Karat: what it sells, price and AI features
Karat is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Dec. 10, 2025.
Updated . Launches and events from Aug. 7 to Dec. 10, 2025.
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: karat.com.
- Site
- karat.com
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- Skills assessments
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- Active
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The AI hiring software map
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: karat.com.
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- Skills assessments
- Price
- not published; sales-led managed service
- AI capabilities
- AI assessments
- Scale
- Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series C $110M at $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global (Oct 2021); dataset of 600,000+ interviews.)
Sources: karat.com, karat.com, karat.com and thedailyupside.com.
Launches and dated events, newest first
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Karat launches NextGen human-led, AI-enabled interviews
Launch, . 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.
Source: Vendor release. From the AI hiring software map.
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Karat becomes a Workday Innovation Partner
Partnership, . Karat connected its platform to Workday's applicant tracking system as a Workday Innovation Partner and added two board members.
Source: Vendor release. From the AI hiring software map.
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