The best engineers aren't applying. They're shipping code.
Riem.ai finds the developers your current tools miss.
The hiring tools were built for a different era
LinkedIn was built for the resume era. It matches on self-reported job titles and endorsements. When you search for "payment systems engineer who's worked with Stripe at scale," you get hundreds of profiles that mention Stripe as a buzzword and zero who've actually committed code to Stripe's open source projects.
Agency recruiters charge 20-25% of first-year salary. For a $175K engineer, that's $35,000 to $44,000. Per hire. An in-house sourcer costs $130K-$170K per year fully loaded. And even then, they're searching the same LinkedIn pool as everyone else.
Meanwhile, 70% of software engineers are passive candidates. They're not job hunting. They're not updating their LinkedIn. But they're pushing code every day. The signal is there. Nobody was reading it.
Contribution-based sourcing
Riem.ai searches 30M+ public GitHub events every month. Commits, pull requests, code reviews, issue activity. We analyze what engineers actually build, not what they claim on a profile.
Our 8-signal scoring system evaluates candidates across repo relevance, activity volume, contribution quality, recency, consistency, breadth, external contribution, and organizational diversity. Weights are tuned dynamically per search query.
Our "Underrated" scoring is the key differentiator. We find engineers with high contribution quality and low social visibility. The infrastructure expert with 50 followers who maintains critical systems but has never been contacted by a recruiter. That's the candidate you can't find anywhere else.
Principles
Real signals over self-reported data
GitHub contributions are verified work product. You can't keyword-stuff a commit history.
Affordable for every team
Plans start at $49/month. One agency placement costs more than 5 years of Riem.ai Pro.
Privacy by design
We only analyze public GitHub events. We never access private repos or non-public data.
Company
Riem.ai is built by Winding Number LLC, founded in 2026.
We're a small team focused on making technical recruiting more effective and more fair. Finding great engineers shouldn't require a $12,000/year tool subscription or a $35,000 agency fee.
Find the engineers who've already built it
Search 30M+ monthly GitHub events. Match on real code, not resumes.
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