Your next hire, delivered in 5 days.
Tell us who you need. Maia, our AI recruiter, screens every qualified applicant on a recorded call, the strongest get a role specific deep dive, and our team validates the finalists. In 5 business days you interview the 3 people who can actually do the job. You hire 1. Backed by a 60 day guarantee.
Post on Monday. Interview finalists on Friday.
You only ever talk to 3 people, and each one arrives interviewed, scored and ready to start.
You tell us who you need
A 3 minute written intake, no scoping call: what this person will do, must haves, budget, work model.
FreeWe check your market
Within 1 business day, the free market read: how many candidates match your requirements. Then one of three:
- In our wheelhouse (tech IC roles): the 5 day standard, confirmed.
- Numbers thin? We show the changes that unlock it.
- Changing nothing, or hiring outside the wheelhouse (a CMO, a sales manager)? Timeline agreed upfront.
You approve the JD, pay 50%, and the clock starts.
Day 0 · clock startsWe match and source
AI matches your role against our network of 30,000+ professionals, and we distribute it across our sourcing channels, filtering on your hard requirements.
Business days 1-2Maia interviews and scores
Maia screens every qualified applicant on a recorded call. The strongest go through a role specific deep dive: real projects, real decisions, how they work with AI.
Business days 2-4You hire from the top 3
A short list of 3 finalists with recordings and scorecards. You interview them, you hire directly, on whatever contract you prefer.
Business day 5Flat prices. Never a percentage of salary.
Agencies charge 8 to 20% of first year salary. Outsourcing firms take a margin forever. We charge for the work, once.
- Your roles enter the Unlock curation, seen by paying subscribers preparing for USD roles
- We sync automatically from Workable, Ashby, Greenhouse and more
- Applications go straight to your own ATS
- For roles open to candidates in Brazil
What hiring one $100k person actually costs.
Recruiting agency
8 to 20% of first year salary depending on the firm, per hire, every hire.
Outsourcing firm
A ~30% margin on the rate, every year the person works. $90,000 over 3 years, and you never own the relationship.
AI sourcing tools
$500 a month plus a 15% success fee. And you still interview everyone yourself.
UnlockCareer
Interviewed, scored finalists in 5 days. You hire directly and keep 100% of the relationship.
The recruiter who interviews every qualified applicant.
Resumes stopped predicting performance the day AI started writing all of them. But a human recruiter, juggling several searches at once and buried in sourcing, scheduling and scorecard admin, can interview maybe six people per role, so the resume ends up deciding who gets a chance. Maia's interview time costs nothing, so the interview decides instead. Hard requirements cut the pile first: rate, timezone, seniority, must have skills. Then Maia interviews everyone left, typically around 30, in two rounds: wide through the screen, only the best into the deep dive. The screen checks communication, English and real experience. The strongest candidates then get a role specific deep dive: the projects they shipped, the decisions they made, how they actually work with AI. Every interview is recorded and scored on a rubric built from your job description, identical for every candidate in the role, and reviewed by our team before anyone reaches your short list.
Nobody gets through on a polished resume alone. And nobody good gets skipped for being application number 240 in the pile.
We are not inventing this. We are replicating, with AI, exactly what we know how to do.
Faster, more consistent, and with less bias: every candidate gets the same questions and the same rubric, designed by people who were top performers inside this exact process at scale.
Founder of Mavila Consulting: 600+ placements of global talent into US remote roles, for startups and for top global talent agencies serving Fortune 500 companies, plus C-level executive search in Brazil. Led Talent Acquisition, Assessment and Matching as a VP at Andela. Case interviewer at McKinsey, where she started her career, and hiring manager at Mercado Livre leading a ~1,000 person organization. MBA from IESE (ranked #4 worldwide by the Financial Times). Built UnlockCareer to turn that hiring bar into product.
Computer engineer, 18+ years in tech, including nearly a decade at HP. At Andela he was a matcher: the role that vets candidates and places them with US companies. He assessed 5,000+ professionals, from Fortune 500 to early stage, and was the top matcher by total placements. The same person who mastered the job is now building it: the platform, the ATS, Maia and the scoring. Not just the engineering, the craft itself.
Questions founders ask us.
What if my requirements are very specific, or my budget is tight?
Before any Unlock Search starts, we run your role against our database and tell you what the market actually looks like: how many candidates match your must haves, at your budget, in your work model (remote from anywhere, timezone overlap, or hybrid and onsite in a specific city). The broader the role, the faster the search. For reference, wheelhouse rates run $5k to $7.5k per month for mid level and $7.5k to $10k for senior and staff. If the numbers do not close, we tell you before you pay, and we show you what unlocks them, usually a rate adjustment, a requirement trade, or opening the location. We would rather turn down a search than sell you an impossible one.
Do you cover hybrid or onsite roles?
We are built for remote. Most of our network is in Latin America, working US hours, which makes remote from anywhere and timezone overlap roles our sweet spot. A hybrid or onsite search only starts if the free feasibility check confirms real reach in your city; if it does not, we tell you upfront, before you pay anything.
Who employs the candidate?
You do, directly. Most companies contract global talent as USD contractors or through the payroll provider they already use. We never sit inside the employment relationship, and we never take a cut of anyone's salary.
Where does the talent come from?
Our network of 30,000+ professionals across Latin America, Africa and Asia, built through our talent platform and our recruiting operation. It is deepest in Latin America, talent that works in US hours. Anyone can also apply to your role from anywhere, including the US. Every qualified applicant goes through the same interview, so the best person wins regardless of where they came from.
What if none of the 3 works out?
If none of the 3 fits, we collect your specific feedback on each finalist, tighten the job description with Maia so what was missing becomes an explicit requirement, and rerun at no cost. And every Unlock Search carries a 60 day guarantee: if your hire does not work out within 60 days, we rerun the search free. No endless candidate streams: concrete feedback in, a sharper search out.
Can the search be confidential?
Yes. Your role can run under the Unlock name with your company described generically, for example "Series A fintech, US". Candidates learn who you are when you decide.
Is this only for engineering roles?
No. Our wheelhouse is tech: individual contributor software engineers (front, back, full stack), AI engineers, product and project managers, on the 5 day standard. Marketing, finance, operations, design, sales, customer service and managerial roles run the identical funnel with added sourcing time and a human sourcer alongside Maia, at the same flat price, with the timeline confirmed upfront. Either way, Maia's questions come from your job description, so the bar is always your bar.
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