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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"HiBob: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob.md",
  "title": "HiBob: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "HiBob is on 2 Newsprint research maps: the AI hiring software map and the AI compensation software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 16, 2026.",
  "period": "June 18 to Sept. 16, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "hibob",
    "name": "HiBob",
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    "site": "https://www.hibob.com/",
    "summary": "\"The people platform for the modern world of work.\" HiBob sells Bob, an HR, payroll and finance platform for mid-sized and global companies. Its built-in ATS uses AI for job descriptions, CV matching, evaluation scorecards and candidate emails. Bob Companion runs a set of named agents, including a Hiring Agent, and HiBob MCP brings people data into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Slack. HiBob now pitches itself as an \"organizational intelligence layer\" for AI agents.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "HR suites and HRIS"
    ]
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The people platform for the modern world of work.\" HiBob sells Bob, an HR, payroll and finance platform for mid-sized and global companies. Its built-in ATS uses AI for job descriptions, CV matching, evaluation scorecards and candidate emails. Bob Companion runs a set of named agents, including a Hiring Agent, and HiBob MCP brings people data into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Slack. HiBob now pitches itself as an \"organizational intelligence layer\" for AI agents.",
    "source": {
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hibob",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "HiBob",
      "site": "https://www.hibob.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "\"The people platform for the modern world of work.\" HiBob sells Bob, an HR, payroll and finance platform for mid-sized and global companies. Its built-in ATS uses AI for job descriptions, CV matching, evaluation scorecards and candidate emails. Bob Companion runs a set of named agents, including a Hiring Agent, and HiBob MCP brings people data into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Slack. HiBob now pitches itself as an \"organizational intelligence layer\" for AI agents.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "hibob.com",
        "url": "https://www.hibob.com/"
      },
      "price": "not published; pricing page is a demo request form",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI outreach",
          "Scheduling",
          "Skills and planning"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (5,500+ customers (Salesforce quote in HiBob release, Sep 2026); about $3.2B valuation per Bloomberg via Reworked)",
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        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/press/"
        },
        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/talent/hiring/"
        },
        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/mcp/"
        },
        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/news/"
        }
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      "cross_listed": false
    },
    {
      "map": "compensation-software",
      "title": "The AI compensation software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-hibob",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "HiBob",
      "site": "https://www.hibob.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "\"Make compensation fair, confident, and data-driven.\" Bob Planning & Compensation sets pay bands by role, level and site, runs comp cycles with budget simulation, and gives managers \"smart, explainable pay suggestions\" grounded in performance, market benchmarks and budget. An AI-powered equity analyzer finds pay gaps by role, level, gender and location. Bob's AI job catalog builds a job catalog from existing role data. Sold to mid-sized and global companies as part of Bob.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "hibob.com",
        "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/planning/compensation/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Pay analytics",
          "Assistant",
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          "Job leveling",
          "Pay equity analysis",
          "Pay ranges and offers"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (5,500+ customers (Salesforce quote in HiBob release, Sep 2026); about $3.2B valuation per Bloomberg via Reworked)",
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        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/planning/compensation/"
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        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "hibob.com",
          "url": "https://www.hibob.com/webinars/build-your-job-architecture-in-minutes-with-ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "reworked.co",
          "url": "https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/salesforce-leads-166m-investment-in-hibob/"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "HiBob launches Galileo-powered AI agents in Bob",
      "summary": "HiBob and The Josh Bersin Company launched \"Galileo powered AI agents in Bob,\" adding Bersin's HR research to Bob's agents so managers get guidance in the context of their own company data.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hibob"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-and-the-josh-bersin-company-launch-galileopowered-workforce-intelligence-in-bob/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-09-01",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Salesforce leads $166M investment in HiBob",
      "summary": "HiBob raised $166 million led by Salesforce with Farallon Capital, at about a $3.2 billion valuation per Bloomberg. HiBob called it a step toward being \"an organizational intelligence layer\" for AI agents.",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hibob"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Reworked",
        "url": "https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/salesforce-leads-166m-investment-in-hibob/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hibob/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-06-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "HiBob brings Bob into Slackbot through MCP",
      "summary": "HiBob launched a Model Context Protocol integration that connects Slack users to Bob through Slackbot, so employees, managers and HR can get people data and take HR actions in natural language.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hibob"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-brings-people-intelligence-into-slackbot-to-turn-workforce-insights-into-business-action/"
      }
    }
  ]
}