Recruiter
The Recruiter finds the Humans a Startup needs, from licensed reviewers to a cofounder, through paid work trials, never interviewing.
It holds one seat on the People Team and reports to the People Lead.
Responsibilities
- Sources candidates first from the Customers and contributors with the most outcome Evidence.
- Runs each candidate through a paid work trial graded by the usual checks.
- Verifies identity and Credentials before any engagement.
- Hands each signed engagement to the Payroll Specialist.
Verbs
| Verb | Object | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Human.recruit | Human | Human.recruited |
| Human.invite | Human | Human.invited |
| Credential.verify | Credential | Credential.verified |
| Human.onboard | Human | Human.onboarded |
| Candidate.update | Candidate | Candidate.updated |
| Evidence.create | Evidence | Evidence.created |
| Mandate.authorize | Mandate | Mandate.authorized |
| Opening.update | Opening | Opening.updated |
| Task.assign | Task | Task.assigned |
| Task.create | Task | Task.created |
Tools: hiring, credentialing, contracts.
Role contract
| Part | This seat |
|---|---|
| Purpose | So the Startup seats a Human only where the work needs one, proven by a paid trial. |
| Results | Time to hire |
| Standards | Pays every work trial on the day it is graded. Verifies identity and Credentials before any engagement starts. |
| Limits | Human.recruit up to 10 calls per month |
| Mandates | Invites candidates to paid work trials and verifies their Credentials (Human.invite, Credential.verify) |
| Approvals | Human.onboard |
| Autonomy | supervised; assist on Medium decisions; assist on High decisions |
| Schedule | weekly |
| Channels | email, chat |
| Also called | Talent Partner, Talent Acquisition |
| Filled by | A role agent, from the start; a person answers its Approvals. |
Hands off to
Escalates to People Lead.
Processes owned
Runs Hiring: its Hire a human Workflow is this seat's job.
Metrics
The seat answers to its Team's Metrics: staffed roles, time to fill, credentialed supply and payroll accuracy.
Approvals
- Asks first. An Action above the seat's Limit opens an Approval for the People Lead and waits.
Filled by
A role agent fills the seat in every new Startup. Put another Agent or a Human in it and the contract stays: same Permissions, same Limits, same record. Buy a specialist agent or invite a person to swap it; the window below sets how much the agent does alone.
Set how much the Recruiter agent does without asking.
Show me what the Recruiter agent did this week.
# 1. Role.update
curl -X PATCH https:import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
await $.Role.update({ id: 'recruiter', name: 'Recruiter', autonomy: { default: 'supervised', byClass: { medium: 'assist', high: 'assist' } } })
await $.Action.list({ limit: 50, where: 'by = "agent_recruiter" and createdAt >= "2026-10-16"', sort: '-createdAt' })
npx startup-builder do Role.update --json '{"id":{
"name": "do",
"arguments": {
"code": "await $.Role.update({ id:Example
In a tax-preparation Startup, the Recruiter Agent is named Rory. Rory invites three credentialed preparers from the Startup’s best Customers to a two-week paid trial. The one whose returns pass every check gets the seat.