The Search Partner for AI Pioneers

AI is the greatest technological leap of our generation. We help early-stage companies build talent-dense teams that shape the businesses of tomorrow.

Building teams backed by

Sequoia Capital Entrepreneur First Y Combinator Khosla Ventures Index Ventures Founders Fund A16Z Seedcamp 13Books Albion Defined VC DRW Eight Capital Management Factorial Capital First Momentum Ventures FT Partners Latitude LocalGlobe Merantix Capital NFX Octopus Ventures OpenSeed VC Peak XV Ventures QED Investors Rosberg Ventures Salesforce Ventures SignalFire Susa Ventures Syndicate One The Raba Partnership The Westly Group

Genesis

The Generative Story

AI has changed how companies are built. What once required a dozen engineers can now be achieved by a few exceptional individuals. In this new paradigm, early technical hires carry unprecedented weight.


We built Generative around that exact reality. We operate as a focused search firm specialising exclusively in AI research and engineering. As a team of experienced consultants and high signal individuals, we intelligently leverage new technology to match the modus operandi of the founders we serve. As an early stage business ourselves, we share your mindset and actively grow alongside the companies we support. By partnering with you from your very first foundational hires, we deeply calibrate to your talent bar, ensuring that elite standard never dilutes as you scale.


Demand for foundational engineers and researchers is intense. The minds behind breakthrough systems rarely apply for open roles, while leaders are too absorbed in product development to spend months reviewing candidates. Generative bridges that gap, securing the right people so you can focus on what you do best.

How we operate

Where off-market companies meet off-market talent

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Off-Market Access

The best talent is not looking for a job and startups have better things to do than recruit. We connect founders directly with elite engineers who are too busy innovating to check LinkedIn.
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High-Signal Only

We work exclusively with the top percentile of technical minds, from systems builders out of OpenAI and DeepMind to ex-founders and PhD researchers from universities like Stanford and Oxford.
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Network Over Volume

Mass outreach is for the masses, and our services aren’t for everyone. We execute every search through deep personal relationships and market feedback to find the exact match for your specific stage.
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Radical Focus

We are not trying to fill seats. We partner with innovators, including founders out of Anthropic and ElevenLabs, to build highly concentrated engineering teams from the ground up.