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Making frontier AI hiring feel more human

Thayon is a founder-led talent search firm focused specifically on frontier AI researchers and engineers. It helps companies find highly specialized talent that often never reaches the open market.

The Challenge

Hiring in frontier AI is different from normal recruiting.

The talent pool is small, the roles are highly specialized, and the best candidates usually aren't actively applying for jobs.

Thayon needed to communicate that depth without looking like another recruitment agency.

The Design

I wanted the people and the relationships to be the main story.

Instead of leading with a long list of recruitment services, the website focuses on Thayon's understanding of the frontier AI talent market — the knowledge, access, and experience behind every search.

The visual direction is minimal and editorial, giving the content and track record plenty of room to breathe.

Showing the Work

The strongest proof is the actual searches.

The website breaks down placements from companies like DeepMind, Cohere, and Moonvalley, showing the number of conversations, time taken, and the intelligence involved in each search.

That makes the value much easier to understand than simply saying "we have a strong network."

Building Trust

For a recruitment firm working with highly specialized AI talent, credibility matters a lot.

The site uses real placement stories, founder-led positioning, testimonials, and Thayon's 3,500+ hours in the frontier AI talent market to show that this is a specialist practice rather than a high-volume recruiting firm.

The Result

The final direction makes Thayon feel focused, experienced, and deeply embedded in its niche.

The idea behind the design is simple:

Don't search the whole market. Know where the right people are.

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