Dean Garamella
I run a recruiting firm and I build the machines that run it. Most of what used to be somebody's week here is now an agent: finding the companies, reading the market, screening the work, drafting the outreach. The judgement stays human. The typing does not.
Founding partner, SourceOwls
Monroe, Connecticut
Manufacturing, logistics, automation
AI agent systems for recruiting
A recruiter who started building his own tools.
I have spent my career on the recruiting side, running searches for companies from startups to the very large, and I co founded SourceOwls to fix the part of it that never worked: one agency, one recruiter, one address book, against a role that needed a specialist.
The firm
SourceOwls puts a team of manufacturing, logistics and automation specialists on every search rather than one generalist. One agreement, one account manager, several networks that barely overlap. That is the whole argument, and it is why the firm exists.
The build
Somewhere along the way I stopped waiting for software that did what I needed and started building it. Now most of the operation runs on agents I wrote: they find the companies, read the hiring signals, screen against the brief, draft the outreach and stage it for a human to approve.
The position I hold
Agents do not replace recruiters. They remove the part of recruiting that was never recruiting: the prospecting, the chasing, the re explaining, the week lost to a search that was never real. What is left is the judgement, and that is the part worth paying a person for.
Where I have talked about this.
Both of these are conversations about SourceOwls and how the marketplace works. There is more coming, and this section grows.
What I read to keep up.
Recruiting is being rebuilt by people who mostly do not work in recruiting, so half of this list is not about hiring at all. Every link here was checked before it was published. This list grows.
- Recruiting BrainfoodHung Lee. The weekly that most of the industry actually reads.
- Recruiting FutureMatt Alder, on where the work is going rather than where it has been.
- Josh BersinThe research end of HR and talent. Slower, and worth it.
- EREPractitioner writing on recruiting and talent acquisition.
- Andrej KarpathyExplains what is actually happening, without the theatre.
- Andrew NgThe clearest voice on applied machine learning.
- Hung LeeThe person in recruiting most worth arguing with.
- Simon WillisonBuilds with these tools daily and writes down what breaks.
- AnthropicStraight from the people whose model most of my stack runs on.
- OpenAIWorth watching whatever you build on.
- The Rundown AIDaily. Fast, broad, good for not missing things.
- TLDR AIDaily, and genuinely short.
- Ben’s BitesBuilder oriented, less breathless than most.
- Latent SpaceFor people shipping things rather than reading about them.
- The BatchAndrew Ng’s weekly. Signal over noise.
- Import AIJack Clark, on policy and where the research is heading.
- AI ExplainedCareful, sceptical, reads the papers.
- Matt WolfeThe wide sweep of what shipped this week.
- Andrej KarpathyLong, technical, and the best hours you will spend.
- IndyDevDanAgent building in practice rather than in theory.
- The AI Daily BriefShort daily read on what it means commercially.
- Lex FridmanLong form, for the drive.
Talk to me directly.
If you are hiring, recruiting, or building something similar and want to compare notes, book a call. Twenty minutes, no pitch, and I will tell you plainly if I am not the right person. Let me know either way.