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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, \"Eightfold AI: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai.md",
  "title": "Eightfold AI: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Eightfold AI is on the AI hiring software map. We record 7 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 15, 2026.",
  "period": "May 8, 2025 to July 15, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "CQ5RNDZ",
    "slug": "eightfold-ai",
    "name": "Eightfold AI",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://eightfold.ai/",
    "summary": "\"Talent intelligence, human-led.\" Eightfold sells a talent intelligence platform to large employers and governments for talent acquisition, talent management and resource management. A skills model trained on what it says are 1.6 billion career trajectories matches people to roles. Since 2025 it has added a family of Talent Agents: an AI Interviewer that runs voice interviews, a Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring, a Candidate Agent on SMS and WhatsApp, an AI Interview Companion for human interviews, and TalentForge for building custom HR apps.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
      "talent-intel"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Sourcing and talent intelligence"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Talent intelligence, human-led.\" Eightfold sells a talent intelligence platform to large employers and governments for talent acquisition, talent management and resource management. A skills model trained on what it says are 1.6 billion career trajectories matches people to roles. Since 2025 it has added a family of Talent Agents: an AI Interviewer that runs voice interviews, a Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring, a Candidate Agent on SMS and WhatsApp, an AI Interview Companion for human interviews, and TalentForge for building custom HR apps.",
    "source": {
      "name": "eightfold.ai",
      "url": "https://eightfold.ai/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Eightfold AI",
      "site": "https://eightfold.ai/",
      "category": "Sourcing and talent intelligence",
      "what": "\"Talent intelligence, human-led.\" Eightfold sells a talent intelligence platform to large employers and governments for talent acquisition, talent management and resource management. A skills model trained on what it says are 1.6 billion career trajectories matches people to roles. Since 2025 it has added a family of Talent Agents: an AI Interviewer that runs voice interviews, a Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring, a Candidate Agent on SMS and WhatsApp, an AI Interview Companion for human interviews, and TalentForge for building custom HR apps.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "eightfold.ai",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI interviews",
          "AI analytics",
          "AI assessments",
          "Candidate chat",
          "Assistant",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI outreach",
          "Scheduling",
          "Skills and planning",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Raised more than $410M including a $220M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (June 2021); says a third of its customers are Fortune 500 companies.)",
      "founded": null,
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "eightfold.ai",
          "url": "https://eightfold.ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "eightfold.ai",
          "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-ai-interviewer-to-deliver-faster-and-more-equitable-hiring/"
        },
        {
          "name": "eightfold.ai",
          "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-recruiter-agent-built-for-hyper-personalized-always-on-high-volume-hiring/"
        },
        {
          "name": "eightfold.ai",
          "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ushers-in-the-golden-age-of-hr-software-with-launch-of-talentforge/"
        },
        {
          "name": "eightfold.ai",
          "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-grows-talent-agents-to-2-0/"
        },
        {
          "name": "unleash.ai",
          "url": "https://www.unleash.ai/ai-talent-platform-eightfold-raises-220m-series-e"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-07-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold launches Candidate Agent in Talent Agents 2.0",
      "summary": "Candidate Agent is \"the candidate-facing front door\": one conversation across job discovery, application, scheduling and follow-ups, then handoff to AI Interviewer, on channels such as SMS and WhatsApp.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-grows-talent-agents-to-2-0/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-05-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold launches TalentForge and 360 Interview",
      "summary": "TalentForge lets enterprises \"build, deploy, and scale HR technology with talent intelligence\"; 360 Interview \"combines multiple interview types into a single conversation\" (functional, coding and language).",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ushers-in-the-golden-age-of-hr-software-with-launch-of-talentforge/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-05-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold AI Interviewer embedded in Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting",
      "summary": "Oracle Recruiting customers can use Eightfold AI Interviewer for screening, functional and coding rounds inside their Oracle workflows.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-announces-integration-of-agentic-interviewing-with-oracle-fusion-cloud-recruiting/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-04-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold adds AI Interview Companion for human-led interviews",
      "summary": "AI Interview Companion is \"a new intelligent agent designed to enhance human-led interviews with real-time guidance, structured insights\", extending Talent Agents across the interview journey.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-expands-talent-agents-across-the-full-interview-journey-introducing-ai-interview-companion-and-new-interview-capabilities/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-10-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold AI Interviewer made available to firms of all sizes",
      "summary": "Eightfold made AI Interviewer \"available to both SMBs and large enterprises starting today\"; it \"conducts thousands of structured interviews in parallel\" and gives hiring teams transcripts and summaries.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-ai-interviewer-to-deliver-faster-and-more-equitable-hiring/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-08-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold launches Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring",
      "summary": "Recruiter Agent lets enterprises \"engage, evaluate, and advance talent autonomously\", with voice AI interviews and an SMS assistant that answers applicant questions and sends reminders.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-recruiter-agent-built-for-hyper-personalized-always-on-high-volume-hiring/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-7",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eightfold-ai/#event-7",
      "on": "2025-05-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Eightfold unveils AI Interviewer and Digital Twin at Cultivate 2025",
      "summary": "Eightfold introduced AI Interviewer, which autonomously interviews candidates 24/7, and Digital Twin, a personalized model of an employee's knowledge and skills.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-eightfold-ai"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/talent-intelligence-to-talent-advantage-eightfold-ai-revolutionizes-hr-through-agentic-ai/"
      }
    }
  ]
}