Sourcing-as-a-Service since 2017

We findsuperhuman talent.

Wayne Technologies maps talent markets, builds pipelines, and delivers qualified, interested, and available candidates, with the data to show exactly how we found them.

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Trusted by Bridgewater

Sourcing Reinvented. Data Reimagined.

Most recruiting metrics start at outreach: emails sent, replies, interviews booked. We start earlier, at the top of the funnel, where the real decisions get made.

Wayne Tech is a global, industry-agnostic sourcing partner for early startups, recruiting agencies, and Fortune 100 companies. We deliver talent maps, platform-by-platform result comparisons, and Boolean efficacy data alongside the candidates themselves, so you see what worked and can repeat it.

We price on deliverables, not hours. You know what you're getting before we start, and you get it every time. Behind that is one of the deepest recruiting tech stacks in the industry, plus tools we build ourselves when the market doesn't have the right one.

Our Mission

Raise the effectiveness and the integrity of sourcing and recruiting, and change what people find when they search "recruiters are…"

Who We Are

A team of thought leaders, subject matter experts, and industry voices. The Justice League of sourcing.

Where We Speak and Publish

SourceConConference speaker, webinar presenter, contributing author
RecruitingDailyWebinar presenter, conference speaker
ATAPFormer VP of the Board, contributing author
EREConference speaker, webinar presenter

Our Values

Memento mori. We're only human. We all make mistakes, and no one can do it all alone.
Embrace the suck. Find comfort in discomfort. Sourcing and vulnerability are hard, and that's okay.
Our constant is change. Leading the industry means moving ahead of the curve. Advancement is change.
Meeting expectations is bullshit. Good enough isn't good enough.
Be a rising tide. Lift the community up with you.

Services

Don't settle for subpar. Superheroes are real, and we'll help you find them.

Contract Sourcing

Global, industry-agnostic sourcing with full transparency into our strategy. You get the pipeline, the talent map, and the data behind every search.

Training and Development

Custom programs on tooling, process and workflow, sourcing, messaging, and qualification calls, built so your team can save the day on its own.

Public Speaking

Keynotes, main stages, roundtables, and webinars. We show up as subject matter experts on sourcing, recruiting tech, and AI in talent acquisition.

Contingent and Retained Search

Full-cycle search on a contingent or retained basis, from first map to signed offer.

We're selective about who we partner with. Reach out to talk about fit.

How We Work

Every engagement follows the same five steps, so the results are repeatable for the next role, team, or project.

Discover
Learn the real hiring need, not just the job description.
Map
Chart the talent market: where the people are, which platforms find them, and which searches work.
Build
Source the pipeline and set up the scoring, automation, and outreach around it.
Calibrate
Test against your feedback and tune until the profiles match what your team wants.
Scale
Document it, hand it off, and deliver at volume.

Tools We Built In-House

Candidate Scorer

AI that grades profiles against role-specific rubrics and learns from reviewer feedback. About 80% of profile review automated.

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Profile-to-Department Matching

Routes each candidate to the best-fit department and role, with confidence and rationale on every row.

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Low-Volume AI Sourcing

A review app for recurring sourcing batches, with ratings, filters, calibration, and reviewer notes.

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PII Redactor

Strips personal details from resumes before they're shared, so blind review is one click.

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The Heroes

The people who find your superhuman candidates.

Mike “Batman” Cohen

Founder

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I started Wayne Technologies in 2017 to find a better, more scalable way to advance sourcing: its methods, its technology, and the people who do it. I moved from full-cycle recruiting to sourcing in 2019 and never looked back. Today I work with early startups, recruiting agencies, and Fortune 100 companies to build talent maps and pipelines and find qualified, interested, and available candidates at scale.

I also train TA teams, advise HR tech companies, keynote conferences, and build my own AI sourcing tools.

The Rest of the Story

🦇People call me Batman.
🧠I'm a proud member of the neurodiverse community.
🤖I vibe-code like my life depends on it, and I'm Claude Certified.
🎤I love public speaking.
🏓I'm a sponsored, competitive pickleball player.
🃏I'm an obsessed Magic: The Gathering player (cEDH).
🤿I'm a scuba diver, one class away from Master Diver.
🚴I was an indoor cycling instructor for over nine years.
🥃I'm a whiskey aficionado and collector.
🎧I'm an audiophile: headphones, EDM, and hip-hop.
✝️I'm in seminary.
🎭I act in community theater.
🏃I used to run half marathons (slowly).
✈️I love to travel: India, Japan, Australia, France, and counting.
🐶I'm a dog dad to a labradoodle-Aussie and a mini Aussie.
👧I've been a proud girl-dad since the end of 2023.
🦸‍♀️I'm married to a brilliant woman who does woodworking, is the breadwinner, has been on Broadway, won beauty pageants, graduated valedictorian, and has the most humble, patient, and graceful heart of anyone I've ever met. #obsessed #sorrynotsorry

Stages I've Spoken On

SourceConTalent42Sourcing Summit (AU, Diversity, Tech, Virtual)HRNowNPA WorldWideRecruitConRecruitNowSHRM Gulf Coast HR SymposiumRNL (Jobvite)HRTXEmbarc (CareerArc)L&D Cares SummitERETalentNetHR HoustonTalent Acquisition WeekScala Up NorthScala.io

Mike in costume after a theater performance, with his wife

Mike, his wife, and daughter on the couch

Mike in a wide-brim hat and round glasses, with his wife

Painted nails: Mike's, his wife's, and his daughter's hands together

Marco Tejada

Principal Sourcer

I spent eight years leading operations teams at Amazon, HEB, and MiTek before moving into recruiting, where I discovered my real passion: people. Now a Principal Sourcer at Wayne Technologies, I help companies reach talent that's hard to get to. When a company has a role nobody can fill, I can track down the forty people on earth who could do it and figure out which two of them will say yes.

I'm a native Texan who still calls the Spring area home. I played football all the way through high school and never really stopped competing. These days I'm hooked on Pickleball, Padel, and Tennis, train in the garage gym I built myself, and haven't missed an NFL Sunday in years. When I'm off the court, I'm building custom PCs, keeping up with the latest in tech and AI, and blasting music. I married my high school sweetheart and the two of us love to travel. We've covered Colorado, Utah, Hawaii, New York, and more. At home, we're outnumbered by Winnie the dog and two cats, Benson and Franklin.

I also work alongside Batman, which is exactly as cool as it sounds.

Marco and his wife on horseback in Hawaii

Tech Partners

The enterprise platforms we have access to run searches on, plus the ones we built because nobody else had.

AI Sourcing

SeekOutLoxoChatterworksHeartbeat.aiLinkedIn RecruiterPinJuicebox

Sourcing Acceleration

ClayData Miner ProCrunchbase Pro

Contact Information

SwordfishSignalHireRocketReach

Email Automation

SourceWhale

Screening Automation

HoneIt

Email Validation

ZeroBounce

Build Stack

ClaudeVS CodeRenderNeonPerplexityFigmaResendMake

Built In-House

Candidate ScorerProfile-to-Department MatchingLow-Volume AI SourcingPII Redactor

Advisor and Equity Partner

Mike advises these HR tech companies on product and go-to-market.

Content

Webinars, articles, and podcasts featuring Mike, published by: SourceCon, RecruitingDaily, ATAP, and more.

Webinar
Stop blaming the recruiter for new-hire turnover
Why retention breaks, whose job it really is, and how recruiters, HR, and hiring managers can prevent turnover before and after the hire.
Webinar
Spinning up a new search
How Mike simplifies sourcing: starting from scratch on an unfamiliar role, building a talent community, and running effective market workflows.
SourceCon roundtable
AI, automation, and chatbots
Mike and Jonathan Kidder break down the AI sourcing and recruiting toolkit, from sourcing tools to chatbots and texting software.
Honeit
Honeit Talks with Mike Cohen
A conversation on screening, sourcing, and the recruiter's craft.
RecruitingWebinars
3 best practices for each stage of the recruiting workflow
Practical habits for every step, from sourcing to close.

Also on stage: People Work for People; What Recruiters Say About Humantic; Talent Acquisition 2020 (ERE Media); Messaging Best Practices; Emotional Intelligence with Humantic; Between 2 Strings, Episode 1.