# Vesna by hirehire

> Vesna is an AI recruiter you text like a teammate, in Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack. Tell it who you need. It learns your company and your bar, finds the right people, writes to them and brings you the ones who want to talk. No agency, no contract, nothing to set up. Vesna is in early access with a waitlist.

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## The usual options without a recruiter

- Do it yourself: days, not hours. Hundreds of profiles, dozens of cold messages, follow-ups, replies and calendars, while the real work waits.
- Hire an agency: weeks to kick off, a contract and 20–30% of a salary, and you are one of their ten clients.
- Buy recruiting software: it is made for professional recruiters, with Boolean search, seats, credits, sequences and a dozen settings before the first email goes out. You still run the search yourself.

Vesna is the fourth option: you text it, and it runs the search.

## How a search goes

1. Say who you need, in one line or a job description. Vesna researches your company, product and market first, asks what a good recruiter would ask, and tells you when a requirement works against you.
2. React to three real people. Vesna learns your bar from every yes and no.
3. Vesna writes everyone a personal email; you approve the drafts. Every email is written for one person, from their profile, posts and GitHub. Emails go from a dedicated mailbox Vesna sets up, signed by you or by a recruiter on our team. Your own inbox, domain and LinkedIn are never touched, and nothing goes out without your yes.
4. Vesna books interviews with the interested people you approved. For each person you see why they made the cut and what to check on the call. Vesna sends them your booking link and brings you candidates' questions.
5. Next time it already knows you: it keeps watching the market between roles, so the next search starts with a list.

## Who does what

Your part takes minutes:

- Say who you need.
- React to a few real profiles.
- Approve the emails before they go out.
- Say yes or no to people who want to talk.
- Run the interviews and decide.

Vesna does the rest, 24/7:

- Researches your company and the market.
- Finds people who match, not just keywords.
- Writes to each of them and follows up.
- Answers their questions or brings them to you.
- Sends them your booking link.
- Sends you a short update every morning.

## Search

Vesna reads the whole person, not keywords: profiles, posts and GitHub. It also searches hirehire's own database of 14,000 candidates our recruiters have talked to, with notes and verdicts from real interviews. Every search adds people to a shared candidate pool. Your hiring plans stay private.

Vesna's search engine beats Metaview, Juicebox and LinkedIn Recruiter in the independent SourcingAnalysis benchmark (https://sourcinganalysis.ai/#leaderboard): side-by-side comparisons of results for the same 100 real search queries.

## Numbers

About 8 minutes to the first candidates. Around 10 times lower cost of hire than an agency. 32% of candidates reply to Vesna's emails, against a 20% industry average.

## Vesna vs Claude, ChatGPT and Codex

Hiring isn't a prompt problem. It's a people problem: who's out there, what have they really achieved, and how to reach them.

- Who does the work. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex: you, in the end. You set it up, prompt it and step in every time it gets stuck. Vesna: Vesna does. You say who you need once, and it runs the search up to the first call.
- Recruiting skills. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex: none of their own; they know recruiting only as well as your prompts explain it. Vesna: built on our agency's playbook (who to look for, what to write, when to follow up); 32% of candidates reply.
- People data. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex: whatever they can browse, page by page, with no people database and no recruiting search engine. Vesna: LinkedIn, GitHub and other sources through a search engine that beats LinkedIn Recruiter, plus people our recruiters have already interviewed.
- Outreach. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex: send from your own inbox if you connect it; deliverability, follow-ups and replies are on you. Vesna: sends from a mailbox we set up for your search, follows up and answers candidates' questions.
- Time and tokens. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex: hours of browsing and a pile of tokens per search, and you still check every step. Vesna: first candidates in about 8 minutes, then it keeps going 24/7 and sends you an update every morning.
- Building your own. Codex or Claude Code can write you an agent. Then you need people data, email finding, mailboxes that reach the inbox, reply handling, and someone to keep it all running. Vesna: already built and running, nothing to set up.

Use Claude or Codex to write the job description, prepare interview questions and build things. Use Vesna to find the people and get them on a call with you. Coming soon: connect Vesna to your Claude or Codex, so they can hand it the search.

## What you can skip

No new tool to learn, no ATS integration, no access to your inbox or calendar, no sales call or demo, no contract, no spreadsheets of profiles.

## Who it is for

Founders and hiring managers without a recruiter, for any role where it makes sense to look for people online, anywhere.

## Who's behind it

Built by the founders of hirehire, a recruiting agency. Vesna was built first for hirehire's own recruiters and is now opening to founders and hiring managers.

## Links

- Landing page and waitlist: https://askvesna.ai
- hirehire: https://hirehire.ai and https://hirehire.me