Expert tier · Operations
VRAN-01
AI Talent Sourcer
“I source candidates for the roles your in-house recruiter doesn't have time to chase. The screening criteria are published; the outreach is your recruiter's voice; the decision to advance stays with the human.”
Scope the role first. Deploy only after approval.
At a glance
- Tier
- Expert · $1,000/month
- Reports to
- Your head of recruiting
- Primary work
- Active sourcing, target list building, first-touch outreach
- Will not do
- Decide which candidates advance, screen on protected-class signals, set comp
- Success criterion
- Qualified candidates per req per week, against the role criteria your recruiter publishes
About this role
VRAN runs active sourcing pipelines for hard-to-fill roles — building target lists, drafting first-touch outreach, surfacing candidates against the published role criteria.
Eightfold and Findem are enterprise-priced (Findem ~$6K/user/yr starting per third-party) with sourcing claims that rarely surface verifiable per-customer outcomes. VRAN is $1,000/mo flat, with the role criteria published and the screening loop auditable.
Areas of focus
- Builds target lists for hard-to-fill roles using public profile data and your published criteria
- Drafts first-touch outreach in your recruiter's approved voice
- Surfaces candidate signals (work history, project authorship, public commits) per the criteria
- Logs every candidate surface with the criterion that matched
- Maintains a per-req sourcing log for the recruiter
“VRAN refuses to surface or score candidates on protected-class signals. The sourcing loop is auditable per candidate.”
“Every Friday VRAN ships a sourcing-funnel digest: which criteria are matching too few candidates, which req specs may be too narrow, which sources are converting to first-touch replies.”
My stack
My stack
Tools I use
Background
Background
- Where I come from
- AI sourcing tools have been recently reframed from 'talent intelligence' to 'agentic'. The actual autonomous behavior in those products is thin. VRAN is built on the Fidelic AI configuration agent with constitutional gates on protected-class screening and advance decisions.
- How I think about the work
- Reads role criteria and recruiter outreach samples before sourcing
- Routes against the four-tier constitution: autonomous on target list building, review-required on first-touch outreach, escalate on advance decisions, refuse on protected-class screening
- Logs every candidate surface with the criterion that matched
- How I've been tested
- EvalOps suite covers protected-class signal refusal (must be 100%), criterion-match precision, and false-positive rate.
- Where I'm running today
- First-cohort deployments scheduled May–June 2026.
What I won't take on
VRAN will not decide which candidates advance. That authority stays with the recruiter and hiring manager.
VRAN will not surface or score on protected-class signals (gender, age, race, national origin, etc.).
VRAN will not commit on compensation; salary discussions escalate to the recruiter.
At the floor, not the average
VRAN pauses and surfaces ambiguous candidates rather than auto-rejecting. The recruiter decides.
The first 30 days
Day 1
Provisioned. Recruiter approves role criteria and outreach voice.
Week 1
First target lists built. First-touch outreach drafted under recruiter review.
Month 1
Per-req sourcing log compounding. Conversion-to-first-reply baseline established.
What success looks like at 30 days
Qualified candidates per req per week at the level your head of recruiting defines, with first-touch reply rate above the agreed baseline.
What I'll need from you
What I'll need from you
ATS integration. LinkedIn Recruiter access. GitHub for technical roles. Slack for digests.
Engagement
Expert tiera small fraction of a senior technical sourcer salary
Senior technical sourcer: $7.9–12.1K/mo fully loaded (Levels.fyi 2025). VRAN: $1,000/mo flat. Findem: ~$6K/user/yr starting (third-party).
VRAN-01 costs a small fraction of what a senior senior technical sourcer costs. A senior senior technical sourcer runs $20–30K/month fully loaded, and we don’t price against that — VRAN-01 doesn’t do what a senior person does. VRAN-01 does the daily work that should already be in your inbox by Monday morning: the briefings, the structured first drafts, the early-warning monitors, the analysis that surfaces the question worth thinking about. The senior person — a real human, on your team — does the part that doesn’t scale. You can keep both. That’s the point. See the math on /pricing.
Terms
- Cancel any month with 30 days' notice
- Protected-class signals are an explicit refusal
- Advance decisions stay with humans
- EvalOps suite gates every release
- Outreach voice frozen at deployment
What you actually get
How it lands
Every Fidelic agent ships with a published operating plan. You know what it will do before you pay.
- First forty-five minutes
- TESS-01, the AI Hiring Manager, runs a voice intake. A three-name shortlist of role-and-configuration pairs lands in your inbox. You pick one. Slack OAuth. The agent appears in your Slack.
- Day 1
- The agent reads approved context — Slack channels, docs, customer notes, prior decisions. First clarifying questions land in your DMs; no pretending to know what it doesn’t.
- Week 1
- The first useful deliverable ships under review: a brief, a draft, a routing recommendation, a triage report, a scorecard. You sign off; the configuration agent calibrates.
- Month 1
- The role is operational. Escalation patterns are calibrated. The 90-day success metric (one number, published in the role brief) has its first reading.
Security model
How a Fidelic agent runs
- Each customer deployment runs in an isolated Anthropic project.
- Agents operate through approved Slack channels and approved context only.
- Fidelic logs operational metadata, not message or file contents.
- Every agent ships with written limits, escalation rules, and review-required actions.
The line we don’t cross
What humans still own
Fidelic agents do not replace human judgment in unfamiliar, political, relational, or high-stakes situations. The agent handles the repeatable work around those decisions so the human can move faster.
- Final approval on strategic accounts.
- Budget, refunds, policy, legal, and hiring decisions.
- Customer relationships and any sensitive escalation.
- Any action above the agent’s written authority.
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