Standout
Standout is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Standout
Summary
Standout runs a hiring marketplace where each candidate and each company gets a dedicated AI agent. The candidate's agent learns their preferences, scans companies, and surfaces matched roles without the candidate ever applying or revealing their identity until they accept an intro. The company's agent does the same in reverse, replacing the recruiter outreach, screening, and scheduling work that buries both sides in noise today.
Business model
Free for talent; terms for companies are not specified in public sources.
Go-to-market
Candidates join via a short conversation with their agent, with no job search required; companies are brought onto the platform to have their roles matched against the candidate pool, with introductions made only when both sides fit.
From the Y Combinator listing
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.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Witold de La Chapelle
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