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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Fonzi: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fonzi/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fonzi/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fonzi.md",
  "title": "Fonzi: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Fonzi is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Jan. 26, 2026.",
  "period": "Aug. 24, 2025 to Jan. 26, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "name": "Fonzi",
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    "site": "https://fonzi.ai/",
    "summary": "\"Where Top Startups Meet Top Engineers.\" Fonzi runs a curated hiring marketplace for software and AI engineers. Applicants talk briefly with Fonzi's AI interviewer, then a recruiter calls those who fit. Top candidates enter a monthly Match Day where startups, who must commit to salary ranges up front, request interviews. Each candidate gets a human recruiter and employers run their own interviews. In January 2026 it bought Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "AI talent marketplaces"
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Where Top Startups Meet Top Engineers.\" Fonzi runs a curated hiring marketplace for software and AI engineers. Applicants talk briefly with Fonzi's AI interviewer, then a recruiter calls those who fit. Top candidates enter a monthly Match Day where startups, who must commit to salary ranges up front, request interviews. Each candidate gets a human recruiter and employers run their own interviews. In January 2026 it bought Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring.",
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    },
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      "name": "Fonzi",
      "site": "https://fonzi.ai/",
      "category": "AI talent marketplaces",
      "what": "\"Where Top Startups Meet Top Engineers.\" Fonzi runs a curated hiring marketplace for software and AI engineers. Applicants talk briefly with Fonzi's AI interviewer, then a recruiter calls those who fit. Top candidates enter a monthly Match Day where startups, who must commit to salary ranges up front, request interviews. Each candidate gets a human recruiter and employers run their own interviews. In January 2026 it bought Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "fonzi.ai",
        "url": "https://fonzi.ai/"
      },
      "price": "Free for candidates; 18% of base salary per hire (Business Insider, 2025-08-24)",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "AI interviews",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Screening and ranking"
        ]
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      "scale_tier": 4,
      "scale": "No disclosed scale (No funding round verified; two acquisitions (BKB Talent, Cook'd); Built In lists 26 employees)",
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          "name": "yahoo.com",
          "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hiring-process-broken-software-engineers-152521767.html"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fonzi/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-01-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Fonzi acquires Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring",
      "summary": "Fonzi bought Cook'd, \"an AI-native ATS built specifically for engineering hiring\" that writes job descriptions, posts roles and screens applicants. Fonzi calls it its second acquisition in eight months, after recruiting firm BKB Talent.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-fonzi"
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    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fonzi/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-08-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Business Insider profiles Fonzi's Match Day model and AI interviewer",
      "summary": "Business Insider reported that applicants talk to Fonzi's AI interviewer, top candidates join a monthly Match Day, and employers pay 18% of base salary per hire. The model was about three months old.",
      "kind": "Launch",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
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        "name": "Business Insider (via Yahoo News)",
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