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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Carv: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/carv/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/carv/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/carv.md",
  "title": "Carv: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Carv is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated March 13, 2026.",
  "period": "July 22, 2025 to March 13, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.carv.com/",
    "summary": "\"Build, deploy & manage recruitment agents at scale\". Carv is an agent platform for high-volume recruiting at staffing firms and large employers in logistics, retail and contact centres. A library of agents covers screening, job discovery, rediscovery, scheduling, onboarding and compliance. Its voice agent calls applicants as soon as they apply and runs first-round phone screens in 99 languages, then logs transcripts to the ATS. It bought conversational AI firm Recrubo (WhatsApp, SMS and voice bots) in March 2025.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "AI recruiters and agents"
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Build, deploy & manage recruitment agents at scale\". Carv is an agent platform for high-volume recruiting at staffing firms and large employers in logistics, retail and contact centres. A library of agents covers screening, job discovery, rediscovery, scheduling, onboarding and compliance. Its voice agent calls applicants as soon as they apply and runs first-round phone screens in 99 languages, then logs transcripts to the ATS. It bought conversational AI firm Recrubo (WhatsApp, SMS and voice bots) in March 2025.",
    "source": {
      "name": "carv.com",
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      "name": "Carv",
      "site": "https://www.carv.com/",
      "category": "AI recruiters and agents",
      "what": "\"Build, deploy & manage recruitment agents at scale\". Carv is an agent platform for high-volume recruiting at staffing firms and large employers in logistics, retail and contact centres. A library of agents covers screening, job discovery, rediscovery, scheduling, onboarding and compliance. Its voice agent calls applicants as soon as they apply and runs first-round phone screens in 99 languages, then logs transcripts to the ATS. It bought conversational AI firm Recrubo (WhatsApp, SMS and voice bots) in March 2025.",
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        "name": "carv.com",
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      "price": "not published; sales-led (demo)",
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          "Named agents",
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        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed ($10M seed (2024); customers include ManpowerGroup, DHL, Carrefour, G4S, Jumbo.)",
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        {
          "name": "carv.com",
          "url": "https://www.carv.com/press"
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        {
          "name": "carv.com",
          "url": "https://www.carv.com/use-cases/voice-ai"
        },
        {
          "name": "carv.com",
          "url": "https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-acquires-recrubo"
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        {
          "name": "carv.com",
          "url": "https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-selected-as-strategic-partner-by-manpowergroup-talent-solutions-to-power-global-ai-transformation-of-recruitment-operations"
        },
        {
          "name": "carv.com",
          "url": "https://www.carv.com/press-release/jumbo-carv-introduce-ai-powered-hiring-enables-same-day-recruitment"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/carv/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-03-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Jumbo to roll out Carv agents for same-day store hiring",
      "summary": "After an 80-store pilot, Dutch grocer Jumbo said it will expand Carv's AI agent across its store network. The agent contacts applicants on WhatsApp, checks they meet the role's requirements and lets qualified candidates pick an interview time.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-carv"
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        "name": "Vendor release",
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    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/carv/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-07-22",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions picks Carv as strategic AI partner",
      "summary": "Carv's agentic AI will run inside recruiter workflows across ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions' global RPO operations, on its PowerSuite platform.",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-carv"
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        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-selected-as-strategic-partner-by-manpowergroup-talent-solutions-to-power-global-ai-transformation-of-recruitment-operations"
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