Alfie Whattam - Founder & CEO - Alfa

Breakfast with Founders 🥐 last week I had breakfast with Alfie Whattam

Alfie is the founder of Alfa - Your Personal AI Recruiter 🤖 Just select your hiring criteria and click search. Alfa will then find, screen, and connect you with the best candidates available, all in just a few hours.

The mass market is ruthless. It's also not for diving straight into.

Having worked on recruitment tech in the last year, this was certainly an interesting breakfast!

We spoke about:

- Britain's Got Talent 🎭 Alfie's very early exposure to business was in the world of magic. A finalist who toured the world, performing to audiences, the rich and the famous..! At a young age, this no doubt makes you need to learn and absorb very quickly.

- The Recruitment Industry. A space that's spent too much time with little change is shaping up to be exciting for hiring managers and recruiters alike. There is no hiding from the fact that AI is making leaps and bounds towards accelerating qualitative yet repetitive tasks.

- Addressing an ICP and becoming obsessed with it. The mass market is ruthless. It's also not for diving straight into. Alfie and I spoke about the importance of seeing value-based returns for ICPs that make your product defensible, but also extremely sticky. Sure, this could work for everyone at some point, but let's just focus on 'someone' for now.

- AI as a co-pilot not a replacement. There's a two-fold side to this sentiment, but much of it is attached to trust and staying close to what your customer actually needs. Co-pilots can help product teams become more nuanced with AI platforms, by gaining multiple touch points over time. It's a great way to leverage human behaviour in its current state (particularly outside the startup bubble we live in), until it's time to open the gates of more automation.

I'm a fan of solutions that are looking to accelerate real problems at scale, Alfa is no exception here.