- 200+Placements
- 47Countries
- 95%12-mo retention
- 33,000+Network
- 98%Client CSAT
- 2021Operating since
Hire AI Talent for your Web3 Team.
The only specialist firm running both desks. We started cultivating AI engineers, researchers and product leaders in early 2025, at the start of the curve. Built on 200+ Web3 placements since 2021. AI demand is now scaling fast inside crypto, and we are a year ahead on the people who fill it.
Web3 placements (since 2021)
Countries placed in
Desks (Web3 + AI)
- ✓The only specialist firm running both desks
- ✓5 years of Web3 hiring discipline behind every AI search
- ✓AI network cultivated since early 2025
- ✓Token + equity fluency on both sides of the offer
Whatever AI hire your Web3 team needs, we already know who fills it.
Why we have this network.
We got on the AI curve in early 2025. Built on five years of Web3 placements underneath. Four things that came from running early on a credible base.
On the AI curve from early 2025
We started adding AI engineers, researchers and product leaders at the start of the wave. Built on top of the existing Web3 desk, not added as an afterthought.
5 years of Web3 reach as the foundation
200+ Web3 placements across 47 countries since 2021. The crypto-native employer network is what makes the AI desk credible to AI candidates considering Web3 work.
Compensation fluency on both sides
We structure offers across base, equity, token grants and vesting. The exact place pure-AI recruiters lose Web3 candidates and pure-crypto recruiters lose AI candidates.
Confidential by default
Every search runs without public job postings. Important for executive AI search and for protocols not yet ready to broadcast their AI roadmap.
[CREDIBILITY]
The only firm running both desks.
Generalist AI agencies cannot read crypto. Generalist crypto agencies cannot read AI. The intersection is uncontested, and it is the one we have been operating inside since the start of the AI x crypto wave.
200+ placements across 47 countries since 2021. AI engineers, researchers and product leaders deliberately added to the talent network from early 2025 onwards.
Recent placements include:Celo, Sorella Labs (Paradigm-backed), Kaito (Sequoia), Botanix (Polychain), Sodot (acquired by MoonPay), Validation Cloud, Mento Labs, and Solstice Labs.
Frequently asked.
How do you have an AI talent network if you are a Web3 firm?+
Do you only hire AI talent for AI-native Web3 teams, or for traditional crypto teams adding AI?+
What is typical compensation for AI engineers at Web3 teams?+
Why hire through a Web3-specialist firm instead of a generalist AI recruiter?+
[Related]
- The AI desk→The action page. Six specialisms. Submit a brief.
- Brief us on a Web3 hire→72hr shortlist, $0 until hired.
- Guide: Hiring AI Engineers for Web3 Teams→Long-form playbook for AI x crypto hires.
- Web3 Salary Benchmarks 2026→Real offer data across 30+ roles.
- The team behind DeFinitive→Who actually runs the searches.
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DeFinitive's AI desk launches mid-2026 with six specialisms, built on top of 200+ Web3 placements across 47 countries since 2021. Since early 2025, when AI x crypto first emerged as a real category, we have been deliberately adding AI engineers, researchers and product leaders to our talent network ahead of the desk going live. We know the people. We know the compensation structure on both sides. The convergence is what generic AI recruiters cannot run.
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