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Serra (YC S23)

Find the best talent with AI

Hiring
Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources

Serra is a GPT-powered search engine for recruiters. Instead of manually selecting keywords and reviewing candidates one by one, recruiters can search in plain English and instantly see the best matches, with all their research done for them.

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Hi everyone, Alan from Serra here! Excited & nervous to launch haha! ✅ Our goal at Serra is to make it easy to find better, more relevant candidates immediately through natural language search. We accomplish this by building a vector-based search engine on top of ~1 billion candidates across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Github. 🔍 A search works in 3 steps: 1. Type who you're looking for. This can be as simple as "show me people that sell to SMBs" or as complicated as "Find senior data scientists in SF with expertise in ML, Python, and R in a healthcare setting, and have STEM degrees from the top 10 engineering programs in the US"! 2. Check the generated keyword filters. You can edit fields ranging from "Past Job Titles" to "Funding Stage" or rely on the ones Serra generates out of the box. 3. Sit back and let Serra do the rest! We take your search parameters, display the results, and rank them in terms of best fit. We also surface summaries for each profile and why they showed up in your search. 📣 For the free options, we're doing 2 free searches limited to ~40 results each, and no email contact info. We're early and iterating daily, so please do let us know any and all feedback! If you're interested to find out more about the premium version, book a demo with us at https://calendar.app.google/5CkC...!

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Hey Alan, Congrats! The video was very clear and helpful in explaining the product. Wishing you great success!

@alan_wang5 congrats on the product and launch. I'm using the product now and it functions great! I'll be rooting for ya'll!

Great team, great product! Excited to see how this can make hiring more frictionless and match up talent and ideas. Keep it up, UC Davis represent!

Serra looks like an exciting platform for automating product compliance, especially for scaling businesses. Streamlining all those tedious tasks can definitely free up time for innovation. Does the platform offer industry-specific templates for compliance, or is it fully customizable based on different regulations?

This would have saved me hours of scrolling through profiles! Love that Serra allows searches in plain English—super intuitive. Have you considered a feature that suggests candidates who aren’t actively job searching but are likely open to a switch?

@alan_wang5 thanks for sharing this! Excited to see the progress you're making. Keep up the great work!

Congrats to the Serra team on the launch! 🎉 Using AI to find top talent is a game-changer. Excited to see how Serra will streamline hiring and help companies find the best candidates! 🚀

I've not tested Serra but I'm also a start-up founder. I've read the promises on LinkedIn upon reaching each milestone and I'm here to get you at 1000 faster. Watching you match into the ocean at midnight will be amazing.

So you are looking for targets from publicly available personal information? Currently if you add three qualifiers to the search, what is the probability of being able to search for a candidate? One hundred percent?

GPT-powered search engine for recruiters Hmm I love the idea, especially the part where it mathematically searches for the right candidate for the job, I would love to write about Serra on my blog I think my audience will love it are you down for it

Congrats on the launch ! natural language search candidate function is superb, making recruitment more efficient. Looking forward to continuous improvement.

Congrats on the launch @alan_wang5 and team! Love how you can search specific fields, and leverage both external and internal candidate pool. Is there a demo on landing page? I couldn't get it to work. I only see the search prompt but not the actual result. Does the system learn from past successful candidates? It'd be cool to link "good candidates" to certain types of job postings, so the AI can learn and fine tune search results!

Love this @alan_wang5! Serra sounds like it has the potential to transform hiring across all industries! How long has it been in the works?

Congrats on the launch, @alan_wang5 ! This is a really impressive tool that solves a major pain point for recruiters. The ability to search in plain English and instantly get the best candidate matches is a game changer. I also love the simple and slick interface, making it even easier to use. Great work!

Congratulations on the launch of Serra! This app sounds like a game-changer. Great job!