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Michael Seibel

Serra (YC S23) - Find the best talent with AI

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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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Alan Wang
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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...!
Alan Wang
Maker
@owenfar Thanks Owen! Likewise wishing you the best!
Rachel Hu
@alan_wang5 I've heard an incredible amount of great feedback about Serra! Highly recommend everyone's HR to try it out!
Alan Wang
Maker
@rachel_hu Thanks a ton Rachel, appreciate the support!
Jackieline Cosares
@alan_wang5 Love the idea of using natural language to find the perfect candidates, no more digging through endless profiles! Congrats on launching!
Joseph Abraham
@alan_wang5 Well done on the launch! Wishing you continued success and growth. How did you come up with the idea?
Pradhumn Vijayvargiya
Looks really promising! Great job team. A quick question: does it also prioritize people who are looking out for a job "Open to work". I understand most of the people who are not actively looking out for something might increase the bounce/no-show rates. Nonetheless, great product, excited to see it doing wonders!
Albert Stanley
Maker
@prad_vv Thanks Pradhumn! We're working on an open to work filter that will be out by next week - super great points.
Alan Wang
Maker
@prad_vv Hey Pradhumn, great question! We'll be pushing this feature out in beta next week, would love to get your feedback on it when it's out!
Viktor Surkov
Where do you get the candidates' database from?
Alan Wang
Maker
@viktor_surkov Thank you! We're doing a combination of a few third-party data providers as well as having our own streaming pipelines set up to augment that data.
André J
Nice! Seems like a very useful tool in the HR process. Where would one source the candidates tho?
Alan Wang
Maker
@sentry_co Hey Andre, for saving your search results, we have saved lists straight in Serra and we also integrate with your ATS!
Nitesh Jamod
Congratulations on Serra's launch! 🥂 This is an intriguing recruitment solution. The ability to search in simple English and rapidly find the top candidates seems time-saving.
Alan Wang
Maker
@nitesh_jamod Cheers Nitesh!
Kyrylo Silin
1. How does Serra handle niche industries or very specific roles? 2. Do you train custom models for different sectors?
Alan Wang
Maker
@kyrylosilin Hey Kyrylo, we've seen Serra handle niche industries well—for example, a customer is using us to find pricing merchandises that specifically only have luggage experience! At the moment we don't train custom models for different sectors, but we've incorporated a feedback-loop where you can thumbs up or down a result and the searches will learn over time!
Abel Hess
A colleague was looking for a more intuitive way to search for candidates and Serra seems perfect for their needs i am going to recommended this to them!
Alan Wang
Maker
@abel_hess Awesome, feel free to send them our way for a demo! https://calendar.app.google/5CkC...
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava
Serra seems very promising to improve HR daily work, congrats ! Do you plan to expand to other languages ?
Alan Wang
Maker
@brijs Hey Brij! At the moment we're focusing on English, but definitely have it on our roadmap.
Allen Chen
I truly believe in the approach that Serra is going with Talent Search. All the knowhow and data feedback are built into AI that distills intelligence from mass data and let human to decide and act. This is also how we are building Influencer Search.
Alan Wang
Maker
@allenthe11th Thanks a ton Allen, and really excited for your launch in October, best believe I'll be there!
Alan Wang
Maker
@gdc Thank you!
Kate Prasniak
Super cool! Definitely looks like a way better move than hiring recruiters from an agency.
Alan Wang
Maker
@kate_prasniak Thanks Kate!
John Miller
This will make a recruiter's job a lot easier and save quite some time. Also after watching the video this seems extremely user friendly. Congrats on the launch :)
Alan Wang
Maker
@john_miller1991 Appreciate the watch and the support!
Ryu D Swift
Just got on and this is what I see. Recruitment Industry is going to be taken by storm and shaken. Another win for AI. Nervous that you going to get HUGE. But no, thank you is in order. HR can now become truly laser focussed. Great job guys.
Alan Wang
Maker
@ryudswift Thanks! And yes our goal is to make the HR industry more efficient not to replace them!
Rizky Ge
@alan_wang5 congrats on the launch! Seena like a no brainer to me by watching the video. Love the landing animation on the web page too. Wish you all the best
Alan Wang
Maker
@rizkyge Thank you Rizky!
Vanshika Kalshetti
I have had experience working as a recruiter. Looks absolutely interesting! All the best! Can't wait to try it out!
Alan Wang
Maker
@vanshika_kalshetti Thanks Vanshika, let us know what you think!
Star Boat
Congrats on the launch! Serra sounds like a game-changer for recruiters! All the best and keep going!
Alan Wang
Maker
@star_boat Thank you—and will do!
Perry Zheng
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?
Alan Wang
Maker
@perryzheng Thanks Perry and about 2 months!
Tony Han
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!
Albert Stanley
Maker
@alan_wang5 @tonyhanded Thanks Tony! You can check it out at cloud.serra.io ( not the landing page ). We do currently track candidates that you "like" on the platform to train and improve our results!
Asher Dorian Thorne
Sounds like a super handy tool for recruiters! Serra looks like it’ll save tons of time by doing all the search work for you. Just tried it and the results are pretty spot on. Congrats on the launch, looking forward to seeing how it evolves.
Albert Stanley
Maker
@asherdorianthorne Glad you liked the tool!
Alan Wang
Maker
@asherdorianthorne Thanks Asher!
Tanmay Parekh
All the best for the launch @albert_stanley1 & @alan_wang5
Alan Wang
Maker
@albert_stanley1 @parekh_tanmay Appreciate it Tanmay!