Build the team your company deserves — and make them great.
At a startup, every hire either compounds your momentum or quietly drains it. PerfectLaunch vets every candidate with structured interviews and live AI coaching, so you hire on evidence rather than a gut feel — then keeps going with the 1:1s, check-ins, objectives and training that decide whether the hire actually works out.
Free to start · Set up your first role in ~5 minutes · No credit card
Every candidate, scored against your rubric and ranked on evidence.
The stakes
What a wrong hire actually costs you
Widely cited estimates put the cost of a bad hire at roughly a third of their first-year salary — and that's before the runway and momentum you never get back.
~30%
of first-year salary
A commonly cited estimate for the cost of replacing a bad hire — recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity.
Months
to notice and unwind it
You rarely know in week one. By the time it's clear, you've lost a quarter you can't rerun.
Your roadmap
the real opportunity cost
Every week spent managing a mis-hire is a week your product and your best people don't move forward.
One structured process is far cheaper than one wrong hire. PerfectLaunch is free to start.
Candidates are optimized to sell themselves.
Your job isn't to get excited and hire — it's to vet until you're sure. PerfectLaunch keeps you honest at the two decisions that matter:
Reduce the risk of who you hire
Score every answer against a rubric built for the role. When a stage score and a hire recommendation disagree, we flag it — so charisma never quietly overrules the evidence.
Reduce the risk of when you hire
Structure the pipeline so no one advances on a single good conversation, and so you bring on the right role at the right moment — not in a panic.
How it works
Hiring, run like an engineering process
The first four steps get the right person through the door. The last two are what most teams skip — and they are the ones that decide whether the hire pays off.
Craft role-specific questions
Build a rubric for each role from scratch or from a proven template. Every question maps to what actually predicts success.
Add the right stages
Design a multi-stage pipeline so candidates earn their way forward on evidence — not on one impressive chat.
Get coached live, then scored
An AI notetaker joins the call, feeds you the follow-up questions that cut past the pitch, then scores every answer against your rubric — no gut feel, no bias.
Decide on evidence
A clean scorecard ranks candidates on results, surfaces disagreements, and gives your team one place to weigh in. Per-role reporting shows where your funnel actually leaks.
Set up the first 90 days
A ramp of reviews and check-ins is booked from their start date, a 1:1 rhythm starts, and their objectives roll up to what the company is working towards.
Keep them growing
Assign a training course and watch it stick. Coaching, check-ins and 1:1s tell you how the hire is going long before a review would.
No credit card · Your first role live in ~5 minutes
See it in action
Two halves of the same job
Most tools stop at the offer. The hire is where the work starts — so both halves live in one workspace, on the same people.
Before the offer
Hire on evidence
Your job isn't to get excited and hire — it's to vet until you're sure. Every candidate runs the same gauntlet against the same bar.
Scorecards
Every answer scored — with AI call analysis
An AI notetaker matches each answer to your rubric and suggests a score; the interviewer's score always wins. Weighted questions roll up to a stage score, and stages roll up to one overall hire recommendation.
One process per role
Structured stages, one rubric for everyone
Design the pipeline once — AI resume screen, then the stages you choose, each with a fixed template and assigned interviewers. Save it as a reusable interview plan.
Coached live, then scored
An AI notetaker on every call
The notetaker joins the interview, records it, and produces a synced, speaker-labeled transcript — so scores trace back to exactly what was said, and nobody has to take notes while trying to listen.
Reporting on every role
See where the funnel actually leaks
Each role has its own report: the funnel step by step with the biggest drop-off called out, why candidates fall out, who sourced the ones that got furthest, interviews held week by week, and who has been waiting too long with nothing booked.
After the offer
Make the hire work
A great interview process still only gets someone through the door. What happens in the next ninety days is what you actually hired for.
One page per person — the interview evidence you hired on, and everything since, side by side.
1:1s
See which 1:1s have quietly stopped
Every standing 1:1 you run, ordered by which is most overdue — with the agenda both people add to between meetings. You see whether it's happening and what's next; what gets said in it stays between the two of you.
Check-ins
A short form on a rhythm you set
A check-in takes them a minute and tells you how the work is going between reviews. This page answers who you need to go and read — who's on rhythm, who's gone quiet, and who never started.
Objectives
Company, team, person — one tree
Set what the company is working towards, break it into team objectives, and link each person's work to the one it serves. Everyone can see the whole picture, so nobody has to guess what their objectives add up to.
Training
Courses that stick — and pay out
Assign a course and it comes back as short daily reviews rather than a video nobody finishes. Finish it and you earn a certificate — and, where a workspace has connected its own Tremendous account, a cash reward the learner takes as a gift card, a prepaid card, or a donation.
Why I built this
I used to wake up at 2am, sweating.
I'd built a startup and watched it lose momentum. Not for lack of an idea — because I didn't have the right people. Every day was a new fire, and I knew that sooner or later I'd have to drop everything and jump in to put it out myself.
My hit rate on hiring was about 50%. A coin flip. Recruiters pushed résumés with the lightest screening imaginable, so we burned weeks interviewing people who were never going to deliver. Every wrong hire cost me months I didn't have.
Everyone repeats “hire slow, fire fast.” Nobody tells you how to hire slow well. So I did what an engineer does: I turned it into a system. Questions built for each role. Real stages. A rubric for every answer. Evidence over excitement — every time.
“The wrong hire nearly cost me my company. PerfectLaunch is the system I wish I'd had.”
Recruiter marketplace
Need candidates? Hire a recruiter who feeds the funnel.
Bring on a specialist recruiter from the marketplace. Every candidate they source drops straight into your structured, AI-scored pipeline — volume at the top of the funnel, without ever losing rigor at the bottom.
Browse vetted specialists
Filter by function, region, and pricing. See each recruiter's sourced count, 12-month hires, location, and LinkedIn before you ever reach out.
Scoped to your roles
Engage a recruiter on specific roles only. They see just those funnels — candidates, stages, and comments — and nothing else in your workspace.
Recruiter payments, handled
Request, they accept, you pay a flat monthly rate through the platform — or a success fee, never both. 30-day terms, with auto or manual renewal.
Works where you work
Plug it into the tools you already use
Gmail, on the candidate
Connect your Google inbox and email candidates right from their profile. Everyone who connects a mailbox contributes to one shared thread, with saved templates and personal booking links.
Source in one click
Our Chrome extension adds an “Add to PerfectLaunch” button to any LinkedIn profile — one click drops the candidate into your pipeline, pre-filled.
Google Calendar auto-join
Connect your calendar and the notetaker books itself onto interviews — matched by the candidate on the invite, the time and the meeting link. Nobody has to remember to send a bot.
Rewards through Tremendous
Connect your own Tremendous account and a course can pay cash the moment it's finished. Your balance, your reward menu — the learner picks a gift card, a prepaid card, or a donation.
Drive it from your AI
Connect Claude or any MCP client and run hiring from your AI: add candidates, open roles, and pull stats — no tab-switching.
Connect once in Settings — your assistant, your inbox, your calendar, and your rewards account.
Community templates
Interview like the best startups in the world
You don't have to invent the perfect interview from nothing. Unlock a library of interview templates crafted by top founders and leaders who've hired hundreds — the exact questions and rubrics that separate great hires from expensive mistakes.
Templates from operators at the companies you admire — refined by people who've made the hire, and lived with the results.
Sign up to unlock
Start free. Upgrade when it pays for itself.
A single mis-hire can burn tens of thousands in salary and months you can't get back. PerfectLaunch costs a rounding error next to that — and seats are always free, so your whole team can weigh in and everyone you hire has a place to land.
Free
Everything you need to run your first scientific hire.
$0
- Three active roles
- Ten AI-scored interviews
- Community templates from top startups
- Unlimited team seats
- AI notetaker, rubrics & scorecards
- 1:1s, check-ins, objectives & training
Pro
For teams hiring seriously and often.
$99/mo
then $3 per extra interview
- Unlimited seats & roles
- 50 AI-scored interviews / month
- Integrations — Gmail, Google Calendar & more
- Calendar auto-join for the notetaker
- Per-role reporting & interviewer calibration
- Live coaching, team scorecards & comments
Your next hire is being decided this week.
Don't bet the company on a good interview. Set up your first role in minutes, give the decision the evidence it deserves — and have the first ninety days ready before they start.
Sign up nowFree to start — three roles, ten AI-scored interviews. No credit card, no risk.