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Lantern AI
For founders

Handle your startup's hiring without hiring a single recruiter.

Lantern's agents run sourcing, screening, and technical pre-screening. You get the short list. You do the interview.

Trusted by teams that hire builders

Crypto.comBaker McKenzieHyattSino GroupFano LabsGammonCATALODimOrderTraceRoot

Your hiring agents

Always on
YouYouFounderIn control

Outbound

Sourcing

Sourcing 1,800 profiles

Inbound

Screening

Screening 320 applicants

Lantern

Technical pre-screen

Scanning session logs
3 top candidatesScored and verified, ready for your call
THE FOUNDER'S HIRING TAX

You're the recruiter you can't afford to be.

Good people are hard to find, the inbox is full of applications you can't trust, and every hour spent triaging is an hour not spent building.

Doing it yourself6 ways it drains you

Founder as recruiter

Sourcing, sorting, and second-guessing every application, between everything else you're meant to be building.

  • Good people are hard to find
  • Inbound flood
  • Real or fake?
  • Screening eats your week
  • Can they actually code?
  • Context-switching tax
With Lantern1 founder · 0 recruiters

Founder-led, agent-run.

Agents run sourcing, screening, and technical pre-screening around the clock. You stay on the work that only you can do.

You

You · Founder

24/7Founder-ledLantern AI
  • Sourcing, screening, and pre-screening, handled.
  • Only the top few reach your calendar.
  • You do the interview. You make the call.

You stay in command. The agents do the legwork.

Outbound

We find the people who aren't applying.

The best builders are heads-down shipping, not refreshing job boards. Agents search where they actually are, read the real signal, and reach out in your voice.

  • Targets passive senior talent across 30+ sources
  • Reads real signal: shipped work, not just titles
  • Personalized outreach that books warm intros
sourcing · live
Senior engineers who ship with AI · SF or remoteSearch
Ships with agentsEx Series A/BStrong GitHub signal
CandidateMatch
Priya NairStaff Engineer
96
Marcus ToledoSenior Backend
94
Dana WhitfieldFull-stack
91
Omar HaddadPlatform Engineer
89
GitHubCommunitiesConferencesReferrals
30+ sources
inbound · screening
1,284Applied
92%
Auto-screened
31Flagged fake or AI
18Shortlisted
Hannah BrooksSenior Frontend
94
Theo AlmeidaBackend Engineer
90
Applicant #0412Full-stack
Applicant #0631Full-stack

Inbound

We filter the flood, and the fakes.

Every application gets read, scored against your bar, and checked for the fraud you can't catch by eye, so what reaches you is real and ranked.

  • Reads and ranks every inbound application
  • Flags AI-written CVs and identity fraud
  • Surfaces the shortlist with the evidence

Technical pre-screen

npx lantern, and you know.

Candidates run one command. Lantern reads their local AI-coding logs and returns a signal you can trust: are they an agentic coder, and how do they work.

  1. Candidate runs itOne command, locally. No data leaves their machine without consent.
  2. Lantern reads the logsSession history, work rhythm, and integrity signals.
  3. You get the signalAgentic coder, coding style, and a confidence note.
lantern · technical pre-screen
$ npx lantern verify ./candidate-session
░▒▓ LANTERN · TECHNICAL PRE-SCREEN ▓▒░
session scan
142 sessions · ~610h · Claude, Codex, Cursor
agentic coder  ✓ confirmed
plans before coding, iterates in small diffs, tests first
coding style
test-driven, incremental, strong refactoring signal
consistency check
0 high, 0 medium, 2 low notes. No fabricated history.
verdict → top 12% of applicants, ready for your interview

From open role to your interview.

One open role fans out across all three motions, then converges into a short list of people worth your time. You take it from there.

  1. OutboundSourced from everywhere
  2. InboundScreened and fraud-checked
  3. npx lanternTechnically verified
  4. Short list3 top candidates
  5. You interviewYou make the call
WHY IT WORKS

Better candidates, less of your time.

When the people who reach you are sourced, screened, and pre-verified, the interview is the only step left. The numbers below are early results across founder-led teams.

Book a walkthroughBook a walkthrough · See it on one of your live roles

3x

more likely to pass your final interview

12 hrs

saved per week on screening

100%

of inbound auto-screened and ranked

1 in 4

applications flagged for fraud signals

48 hrs

from open role to a short list

0

recruiters on your payroll

PROOF

The short list interviews better.

Teams running Lantern's pre-screen send founders into interviews already confident in the work. Here is what that looked like.

Crypto.comFINTECH · GLOBAL

3x more candidates cleared the technical bar.

The pre-screen meant our engineers only ever interviewed people who could actually build. We stopped wasting senior time on resumes that didn't hold up.

Fano LabsAI · SERIES B

Founders interviewed 3x fewer, hired the same.

As a small team we couldn't read every application. Lantern surfaced the builders and proved the technical work, so our founders only met the short list.

THE HUMAN PART STAYS HUMAN

You do the interview. You make the call.

Agents do the legwork so the moment that matters is yours. Lantern surfaces the top few with the evidence behind them. You meet real people, ask real questions, and decide.

Agents surfaceSourced, screened, and pre-verified candidates, ranked with evidence.
You interviewSpend your time only on the handful worth meeting.
You decideNo black-box scoring makes the call. You do.

Questions founders ask

Do I lose control of who gets hired?

No. Lantern does the sourcing, screening, and pre-screening, then hands you a ranked short list with the evidence. You run the interviews and make every hiring decision.

How does the technical pre-screen work?

Candidates run npx lantern locally. It reads their own AI-coding session logs and returns whether they work as an agentic coder, their coding style, and a consistency check. Nothing is uploaded without the candidate's consent.

Can it really catch fake or AI-generated applications?

Inbound screening flags the fraud signals founders miss by eye, from AI-written CVs to identity inconsistencies, and the technical pre-screen catches fabricated work history.

How fast can it run on one of my roles?

You can point Lantern at a live role and see sourcing and screening working the same week. Booking a walkthrough is the fastest way to see it on your own pipeline.

Is candidate data handled responsibly?

Yes. The technical pre-screen is local-first and consent-gated, and the platform is built on the same security, privacy, and AI-governance controls used across Lantern.

Live

Enterprise trust

Compliance, continuously verified

Independent audits across security, privacy and AI governance. Candidate data stays encrypted, scoped and yours.

Security

Audited controls & encryption.

SOC 2SOC 2 Type IICertified
27001ISO 27001Certified
27018ISO 27018Certified
Privacy

Candidate data, protected.

GDPRGDPRCompliant
CCPACCPACompliant
27701ISO 27701Certified
AI Governance

Fair, transparent AI.

EU AIEU AI ActCompliant
42001ISO 42001Certified
NISTNIST AI RMFAligned
UptimeToday · 100%
99.99%mission-critical
Single sign-on

SAML, OIDC and SCIM provisioning

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Hire without hiring a recruiter.

Book a walkthrough and watch the agents source, screen, and pre-verify candidates on one of your live roles, while you keep every call.