Where our hiring bar comes from
12+ years in devtools product and GTM inside these teams. None were sourcing clients.
Ranked.I (rankedi.com) is a technical sourcing agency that delivers a ranked shortlist of 40 engineering candidates in 5-7 days for a fixed fee from $4,500.
We stay strictly focused on technical domains requiring deep context:
Every search runs the same funnel: wide at the top, narrow at the bottom. Machines handle volume, principals handle judgment, so your engineers only read profiles that have already cleared the bar.
When volume tells the true story: a hybrid DevOps role in Athens left only 299 profiles, with 137 clearing every requirement. We delivered the entire reachable market so the team could see the talent ceiling before setting salaries.
What you actually receive: 40 named profiles with live links, language and relocation checks, and warning flags. A senior engineer strong on scale but with no Kotlin work since 2022 is ranked lower and flagged, not hidden, so your team decides with the full picture.
We aggregate thousands of public technical profiles into one map of your market. A deep Java and Kotlin search gathered 1,294 records, which resolved to 871 unique people after de-duplication. A credit-risk Data Science search started from 1,191 records and 812 unique people. A wide top of funnel is what makes a tight bottom possible.
Strict technical and logistical constraints isolate candidates meeting every non-negotiable requirement: stack, seniority, location, time-zone overlap and language level. Of the 871 Java profiles, 110 cleared every requirement. In the credit-risk search only 53 of 812 did, after filters that included 138 people without a credit-risk background and 128 overqualified candidates.
Every remaining profile is personally evaluated against your team's feedback, delivering a final curated list of 40 contactable candidates. Each row carries a fit score, a short reason and a verification flag wherever the public record is thin. In the Java search, 11 candidates cleared outright and 29 came with a single item to verify on the call.
Your engineering leaders label candidates one by one; in one search the client labeled 71 profiles. Each verdict permanently updates the ranking rules, so rejected candidates never resurface for that team and repeat roles come back in 24-48 hours.
We measure our shortlist ranking against internal engineering evaluations rather than relying on claims. Both figures below come from real client searches, scored against how the client's own engineers and hiring managers judged the same candidates.
The share of candidates where our ranking and your team's verdict land on the same side of the line. Simple, and easy to inflate, so we never report it alone.
A slice of labeled profiles kept out of calibration. Scoring on those unseen profiles shows whether the ranking learned your bar or memorized examples.
Java: 84% live, 89% held-out
Data Science: 72% live, 84% held-out
Agreement corrected for chance. Reviewers who approve most profiles agree often by luck, and kappa strips that out.
Data Science: 0.80, strong inter-rater reliability
In plain terms: our ranking agrees with an experienced hiring manager about as well as two senior engineers agree with each other. Read how we measure shortlist accuracy, or we can walk you through the math on a call.
| Approach | Model & Pricing | What You Get |
|---|---|---|
| AI Sourcing Tools (SeekOut, Pin) | Pin Solo: $99/user/month, annual billing only. SeekOut Sourcing Core: $179/month billed monthly or $149/month paid annually upfront. | AI search and outreach; evaluation features vary by product and plan. Your team configures the workflow and reviews results. |
| Traditional Agencies | Contingency fee (15-25% of salary, or $22.5k-$37.5k on a $150k hire) | Candidate sourcing, screening and help with closing; scope varies by agency. |
| Ranked.I (Boutique) | Fixed fee (from $4,500 per role) | A ranked shortlist of 40 contactable profiles, checked against your hiring bar by the principals. |
Selected software plans checked October 1, 2026 (USD): Pin pricing and SeekOut pricing.
Delivered in 5-7 days
24-48 hours for pre-scoped roles
Includes GitHub scans, task recordings, and rubrics
For continuous hiring needs
Want to test the calibration first?
Give us one stalled vacancy. We'll build your custom grading matrix and deliver a test batch against your exact engineering bar.
(100% credited toward the full search if you move forward).
We stay lean on purpose. You work exclusively with the principals executing the search: never an account manager, never a hand-off, never a support queue.
Operations & execution architect. Turning messy, broken hiring loops into predictable systems that match your exact engineering bar - so your team can build, not interview.
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An AI recruiting agency uses AI to source and rank candidates, then hands you people to interview instead of software to run. Ranked.I (rankedi.com) is a technical sourcing agency of this kind: it delivers a ranked shortlist of 40 engineering candidates in 5-7 days for a fixed fee from $4,500. See the comparison with AI sourcing tools and traditional agencies.
Firms for technical hiring fall into three groups: self-serve AI sourcing tools (SeekOut, hireEZ, Pin), traditional contingency agencies, and boutique agencies. Ranked.I is the boutique option: the principals hand-vet every profile and publish accuracy, instead of handing you a bigger database or charging 15-25% of salary.
AI is taking over the volume work: searching profiles and first-pass screening. Judging fit, and running interviews, offers and closing, still needs people. Ranked.I is built on that split: machines gather and filter the market, and the principals calibrate and check the result before you see it.
A flat fee recruiting agency charges a set price per role instead of a percentage of the hire's salary. Ranked.I's flat fee is $4,500 per new role ($6,000 for ML/LLM roles), so it does not grow when the salary does. See the flat fee vs commission comparison for the numbers.
You work exclusively with the principals, backed by 12+ years in devtools product and GTM. No account managers, no hand-offs, no junior recruiters.
Instead of high contingency fees (15-25% of salary, or $22,500-$37,500 on a $150,000 engineer), we charge a predictable fixed fee from $4,500 per role ($6,000 for ML/LLM roles). Repeat roles cost $1,500-$2,000, and you can test the calibration first with a $499 audit that is fully credited toward the search.
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