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Delivered where your hiring lives
Slack
Email
Greenhouse
AshbyWhat our customers say
Subgraph has been a game changer for us. We’ve been able to consistently have high quality candidates in our pipeline with minimal time investment, at a fraction of the normal cost. It’s allowed us to remain focused on building our product without slowing down on hiring.
Working with Subgraph has accelerated our ability to fill high-urgency technical roles. Their team understands both deep hardware and software domains, and more importantly, the nuances of the specific skill sets we actually need.
Subgraph truly operates as an extension of our team rather than just an external agency. Their communication is consistently transparent and responsive, and they quickly grasped the exact profile we were looking for. It has been a seamless and highly productive partnership.
How Subgraph works
We learn about your role and build a sourcing strategy.
We map your entire talent market.
We reach out to candidates.
Our custom email infrastructure maximizes the number of candidates we reach.
Candidates are introed.
The best candidates land in your Slack. As soon as you approve, we intro over email.
Pricing
Standard
We reach out to candidates and submit the best when they show interest.
Pricing structure
Monthly fee, credited toward a placement fee on hire.
$500/mo →$10kplacement fee
What's included:
- ✓Talent sourcing with dedicated recruiter oversight
- ✓Personalized outreach from your domain or ours
- ✓Send on behalf of the hiring manager
- ✓Submissions in Slack, email, Ashby, or Greenhouse
- ✓One click to send an intro email
Full Service
We phone screen every candidate before submitting.
Pricing structure
Monthly fee, credited toward a placement fee on hire.
$5k/mo →$30kplacement fee
Everything in Standard, plus:
- ✓First-round screening calls with our recruiting team
- ✓Screening notes on every submission
- ✓Resume attached when available
- ✓Weekly 15-minute check-in calls
Passively hiring? We can pitch your role to active candidates in our network ongoing for $5 a month, $10k on hire.
Built by people who've been on both sides.
Bryan Lee
Recruiter · 15+ years at Google, Sequoia, Uber, Apple
I've spent 15+ years filling technical roles at Google, Sequoia, Uber, and Apple. I built Subgraph to bring that kind of sourcing to startups, without the agency price tag.
Tucker Atkinson
CTO · 15+ years in startups, most recently at a Sequoia-backed Series A
I built Subgraph because I was the customer, an engineering leader drowning in recruiting tools that still required me to do the recruiting.
Common questions
Standard ($500/mo → $10k) handles targeting, outreach, and submissions: we find the right people, reach out on your behalf, and submit interested candidates to your Slack. You run the first calls. Full Service ($5,000/mo → $30k) is a full recruiting partner. Everything in Standard, plus a first-round screening call, call notes, and a resume on every submission. Every candidate you see has been screened on a call first. The Network plan ($5/mo → $10k) is the passive option: we aren't actively sourcing or doing outreach for your role, it's simply shown to the people we reached out to for other roles who fit yours, and anyone who applies goes straight to your team. Fewer candidates, for almost nothing a month.
Standard isn't an agency. It's targeting, outreach, and submissions. We deliver interested candidates to your Slack continuously, starting in days. You run the first calls. At a $10k placement fee, that's less than a fourth what agencies charge. Want the full agency experience: screening, notes, weekly check-ins, and candidates screened on a call? That's Full Service.
Our recruiting team runs a first-round screen with every interested candidate: motivation, level, must-have skills, comp, timing, and location. It's fully customizable: tell us what to filter for and we'll cover it. You get the notes and resume (when available) before you spend a minute on the candidate. If someone isn't right after the call, we don't forward them.
Three ways to pay for the same search. Retainer is a flat monthly fee per role with no placement fee. Container is a smaller monthly fee that counts toward a fixed placement fee, so the total is capped whatever the search takes: on Standard, if we place someone in month three, your total cost is $10k, not the $30–50k an agency charges. Contingent has no monthly fee at all: you pay a percentage of first-year salary only when you hire. The Network plan is Container only.
The trial is on Standard. We set up your role and start sending candidates immediately, free for 14 days. If you're happy with the quality, you pay for your first month on day 15 and we keep going from there. If not, you owe nothing for the sourcing. (If you hire someone we sourced during the trial, the $10k placement fee still applies.) Full Service doesn't include a trial because the screening work is a real cost on our side.
Pause or cancel anytime. No long-term contracts, no pressure to close.
Any role. Engineering is our core strength and where we do the bulk of our work, but the same process works just as well for product, design, leadership, and GTM (sales, CS, marketing). If you're hiring for it, we can source for it.
We deliver candidates wherever your hiring workflow lives: Slack, email, Greenhouse, or Ashby. You approve candidates from the same place, and we handle scheduling from there.
A dedicated recruiter on our team owns your role end to end: sourcing, outreach, and submissions. On Full Service, that includes the screening calls. You work with the same person throughout, not a hand-off after kickoff.