Backdoor
You're job hunting, not running a sales team.
Apollo gives you a huge contact database and sequences to run yourself. Backdoor picks the startups, writes to the founder and follows up, so you only reply SEND.
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Backdoor
A sales tool turns your search into a sales job.
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You filter lists of contacts.
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You write every email yourself.
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You track who replied and who didn't.
Same founder. None of the legwork.
Founders at early startups often read their own email. A short note about why you fit them stands out there in a way a form application rarely does.
A founder's inbox, the week a role goes up.
One short note, about why you fit. Then a reply.
Hey, this is great timing. We're about to open this role.
Free for a quick call Tuesday?
Here's what it feels like instead.
Backdoor does the searching, writing and chasing. You stay in the loop and say yes.
BackdoorIt sounds like you, not a template
Each note is drafted from your background and why you fit, so it reads like you.
BackdoorFollow-ups happen without you
Follow-ups go out in the same thread and stop the moment someone replies.
BackdoorYou hear back in your chat
When a founder replies, you get a text, so there's no inbox to keep checking.
Replies come in weeks, not months.
Backdoor only writes to founders you fit, so the ones who answer tend to answer fast. See the research
first founder replies came within two weeks
interviews came within two weeks
replies came after a follow-up Backdoor sent
Among people who got a reply or an interview, May to September 2026.
Give it three weeks.
Out of every 10 people who let Backdoor run for three weeks or more:
And you never have to chase.
4 in 10 founder replies came after a follow-up. Backdoor sends those for you, so you never have to chase.
Start tonight. Wake up to founders who fit you.
Every morning Backdoor picks startups for you and drafts the notes. All you do is reply.
Say hi
On WhatsApp or iMessage. It takes ten seconds.
Send your LinkedIn
Or your resume. Backdoor reads up on you.
Get your first founders
Startups that fit you, with notes ready to send.
Questions, answered.
It can be if you like building lists and running your own outreach. If you'd rather have the startups, the founder and the note handled for you, Backdoor does that in a chat.
Backdoor. It's built for candidates reaching startup founders, and 4 in 10 founder replies came after a follow-up.
Often, when the note is short and specific. Backdoor keeps each note to why you fit, and follows up in the same thread.
No. Every note waits in your chat until you reply SEND, and then it goes out from your own Gmail. After that, follow-ups go out on their own in the same thread.
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Free to start · No forms · No app
Your next role could be one email away.
Say hi and share your LinkedIn. Backdoor finds the founders, writes the notes and follows up. You just say send.
Backdoor