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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Ribbon: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon.md",
  "title": "Ribbon: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Ribbon is on the AI hiring software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 23, 2026.",
  "period": "April 27 to Oct. 23, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "ribbon",
    "name": "Ribbon",
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    "site": "https://www.ribbon.ai/",
    "summary": "\"AI interviews for frontline hiring.\" Ribbon sells a voice AI interviewer that holds live, two-way screening interviews in 10 languages, scores candidates against a rubric and ranks them. It adds outreach by email, SMS and WhatsApp, integrity monitoring, sourcing and talent rediscovery, and MCP servers that let AI assistants read ATS data. Buyers are frontline employers in warehousing, retail, hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing, plus staffing agencies. Dayforce agreed to buy it in October 2026.",
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    "categories": [
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"AI interviews for frontline hiring.\" Ribbon sells a voice AI interviewer that holds live, two-way screening interviews in 10 languages, scores candidates against a rubric and ranks them. It adds outreach by email, SMS and WhatsApp, integrity monitoring, sourcing and talent rediscovery, and MCP servers that let AI assistants read ATS data. Buyers are frontline employers in warehousing, retail, hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing, plus staffing agencies. Dayforce agreed to buy it in October 2026.",
    "source": {
      "name": "ribbon.ai",
      "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/"
    },
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  },
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-ribbon",
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      "name": "Ribbon",
      "site": "https://www.ribbon.ai/",
      "category": "AI interviewers and screening",
      "what": "\"AI interviews for frontline hiring.\" Ribbon sells a voice AI interviewer that holds live, two-way screening interviews in 10 languages, scores candidates against a rubric and ranks them. It adds outreach by email, SMS and WhatsApp, integrity monitoring, sourcing and talent rediscovery, and MCP servers that let AI assistants read ATS data. Buyers are frontline employers in warehousing, retail, hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing, plus staffing agencies. Dayforce agreed to buy it in October 2026.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "ribbon.ai",
        "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/"
      },
      "price": "not published; homepage offers a 7-day free trial",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "AI interviews",
          "AI analytics",
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          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "AI outreach",
          "Rediscovery",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (US$8.2M seed (Radical Ventures, 2025); Dayforce says hundreds of customers and over one million interviews; acquisition by Dayforce agreed 2026-10-23, not yet closed)",
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        {
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        {
          "name": "ribbon.ai",
          "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-mcp-workday"
        },
        {
          "name": "ribbon.ai",
          "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-bamboohr-integration"
        },
        {
          "name": "thelogic.co",
          "url": "https://thelogic.co/briefing/ribbon-raises-us8-2m-seed-round-for-ai-hiring-tools/"
        },
        {
          "name": "betakit.com",
          "url": "https://betakit.com/?p=411302"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-23",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Dayforce agrees to acquire Ribbon",
      "summary": "Dayforce agreed to buy Toronto-based Ribbon AI and plans to build its technology into a new agentic recruiting experience. Price and closing timeline were not disclosed; Dayforce cites hundreds of customers and over one million interviews.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-ribbon"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "BetaKit",
        "url": "https://betakit.com/?p=411302"
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    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-06-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Ribbon adds a BambooHR connector",
      "summary": "Ribbon put an AI agent inside BambooHR's Hiring module through its MCP server, read-only by default, aimed at the \"HR Team of One\".",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-ribbon"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-bamboohr-integration"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ribbon/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-04-27",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Ribbon ships MCP servers for Workday and other ATSs",
      "summary": "Ribbon launched an MCP server that \"exposes your Workday Recruiting data to any AI agent that speaks MCP\", for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor; its blog lists matching MCP posts for Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Bullhorn and iCIMS through late May.",
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      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-ribbon"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-mcp-workday"
      }
    }
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