Outship

Outship

Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI

San Francisco
3 employees
AI
Pre-seed · $500K

About Outship

Software engineering is being rewritten in real time, and hiring is getting pulled along for the ride.

With tools like Claude Code and Cursor, being able to ship is the new baseline. The signal for finding extraordinary engineers is the process: how candidates break down work, steer the agent, make tradeoffs, and recover when things break.

Outship is a recruiting tool that allows you to capture and analyze that process alongside the final code so you can hire with confidence.

Candidates work in a cloud workspace that's ready to code. We handle the environment setup and secret management to give you a level testing ground.

Company details

Team Size3
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Saner Cakir

Saner Cakir

Previously worked on robot learning at Berkeley AI Research. Now building Outship, a recruiting platform for evaluating how engineers use AI coding agents.

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Kayla Lee

Kayla Lee

now: outship.ai – hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI before: nlp at Berkeley AI Research

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.