Series B Hiring Math: $900K in Agency Fees vs $2,100 With OVI

Your Series B just closed. The board wants 60 new hires in six months. Do the math at standard agency rates and you hit $900,000 in placement fees — before anyone has sourced a single candidate or screened a single resume. There's a third option that most founders haven't priced yet. In this episode, we break down exactly how a single HR manager can run a 60-person hiring sprint through OVI — a full AI chat ATS with two agents, Sora for sourcing and Milo for screening — for roughly $2,100 total. We walk through the week-by-week numbers: 4,800 incoming CVs, 400 hours of manual screening compressed to days, and 600 async audio screenings that replace a phone-screen team. If you're a founder, HR leader, or operator who just got handed an aggressive headcount target, this is the briefing you need before you call a staffing agency. The math is not ambiguous — and 2026 hiring technology has already solved the problem that's about to cost you six figures.