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Walnutt (3P Labs Private Limited) is an AI-native hiring infrastructure company built for engineering teams in India. We solve the most expensive and least measured problem in the Indian startup ecosystem: the wrong hire, the slow hire, and the hire that never reaches full productivity before someone quits or gets let go.The cost of one wrong engineering hire is conservatively Rs. 22 Lakh per role. This includes Rs. 33,000 to 50,000 in screening costs before a single interview, Rs. 1 to 1.65 Lakh lost to misaligned context between recruiters and hiring managers, and Rs. 20 Lakh or more in bad hire fallout when the wrong person joins and the cycle restarts. Indian engineering teams lose 35 to 40 hours of productive engineering time per open role. This is not a fringe problem. It is a structural tax on every company trying to build technology in India.Walnutt addresses this through three connected offerings. Deep Screen delivers AI-powered evaluation of existing candidate pipelines across 19 scored dimensions in 48 hours, replacing the resume as the primary signal. Curated Hire takes a mandate and delivers a pre-assessed, ranked shortlist in under 72 hours using an agentic sourcing engine built on top of proprietary AI infrastructure. Pre-Onboarded Hire is the most differentiated offering: the hire joins already familiar with the company's systems, expectations, and way of working, because their notice period was converted into an active ramp. The company gets a productive engineer from week one.The platform is supported by an adaptive AI assessment engine that has evaluated over 6,000 engineers across 75 plus Indian cities, scoring across dimensions including system design, debugging methodology, ownership depth, and cultural fit. We have completed live placements at SimpleGrid, signed an empanelment agreement with CirrusLabs, and have 20 companies across 24 active mandates in our pipeline. Walnutt is registered in Uttar Pradesh and is building its first client base from Meerut and the NCR corridor outward.

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Startup Teams

• 1 Shivam Giri (Founder)
• 2 Mohit Solanki (Founder)
• 3 Prasenjit Datta (Founder)

Incubation Details

Not Incubated