Sterling Smith

Austin, Texas. I was a managing director at an early stage fund before this, so I sit on both sides of the table here.

We build Mira, an AI interviewer. She interviews applicants on day one instead of leaving them in a queue, and hands recruiters a ranked shortlist with the interview already done. Mid-market and enterprise teams hiring 50+ roles a year. Over 1M candidates evaluated so far. Candidate NPS is above 75, which is the number that changed how I think about the product. Candidates don't tolerate the AI interview, they prefer it to waiting.

What's working: we stopped treating the web app as the product. Our MCP connector runs the whole loop inside Claude and ChatGPT. Build the interview, send it, read results, hire, without opening a dashboard. We put it on every plan including the free tier. Gating the connector would have protected revenue and killed the distribution.

What I need: intros to heads of talent acquisition at companies hiring 50+ roles a year. Staffing and RPO firms count, some of our best accounts look like that. If you know who owns that budget somewhere, send me the name.