Hiring is an operations problem, not an HR problem: Shar Broumand on automating recruitment

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Sep 15, 2026 · 58m

Ryan Estes has a confession. He is terrible at hiring.

Not incompetent. Worse. He is charmed. Put him in a room with a candidate and forty-five minutes later he is quietly in love with a person's mind, their weird hobbies, the way they think about problems that have nothing to do with the job. Then a colleague walks in and says the thing nobody wants to hear: they were not qualified.

So Ryan took himself out of the process entirely.

Shar Broumand thinks that was the wrong fix. Not because Ryan is wrong about himself, but because Ryan misdiagnosed the problem. "You have a process problem, my…