We Hire for Hardtech
Your mission becomes our mission.
Spend less time on hiring while making the right hires.
In early-stage hardtech, every hire is harder to find and matters more. Get the right hire the first time and avoid costly missteps that stall progress. Great teams don’t happen by accident.
We guard your team’s time like a hawk.
You’re building a company, not a recruiting career! We take over the hiring process end-to-end so you and your team can focus on the work only you can do.
From sourcing and screening to offer negotiation, we remove the time sink without removing your control.
Our dedicated Hiring Project Managers act as an extension of your leadership team — with hardtech expertise built-in.
We are specialists in building teams that build physical things.
Hardtech roles are niche, complex, and mission-critical. We know how to assess both technical skills and cultural alignment for small, interdependent teams.
Our process comes from deep industry experience - our founder's 18-year journey from Materials Science PhD to robotics startup CEO. We've refined our methods across dozens of hardtech companies.
Aligned with you, not commissions.
Traditional recruiters are expensive, misaligned, and often pressure you into hiring someone they already know. We work on a flat monthly fee at about a quarter the cost.
We don’t rely on outdated databases. We don’t do spray-and-pray sourcing.
We do targeted, high-quality hiring for as little as one role at a time - expanding our service to meet your hiring volume.
You focus on building the future — we’ll find the people to build it with you.
The right teammate feels like they’ve always been there.
We’ve built hardtech teams for companies like yours.
"We saw the returns immediately."
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In a period of high growth, Danielle pushed us to articulate the unique position of our mission and culture in a very competitive labor market, and then translated that into actionable plans for getting the message out. We saw the returns immediately!
"Doubled our team post-Series A."
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Applestone Consulting helped us double our team size by creating a streamlined hiring process that delivered over a dozen exceptional technical hires during our post-Series A scaling. Beyond recruitment, they helped define our company values, created team trainings, and even developed content for our annual retreat. Their fractional People Ops leadership continues to be invaluable as we build a strong, cohesive culture.
Make hiring way easier.
Hiring is risky, but so is hiring too slowly — that’s where we come in. No long-term contracts, no software subscriptions — just results and efficiency.
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