Launching today
Clera
An AI agent matching candidates to the right roles.
295 followers
An AI agent matching candidates to the right roles.
295 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!
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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!!!
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
We've been using Clera at Pluno and already hired 2 engineers who came from Clera!
Quality of the profiles we receive is far higher than what we've had with traditional recruiters, and it saves us lots of time not having to manually reach out to great candidates.
Highly recommend, you guys rock @alexanderfarr @sebastian_scott3!
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@korabs thanks for the shout-out! Happy that we could find you some hires! Great to work with you :)
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@korabs thanks for the kind words!
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@korabs working with founders like you is a dream come true; and an amazing opportunity for great talent out there to get introduced directly. Thanks for your trust Korbinian.
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Congrats on the launch @alexanderfarr and the whole team!
How does Clera differ from platforms like Mercor, Braintrust, or even something like А Team for matching candidates with VC-backed startups?
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@byalexai thanks, really appreciate it!
Good question - those are more focused on other areas and particularly freelancers. We focus on full-time roles with startups. Also very differently built from a product experience.
Have you been using any of these platforms?
love that this runs through iMessage/WhatsApp - feels way more natural than logging into another job board every day!
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@yaajyaansh_bhardwaj thanks - please share more feedback how you like the experience and what's missing for you there!
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@yaajyaansh_bhardwaj let me know if you have any feedback after trying it out!
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Building Clera has been the joy of my life. Shipping product that actually help people land a job is a dream come true! I have seen countless friends / family stuck in jobs they don't enjoy. With Clera we can finally remove that friction!
Keen to learn about any feedback while using the product!
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@sebastian_scott3 its such an important mission, esp. in today's AI times. Glad to be working on it with you!
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@sebastian_scott3 Great building this with you!