Launching early access for Hirey — would love feedback on positioning
Hi everyone — I’m Bahar, part of the team at Hirey.
We’re opening up early access for something we’ve been exploring: an agent-native workflow for warmer introductions.
The problem we’re focused on is simple:
Finding the right person is still way more manual than it should be.
Not just for hiring, but also for:
finding collaborators
finding technical partners
finding early customers
finding advisors or investors
finding the right intro through your existing network
Today, the workflow usually looks like:
search → scroll → shortlist → message → follow up → hope something clicks
We’re trying to make that process lighter.
The idea is not to fully automate relationships or send messages on someone’s behalf. That would feel noisy and probably creepy.
Instead, we’re exploring a product where an agent helps with the heavy lifting:
researching relevant people
shortlisting based on context
explaining why someone might be a good fit
helping draft thoughtful outreach
mapping possible warmer paths to an intro
But the user stays in control of who they contact, what gets shared, and when outreach happens.
We’re still early, so I’d really value feedback from other founders and builders here.
A few things I’m trying to learn:
Does this problem feel real in your own workflow?
Where does people-search usually break for you: discovery, trust, fit, timing, or follow-up?
Would “warm intro assistance” be a clear enough product category, or does it need simpler positioning?
What would make this feel useful instead of creepy/noisy?
If you were launching this, what would you test first?
We’re inviting a small group of early users to try it and give honest feedback.
Early access link: https://www.hirey.com/agent
If you’re a founder, builder, recruiter, or someone who often needs to find the right people for hiring, partnerships, sales, fundraising, or customer discovery, I’d love to hear your take.
Happy to share more context and learn from anyone who has felt this problem.
Your IH post and your landing page are telling two different stories — and honestly, the landing page has the right one.
The post describes a broad "warm intro" tool for hiring, partnerships, sales, fundraising, customer discovery — five different use cases. But the page says "Hire with Rey — Interviews Booked Without Back-and-Forth." That's one use case, crisply defined.
To answer your positioning question directly: "warm intro assistance" is not a clear product category. It's a mechanism, not a problem. Nobody wakes up thinking "I need warm intro assistance." They wake up thinking "I need to fill this engineering role and I've been doing screening calls for three weeks."
Your landing page already knows this. "Interviews booked without back-and-forth" is a specific pain that a specific buyer (hiring manager, startup founder recruiting) feels daily. That's positioning. The IH post's five-use-case framing dilutes it.
My honest suggestion: don't widen the positioning to match the post. Narrow the post to match the page. Ship the hiring use case, get 10 paying users, collect their language, and then decide whether the product expands — based on what users actually do with it, not what you imagine they might.
On your question "what would make this feel useful instead of creepy" — the page already answers that too: "Rey reaches out, checks availability, and books interviews." That's useful because the human stays in control of the decision (who to hire) and the agent handles the logistics (scheduling). The moment the agent starts deciding who to contact, it crosses into creepy. Your current framing avoids that. Keep it.
The problem is real.
Most people-search tools fail after discovery, not before it.
Finding names is easy.
Figuring out who is actually worth contacting, why they’re relevant now, and what path gives you the highest chance of a real reply is where the workflow breaks.
That’s the real wedge here.
Which also means Hirey may be framing this too narrowly.
This is less “warm intro assistance”
and more “relationship intelligence for high-stakes outreach.”
That frame is stronger because it moves the product out of hiring utility territory and into broader dealflow infrastructure:
hiring
partnerships
sales
fundraising
advisors
That’s the bigger category.
Hirey is clean, but still sounds hiring-first.
If the product expands the way this likely should, something broader like Xevoa.com would carry more weight long term.
Less recruiter tool.
More relationship infrastructure.