The builders.
Founding engineers and specialist technical talent to take your product from first principles to production.
Independent search. Founder to founder.
Exceptional talent.
For what’s next.
You’re building something that hasn’t existed before. We find the people who can help you make it happen.
Founder-led search for AI, fintech and frontier technology companies, from pre-seed to Series A.
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01 / The people who move you forward
Small teams.
Outsized impact.
Your early hires shape everything that follows. We help founders find the technical builders, leaders and commercial operators who turn ambition into a company.
The leaders.
Technical and executive leaders who can set direction, stay close to the work and build the team around them.
The growth drivers.
Commercial talent to win customers, open new markets and build the partnerships that accelerate your business.
02 / Where we go deep
At the edge
of what’s possible.
AI researchers, applied ML, autonomous agents and the infrastructure behind them.
Financial infrastructure, stablecoins, payments and the next generation of financial products.
Custody, tokenization, protocols and institutional digital asset infrastructure.
Quantitative research, trading systems and the engineering that connects them.
Technical products, complex infrastructure and tools built for the people building everything else.
03 / A closer kind of search
Understand the mission.
Then find your people.
Great recruiting starts with understanding what you’re building, why it matters and what the right person needs to deliver.
Get close to the business.
We work directly with you to define the mandate, the technical bar and the stage of experience your team actually needs.
Go beyond the obvious.
Targeted headhunting and a long-standing network of founders, investors and operators bring the search beyond inbound applications.
Think beyond one hire.
From critical appointments to strategic introductions, we build relationships that support the next stage of your company.
04 / Independent since 2006
Jonny Cadden
Founder, Fluid Recruitment
Two decades of relationships.
Always looking forward.
I founded Fluid in 2006 to help ambitious technology companies find exceptional people. Since then, I’ve worked with founders, venture funds and teams across fintech, crypto, quantitative finance, AI and deep tech.
That same drive led me to launch a technology and venture capital summit in Manchester, headlined by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Today, I work with a select group of founders to build teams, connect networks and support their next stage of growth.
Your next chapter starts with the right people