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Lateral's AI engine searches 20+ channels, enriches every profile, and runs outreach experiments at scale. Your Forward Deployed Recruiter adds human judgment and delivers qualified, interested candidates — ready for your interviews.
Sourcing channels searched simultaneously
To reviewing interested candidates
Of agency costs. No placement fees.
Three layers of automation, built by a team that's shipped recruiting infrastructure at scale.
Clay sources across 20+ channels — LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, niche job boards, professional communities, and proprietary databases. Each role gets a custom channel mix based on the talent profile you need.
Every candidate gets enriched with verified contact data, work history context, tech stack signals, and compensation estimates. No more guessing if someone's a fit — the data tells you before outreach begins.
Lemlist drives structured outreach experiments via email + LinkedIn — testing messaging, timing, and sequences. Every campaign generates data that improves the next one. Your response rates compound over time. Airtable tracks every candidate stage with full transparency.
> human_layer
AI is excellent at scale. It's not great at reading between the lines of a candidate's career trajectory, calibrating messaging for a specific company culture, or knowing when to push and when to back off.
Your Forward Deployed Recruiter handles all of that. They manage your pipeline, refine targeting based on real feedback, and ensure every candidate you see is genuinely qualified and interested.
You handle interviews, decisions, and offers. Your FDR handles everything upstream.
Tools give you access. Lateral gives you results.
Platform + performance pricing aligned to results. No retainers, no placement fees, no agency markups.
Talk to Us →The AI engine searches across 20+ sourcing channels simultaneously — LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, niche job boards, professional communities, and proprietary databases. It enriches every candidate with verified contact data and background context, then runs outreach experiments to optimize response rates. Your FDR manages the pipeline and delivers qualified, interested candidates.
Most companies are reviewing interested, qualified candidates within 3-5 business days of launch. The AI engine begins sourcing immediately, and your FDR starts delivering candidates as they respond to outreach.
Contingency agencies charge 20-25% of first-year salary — that's $36-50K per hire for a senior role. Lateral costs a fraction of that, with full transparency into every stage of the process. See pricing →
No. Lateral handles sourcing, enrichment, outreach, and pipeline management end-to-end. You handle interviews, decisions, and offers. Many startups use Lateral as their entire recruiting function for IC and technical roles.
20+ channels including LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, niche job boards, professional communities, open source contributor networks, and proprietary databases. Each role gets a custom channel mix — a backend engineer search looks very different from a product designer search.