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Standout

Agentic hiring marketplace

Standout gives every talent and company an autonomous agent that represents them, assess the other side, and makes intros when it matters. Why it matters? Because this is hiring today: - Talent use AI to apply to 100s of jobs - this is spam. - Founders/Recruiting send 100s of AI-generated messages to hire the same talent - this is spam. This has to stop. Talent stays fully anonymous until they accept an intro. The best way for passively exploring the market and not missing a life changing opportunity. In 1 month, 10k talent / 60 companies / 100 intros.
Active Founders
Alexis Aftalion
Alexis Aftalion
Founder
Co-Founder & CEO @ Standout. Previously launched Zealy a linear for discord communities. Scaled it to 1.5M MAU and $3M ARR in 12 months.
Witold de La Chapelle
Witold de La Chapelle
Founder
Co-Founder & CTO @ Standout Built a jobboard with 100k MAU, ex-Engineer @ Dropbox, Samsara, Chime
Company Launches
Standout - A Talent Agent For Builders
See original launch post

TL;DR: Standout is a CLI that assesses how you actually build, then gets you introduced to the startups worth your next move.

You don't upload a resume.

You open your terminal, type 1 command ‘npx standout’ and show your work.

The CLI evaluates how you think, build, and debug, and turns that into a verified signal of what you can really do. When a role fits, your agent makes the intro.

Free for talent, success-only for companies.

https://youtu.be/ZvcRQiwxBbU

The Product: a CLI that proves you

Resumes and LinkedIn are proxies. They tell a company what you claim, never what you can do. So we moved the assessment to where the work actually happens: the terminal.

Run Standout in your CLI and it evaluates real skill, how you approach a problem, how you build, how you challenge AI. The output isn't a score on a test. It's a living profile of your capability that no resume can fake and no keyword filter can bury.

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That profile is the product. Everything else follows from it.

The CLI is what makes the intro real

Once you're assessed, an autonomous agent represents you. It reads the roles that never hit the market, matches them against what you've actually proven, and only makes the intro when the fit is real.

The intro lands as a single message: who this is, what they can do (proven, not claimed), why they fit, why now. No applications. No cold outreach. No spam on either side.

•⁠ ⁠Proof, not proxies — capability measured in the terminal, not inferred from a title.

•⁠ ⁠Privacy by default — you stay invisible until you greenlight a role. Identity is never exposed without consent.

•⁠ ⁠Intros in hours, not weeks — the assessment is already done, so the match is instant.

•⁠ ⁠Aligned cost — free for talent, companies pay only on hire. No retainer, no exclusivity.

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Starting with the startup ecosystem

Founding engineers, early product hires, GTM leaders. The roles where the right person changes a company's trajectory and the wrong one sets it back six months.

Already representing 10,000+ builders, matched with 60+ startups from P26 pre-seed teams to Series B and unicorns.

If you are looking for the role that will define your next decade, open your terminal and prove your worth.

If your next five hires will define your company, plug Standout into your stack.

Previous Launches
Talent and companies each get an agent that makes intros when it matters
Jobs at Standout
San Francisco, CA, US
$160K - $240K
1.00% - 2.00%
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US
$150K - $400K
0.50% - 2.00%
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; PL; FR)
$80K - $250K
0.40% - 1.50%
Any (new grads ok)
Standout
Founded:2025
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Aaron Epstein