Creating the future of instant hiring. Do we raise capital or do we stay bootstrapped?

My business partner and I started autolance.co with huge ambitions - to create an instant hiring economy.

We know that the hiring process is broken. In a world where I can get groceries delivered to me within a day, a drug prescription through the phone in minutes, a fridge within a few days (unless it's home depot or there are like 162 delays), etc, it still takes 43 days on average to find a job during the job search. The median timeline is even higher.

Autolance wants to fix this and create an instant hiring platform. The idea is simplistic in thought but very complicated in nature, as we have experienced. We have started with freelancers by creating the best AI/ML hiring algorithms out there. The freelance hiring process Is very flexible and to prove our concept, this type of work is perfect. Plus, my partner and I have freelanced 5+ years each so it's in our wheelhouse. We create a place where highly pre-vetted freelancers are while most of the nitty-gritty of the hiring process is already done (reference checks, multiple interviews, technical checks, certifications/degree checks, and sample work checks. We then utilize data on a mask scale to give companies insane data points that we gathered during the pre-vetting process, including a pre-recorded video interview, giving companies the trust and resources to make instant hires.

We then match these companies looking for freelancers utilizing our data to these pre-vetted freelancers and the company chooses a freelancer(s) to hire and boom. They are hired. No wasted time, same benefits. The good news is our freelancers are freelancers-as-a-service as in they are paid via monthly, quarterly or annual subscriptions in exchange for a pre-specified service so it's easy to adjust as needed.

We believe we still have some things to improve upon but we are stuck at a crossroads on whether we go and raise capital to try and turn this into the new way to hire or we stay with the bootstrapped mentality we are so used to.

We know the latter is much less risky but what do you all think?