Service
Start-Up Staffing
Fractional talent partner for early-stage teams
A fractional talent partner for early-stage deep-tech teams — first-employee playbooks, founder-team searches and founding-engineer hires.
Why clients engage us
What you get from working with Humand.
Founder-friendly commercials
Fee models designed for seed and Series A budgets — equity, fixed fees or milestone-based options.
First-ten playbook
We've built our first-ten hire template with dozens of deep-tech founders — you don't start from scratch.
Investor-ready reporting
Board-ready hiring dashboards that make talent progress visible to your investors.
What you get
Deliverables at a glance.
Every engagement includes clear, written outputs — no ambiguity about what "done" looks like.
- First-ten hiring plan
- Founder-team searches
- Founding engineer / researcher hires
- Compensation & equity benchmarking
- Investor-ready reporting
- Warm introductions to community
How it works
A structured process, every time.
A summary of the flow — for the full nine-stage resourcing process see the detailed walkthrough.
- 01
Roadmap
Map the next 12 months of hires against your product and funding roadmap.
- 02
Sequence
Prioritise the first three roles based on impact and market difficulty.
- 03
Deliver
Run each search with founder-level care and community warmth.
- 04
Scale
Graduate to permanent, TaaS or in-house talent as you grow.
FAQs
Common questions.
Not seeing yours? Drop us a line — we usually reply the same day.
Get started
Ready to talk about start-up staffing?
A 20-minute call is usually enough to scope the engagement and agree next steps.