LIGHTNINGHIRE
We're building an AI-powered interview copilot for job seekers who freeze up, get lost in tabs, and don't know what to say about salary — and for recruiters who want to run honest, organized hiring loops. No hype. Real outcomes.
We're a copilot, not autopilot. We augment people at anxious, high-stakes moments — behavioral questions, salary conversations, pipeline chaos — and we don't pretend to replace judgment or hand-wave what the product can't do yet.
Every feature exists because a real user told us exactly where they were stuck. That's the bar. That's the work.
Mock interviews with specific scoring. Negotiation scripts with your numbers. The product does the work, but the user owns the outcome.
No feature-first roadmaps. No vague promises. If we can't name the specific problem it solves and the mechanism it uses, we don't ship it.
We'd rather show a real flow than describe a vague future. Numbers in marketing copy have to survive a link to the dashboard that produced them.
You care what ships and how it feels in the real world — not just what crossed the board. You follow work into production and watch what users actually do with it.
You say what you mean, write down what you decide, and disagree clearly when something's off. We'd rather have an honest 15-minute conversation than a week of passive friction.
Early-stage means we scope honestly, learn fast, and adjust when the data or users tell us we're wrong. If you need the answer before you start, this isn't the right room.
You notice when a flow is one step too long or a sentence is one hedge too many. You can't unsee it, and you care enough to fix it.
Job seekers are using us at some of the most stressful moments of their lives. We don't dark-pattern, inflate, or gamify. We treat their time and trust like it's our own.
We're an early-stage company, so we scope honestly. Here's what's real today — and we'll tell you in the interview what's still evolving.
Founding-team-level grants with standard 4-year vesting. Real ownership, not decoration.
Work where you work best. Deep-work time is sacred. No standups before 10am local time.
Minimum 15 days expected, unlimited on paper, tracked on our side so no one skips them.
Small team, flat structure. You'll ship alongside the people who started the company, with no filter layer in between.
Whatever you need to move fast — IDE, AI tools, cloud, equipment. We don't ration productivity.
Medical, dental, vision for you and your dependents. Details evolve as we grow; the floor doesn't.
Books, courses, conferences. If it makes you sharper at the work, we'll fund it.
Weekly demos, monthly retros, quarterly goal-setting. We measure what we said we'd do against what actually shipped.
Your shipped code changes whether someone gets the offer that changes their life. That's the whole point.
We're drafting founding roles now. If any of these sound like you, email us before the listing goes live — we'd rather start a real conversation than run a generic funnel.
Don't see a fit but think you'd be one of our first hires? Tell us what you'd own.
Start a conversationSmall founding team. Honest scope. Ownership over outcomes. If that sounds like your kind of room, we'd love to hear from you.