Maya Okafor
Platform Lead · 40-person Series A fintech
RLExcellent
Built K8s from scratch at a 40-person Series A. On-call owner for 18 months. PagerDuty at 2am, not just in the job title.
Kubernetes · demonstrated0→1 builderOn-call owner
Halloway · Recruiting intelligence platform
Most AI recruiting tools are just LinkedIn with a chatbot on top.
Halloway isn't. It understands careers, not just profiles. It learns from every hire your team has ever made. And it tells you why someone fits, not just that they do.
Describe who you want. Get a match label with a plain-English reason. Watch the results get sharper every time a hiring manager says yes or no.
< 5 min
Found to messaged
London
market mapped entirely
4s
ICP from JD via AI
Compounds
with every yes, no, and reply
What you're used to
What Halloway does differently
01
What you're used to
Keyword search over a profile index
01
What Halloway does differently
Search that understands what someone actually built and when
01
Keyword search over a profile index
01
Search that understands what someone actually built and when
02
What you're used to
A score with no explanation
02
What Halloway does differently
A match label with a plain-English reason attached
02
A score with no explanation
02
A match label with a plain-English reason attached
03
What you're used to
A snapshot of who someone is today
03
What Halloway does differently
A career modelled over time, queryable at any point
03
A snapshot of who someone is today
03
A career modelled over time, queryable at any point
04
What you're used to
Filters you configure and maintain
04
What Halloway does differently
A model that learns from every real hire your team has made
04
Filters you configure and maintain
04
A model that learns from every real hire your team has made
05
What you're used to
Email blast to a shortlist
05
What Halloway does differently
Outreach written around what the platform actually knows about that specific person
05
Email blast to a shortlist
05
Outreach written around what the platform actually knows about that specific person
Built for the people who own the hire.
In-house recruiters
The brief lands Monday. You need the shortlist by Thursday. Halloway truly understands your org and gets you there without the tab-switching.
Agency consultants
All of your roles, all of your clients, one dashboard. Per-client signal that compounds the longer you work with them.
01 · Search, rebuilt
Other tools search a profile. Halloway understands a career.
The difference is concrete: “has Kubernetes on their profile” versus “built Kubernetes from scratch at a 40-person Series A, owned on-call for 18 months, never worked at an enterprise.” Same search. Completely different result.
- Plain English in. Halloway turns your prompt into a search that understands careers, not keywords.
- Match labels, not scores. Excellent · Great · Good · Possible — with a plain-English why.
- Temporal queries. Who someone was at Series A, not just who they are today.
- Exclusions honoured. ‘No enterprise-only backgrounds’ removes 8 candidates before you blink.
halloway · Head of Platform — Q3
ICP active
Prompt
Platform engineer who has owned on-call at a Series A → B fintech in London, Kubernetes from scratch, no enterprise-only backgrounds.
profile_type:platform_engarchetype:reliability_obsessivecompany_stage:A→B!enterprise_onlyk8s · demonstrated
Results · 34 candidates
graph traversal · 412 ms
Daniel Reyes
Staff SRE · Series B payments
Great
Reliability obsessive archetype. Go expert, on-call at scale. No enterprise-only background.
Go · expertReliability obsessiveReports inferred
02 · Reinforcement
Your taste, encoded. Not a filter — a model.
Every time a hiring manager clicks yes or no, Halloway updates what it knows about what works for your team. Not rules you write. Signal from real decisions.
In-house
We map your current team. The graph models who you have, who thrives, who left, who you promoted.
Agency
We map your client's team. RL is calibrated per-client — Stripe's signal is not WeWork's signal.
Per-project
Every project carries its own ICP and its own RL state. The signal compounds.
Transparent
'RL using Stripe placement history (2 prior + 4 this project).' You see exactly what's calibrating.
ICP · Head of Platform — Q3
RL active · 7 signals
Kubernetes (demonstrated)
MUSTRL ↑ +12
0→1 builder archetype
STRONGRL ↑ +9
On-call ownership
STRONGRL ↑ +4
AWS certifications
NICERL ↓ -18
Enterprise-only background
EXCLUDERL ↓ -24
● CTO clicked Yes on Maya Okafor → Kubernetes demonstrated confidence rose to 94%. 0→1 builder weight up. Two new candidates entered the top 5.
03 · Talent graph
Every other platform stores a snapshot. We store a career.
Not just where someone works today. What stage the company was at when they joined. Who they reported to. What they actually built. How that changed over three years. Halloway can find who someone was becoming, not just who they are right now.
- Company-anchored mapping. Context, not keywords.
- Confidence intervals on every trait. 'Unknown' beats 'wrong'.
- Queryable at any point in time. Who they were becoming.
- Built for humans and AI to traverse natively
Career view · Maya Okafor
Maya Okafor
Person
Monzo
Series A · 32 people
CTO
Reports to
On-call lead
Within 8 months
Platform & K8s
What she shipped
Series C
When she left
2021
Joined · Series A
2022
On-call lead
2024
Left · Series C
Maya joined Monzo at Series A (32 people). Became on-call lead within 8 months. Reported to the CTO. Left at Series C. Confidence: 0.94.
That's a different candidate than “Senior Platform Engineer at Monzo.”
04 · Platform
Found to messaged in under five minutes.
Search, projects, dynamic ICP, extension, outreach, email unlock, and ATS sync. The entire path from brief to message in one workflow. No tab-switching.
Projects
Named searches that compound.
Every hire is a project: ICP, pipeline, outreach, RL. Re-open it months later and the platform remembers.
ICP · Pipeline · Outreach · RL
Dynamic ICP
From kickoff to calibrated in 4 seconds.
Paste a JD or describe the role. Halloway extracts the profile, exclusions included, in seconds.
JD upload · Free text · Kickoff notes
Chrome extension
Ambient capture, in your flow.
Browse LinkedIn. Know instantly if they're in the graph, which projects they match, and their label. No new tab required.
MV3 · Sidebar · One-click sync
Outreach
Graph-personalised. Sent from your inbox.
Sequences from Gmail and Outlook. Every draft references what the platform knows about that candidate, not a mail-merge.
Email unlock
Contact details on your shortlist.
Find verified email addresses for the candidates you've already shortlisted. No wasted lookups on people who don't fit.
ATS sync
Real-time where webhooks exist. One-click for the rest.
Match label and explanation travel with every candidate to Greenhouse, Ashby, Bullhorn, and 30+ more.
05 · Agency mode
Your client's team, mapped before the kickoff call.
You already know who your clients hire. Halloway just makes that knowledge computable.
Retained for Stripe again? The project opens with your prior placements already mapped, Stripe's team already understood, and the model tuned to what actually placed there. You're not starting from zero. You're starting from 80% done.
- Bring your Bullhorn or Vincere — AI-mapped CSV import, enriched overnight
- Per-client RL state: Stripe's signal is not WeWork's signal
- Morning brief: '47 candidates in your imported DB are Excellent matches for active projects'
- White-glove shortlists with shareable, login-free Collaborator view
Project · Head of Engineering — Stripe
Stripe-calibrated RL
Client signal
RL using Stripe team graph · 2 previous placements found in your history. ICP weights pre-tuned to Stripe's known engineering profile.
Sourced
52
Contacted
30
Replied
11
Exclusions honoured
Hiring lead: “No one who needs a lot of process to do great work.” → 8 candidates suppressed before surfacing.
06 · Pricing
Join the founding cohort. Pricing stays locked.
The founding cohort shapes the roadmap directly. We ship weekly and every member gets a direct line to the team building it.
Founding pricing is annual, billed up front, and locked for as long as you stay.
Seed
£1,250
per month, billed annually + VAT
0–25 employee startups and boutique tech agencies. The founder seat.
- Full Talent Graph + Search
- Unlimited Projects + Dynamic ICP
- Chrome Extension + Outreach
- Email discovery on shortlist
- 1 ATS sync: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, or Bullhorn
- Founder-level onboarding
12–18 month tier · auto-graduates to Base at renewal
Most popular
Base
£2,500
per month, billed annually + VAT
Series A, 26–100 employees. The default tier for in-house talent teams.
- Everything in Seed
- 5 seats · Collaborator views unlimited
- Agency Mode + per-client RL
- Bullhorn / Vincere bulk import + overnight enrichment
- All 30+ ATS via Merge.dev
- Priority enrichment credits
Most popular · everything Seed has, more headroom
Enterprise
Custom
Series C+, multi-region, regulated
Multi-team, multi-region. Data residency. Dedicated support.
- Everything in Base
- Unlimited seats + SSO
- Dedicated tenant + data residency
- Custom ATS field mapping
- Solutions engineer + named CSM
- Custom enrichment SLAs
EU/UK + US residency · SAML SSO · custom DPA
GDPR and CCPA compliant · UK and US data residency
Get early access
Join the founding cohort. Build with us.
Founding members get locked pricing, founder-level onboarding, and a direct line to the team building it. Book a demo. We ship weekly.
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