Metaintro

Metaintro aims to help people find jobs. To do it, it’s creating a real-time map of the labor market.

By continuously tracking hiring activity, job listings, and user behavior, this company’s platform generates a proprietary dataset that shows where jobs are being created, what skills are in demand, and how talent is moving. This dataset becomes more valuable with every new user and interaction.

At first blush, Metaintro may sound similar to competitors like Indeed or LinkedIn. But this company has discovered a problem in the $750 billion recruiting and staffing industry that other companies haven’t.

Seventy-five percent of job opportunities go unseen. That’s because traditional platforms only capture positions that employers post publicly. Most roles are filled through channels invisible to standard job boards.

Meanwhile, workforce-development programs spend more than eight billion dollars a year in the U.S. alone, with no visibility into whether their training leads to employment. Programs can’t measure what works, so effective ones can’t scale and ineffective ones waste public funding.

The result is job seekers that waste months searching, and programs that lose funding because they can’t prove they’re achieving real results.

This is where Metaintro makes a difference. It describes its platform as “the Bloomberg of Labor Markets” — a reference to the financial-data company that provides real-time market information and analytics.

Its AI-powered career-discovery platform connects people with job opportunities across the entire internet, not just the handful that show up on traditional job boards. Users upload their background, skills, and preferences, and Metaintro’s system scans millions of data points — from company hiring pages to online signals — to surface relevant roles instantly. Its goal isn’t to make job searching easier, it’s to eliminate the need for searching altogether.

Metaintro makes money in a few different ways. On the consumer side, the platform is free to use, with plans to introduce a premium subscription (around $4.99 per month) for enhanced features.

On the institutional side, it sells software and analytics tools to governments, universities, and workforce agencies—helping them track job-placement outcomes and improve training programs. These contracts are often multi-year agreements, which can create recurring revenue.

But the biggest upside may come from data licensing. Because Metaintro can track hiring trends in real time, it can sell insights to investors and enterprises looking for an edge.

For example, if hiring activity at a company spikes or slows, that data can act as an early signal of business performance — well before earnings are reported. Contracts in this segment can range from $150,000 to $300,000 per year, positioning Metaintro to tap into high-margin enterprise revenue.

Metaintro has about 1.8 million users on its platform and has a pipeline valued at around twenty-seven million dollars. It’s completed dozens of demonstrations with universities and workforce organizations.

Team Background

Lacey Kaelani-Dahan - Co-Founder

Prior to starting Metaintro, Lacey co-founded Casting Depot, a networking company for those in the media and entertainment industry. This company was eventually acquired. Before that, she worked in casting for A+E Networks, a media company.

Earlier in her career, she worked in television, serving in casting roles for Viacom and Nickelodeon. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Pace University and an MBA from American University.

Brad Larson - Chief Technology Officer

Before Metaintro, Brad was Chief Technology Officer at Casting Depot, the networking platform co-founded by Lacey. Before that, he co-founded White Label Labs, a product design and engineering firm.

Earlier, he was a lead software engineer with WorkMarket, a workforce-management platform. Prior to that, he was a marketing manager with Planet Hollywood, a restaurant chain.

Brad earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Florida International University.

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