# Daniel Kovari

**Freelance Talent Sourcer & Recruiter** — Hungary

> Co-founder of Staffron, a human + AI sourcing practice running top-of-funnel recruiting for tech, consulting, and high-volume talent platforms across multiple geographies.

Career Archetype: **Frontier Navigator** (RS-DG) — One of the first Frontier Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-kovari

## Experience

### Co-Founder & Lead Recruiter, Staffron (2026-02 – present)
Budapest (remote, global clients) · Co-founded and operate Staffron, a human + AI sourcing practice covering talent pipeline end-to-end. Deliver 156 CV-submitted candidates to single clients in 3 weeks at 95% interview acceptance, handle 200–300 candidate contacts per day on high-volume projects, and maintain concurrent pipelines of 20–30 qualified candidates per role per week. Screen candidates against detailed technical rubrics and run first-round qualification across 20+ specializations including ML/AI specialists, senior engineers, data scientists, PhD / STEM candidates, management consultants and lawyers.

### Founder, ScaleQuota (2025-09 – 2026-01)
Remote · Founded and built AI research agents for people and company intelligence covering discovery, enrichment, and ICP scoring. Developed technology for recruiting and sales prospecting that later evolved into Staffron's sourcing engine.

### Founding sales, Phonely (YC S24) (2024-08 – 2025-08)
San Francisco, California, United States · Founding sales hire at Y Combinator-backed voice AI startup. As sole salesperson, scaled revenue from $80K to $1.4M ARR in 12 months through direct outreach and relationship building.

### Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, Propertizer (2022-10 – 2024-08)
Budapest · Led sales, partnerships and go-to-market for proptech platform. Hired and trained the sales team to support business growth and market expansion.

### M&A & Business Developer, CTP (2022-02 – 2022-09)
Budapest · Closed €6M+ lifetime-value leases within 3 months, achieving fastest business developer ranking in region for leasing 20,000+ sqm of commercial space.

### Investment Analyst, CBRE (2019-11 – 2022-02)
Budapest · Underwrote 10+ real estate transactions worth €400M+, including Hungary's largest office portfolio sale of 2021 at €120M. Analyzed complex commercial real estate investments across multiple asset classes.

### Global Business Analyst, Zoetis (2018-09 – 2019-07)

### Business Analyst, EPAM Systems (2016-08 – 2019-07)
Budapest · Managed EPAM's second-largest account across 37 countries, overseeing operations and client relationships at global scale.

### Analyst, Zoetis (2016-08 – 2017-12)
Dublin · Cut global inventory by $50M in 6 months through supply chain analysis and optimization initiatives.

## Education

### Master of Business Administration - MBA, Imperial College London (2023-09 – 2024-06)
Left to build Propertizer full-time

### Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bethune-Cookman University (2014-09 – 2016-06)
Full scholarship

### Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management, General, Jacksonville University (2012-09 – 2014-06)
80% scholarship

## Projects

### Staffron AI (2026-02 – present)
A HITL sourcing engine - searches the open web for proof of expertise, scores every candidate against specified rubrics and runs outreach · We work with RL / eval companies, recruiting firms and startups sourcing scarce experts · https://staffron.ai/

## Skills

Data Analytics, Strategic Planning, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Due Diligence, Investments, Alternative Investments, Capital Markets, talent sourcing, recruiting, AI sourcing, technical screening, candidate qualification, outreach optimization, Python, backend engineering, data science, machine learning, sales, go-to-market strategy, real estate investment, supply chain management, business development, M&A, Hungarian, English, Apollo, Clay, Attio, Salesforce, ATS, Instantly, Claude, Claude code, Sales navigator, GTM, Founding sales

## AI Fluency

- **Claude** — daily driver for improving our proprietary stack, and building new automations / tools for my work (https://claude.ai)
- **Gemini** — I use gemini's lighter models mostly for tasks that require less horsepower and more memory - a cheaper alternative that's harder to calibrate, but worth it. (https://gemini.google.com)

## Q&A

### [What AI tools do you use the most?](https://saywise.com/q/10c2b363a976)

- Claude code - I use it daily for GTM, our recruiting processes and improving our own tool (https://saywise.com/s/0ca3dd23cd4b)

### [What are your biggest strengths?](https://saywise.com/q/16458e492490)

- As Phonely's first sales hire (YC S24), I built the sales function from scratch, along with the solutions engineering team, while it became the fastest-growing company in the batch. That's my biggest strength: owning ambiguity and building systems that work. Now doing the same at Staffron, an AI-native recruiting agency I co-founded, where I find people for companies all over the world, with our in-house built system doing a lot of the heavy lifting. (https://saywise.com/s/3e9a8a683c9f)

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