People buy from people. So which people?
Sales hiring has an information gap. Scooter closes it by showing you who can actually sell, before you commit.
Sales hiring is a market for lemons.
No sales school. No portfolio. No degree that proves who can close. And in the age of AI, anyone can write a resume that sounds impressive.
In 1970, the economist George Akerlof wrote “The Market for Lemons,” about used cars. Buyers couldn’t tell good cars from bad, so every car got priced like a lemon, and the good ones, the peaches, left the market.
Sales hiring has the same shape. A strong seller with a plain resume looks just like someone who’s only good at sounding like one. That’s where our fruit comes from.
Signal instead of noise.
lemon.
peach.We don’t replace the resume. We check it.
Everyone already knows how to read and write a CV, so we didn’t try to kill it. We built something that works alongside it.
We source and screen candidates for your role, then each one sells in a video simulation built on a realistic scenario. You get a ranked shortlist with the evidence attached.
The CV still says what it always said. Now you can tell if it’s true.
The people behind Scooter.
Kartik Mandrekar
Co-Founder
Ex-Gartner. Spent years watching good sales hires get made on gut feel, and bad ones on a well-formatted resume.
Saumya Seth
Co-Founder
I’m a behavioral scientist, trained at the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik sold me on the idea that sales hiring needed a behavioral fix. He was right.
Vishnuvaradhan V
Tech
I lead backend, infrastructure, and data at Scooter, and own the platform end to end. If it ever throws a 500, I take it personally.
Nakul Chalotra
Sales
I help founders hire salespeople who can actually sell. Always up for chai and a good cold-email teardown.
Ketaki Cholkar
Product
Scooter’s ears on the ground. I talk to candidates, poke holes in the product, and make sure we don’t build things that only make sense to us.
Priyanshu Kumar
Product
Looking good is the easy part. I make sure the product actually works, intuitively and flawlessly, for every user.
Tianah Gurnani
Product
I work on getting the most signal out of every video assessment, without trading away fairness or accuracy.
Eshan Budhrani
Tech
I make machines do the work humans shouldn’t have to. If it can be automated, simplified, or scaled, I’m building it.
Why we’re called Scooter.
We wanted a word that means the same thing everywhere, in Mumbai, in Rome, on any college campus. And say “recruiter” a few times: “scooter” starts to sound like the same word with the stiffness sanded off.
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We’re not trying to find perfect people.
Hiring’s too personal for “perfect” to mean anything. We want the company and the candidate to see each other clearly before they commit, whether it’s a SaaS sales floor, a car dealership, or a real estate desk.
Same question everywhere: can this person sell?