200 apply.
You meet five.
Post a client-facing role and the applications bury you. MeetTheFive builds a funnel that tests every candidate on real work from the actual job — auto-rejects below the bar, ranks the rest, and puts the top five straight on your calendar. You read zero resumes.
How the machine works
You post the role like you always do. We build everything behind the apply button.
Branded role page
Your logo, your voice, a process that signals seriousness. No resume required to start — work speaks first.
The knowledge gate
10 judgment questions from your domain, each with a defensibly best answer. Roughly 70% of the pool exits here, politely and automatically.
Proof of work
3 short challenges pulled from the actual role, graded by AI against a rubric we write with you. Nobody interviews their way past real work.
You meet five
A ranked sheet with scores and LinkedIn profiles. The top five book directly on your calendar. Everyone else gets a respectful no within 72 hours.
"I was surprised you didn't even ask for a resume... People are tired of conventional hiring — rounds of interviews, Easy Apply and nothing. This filters out people who won't put in the effort, and once you complete the tasks you actually understand the job. I'm totally vouching for this."
Saiora — hired through the first MeetTheFive funnel, 10/10 on Round 1. Three months in, one of the team's strongest people. Read the full case study →
What $3,000 buys
One flat fee per role. No retainers, no percentage-of-salary, no surprises.
- Branded role page, live on the internet in 48 hours
- Custom 10-question judgment bank + auto-reject logic for your role
- 3 work-sample challenges with a grading rubric built with you
- Ranked candidate sheet with scores and LinkedIn profiles
- Calendar routing for the top five + respectful automated rejections for everyone else
- Your data stays yours; all AI calls run server-side — keys never touch a browser
Questions founders ask
Is an AI deciding who gets hired?
No. The AI grades submissions against a rubric you approved — like a tireless assistant applying your standards consistently. Every score is reviewable, every rejection traceable to a rubric line, and the hiring decision is made by you, in conversations with the five.
Won't good candidates refuse to jump through hoops?
The opposite, in our experience. Strong candidates resent black-hole applications and four-round interview marathons — not a 40-minute async process with a decision inside 72 hours. Weak candidates self-select out, which is the point.
What roles does this work for?
Client-facing and operational roles where judgment shows up in writing: account managers, customer success, project managers, sales, operations, executive assistants. If the job's core moments can be simulated in a work sample, we can filter for it.
What about AI-hiring regulations?
We take this seriously. Rules like NYC's Local Law 144 and the EU AI Act put obligations on automated hiring tools — disclosure, human oversight, audit trails. Our funnels keep a human making final decisions, log every grading rationale, and we'll tell you plainly if your jurisdiction needs extra steps before we build.
Where does candidate data live?
On infrastructure we control, with AI calls made server-side — no API keys or candidate answers ever pass through a candidate's browser. Data is yours; ask us to delete a funnel and it's gone.
What if the top five aren't good enough?
Then the bar was set wrong and we fix it — we recalibrate the rubric with you and re-rank the pool. The funnel filters whoever applies; pairing it with a stronger job post is a conversation we're happy to have on the call.
Who's behind this
Vlad Timinski. Built an agency to $800K in 18 months, sold it, then ran growth for a platform serving thousands of agencies. MeetTheFive exists because I hit the 200-resume wall myself — and refused to read them. The first funnel I built made a real hire without a single resume screened. Now I build them for other founders.
Not hiring this month?
Take the Screening Question Bank — 25 judgment questions with answer keys, covering the five client-facing roles agencies hire most. Steal it for your next opening.