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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Personio: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/personio/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/personio/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/personio.md",
  "title": "Personio: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Personio is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated April 22, 2026.",
  "period": "Oct. 16, 2025 to April 22, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.personio.com/",
    "summary": "\"The intelligent HR platform\" for small and mid-sized European companies, covering core HR, recruiting, payroll and performance. Personio Recruiting, used by 9,000 customers, posts jobs to 800+ channels and automates screening steps and interview scheduling. Its AI today is the Personio AI Assistant and AI summaries in performance reviews. In April 2026 it bought aurio, a Munich recruiting AI startup whose agents source candidates and rank incoming applications, to build AI into Personio Recruiting.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "HR suites and HRIS"
    ]
  },
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The intelligent HR platform\" for small and mid-sized European companies, covering core HR, recruiting, payroll and performance. Personio Recruiting, used by 9,000 customers, posts jobs to 800+ channels and automates screening steps and interview scheduling. Its AI today is the Personio AI Assistant and AI summaries in performance reviews. In April 2026 it bought aurio, a Munich recruiting AI startup whose agents source candidates and rank incoming applications, to build AI into Personio Recruiting.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/"
    },
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      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-personio",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Personio",
      "site": "https://www.personio.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "\"The intelligent HR platform\" for small and mid-sized European companies, covering core HR, recruiting, payroll and performance. Personio Recruiting, used by 9,000 customers, posts jobs to 800+ channels and automates screening steps and interview scheduling. Its AI today is the Personio AI Assistant and AI summaries in performance reviews. In April 2026 it bought aurio, a Munich recruiting AI startup whose agents source candidates and rank incoming applications, to build AI into Personio Recruiting.",
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        "name": "web.archive.org",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/"
      },
      "price": "not verified; personio.com blocked by a bot checkpoint during research",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
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      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (16,000 customers covering 1.5M+ employees; first profitable quarter announced April 2026)",
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          "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-profitability-acquisition-aurio/"
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          "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/hug-2025-feature-updates/"
        },
        {
          "name": "web.archive.org",
          "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-raises-200m-second-series-e/"
        },
        {
          "name": "rrhhdigital.com",
          "url": "https://www.rrhhdigital.com/secciones/tecnologia-e-innovacion/793485/personio-alcanza-la-rentabilidad-y-acelera-su-estrategia-de-ia-con-la-adquisicion-de-aurio/"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/personio/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-04-22",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Personio acquires recruiting AI startup aurio and turns profitable",
      "summary": "Personio bought aurio, a Munich recruiting AI startup whose \"AI-powered candidate search automatically surfaces relevant profiles\" and ranks incoming applications. aurio's AI will be built into Personio Recruiting, used by 9,000 customers, with first launches expected later in 2026.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-personio"
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        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-profitability-acquisition-aurio/"
      }
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/personio/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-10-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Personio AI Assistant reaches all employees at HUG 2025",
      "summary": "At HUG 2025, Personio said \"Personio's AI Assistant is now available to all employees\" after beta testing, and added AI-powered summaries in Performance and Development.",
      "kind": "Launch",
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        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/hug-2025-feature-updates/"
      }
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