About Kairos

Kairos was built to work alongside companies building the future - not to run a recruitment firm.
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Hiring is part of how a company gets built. Done well, it gives a business clarity, momentum, and a stronger team to back the ambition. Done poorly, it slows the build and costs more than money.
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Kairos exists to take the hiring complexity off founders and hiring leaders so they can stay focused on what they're building - and make sure the people they bring in can keep up with where the business is going.

Megan Luttrell founded Kairos in 2023 after years working across enterprise recruitment - and deciding she wanted to work with the people actually building the future.

Having started her career in startups, she knew the work was different. The pace, the stakes, the kind of judgement it took to hire well in environments that change quickly. She wanted to build a recruitment business that meant more than flicking CVs - one that worked alongside founders and hiring leaders to design hiring properly, attract better, and assess beyond the page.

Kairos was built to be that business. In 2025 Megan was named Ecosystem Hero of the Year at the Governor of Victoria Startup Awards for her grassroots work building community among early-stage founders.

Team-building is infrastructure
Hiring should support the build, not distract from it
Great hiring starts with clarity, not urgency
Attraction matters as much as assessment
Strong teams are built deliberately

Kairos sits inside the Australian startup ecosystem - not adjacent to it.

Megan also runs the Aussie Founders Club (AFC), a community of founders, operators, and startup leaders building across Australia. AFC connects the people doing the work to each other, to opportunities, and to the conversations that shape how startups grow. She also hosts Life After Launch, the AFC podcast where she sits down with founders for unscripted stories and tactical advice about what happens after you launch - the business lessons, the life lessons, and everything in between.

Through AFC, Kairos publishes The Startup Shortlist - a curated newsletter for people who want to work in Australian startups, and the foundation for a proper community and infrastructure we are building for startup talent. AFC also runs The Startup Stack, a partner directory of trusted suppliers across legal, finance, design, ops, and more.

This context matters. When we partner with a startup, we are not just helping them hire - we can plug them into the people, partners, and resources that help the business move faster across the board.