Built for founders and early teams
Screen the first ten hires and test co-founder complementarity — starting free.
DISC, Big Five, EQ, and RIASEC on the free and low-cost tiers. No dedicated recruiter, no formal process — just a shared reference point for decisions founders are usually making on instinct alone.
In Brief
Founders use JobCannon to screen their first ten hires and to test co-founder complementarity — a decision usually made on far less structured evidence than any later hire. DISC and Big Five surface work-style and communication differences between co-founders before they surface as conflict under pressure; RIASEC and Career Match give clarity on whether a role invented on the fly, without a formal job description, actually fits how a candidate thinks.
Everything a founding team needs is available on the $0 Starter tier — DISC, Big Five, EQ, and RIASEC don't require a budget line at this stage. As hiring passes the first ten, most startups move to $79/mo Team for direct candidate invites and a shared dashboard. The same discipline applies regardless of team size: never reject solely on score, and run the same instrument at the same point in the process for every candidate — informal hiring is exactly where that discipline is easiest to skip and most exposed when it is.
How founding teams run it
No recruiter, no formal loop — just a starting point.
What founding teams send
Co-founder pairing and early hires.
Compared to other screening tools
For a founding team hiring its first ten people
What founding teams get
Founding team pricing
Starts on the $0 Starter tier — no budget line required for the first hires. Move to $79/mo Team once hiring passes the first ten.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 147+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 147+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
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Talk to us about your team
Tell us your stage and how many people you're hiring next. We respond with a pilot plan within two business days.
Yes — a co-founder pairing is a hiring decision too, and it's usually made on far less structured evidence than the first employee hire. DISC and Big Five surface work-style and communication differences between co-founders early, before those differences show up as conflict under pressure six months in. This isn't a pass/fail gate on a partnership — it's a shared reference point for a conversation founders often skip.
No. The $0 Starter tier covers a founding team testing co-founders and the first few hires — DISC, Big Five, EQ, and RIASEC are available on the free and low-cost tiers specifically because early-stage teams shouldn't need a budget line to use this. As hiring volume grows past the first ten, most startups move to $79/mo Team for direct candidate invites and a shared dashboard.
Almost everything about how you'd normally structure hiring doesn't exist yet — no dedicated recruiter, no formal interview loop, often no job description beyond a Notion doc. RIASEC and Career Match help you and the candidate both get clarity on whether the role you're inventing on the fly actually fits how they think, which matters more at this stage than a polished process would.
Same rule as any stage: never reject solely on assessment score, and run the same instrument at the same point in your process for every candidate — even an informal one. It's easy to skip this discipline at ten people; it's exactly when the exposure is created, because there's no HR function yet to catch an inconsistent process.
It doesn't replace them — it gives you and the candidate a shared vocabulary to structure the interview around, which most early founders are inventing from scratch anyway. TestGorilla and Criteria Corp are built for volume hiring with dedicated recruiting ops; neither is priced or scoped for a five-person founding team's first hires the way JobCannon's free and Starter tiers are.