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CouchHire

The best people are not applying.They are listed here, at the price that gets them.

An invitation-only marketplace for senior technical talent. They set their own price. Neither side sees the other until both say yes.

  • $150K+ roles
  • Vetted before listed
  • Named only by mutual consent

Invite only

Opens in waves

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Tell us who you are. Invitations go out as seats open.

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  1. Request
  2. Review
  3. Invite

An invitation is the only way in. Every one is decided by hand.

Used only to send your invitation. No spam, never shared.

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Three ways into a closed market.

The headhunter's work, done before anyone searches.

The best people are not on the market. Around 70% of senior professionals are passive: open to the right offer, applying nowhere. So everything a headhunter would start doing the day you post a role has already happened here.

What an employer can see, stage by stage.

  1. Listed

    Candidates list themselves. Passive, senior, and open only at the right number.

    ◆ 7K4D

    Staff platform engineer

  2. Vetted

    References, background, and skills are checked once, up front, before anyone sees them.

    Vetted

  3. Priced

    Every listing carries a Hire-Now price the candidate set, and says whether bids are open.

    $285,000

    Open to bids

  4. Interviewed

    A neutral VP-level peer can interview and score them, shared only with the candidate's consent.

    4.6/5

    Neutral panel rating

  5. The name

    Still sealed. It opens when both sides accept, and not one moment before.

    Sealed

Nothing is skipped. It all happens earlier, on the candidate's side, so hiring goes from months of hunting to days of matching.

Matched on five variables, not a keyword.

Every match is scored across five dimensions of fit, so both sides can see why it works before anyone talks.

◆ 7K4D

Staff platform engineer11 yrsRemote

Match79/100
Skills
88

Has run GPU fleets and inference infra at the scale the role needs.

Compensation
79

Hire-Now price sits a little above the middle of the posted band.

Background
85

Comes from the kind of environment this team is building toward.

Culture
64

Wants a smaller team and more autonomy than the req describes.

Personality
insufficient signal

Working style not shared. Captured only if the candidate opts in.

An illustrative listing, scored against an open AI-infrastructure role. When a variable has no signal yet, the score says so, never an invented number.

Discreet by design.

CouchHire is invite-only. Every request is read, and invitations go out by email as seats open.

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