Endeavor is the #1 AI platform for America's largest manufacturers and distributors - automating knowledge work in the front office and back office. The company raised a $7M seed round backed by Craft Ventures, Contrary, BoxGroup, and Heartland to power operations and build for leading industrial companies like Schreiber, Cabot, Menasha, and Clark-Dietrich.
Endeavor's CEO and founder, Sami, is obsessed with building delightful, impactful software that genuinely transforms how these companies operate. Every deployment requires deep integration with decades-old legacy ERP systems, optimizing complex order flows and automating mission-critical workflows.
Sami knew that to win in this space, he needed to hire the best and brightest.
Traditional recruiting wasn't cutting it. The team had tried recruiting firms and in-network referrals. While some channels worked, none delivered the speed, quality, and genuine care like Sorce did.
That's where Endeavor turned to Sorce. Sami, Endeavor's founder, used it to close two critical engineering hires in an average of 1.5 weeks.
How Sorce Helped Endeavor So(u)rce
Endeavor partnered with Sorce to accelerate their engineering hiring. The results were immediate:
Engineer 1: Intro to offer in one week
Engineer 2: Intro to offer in two weeks
Average time to close: 1.5 weeks.
But speed wasn't the only thing that mattered. Endeavor had worked with plenty of recruiters before - on both the sales and engineering sides. They'd tried recruiting firms and other platforms. Some channels worked okay, but something was always missing.
With Sorce, it was different. The quality of talent matched exactly what they were looking for. But more importantly, it felt like Sorce actually cared about helping them close candidates - not just throwing resumes over the wall.
"Sorce was honestly the best among all of the ones that we've used. Like it was fast. You had quality talent that we were looking for. And it felt like you actually gave a shit about helping us find a candidate, rather than just outsourcing us to some recruiter who had 20 different opportunities and was misaligned with what we were trying to do, which is close the candidate."
Most recruiters are juggling 20 different opportunities. They're not aligned with your goal - which is to actually close the hire. Sorce was different. They were in it with Endeavor, not just transacting.
The WOW Moment
The wow moment came with the second engineering hire. He wasn't even interested in new opportunities. Most recruiters would have moved on. But Sorce went to bat for Endeavor - they got a meeting with the engineer, and that meeting changed everything.
"The engineer said he wasn't even interested and you guys went to bat and got us a meeting which let us close him and he never in his wildest dreams would have joined a company like ours. And without you guys making that intro, we wouldn't have been able to hire him."
The engineer would have never considered joining a company like Endeavor through traditional channels. But because Sorce understood both the candidate and the opportunity deeply enough to make the right introduction at the right time, Endeavor landed a hire that transformed their trajectory.
Onto the Future
Endeavor is growing fast - the team of 20+ is expanding quickly. They need more engineers, more salespeople, more exceptional people who understand what it takes to build delightful software for complex industrial operations.
And Sorce is delighted to be a part of it.