// Move a candidate through the hiring pipeline — sourced, contacted, first-call, case-study, offer, hired, passed. Captures notes per stage; never lets a candidate ghost-drift. Use when recruiter advances a candidate or the founder adds a new one.
| name | track-candidate |
| description | Move a candidate through the hiring pipeline — sourced, contacted, first-call, case-study, offer, hired, passed. Captures notes per stage; never lets a candidate ghost-drift. Use when recruiter advances a candidate or the founder adds a new one. |
Hiring is a startup's biggest time-sink and biggest leverage. This skill makes the pipeline state crisp and current.
wiki/contacts/<candidate-slug>/contact.md:
---
slug: <name-kebab>
kind: contact
category: candidate
name: <Full name>
role_open: <role-slug> # e.g. senior-engineer-q3-2026
current_stage: <stage> # sourced | contacted | first_call | case_study | offer | hired | passed
linkedin: <url>
email: <email>
referrer: <person who referred, optional>
sourced_at: <date>
last_touched_at: <date>
created: <today>
last_updated: <today>
last_edited_by: recruiter
last_change_summary: <what changed in this update>
---
# <Candidate name>
## Background
[2-3 sentence summary of who they are and why this role]
## Stage history
- <date>: sourced via <channel>
- <date>: contacted; reply received within X days
- <date>: first call (notes in research/<date>-<slug>-first-call.md)
- ...
current_stage + last_touched_atwiki/research/Drafts the monthly investor update — pulls metrics, surfaces wins + struggles, formats per the founder's voice. Use on the 1st of each month, or when boss asks for a draft, or when investor-relations fires a scheduled monthly routine.
After filing a meeting, customer call, investor call, or any conversation entry, scan the body for explicit commitments (I'll ship X by Y, send Z by Friday) and create structured commitment entries in wiki/commitments/. Use whenever a new meeting note lands; also use to retroactively scan an existing entry for missed commitments.
Compute current runway, burn trend, and forecast end-of-runway. Use when boss or bookkeeper is asked for runway, on a scheduled monthly check, or before any fundraising conversation.
After a customer call (transcribed or hand-noted), file a structured summary to wiki/research/ and trigger extract-commitments. Use when founder finishes a call and says "@customer-success file this call" or similar.