Meet people you may want to work with.

Find candidates, collaborators, mentors, and advisors based on real experience and mutual interest.

Find candidates for a hard role

Find people with real experience doing this work at a similar scale. Share the honest role and constraints, ask about interest and timing, and return only consented conversations.

Role brief.pdf

Hire a great first employee

Find people who can handle this broad early-stage role. Look for evidence of ownership and learning, explain the uncertainty clearly, and arrange conversations with mutual interest.

Find a freelance bench

Build an opt-in list of freelancers across these skills and time zones. Check work, references, rate, availability, and preferred projects before adding anyone.

Meet a potential cofounder

Find people whose skills and goals complement mine. Start with low-pressure conversations about the problem, values, pace, risk, and ways we could test working together.

Find a career mentor

Find people a few steps ahead in this field who are open to mentoring. Share my goals and background, respect their time, and look for a fit in style and expectations.

Build a peer group

Find six people at a similar stage facing related problems. Confirm they want a small recurring group and agree on purpose, privacy, schedule, preparation, and facilitation.

Find a board member

Find people whose experience fills this specific gap and who have time to contribute. Check conflicts, interest, working style, expectations, term, and compensation.

Reach passive candidates respectfully

Identify people with the right background and send a short, accurate note about the opportunity. Do not imply interest; return only people who agree to a first conversation.

Hire interns for a summer project

Find students who can learn from and contribute to this project. Make the work, supervision, skills, schedule, location, pay, and selection process clear.

Find an independent advisor

Find advisors who have faced this exact problem and are not selling us a larger service. Check experience, conflicts, availability, working style, and compensation.

Coordinate candidate references

With the candidate’s permission, arrange references from a manager, peer, and direct report. Ask the same job-related questions and surface meaningful differences for human review.

Find people at an upcoming event

Find attendees I would genuinely benefit from meeting based on these goals. Suggest a small number of thoughtful introductions and include why the conversation may help both sides.

Event attendee list.pdf

Reconnect with former colleagues

Identify former colleagues I have not spoken with recently who may relate to this project. Draft personal notes that use our real shared context and ask for a conversation without pressure.

Find a creative collaborator

Find illustrators whose work fits this project and who are open to a close collaboration. Share the brief, compare interpretations, and arrange paid working sessions with the best fits.

Creative brief.pdf

Build an expert network

Recruit practitioners with these backgrounds into an opt-in expert network. Explain the kinds of requests, payment, privacy, conflicts, and their right to decline any future conversation.