Saad Ships AI
@saad_ships_Ai
Founder @nodes_inc . Replacing Workday with Ai agents. Full-stack OS for hiring
Introducing Anti-Clueless by Nodes The first full-stack AI talent acquisition platform that automates the entire hiring process — from sourcing, headhunting, screening, to retention
While others were still gossiping, @ScottWu46 swooped in 👏
Use nodes for hiring. Will save you a lot of time
i've reviewed ~1,000 portfolio websites so far for founding designers ~3% don't open ~20% of all portfolio website are not responsive ~ 95% of all portfolios have at least one rlly shit project thoughts: if a project is NOT excellent, remove it. 1 good project > 10 shit ones
Your best engineer is quitting because the new hire you spent 6 months recruiting turned out to be terrible. Your head of talent just told you it takes 4 months to fill a senior role. Your HR team is drowning in 10,000+ applications for a single position, most of which are…
I made a decision 18 months ago that most founders think is crazy: Perfect the product before you scale distribution. While everyone else was "building in public" and pushing half-broken products, we stayed quiet. Only gave access to a handful of clients. Got brutal, honest…
This could be your company's HR department but you're smart enough to use nodes :p
Spent an hour today at Cristo Rey New York High school talking to 14-year-old kids about "AI Intro and Responsibility." So I got a text yesterday asking if I could speak to high school students about AI. Said yes immediately. Turns out their school had been telling them AI is…
My brain lagged when she said “dream smaller”. Like whattt?
SaaS founders: “I won’t stop till $10k MRR.” Me: €700/month, kitesurfing in Vietnam, coding a few hours a day, eating street food. Dream smaller. It’s cheaper.
When people can lie on resumes AND cheat during interviews, how do you know who actually deserves the job? It's the hardworking person who spent years learning gets beaten by someone with better prompts. This is exactly why keyword-matching ATS systems are broken. They can't…
It's impossible to make hiring decisions based on bias in our system at Nodes. Once we collect all candidate data, a separate AI agent assigns each person a unique identifier - just a number. Nothing that tells you if someone is male, female, where they're from, their name,…
Your best salesperson might not have sales experience. Your best engineer might not have a CS degree. Your best leader might have failed at their last startup. Because skills transfer. Passion transfers. Grit transfers. What doesn't transfer? Job titles. Company names. Fancy…
One of my friends started an AI company Hit $6m ARR in one year. VCs keep calling. He keeps saying no. "We don't need your money. We're already profitable." Another friend raised just enough to get started. Now does $2M ARR and has never gone back for more funding. Most…
I'm surrounded by Ivy League founders in New York. MIT. Harvard. But here's what's wild: none of them are raising money🙂 They raise the minimum needed to prove their point, then become profitable as fast as possible. I Independence> valuation. Every time.
Hot take, but I've rejected candidates from MIT and Stanford A few months ago, I had to fill a critical engineering role. Got 100+ applications. Many from top CS programs. MIT, Stanford. Perfect GPAs. Impressive internships. All the right keywords. But I hired a college dropout…
Founder: "I don't understand it. Perfect candidate. Aced every interview. Then just... disappeared." This happens every single day. And it's not the candidate's fault. Let me explain what actually happened. Financial services organizations report 55% increase in time-to-hire.…
I just read something that made me want to throw my laptop across the room. LinkedIn's 2025 recruiting report dropped some numbers that expose how broken this industry really is. "Only 27% of talent professionals currently use generative AI." But 51% believe AI improves…
Meta offered $300 million over 4 years to poach AI researchers from OpenAI. Let that sink in. That's more than the GDP of 30 countries. I'm curious to hear, which would you choose? $75M to be employee #60,000 at Meta, or equity to be employee #5 at the next unicorn? And why?
So here's how to avoid hiring the next Soham Parekh at your startup: 10+ startups hired Soham Parekh. All missed the same red flags. 1. Check if Your "US-based" Engineer is in India Soham had laptops shipped to his "sister's address" in the US while actually being in India.…