entopiq

The resume has been dead
for years.

Hiring just hasn't caught up.

Short video shows what a resume can't.

Daniel An Founder & CEO entopiq.com
Founder

Daniel An

Founder & CEO, Entopiq

  • GitHub
  • Microsoft
  • Mozilla
  • Google
  • Barclays
  • BofA

danielan.io

Helped shape how Google Search ranks the web.

My page-speed research at Google became one of Think with Google's most-read articles and fed into Search adding page speed as a ranking factor.

Now
Lead global overlay sales for GitHub Copilot, with direct reports in AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
Microsoft
AI/Web3 partnerships, with TechCrunch and Blockworks coverage
Google
Global Business Organization Gold Award, top 3% of Googlers
Mozilla
Led privacy-focused product partnerships
After two years at Barclays, I became a headhunter on Wall Street. Resumes told me what people had done, but a 30-minute meeting in person showed me how they think and communicate. Entopiq brings that first meeting online with short video pitches.
Problem

Hiring managers pick 5 candidates from 200 resumes,
then realize in the first 5 minutes they made the wrong call.

23 hours
screening per role
$4,700 wasted
46%
of new hires fail
within 18 months
5 min
to realize
wrong fit
"I spent an hour interviewing someone perfect on paper who couldn't explain their own projects."
Solution

Video-first talent discovery

30/60/90-second profiles that show who candidates actually are.

Public Beta
Video job brief

Step 01 of 04

Employers post

Video job briefs that show culture and role expectations

Click a step. Toggle 30, 60 or 90 seconds.

AI Headhunter · Enterprise

Describe your ideal candidate

We search the web and handle outreach.

INPUTJob descriptionor plain English AISearchmulti-source GitHub LinkedIn X arXiv AIRankingcandidate list AI + YOUReviewdrafted outreach SEND150/motracked
  1. 1Paste job description or describe in plain English
  2. 2AI searches GitHub, LinkedIn, X, arXiv profiles
  3. 3Review candidates, send personalized outreach
PriceSourcesMessages
LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate$10K–15K/seat/yearLinkedIn only150 InMails/mo
Entopiq Enterprise$499/monthMulti-platform + AI150 outreach/mo
Market
$3.3B

serviceable market in recruitment software

Our target: $1.58B segment

Series A-C startups and SMBs (<500 employees)

Hiring managers with budget, broken by current tools

Why now

  • Video recruiting up 300% post-pandemic
  • Gen Z expects to show who they are, not submit PDFs
  • LinkedIn locked into resume format with 1B users
GapHover or tap a dot
HIGH COST LOW COST RESUME-BASED VIDEO-FIRST LinkedInRecruiter Corporate Workday HireVue Entopiq AI Headhunter
Business model

Free to start, $499 a month for AI recruiting

Free

$0

 

Get started with networking

  • 5 connections / month
  • 10 messages / day
  • 10 AI-assisted chats / day
  • Profile with 1 video
  • 3 events · 3 job applications / mo
  • Verified badge

Pro Most popular

$19/mo

 

For serious networking

  • 50 connections / month
  • Unlimited messaging
  • 30 AI-assisted chats / day
  • Profile with 3 videos
  • Create 10 events · post 5 jobs
  • Verified badge

Elite

$49/mo

 

Maximum networking potential

  • Unlimited connections
  • Unlimited messaging & AI chats
  • Unlimited videos & events
  • Elite badge

Enterprise

$499/mo

 

AI-powered recruiting

  • Everything in Elite
  • Headhunter AI recruiting
  • Unlimited AI candidate searches
  • 150 outreach emails / month
  • AI-personalized emails + tracking

LinkedIn Premium: ~175M subscribers at $40–170/mo · 3–5% freemium-to-paid conversion is typical in SaaS

Go-to-market

I'm the customer.

I've been the recruiter, the hiring manager, and the candidate. I know what each one needs.

Distribution

Network
a16z Talent Engineer Fellow, with access to its founders and startups. Advisor at Relentless Investments. GitHub, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Barclays, Wall Street
Events
Demo days, startup events, growth-stage meetups
Content
Video recruiting ROI I can speak to firsthand

Unfair advantage

Barclays, then a Wall Street headhunter, then hiring at big tech. Built github-talent-mcp.

What's shipped

Public betalive at entopiq.com, open to sign up
HeadhunterAI search across GitHub, LinkedIn, X, arXiv, plus drafted outreach
4 planslive pricing, from Free to $499/mo Enterprise

Targets · paying customers

5MONTH 3 20MONTH 6 50+MONTH 12
Ask
$500K – $1M

Pre-Seed SAFE · Delaware C corp · 18-24 month runway

Use of funds

Paid distribution · 0-12 moads, sponsored events, creator deals, run by AI growth agents Enterprise sales · 3-18 moI close $499/mo accounts; AI handles prospecting and follow-up AI & infrastructure · models, video hosting, data sources Buffer · legal, tools, one hire only if a role can't be automated

No hires planned. The money goes to distribution.

I hired people by meeting them, not reading about them.Entopiq makes that the first step again.

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