# BrightHire: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brighthire/
Covers: October 2025 to March 31, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, 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

> BrightHire is on the AI hiring software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated March 31, 2026.

"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: [zoom.com](https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/).

## Facts

- Site: [zoom.com](https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/)
- Category: Interview scheduling and intelligence
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire)

"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: [zoom.com](https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/).

- Category: Interview scheduling and intelligence
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, Assistant, Job posts and ads and Interview notes
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025)

Sources: [zoom.com](https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/), [zoom.com](https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/) and [brighthire.com](https://brighthire.com/?p=13594).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants

Launch, March 31, 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://brighthire.com/?p=13594). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire).

### Zoom acquires BrightHire

Acquisition, Nov. 13, 2025. 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.

Source: [Zoom blog](https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire).

### BrightHire Screen AI interviewer launches

Launch, October 2025. 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.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://brighthire.com/?p=13594). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology