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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"BrightHire: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire.md",
  "title": "BrightHire: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "BrightHire is on the AI hiring software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated March 31, 2026.",
  "period": "October 2025 to March 31, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "brighthire",
    "name": "BrightHire",
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    "site": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/",
    "summary": "\"AI built for exceptional hiring.\" BrightHire records and summarizes interviews, writes notes and scorecards, guides interviewers in real time and measures interview quality. It also drafts job descriptions and structured interview plans, and sells BrightHire Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screens. Zoom bought it in late 2025 and sells it as part of Zoom Workplace. Buyers are corporate talent teams.",
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    "categories": [
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    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Interview scheduling and intelligence"
    ]
  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"AI built for exceptional hiring.\" BrightHire records and summarizes interviews, writes notes and scorecards, guides interviewers in real time and measures interview quality. It also drafts job descriptions and structured interview plans, and sells BrightHire Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screens. Zoom bought it in late 2025 and sells it as part of Zoom Workplace. Buyers are corporate talent teams.",
    "source": {
      "name": "zoom.com",
      "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/"
    },
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  },
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire",
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      "name": "BrightHire",
      "site": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/",
      "category": "Interview scheduling and intelligence",
      "what": "\"AI built for exceptional hiring.\" BrightHire records and summarizes interviews, writes notes and scorecards, guides interviewers in real time and measures interview quality. It also drafts job descriptions and structured interview plans, and sells BrightHire Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screens. Zoom bought it in late 2025 and sells it as part of Zoom Workplace. Buyers are corporate talent teams.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "zoom.com",
        "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI interviews",
          "AI analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Interview notes"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025)",
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        {
          "name": "zoom.com",
          "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/"
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        {
          "name": "zoom.com",
          "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/"
        },
        {
          "name": "brighthire.com",
          "url": "https://brighthire.com/?p=13594"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-03-31",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants",
      "summary": "BrightHire added a candidate Practice Round, a Hiring Manager Introduction video, and Setup Assistant, Guide Assistant and Quick-Start so recruiters can build guides and launch AI interviews without an ATS integration.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://brighthire.com/?p=13594"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-11-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Zoom acquires BrightHire",
      "summary": "Zoom announced the acquisition of BrightHire, \"a leading AI-powered hiring intelligence platform\", to add hiring capabilities to Zoom Workplace. The deal closed in December 2025; the announcement did not disclose terms.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire"
      },
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        "name": "Zoom blog",
        "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-10-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "BrightHire Screen AI interviewer launches",
      "summary": "BrightHire launched Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screening, which it says set out to prove AI interviews could expand recruiting capacity and raise hiring quality.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire"
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