CV review and shortlisting time down by 80%
At twelve people a wrong hire is not one wrong seat. It sits in every meeting, shapes every decision, and interviews the next four people who join. Startups hire fast because the runway is short, and speed is what produces the wrong person.
43% of employers say they made a bad hire because they needed someone quickly, and companies with no standard interview process are five times more likely to make one.
Source: SHRM, the cost of a bad hire
With no recruiter and no people team, the founder writes the ad, reads every application and makes the call. That work does not get faster as the list gets longer, so the roles that matter most are the ones that stay open.
Across 1,200 venture-backed startups, roles at companies under 25 people took 62 days to fill without a recruiter and 42 days with one.
The first ten hires decide how the company argues, decides and works, whether or not anyone writes it down. By the time it reads as a problem it is a habit, and it is being defended by the people who set it.
Only 20% of employees strongly agree they feel connected to their organisation's culture, measured in May 2026.
Skills sit in the founder's head and in a spreadsheet someone keeps updated. The first time an insurer, an auditor or a new compliance hire asks who is qualified to do a given task, there is nothing to hand over.
Jobs and Skills Australia is building a National Skills Taxonomy so skills can be described in one common language. Most companies under 100 people have no record to describe.
Compono takes away the heavy lifting early in the recruitment stage.
Paul Gloster, Chief Marketing Officer · Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirits Co
4 to 70 staff in two years, across more than 50 markets
Tell us the roles you are about to open and the team you are building around them. We will walk you through how Hire ranks a shortlist, answer the awkward questions, and say so if a payroll tool is what you actually need.
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