Frequently asked questions

A technical recruiter and hiring platform for software engineers. We find candidates through their open source work on GitHub, rank them against your job description, and place them full-time.

Both. Recruiting is a service: our team recommends and places engineers from Algora's network. Screening is an agent that ranks the engineers who already applied to you, inside Ashby. Compare the two.

100+ customers, including CodeRabbit ($1.5B), Air Space Intelligence ($3B), ComfyUI, Firecrawl (YC S22), Trigger.dev (YC W23), Activepieces (YC S22), Golem Cloud and TextQL, along with 25+ YC companies and 60+ open source startups. Read the customer stories.

A merged pull request in a project with real maintainers was reviewed and accepted in public. That is stronger evidence of engineering ability than a resume. Read our thesis.

20% of the engineer's first-year salary, paid when the hire is made. For an engineer hired at $200,000 a year, that is $40,000.

You pay nothing.

No. There are no seat fees and no monthly subscription.

Engineers placed through Algora have 100% first-year retention so far. If a hire leaves within 90 days of their start date, we find a replacement for the same role at no extra cost.

From Algora's network of open source contributors, found through their work on GitHub. Many of them never apply to jobs.

Handpicked candidates arrive within hours of your job description. CodeRabbit was interviewing qualified candidates within a week of onboarding.

Typically 3 to 5 handpicked candidates per week.

Anywhere in the world. For now, most are in the US and Europe.

By their open source contributions, experience and background, against your job description. Your likes, passes, notes and interview feedback go back into the ranking, along with the profiles of your past hires.

We rank on experience and background as well. Open source work adds evidence where it exists. Where our thesis does not apply.

A job description or careers page URL, with the tech stack, location and compensation.

By email and in Slack. They are also added to your Ashby pipeline automatically.

For Recruiting, no: candidates also arrive by email and in Slack. Screening works inside your Ashby pipeline, so it needs Ashby.

Yes. You can work with a candidate on a paid trial before a full-time offer.

Yes. Book a call with our CEO, or email info@algora.io.

It works on the engineers who already applied to you, inside your Ashby pipeline. It enriches each applicant with their open source work, experience and background, scores and ranks the whole pipeline against your job description, advances the top candidates and archives the bottom in bulk.

Teams report about 90% less time spent reviewing candidates.

Watch the demo or read how Screening works.