{
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Karat: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat.md",
  "title": "Karat: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Karat is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Dec. 10, 2025.",
  "period": "Aug. 7 to Dec. 10, 2025",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "C3RHWR5",
    "slug": "karat",
    "name": "Karat",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://karat.com/",
    "summary": "Technical interviewing as a service for engineering executives. Karat's professional Interview Engineers run live technical interviews for employers. Its NextGen format, launched December 2025, is \"the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution\": candidates build with an integrated AI assistant while human interviewers probe reasoning and judgment. Karat bought Byteboard in January 2025 and is a Workday Innovation Partner. It sells interviews, not software alone.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
      "assessment"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Skills assessments"
    ]
  },
  "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": "Technical interviewing as a service for engineering executives. Karat's professional Interview Engineers run live technical interviews for employers. Its NextGen format, launched December 2025, is \"the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution\": candidates build with an integrated AI assistant while human interviewers probe reasoning and judgment. Karat bought Byteboard in January 2025 and is a Workday Innovation Partner. It sells interviews, not software alone.",
    "source": {
      "name": "karat.com",
      "url": "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Karat",
      "site": "https://karat.com/",
      "category": "Skills assessments",
      "what": "Technical interviewing as a service for engineering executives. Karat's professional Interview Engineers run live technical interviews for employers. Its NextGen format, launched December 2025, is \"the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution\": candidates build with an integrated AI assistant while human interviewers probe reasoning and judgment. Karat bought Byteboard in January 2025 and is a Workday Innovation Partner. It sells interviews, not software alone.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "karat.com",
        "url": "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led managed service",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "AI assessments"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series C $110M at $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global (Oct 2021); dataset of 600,000+ interviews.)",
      "founded": null,
      "founded_source": null,
      "fate": null,
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "karat.com",
          "url": "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/"
        },
        {
          "name": "karat.com",
          "url": "https://karat.com/blog/category/news-events"
        },
        {
          "name": "karat.com",
          "url": "https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/"
        },
        {
          "name": "thedailyupside.com",
          "url": "https://www.thedailyupside.com/tech-interviewing-startup-karat-hits-1-1b-unicorn-valuation"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 0,
      "cross_listed": false
    }
  ],
  "off_map_url": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-12-10",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Karat launches NextGen human-led, AI-enabled interviews",
      "summary": "NextGen has candidates work with \"an integrated AI assistant\" while Karat Interview Engineers probe \"reasoning, trade-offs, and judgment in real time,\" as a fully managed service.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-08-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Karat becomes a Workday Innovation Partner",
      "summary": "Karat connected its platform to Workday's applicant tracking system as a Workday Innovation Partner and added two board members.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/"
      }
    }
  ]
}