Wisemonk Research · 2026

The State of Hiring in an AI Agentic World: Seed to Series B

Get your startup named in the report every founder will read. No one has mapped how Seed-to-Series-B teams actually hire once agents can do the work. This survey will — and it credits the startups getting it right.

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~6 minutes Anonymous Your startup named
Why this survey

The hiring playbook changed. Most teams are still guessing.

An agent can now hold a function that used to take three hires — and your investors know it. The question is no longer who to hire, but what mix of people and agents to build. This survey measures how founders are actually answering it, for the first time, across US Seed to Series B startups.

The old question Who do I hire next?
The new question People · Agents · or Both
What it measures

The whole decision, benchmarked

Six areas, thirty questions — from which roles are growing to where agents break — built entirely from the responses you and your peers contribute.

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Who should participate

Built for the people who build the team

  • Founders & CEOs
  • Heads of Talent / People
  • Operators & COOs
  • Hiring managers

Who qualifies? Anyone who decides how to build a team at a Seed to Series B startup — across SaaS, AI, fintech, consumer, and deeptech.

Your startup's logo, featured in the report

Every startup that takes part is featured — logo and name — in the report founders and VCs will read. Contribute your data, and your brand goes on the map.

Your logo in the report

Your startup featured — logo and name — as one of the teams building right in the agentic era, in front of the founders and VCs who read it.

  • Your logo, in front of founders & VCs

Benchmark leverage

See exactly how your hiring and agent mix compares with the startups you compete with for talent.

  • Know where you stand

Six minutes to put your startup on the map

Your individual answers stay anonymous. Add your work email and startup name at the end to claim your Contributor's Edition — and your startup's place in the report.

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