Stop paying $15K–$20K per SDR hire. Shortlist is an AI recruiter that sources, screens, and delivers qualified sales candidates automatically. From $199/mo.

Hey PH! Curtis here, founder of Shortlist. Quick backstory: I was helping startups hire SDRs and kept watching the same thing happen. Founders would spend weeks sourcing candidates manually, burn through their budget on a recruiter, or settle for whoever applied on a job board. The process was always the same: slow, expensive, and frustrating. So we built Shortlist. You describe the sales role you need filled. Our AI finds real, qualified candidates and delivers them to you. No agencies. No per-hire fees. Takes about 30 seconds to run your first search. We are currently focused on sales roles (SDRs, BDRs, AEs) because that is where we can go deepest. We would rather be great at one thing than mediocre at everything. Would love your feedback. And genuinely curious: how are you all currently finding your sales hires? What is working, what is not?

What are the 5 factors? Curious how you landed on those

@abs_unit1 great question! the 5 factors are: Communication Skills, Outbound Experience, Coachability & Adaptability, Career Trajectory, and Domain/Industry Fit. we weighted it across these 5 factors in such a way because traditional matching over-indexes on resume keywords and quota claims (which are fabricated like 70-80% of the time btw). coachability ended up being the sleeper factor, it's one of the strongest predictors of SDR success but almost nobody screens for it. and we use semantic matching instead of keyword matching so candidates who describe the same skills differently don't get filtered out.

What are the 5 factors? Curious how you landed on those

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Your next sales hire, sourced by AI in 30 seconds

Your next sales hire, sourced by AI in 30 seconds