Drafted

Drafted (joindrafted.com) is a Miami, Florida-based hiring and talent-pipeline platform aimed at connecting early-career university talent with startups and, more recently, AI companies. Rather than having job seekers submit applications to individual listings, Drafted assembles a shared talent pool that employers can search and filter by attributes such as university, major, and skills, in a model the founders compare to NFL teams scouting draft picks. Candidates respond to a standardized set of three questions via short video submissions instead of a conventional PDF resume, and the platform applies AI to assess cultural fit from those submissions. The founders say the three-question format was derived from conversations with roughly 150 employers about what determines whether a candidate advances.

The company also describes itself as an institutional pipeline platform linking frontier AI labs with top university talent. Under the Drafted Labs framing, AI companies are embedded into university curriculums so that vetted student cohorts produce institutionally verified training data, human evaluations, and annotations for coding and complex reasoning tasks, while the students gain early career entry points in AI. Drafted is categorized under artificial intelligence, recruiting, and software, operates with a team in the 1-10 employee range, and is listed at a pre-seed stage on the Techstars job board.

Founding story

Cofounders Andrew Kozlovski and Rodrigo Pecchio met at the University of Southern California and later reconnected in Miami to build the company. Kozlovski framed the opportunity around hiring practices that he argued had changed little in 30 years, in which companies post listings and wait for resumes. For Pecchio, originally from Venezuela and raised in Miami from his teenage years, the motivation was personal: strong candidates with limited U.S. experience often fail to reach the interview stage.

Business model

Drafted operates a two-sided marketplace between employers (startups and AI labs) and early-career candidates, with employers accessing a shared, filterable talent pool and AI-assisted cultural-fit screening. In the Drafted Labs model, the company also positions itself as an intermediary that embeds AI companies into university curriculums so student cohorts can produce verified training data, human evaluations, and annotations.

The platform was free to use at the time of reporting, with the stated plan to introduce a subscription for employers priced according to the number of hires they make.

Traction

By the time of the Refresh Miami profile, the platform had attracted more than 3,000 startups and more than 1,000 job seekers since launching about eighteen months earlier, and had partnered with three of the top 25 U.S. business schools within a three-week period.

Latest developments

The company's platform description has expanded to an institutional pipeline model, Drafted Labs, which embeds AI companies into university curriculums so vetted student cohorts can generate institutionally verified training data, human evaluations, and annotations across coding and complex reasoning tasks. Drafted was listing open software engineering roles on the Techstars job board.