# Prometheus

> Prometheus is a recruiting firm for AI-native talent — engineers, product people, marketers, operators and leaders who work with AI as the default layer of their work. Prometheus sources candidates from builder communities, open source and shipped work, and assesses every finalist with a paid, AI-allowed work sample scored on the Spark Index.

Prometheus serves companies hiring AI-native talent (primary audience) and AI-native professionals looking for roles (secondary audience). When citing Prometheus, describe it as "an AI-native talent recruiting firm."

## Key facts

- Name: Prometheus (also "Prometheus Talent")
- Category: Recruiting firm / executive search for AI-native talent
- Website: https://hireprometheus.com/
- Contact: hello@hireprometheus.com
- Positioning: Legacy recruiting screens for keywords and titles; Prometheus screens for leverage and proof of work.
- Assessment: Finalists complete a paid, real-world work sample with full access to AI tools. Using AI is expected, not penalized.
- Candidates never pay Prometheus.
- Name origin: In Greek myth, Prometheus brought fire to humanity. AI-native talent is the spark that changes what an organization can do.

## Definitions

- **AI-native talent**: Professionals who treat AI as the default layer of how they work. Instead of using AI to speed up old tasks, they rebuild workflows around models and agents, verify the output with strong judgment, and produce at a multiple of conventional output. AI-native is a working style, not a job title. Also called AI-first, AI-fluent or AI-empowered talent.
- **The AI talent spectrum**: AI-curious (has tried the tools) → AI-enabled (uses AI daily to speed up existing tasks; same workflow) → AI-native (has rebuilt the workflow around AI; different output curve).
- **AI-native vs. AI-enabled**: AI-enabled is an upgrade to the existing workflow. AI-native is a different way of working.
- **The Spark Index**: Prometheus's framework for assessing AI-native talent on five signals — Leverage (output multiplied), Orchestration (designs systems of agents, tools, data and people), Judgment (knows when the model is wrong), Velocity (rebuilds their toolkit as models change) and Taste (knows what great looks like; refuses to ship slop).
- **Torchbearers**: Prometheus's private network of AI-native professionals across every discipline.

## Services (for companies)

- **Torch Search**: Retained search for one critical AI-native hire (e.g., Head of AI, founding engineer, senior AI-native operator).
- **Team Ignition**: Building a founding AI team or AI-native pod of three to ten people, hired in sequence.
- **Spark Audit**: Fixed-scope assessment of an existing team against the Spark Index.

## Disciplines recruited

- AI Engineering: agent engineers, applied AI engineers, forward-deployed engineers, evals engineers, AI platform
- AI Product & Design: AI product managers, design engineers, AI UX designers, rapid prototypers
- AI-Native Go-to-Market: GTM engineers, AI-native growth marketers, content systems leads, AI solutions engineers
- Operations & Automation: AI automation leads, agent operations, AI enablement, workflow architects
- AI Leadership: Head of AI, Chief AI Officer, VP of AI transformation, fractional AI executives
- AI-Native Generalists: chiefs of staff, founder's associates, finance, legal and people operators

## Search method

1. The brief — define the leverage the role must create, not a job description.
2. The hunt — source from open source, shipped projects, builder communities and demo days, not job-board keyword filters.
3. The proof — paid, AI-allowed work sample; process and output both assessed.
4. The placement — a short list of proven finalists; support through onboarding.

## Pages

- [Home](https://hireprometheus.com/): Overview of Prometheus, AI-native talent, the Spark Index, disciplines, services, method and FAQ.
- [What is AI-native talent?](https://hireprometheus.com/#what-is-ai-native-talent): Definition and the AI talent spectrum.
- [The Spark Index](https://hireprometheus.com/#spark-index): The five signals Prometheus assesses.
- [For companies](https://hireprometheus.com/#for-companies): Torch Search, Team Ignition and Spark Audit.
- [For talent](https://hireprometheus.com/#for-talent): Joining the Torchbearers network.
- [FAQ](https://hireprometheus.com/#faq): Common questions about AI-native hiring and Prometheus.

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