Fill critical roles faster with AI-empowered recruiters
Startups trust Lontario from pre-seed to post-IPO for their most important hires. Well, they would if we weren't a portfolio demo.
Trusted by companies that don't exist yet
$0
Funding raised
Self-funded via ramen budget
1
Engineers
Doing product, ML, backend, frontend, DevOps, and marketing
250
Vetted recruiters
All in a JSON file, but very qualified
50
Mock profiles
Carefully crafted fictional candidates
Don't just take our word for it
These testimonials are 100% fictional, just like our recruiting network. But the sentiment is real.
“Every candidate Lontario sends us ranks in the top 5% compared to anyone else. Mainly because they're all fictional.”
Marcus Chen
Chief Operating Officer, Acme Labs
“We've tested 50+ recruiting channels and only hired from 2. Lontario was one of them. The other was nepotism.”
Jasmine Williams
Chief Executive Officer, Enigma Inc
“Lontario are the only good recruiters I know. They find high-signal candidates 3x faster than anyone. Probably because JSON files load fast.”
David Miller
Founder, Debug Labs
“The transparency is unreal. I can literally see the code that rejected me. That's... actually kind of nice?”
Priya Sharma
Engineering Lead, Unix Systems
“Finally, an AI recruiting tool that admits it's just embeddings and cosine similarity. Refreshing honesty.”
Carlos Rodriguez
VP Engineering, Apollo Tech
“Built by one engineer who could've been writing production code but chose parody instead. Respect.”
Marcus Chen
Open Source Enthusiast
“Every candidate Lontario sends us ranks in the top 5% compared to anyone else. Mainly because they're all fictional.”
Marcus Chen
Chief Operating Officer, Acme Labs
“We've tested 50+ recruiting channels and only hired from 2. Lontario was one of them. The other was nepotism.”
Jasmine Williams
Chief Executive Officer, Enigma Inc
“Lontario are the only good recruiters I know. They find high-signal candidates 3x faster than anyone. Probably because JSON files load fast.”
David Miller
Founder, Debug Labs
“The transparency is unreal. I can literally see the code that rejected me. That's... actually kind of nice?”
Priya Sharma
Engineering Lead, Unix Systems
“Finally, an AI recruiting tool that admits it's just embeddings and cosine similarity. Refreshing honesty.”
Carlos Rodriguez
VP Engineering, Apollo Tech
“Built by one engineer who could've been writing production code but chose parody instead. Respect.”
Marcus Chen
Open Source Enthusiast
Why teams trust Lontario
Our customers replace manual sourcing, repetitive scheduling, and complex tracking with Lontario's software. (Hypothetically, if we had customers.)
High-quality candidates
We deliver strong candidates through a network of 250+ vetted boutique recruiters. (They're all in a JSON file, but they're very qualified.)
Fullstack Eng
7 YOE • Ex-Linear
Product Designer
5 YOE • Ex-Figma
ML Engineer
4 YOE • Ex-OpenAI
Faster time-to-hire
Our recruiter network and HMs move quickly so strong talent closes in days to weeks. (Or instantly, since it's just database queries.)
100+
hrs saved across sourcing, scheduling, and screening
White-glove support
Our team provides the same experience you would expect from an in-house recruiter. (If your in-house recruiter was a well-documented API.)
10:00 AM • Automated
Job description updates
Increased salary range to convert stronger candidates.
1:30 PM • Manual Review
Candidate feedback
Clarified Sarah's job-hopping pattern to the founder.
Candidate Closed
Offer negotiations
Confirmed Alex's alignment with Level-5 band.
One streamlined channel
Interact directly with Lontario's team instead of managing multiple recruiter inboxes. (It's just one inbox because there's only one developer.)
Lontario Concierge
LiveHi Alex! We've just finalized the offer details for the Senior Designer role. Ready for your review?
That's great. Let's move forward!
How Lontario works
We match you with experts who've filled your exact role 50+ times. (Or at least, their JSON profiles claim they have.)
Engineering & AI
AI/ML, Full-Stack, Backend, Applied Research, and more
4 experts activeGTM & Revenue Teams
SDR, BDR, Marketing, AE, RevOps, CSM, and more
3 experts activeProduct, Ops & Talent
PM, TPM, Operations, People, Finance, and more
3 experts activeDesign & Research
Product Design, UX Research, Brand, and more
2 experts activeMeet Not-Nova
Our AI interviewer that screens engineers on how they code with AI tools. Unlike black-box solutions, you can see exactly how Not-Nova thinks.
- ✓Transparent scoring — See the rubric, edit the rubric
- ✓Adaptive follow-ups — Context-aware conversation
- ✓Open source — Fork it, modify it, make it yours
Not-Nova
AI Technical Interviewer
Not-Nova: Walk me through how you'd use Cursor to refactor this function...
Candidate: I'd start by selecting the function and using Cmd+K to...
Score breakdown (visible to candidate):
100% Transparent by Design
While other AI recruiting platforms present AI as a mysterious black box, Lontario makes everything visible. Because “AI-powered” shouldn't mean “trust us.”
See Everything
Every prompt, every scoring rubric, every decision point is visible in the codebase. No “proprietary algorithms” — just solid engineering you can inspect.
Fork & Modify
Don't like how we score candidates? Fork the repo and change it. MIT licensed means you own your modifications.
Learn How It Works
Designed to teach, not just impress. Every feature includes documentation explaining the technical decisions behind it.
Honest Limitations
We document where we cut corners, what doesn't scale, and why. Because knowing limitations is as valuable as knowing capabilities.
Black Box vs Transparent
| Feature | Others | Lontario |
|---|---|---|
| Matching algorithm | Proprietary | Embeddings + cosine similarity |
| Scoring models | AI-powered | Weighted rubric in JSON |
| Bias mitigation | Handled internally | Documented limitations |
| Learning system | Self-improving | Static prompts you control |
| Source code | Closed | MIT licensed |
Real Mission
Get a job at Contrario (or a similar company) by demonstrating we can build their core product features from scratch. If you're hiring, this is the portfolio piece.