The AI people agent for founders about to make their first hire

Cleo writes the job descriptions, the scorecards, and the offer letters. Fred Twum-Acheampong and Manny Bamfo review before anything reaches a candidate.

Every deliverable is reviewed by a named human expert before it reaches you. You set the autonomy level per function: Red for draft-only, Yellow for human-approved, Green for autonomous with a full audit trail. Legal cannot be set to Green.

Your first hire is the highest-variance decision you will make this year, and you are making it with no process, no comp data, and an interview loop you invented on the drive to the coffee shop.

Cleo is the people agent on your Marskel team. It writes job descriptions that describe the actual job rather than a wish list. It builds interview scorecards so you evaluate the same things across candidates instead of hiring on rapport. It benchmarks compensation against real market data for the role, the stage, and the location. It drafts the offer, the equity explanation candidates actually understand, and the thirty-day onboarding plan.

A human operator reviews Cleo's output. Hiring documents carry legal and reputational weight, and a job description with the wrong language or an offer letter with an ambiguous equity clause creates problems that surface months later.

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Fred Twum-Acheampong & Emmanuel "Manny" Bamfo
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions founders ask

At pre-seed the range is wide and depends on when they join relative to the raise. The benchmark matters less than being able to explain the number without flinching.
Score against outcomes rather than experience, and have someone who has done the role sit in on one conversation. Both are cheaper than a bad hire.
Depends on control, permanence, and where they sit. Getting it wrong has tax and legal consequences, so this is one to have reviewed.
See a reviewed compensation benchmark.
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