Recruiting yourself steals a week every time you need to hire. This system gets you qualified candidates ready to hire in days. It handles the screening and interviews while you focus on product.
Northstar writes your job description, scores every resume, generates interview question packs, and drafts the offer letter. You make the judgment calls. Northstar eliminates the busywork that costs you 40 hours per hire.
Most founders make the same costly mistakes: they write weak job posts, drown in unqualified applications, and hire on gut feel instead of evidence.
Copy-pasted JDs from LinkedIn produce 200 applications where only 3 are qualified. You spend your Sunday sorting a spreadsheet instead of building your product.
Without an ATS or an HR team, founders manually skim every application. By the time you finish, your best candidates have accepted offers elsewhere.
A $70k hire gone wrong costs $21,000 in recruiting, onboarding, and lost output. Most bad hires happen because the interview had no consistent scoring framework.
By the time you draft a compliant offer, your top candidate has gone cold. Speed at the offer stage converts good finalists into signed employees.
Northstar handles the time-intensive parts of recruiting so you stay focused on your highest-judgment decisions: who to advance and who to hire.
Tell Northstar what this person will own, what success looks like in 90 days, and what skills matter. No templates, no dropdowns. Northstar turns your brief into a role definition and a scoring rubric.
Northstar writes a job post optimized for Indeed, LinkedIn, and your careers page. When applications arrive, each one gets a structured fit score (0-100), a summary of strengths and gaps, and a hiring recommendation.
For each candidate you advance, Northstar generates custom behavioral interview questions and a scoring rubric. When you are ready to hire, the offer letter drafts in under 60 seconds.
Turn a 2-sentence brief into a full, compelling job post with responsibilities, requirements, and a culture section that attracts the right candidates and filters out bad fits before they even apply.
Every application gets a structured fit score with an AI summary of strengths, experience gaps, and red flags. Cut your screening time from 12 hours down to 20 minutes per role.
For each candidate you advance, Northstar generates role-specific behavioral questions and follow-up probes based on their actual resume. Stop winging first calls and start getting real signal.
When you are down to your final three candidates, the comparison table shows side-by-side ratings across every dimension that matters for the role. Make the decision in 10 minutes, not 3 days.
Draft a professional, legally clean offer letter in 60 seconds. Compensation, start date, at-will language, and role description are pre-filled from your hiring brief. Includes contractor agreement templates.
See every open role and every candidate at a glance. Move people through stages, leave notes, and never lose track of where a hire stands across multiple concurrent searches.
Real results from founders who stopped hiring on gut feel and started hiring with signal.
"We went from 180 applications to 6 qualified first-round interviews in under three hours. I used to spend two full weekends on a single engineering hire. This time I was done before lunch on Friday."
"I hired three people in 90 days using Northstar. The interview question packs alone were worth every penny. I stopped rambling through first calls and started getting real signal. Zero regret hires, all three."
"The offer letter generator saved us a full week with legal. I described the role, plugged in the comp, and it produced a clean offer our attorney said was solid. That alone paid for years of the subscription."
No per-seat fees. No recruiter markups. Pay for hires, not headcount.
Perfect for your first hire. No credit card required to get started and run a complete search.
For founders scaling from 5 to 50 employees. Unlimited screening and faster hires.
For teams making 5-plus hires per quarter who need white-glove speed and team collaboration.
No. Northstar is a standalone hiring system that works out of the box. It also integrates with Greenhouse and Lever if you already have one, but it performs equally well on its own for teams under 100 employees.
When you define the role, Northstar builds a scoring rubric from your brief. Every resume is evaluated against that rubric: skills match, career trajectory, role-specific signals, and flag criteria you define. You set the weights; Northstar runs the math.
Northstar generates offer letters using standard at-will employment language commonly accepted across all 50 US states. We recommend attorney review for critical senior hires, but the majority of early-stage founders use them as-is.
Northstar keeps your pipeline live. If an offer is declined, your second-ranked candidate is still scored and staged. You can resurface their interview pack and generate a revised offer in minutes, not days.
Yes. Northstar handles full-time, part-time, contract, and fractional roles. The offer letter module includes a contractor agreement template alongside the standard employment letter.
Yes. Growth includes a 14-day free trial, no credit card required at signup. You can run a complete hire from job post through offer letter and decide if it is worth paying for before you commit.
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