Let's build a process that puts quality over quantity, and sets the best candidates up to win at your company.
Built for startup founders standing up recruiting for the first time.
RPO is our day job. We embed with startups from seed through Series C and build recruiting functions that scale with the company, not against it. When you hire Cardinal to consult, you're getting the same playbook we run for our embedded clients, handed to your team to own.
You're a founder making your first recruiting hire
You're seed to Series B, scaling from ad-hoc to repeatable
You have an ATS but no real process behind it
You need recruiting to stop being the founder's job
Vendor evaluation, workflow setup, integrations, and team training.
Competency-based loops, structured questions, and calibrated scorecards built per role.
Where to find talent, how to reach them, what to say. Templates and channel plans included.
Training sessions, intake templates, and debrief structure. Your managers become better interviewers.
EVP articulation, JD templates, careers page copy, and candidate-facing content that converts.
Pipeline stages, SLAs, weekly reporting, dashboards. What good looks like, measured.
Three ways to work together, based on how much you need built and how fast.
2 to 3 weeks per module
60 to 90 days
30 to 45 days
30 minutes. What you have, what you need, what "done" looks like.
Fixed fee, fixed timeline, defined deliverables. No hourly billing, no surprises.
Weekly working sessions with your team. You own the output.
Documentation, training, and a 30-day support window included.
30 minutes to talk through what you need. No pitch, no pressure.
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