your ideal role, dealbreakers, career goals. Via WhatsApp, iMessage, email, or our website.
Clera's matching engine finds the best fit across 600+ startup jobs from VC-backed companies we work with directly.
When you like a role, Clera makes the intro. If the company's excited too, you're connected straight to the hiring manager.
Track everything in one dashboard: intros sent, interviews booked, feedback received.
What makes us different:
Unlike job boards, we only list roles where we have direct relationships with the hiring team, so every match comes with a warm intro.
We never force you into AI interviews. Clera is built to provide the best experience for top candidates, not to screen you out.
Clera is completely free for candidates. Companies get started for free too and only pay when they make a hire.
We'd love to hear from you: Would you actually use this? What are the biggest pain points you run into when looking for jobs or talent?
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Alex
Incredible
@alexanderfarr finally recruiting is being optimized 🙏
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@daniel_wintermeyer @alexanderfarr let's gooo!
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Lets gooo!!!
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@pavel_cocoahead thank you!
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This looks incredibly promising. I really like the conversational approach, it feels like a much more natural and engaging ways to discover roles. Congrats on the launch 🙌
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@calum appreciate it and thanks for the positive feedback. Curious if you have any more feedback or would use it yourself?
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@calum Thank you!
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@calum thank you so much Calum! I strongly believe its no important to actually be where the users lives daily, and that is iMessage and WhatsApp!
Feels like the hardest part here isn’t finding roles, but actually understanding what someone truly wants (which most people struggle to articulate).
Curious how Clera gets signal beyond what users explicitly say?
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@munevver_ertuncccc very good question. we do have a career coaching mode also where we try to help with general exploration as well.
Our focus is on just asking question that you could normally not filter for / would forget to specify like:
Structured conversation, not open-ended forms. Our agent asks pointed follow-ups designed to surface the "why behind the what." If you say you want remote work, we dig into whether that's about flexibility, location, or avoiding a specific commute. The distinction matters for matching.
Reading the job side deeply too. Half the problem is that job descriptions are also poorly articulated. We use AI to extract what a role actually involves day-to-day, what skills genuinely matter vs. wishlist items, and what the team culture looks like from real signals. Better understanding of both sides means better matching even when neither side describes themselves perfectly.
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@munevver_ertuncccc agree. And articulating is hard if you don't know what is possible or you have been primed to accept what you get offered by the market. We do a couple of things: First, we do ask you. But then, we learn from your actions - which roles you like or dislike. We ask you why and find patterns, leading to hypothesis on our end we validate with you. So, every interactions help us better to find you the ideal role. Would love to hear your take on that though!
@daniel_wintermeyer That’s interesting, especially the ‘learning from actions vs answers’ part.
Feels like the real unlock is when preferences become implicit rather than something users have to articulate. Most people don’t actually know what they want until they see it.
If you get that right, matching becomes a very different problem.
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@munevver_ertuncccc Very good question! Another way we get signal is by evaluating and understanding why a user liked or didn't like a role - or by calibrating candidate profiles with companies and helping them narrow down what they actually want
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@munevver_ertuncccc agreed! I think this will definitely impact our product roadmap by a lot!
Sounds really interesting! How do you make the intros after I've shown interest in a company? Also curious if Clera helps tailor the pitch for me before the intro, or if it's a direct connection to the hiring manager?
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@marcus_larsson1 good questions! The flow typically is like this:
We show jobs that we have data that you have good chances of landing an interview and is interesting to you
We share your profile to the company via our dashboard and Slack / Mail
Once they opt-in, we make direct intros
Does that make sense to you or what would be the best workflow for you?
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@marcus_larsson1 we're in slack with the founders or hiring managers, and we pitch the match - why you two should talk. We do, but not greatly, surfacing that right now though to the candidate. What's your take on that? Would you like to see how we pitched you so you can make the proper adjustments?
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@marcus_larsson1 just to add, the actual intro in the end is often through email as this is the preferred channel for both sides to kick off the interview process. And for tailoring a pitch, as Alex shared, we already pitched your profile to the company for you but in case you need help with presenting yourself in the interview, Clera also helps and sends you resources:)
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@marcus_larsson1 the other guys already added a lot to this, just wanted to add my 2 cents: Being in Slack channels together with founders and hiring managers actively looking for the best talent out there is the biggest leverage. We are able to get direct feedback from the design makers and are able to forward this directly to our users!
We are currently also working on a feature to see how we introduce you in those slack channels to these companies and give you the option to actively shape this pitch! We always act in the best interest of our users!
The conversational approach over iMessage/WhatsApp is a smart distribution choice. As someone who hired 100+ engineers over a few years as CTO, I can tell you the biggest matching problem isn't finding resumes that look right on paper - it's understanding what a candidate actually cares about vs. what they write in their LinkedIn headline. The dealbreakers and career goals part is key because those are the things that blow up offers after 3 rounds of interviews. If Clera can surface those mismatches early, that saves everyone weeks. Curious how you handle the signal quality on the company side - do hiring teams go through a similar conversational intake so the matching is genuinely two-sided, or is it primarily driven by job descriptions?
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@avrisimon thanks so much for the thoughtful comments.
Actually, this is our secret sauce - getting more data from companies on what they really care about and which hires were successful for them in the past. Happy to chat more
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@avrisimon would love to hear what you think of the company onboarding flow
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@avrisimon information asymmetry is probably the biggest problem in one of the biggest markets worldwide (hiring). Working very hard to solve this!!
Very easy to use and intuitive platform. The AI resume Analysis feels a bit generic though and on subsequent updates to the resume the analysis doesn't really change. But these small things are not deal breakers and I feel confident the team will ship updates soon. The job curation is top notch and the team is very easily reachable!
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@diya_burman Thanks for the feedback! You can also get more detailed resume feedback (or build it from scratch) here https://resume.getclera.com/ - working on implementing better feedback through chat
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@diya_burman thanks so much for the good feedback. I agree, we still need to work on the AI resume Analysis. Let us know if you find any other things we should work on.
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@diya_burman thanks so much Diya, appreciated. Agree with the Resume Analysis, by now we have quite a good set and quite some opinions on how to properly write Resumes. While I personally think Resumes are a relict of the past, they are (still) required and why not make it as easy as possible to get that polished up. What did you feel missing in the feedback though? Actionability? To make it less generic?
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@diya_burman Hey Diya! Our resume analysis is still in its early days and hasnt been a priority later, we will work very hard to offer the best experience here!