# The AI hiring software map

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/
Updated: 2026-10-28
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Cite as: Newsprint, "The AI hiring software map", https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/, updated 2026-10-28

> 235 companies sell AI to recruiting and HR teams. This map shows what each one sells across the five stages of hiring, and 653 dated events since May 2025: 383 product launches, 141 of them agents that do multi-step work or run on their own. Each event links to its source.

## What we're seeing

Eight things the data shows, from 235 companies and 383 AI launches between May 2025 and October 2026. Every claim links to its source.

### The big platforms bought their hiring AI

We logged 59 acquisitions in 18 months. Most of the AI that screens and schedules candidates now sits inside a larger suite. Workday [agreed to buy Paradox](https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-21-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Paradox,-the-AI-Company-Redefining-the-Frontline-Candidate-Experience) in August 2025. SAP [closed SmartRecruiters](https://news.sap.com/2025/09/sap-completes-smartrecruiters-acquisition/) a month later. Zoom [bought BrightHire](https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/), Greenhouse [bought the Ezra voice interviewer](https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-completes-acquisition-of-ezra-ai-labs-bringing-conversational-ai-to-the-hiring-process), and Dayforce [agreed to buy Ribbon](https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-to-acquire-ribbon-ai-inc-to-advance-agentic-recruiting) on 23 October 2026. Payroll vendors did the same for hourly hiring: UKG [built Rapid Hire on Chattr](https://markets.financialcontent.com/pennwell.oilgasjournal/article/bizwire-2025-11-4-ukg-transforms-real-time-labor-and-staffing-strategies-by-launching-rapid-hire-and-dynamic-labor-management) and Paylocity [bought Grayscale](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-4-7-paylocity-acquires-grayscale-to-expand-ai-powered-recruiting-capabilities). For a buyer, the first place to look for hiring AI is now the system it already pays for.

### About a third of AI launches now do the work themselves

Of the 383 AI launches, 141 (37%) are agents or always-on: the software finishes steps without a person driving each one. 92 companies shipped at least one. The share has held near a third in every half-year since mid-2025. The build has been steady. The autonomous work clusters in the first half of hiring: holding screening interviews, booking interviews, sourcing and messaging against a brief, and checking every applicant for fraud. Vendors stop short of the decision. Workday's Talent Acquisition Agent [runs on autopilot](https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-10-13-Workday-Launches-Autopilot-Agents-That-Get-Real-Work-Done-Across-HR,-Finance,-and-IT) but still asks a recruiter to approve outreach, and it is open only to early adopters until 2027. LinkedIn says [Hiring Assistant 2](https://news.linkedin.com/2026/hiring-assistant-2) finishes a prescreen in a median of six minutes.

### The AI interview became a standard feature

36 companies shipped an AI interviewer in the window, from ATS vendors to coding-test makers. HackerRank made its Chakra interviewer [generally available](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/) on 5 October 2026. Hourly tools now run it by default: Classet [turned AI screening on](https://docs.classet.ai/changelog/added-improved-fixed-classet-platform-release-16-june-2026) for every new job in June 2026. Candidates are wary. In Greenhouse's 2026 survey, 38% said they had [withdrawn from a process](https://www.greenhouse.com/blog/2026-candidate-ai-interview-report) because of an AI interview. Gartner found only 26% [trust AI to evaluate them fairly](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-07-31-gartner-survey-shows-just-26-percent-of-job-applicants-trust-ai-will-fairly-evaluate-them).

### Fraud checks moved into the hiring stack

Fake and deepfake candidates turned identity checks into a hiring feature. 27 companies shipped fraud, identity or cheating detection in the window. Checkr reports that 40% of hiring managers have [interviewed a candidate](https://checkr.com/blog/hiring-hoax-2026-ai-fraud-outpacing-detection) later found to use a fake identity, and it launched a [Fraud Detection Suite](https://www.webull.com/news/15712756793607168) in October 2026. Greenhouse added [CLEAR identity checks](https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification), Gem launched a [fraud detection agent](https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-ai-fraud-detection-agent), and Deel [bought Clarity](https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-acquires-clarity/) for deepfake checks.

### Hiring data is opening to outside AI assistants

53 companies shipped an MCP server, an agent API or an app inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot. Workday opened its [Agent System of Record](https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-06-03-Workday-Announces-New-AI-Agent-Partner-Network-and-Agent-Gateway-to-Power-the-Next-Generation-of-Human-and-Digital-Workforces) to partner agents in June 2025. Visier [launched an MCP server](https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-launches-mcp-for-ai-agents/) for workforce data, Ashby put its [MCP server](https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/mcp) in open beta, and Greenhouse took a [Claude plugin](https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-brings-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-anthropics-claude) to open beta in October 2026. A company's own assistant can now read its hiring pipeline. That makes the reporting and the glue between tools something a team can build itself.

### Coding tests stopped banning AI

Technical assessments now let candidates use AI and grade how they use it. CodeSignal launched [AI-assisted assessments](https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-ai-assisted-coding-assessments-and-interviews-redefining-technical-hiring-in-the-ai-era) in May 2025. HackerRank added an [AI-assisted IDE and a lockdown app](https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8474307750-october-2025-release-notes) in October 2025. Codility now lets interviewers [have the coding agent slip in a bug](https://www.codility.com/lab/product-updates/) to see whether the candidate catches it. We found no vendor that sells an AI-scored hands-on test for mechanical, electrical or machining trades.

### Hourly and plant hiring has its own tools

50 companies on the map are built for high-volume hourly hiring. A few now sell to manufacturers by name. Laborup's voice agents recruit machinists, welders and maintenance technicians, and it names [Nucor and Timken among its customers](https://www.laborup.com/). Fountain added [voice help for I-9 and W-4 forms](https://fountain.launchnotes.io/) to its onboarding agent. The need is real. In iCIMS data, US manufacturing openings rose 29% in a year while [applications rose 4%](https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/augustinsights2026/). Online profile data under-covers these workers, which Section 05 explains.

### The rules moved to the states

Federal guidance on AI in hiring has largely been withdrawn, and the EEOC [closed disparate-impact-only charges](https://www.franczek.com/blog/eeoc-to-close-all-pending-disparate-impact-investigations-by-september-30-2025/) in 2025. States filled the gap. California's [rules on automated-decision systems](https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/2025/06/30/civil-rights-council-secures-approval-for-regulations-to-protect-against-employment-discrimination-related-to-artificial-intelligence/) took effect on 1 October 2025. Illinois's AI law [took effect](https://natlawreview.com/article/illinois-postpones-proposed-regulations-ai-employment) on 1 January 2026. Colorado [repealed and replaced](https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189) its AI Act in May 2026 with a narrower law that starts in 2027. The courts matter as much: [Mobley v. Workday](https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/06/ai-bias-lawsuit-against-workday-reaches-next-stage-as-court-grants-conditional-certification-of-adea-claim/) became a nationwide collective action over AI screening in May 2025. Section 06 lists every law and ruling we tracked.

## The companies

Core means the product is built on that stage of hiring. Partial means the stage is present, secondary or bolted on. An empty cell means we did not find it on the company's own site. Updates counts the dated events on record between 2025-05-01 and 2026-10-28.

| Company | Category | What it does | Source | Screen | Interview | Hire | Report | Fit | Updates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADP <https://www.adp.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "A global leader in HR and payroll solutions" serving more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. Products include Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and ADP Global Payroll. Its AI layer, ADP Assist, centres on payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, policy answers and talent actions such as promotions. ADP sells a recruiting product (ADP Recruiting Management, with "contextual AI"), but its named AI launches in the window do not target screening or scheduling. | Partial | Partial |  | Core | Core | compliance | 2 |
| Cornerstone <https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | Cornerstone sells an intelligence platform for workforce readiness, built mainly on learning, skills and talent management, to more than 7,000 organizations. Recruiting is one module: TalentLink, pitched as "an AI-powered and skills-driven solution" with AI-driven candidate search, career sites, chatbots and resume parsing. Most of its AI news is about learning, skills and readiness (Cornerstone Workforce AI, Readiness Agents, Workforce Planning), not recruiting. Included because it sells recruiting with AI, but recruiting is not its main product. | Partial | Partial |  | Partial | Core |  | 2 |
| Dayforce <https://www.dayforce.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "The Dayforce Agentic HCM Platform" covers HR, pay, time, talent, planning and analytics in one system, sold mainly to mid-size and large employers. Thoma Bravo took it private in February 2026 for about $12.3B. Dayforce AI Agents cover pay, time, content authoring, job descriptions and people analytics. On October 23, 2026 it agreed to buy Ribbon AI, a voice and video AI interviewer, to power a new Agentic Recruiting experience for frontline and high-volume hiring, planned through 2027. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Core | Core |  | 5 |
| Deel <https://www.deel.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "Hire, manage, pay, & equip anyone, anywhere." Deel sells global payroll, employer of record, contractor management, HRIS and IT to companies hiring across 150+ countries. Its ATS uses AI for job creation, sourcing, criteria-based matching and first-round screens, plus an AI Interview Assistant. Deel's AI Workforce adds named agents, including a hiring agent that writes job descriptions and guides sourcing inside ChatGPT. In August 2026 it bought Clarity for deepfake and identity checks in hiring. | Core | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial |  | 4 |
| Gusto <https://gusto.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "Hire, pay, and grow like a pro." Gusto sells payroll, benefits, HR and compliance software to US small businesses. Its hiring tools post jobs to multiple boards, track applicants and send offer letters, but the ATS page describes no AI. Its AI is Gusto Cofounder, an "AI teammate" in early access that automates payroll and reporting tasks, plus Gusto apps in ChatGPT, Claude and Slack and a set of AI agents for accounting firms. | Partial | Partial |  | Core | Partial |  | 4 |
| Infor HCM <https://www.infor.com/solutions/human-capital-management> | HR suites and HRIS | Infor, a Koch Industries company, sells HR and payroll, talent management and workforce management as Infor HCM, mainly to healthcare, public sector and service employers with large frontline workforces. Talent management covers requisitions, candidate screening, offers and Talent Science, a "patented" predictive assessment that matches candidates to roles. Infor lists a Recruiting Agent among its Industry AI Agents for healthcare, in limited availability. | Partial | Partial |  | Core | Partial |  | 1 |
| Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM <https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/> | HR suites and HRIS | "Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM is a complete cloud solution that connects every human resource process." Oracle's suite for large enterprises includes Oracle Recruiting and Recruiting Booster. Oracle builds agents with its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. In recruiting, Oracle Career Coach is a candidate-facing agent that builds talent profiles, recommends jobs, runs qualification screenings and mock interviews, and sets up one-click interviews. 2026 agents focus on skills, internal mobility and learning. | Partial | Core | Partial | Core | Core |  | 2 |
| Paychex <https://www.paychex.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | Paychex is "an industry-leading human capital management (HCM) company" serving about 840,000 customers through three platforms: Paychex Flex, Paycor and SurePayroll. Its AI layer is WISE, with agents, assistants and HR analytics across all three. In September 2026 it launched WISE Hire, "an AI-native recruiting solution" with agents for candidate sourcing, screening, scheduling and hiring coaching, sold standalone or inside its HCM platforms. It also sells background checks and PEO services. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | compliance | 4 |
| Paycom <https://www.paycom.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | Paycom is "a leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software" built on one database: payroll, applicant tracking, onboarding, background checks, E-Verify, time and talent. Its AI is IWant, a "command-driven AI engine" that answers questions about applicant and employee data by text or voice and points users to the task. Its applicant tracking page describes resume parsing, auto job posting and knockout messages, but does not claim AI screening or AI interviews. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial | compliance | 2 |
| Paylocity <https://www.paylocity.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | Paylocity is an "award-winning provider of HCM, Finance, and IT software solutions" for mid-sized US employers. Its Recruiting module covers sourcing, screening, interviewing and offers on the same record as payroll and onboarding. In 2026 it bought Grayscale, an AI recruiting automation company for high-volume hiring, then shipped Ignite AI agents and Recruiting Optimizer, which add AI candidate fit, rediscovery, SMS and web candidate engagement and interview scheduling. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly | 3 |
| Rippling <https://www.rippling.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "Manage your entire workforce on one system." Rippling sells HR, payroll, IT and finance software on one employee data platform to companies from startups to enterprises. Its Recruiting app is pitched as "the AI-native ATS": AI ranks applications against criteria the hiring team sets, records and summarizes interviews, summarizes scorecards, writes job descriptions and lets candidates self-schedule. Rippling AI, launched in March 2026, answers questions on live company data and takes actions across HR, IT and finance. | Partial | Core | Core | Core | Core |  | 4 |
| SAP SuccessFactors <https://www.sap.com/products/hcm.html> | HR suites and HRIS | SAP's HCM suite for global enterprises: core HR, payroll, talent and people analytics, with SAP's Joule copilot and a growing set of Joule Agents. SAP bought SmartRecruiters ("the Recruiting AI Company") in September 2025 and says SmartRecruiters will replace the SuccessFactors recruiting module over a 3 to 5 year migration. SAP says SmartRecruiters' AI companion Winston will begin working alongside Joule later in 2026. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Core | hourly | 5 |
| UKG <https://www.ukg.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "The AI-first Workforce Operating Platform for HR, payroll, and workforce management," aimed at frontline-heavy employers such as healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Its Bryte AI spans agents for payroll, onboarding and policy questions, Bryte Voice for frontline workers, and conversational reporting. For hiring, UKG bought frontline hiring startup Chattr and relaunched it in November 2025 as UKG Rapid Hire, a chat-style apply flow that automates posting, follow-up, interview scheduling and onboarding. | Partial | Core | Partial | Core | Core | hourly | 3 |
| Workday <https://www.workday.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "The Enterprise AI Platform for HR, Finance, and IT." Workday sells HCM, payroll and finance suites to large employers. In hiring it now stacks three layers: Workday Recruiting (ATS), HiredScore (AI grading and talent rediscovery, bought 2024) and Paradox (conversational candidate agent for frontline hiring, bought October 2025). Its Talent Acquisition Agent orchestrates all three plus outside sourcing tools. Sana (bought 2025) is the new agent front door, and Flowise is its agent builder. | Core | Core | Core | Core | Core | hourly | 7 |
| BambooHR <https://www.bamboohr.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "A People Intelligence Platform" for small and mid-sized businesses, covering core HR, payroll, benefits, time and talent management. Its ATS posts jobs to boards and handles candidate email, self-scheduling, scorecards and offer letters, but its hiring pages describe no AI screening. The AI is Bamboo AI (July 2026), a set of agents for reports, shift schedules and payroll checks, plus Ask BambooHR and a BambooHR MCP with a Claude connector. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Core | Core |  | 4 |
| Darwinbox <https://darwinbox.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "AI-Native HCM for Global Enterprises." Darwinbox sells a full HCM suite (recruitment, onboarding, core HR, payroll, performance, analytics) to large employers, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and now the US. Its recruiting module uses Darwinbox Sense to automate "the sourcing-to-screening pipeline with explainable AI" and adds candidate-facing AI for scheduling and pre-screening. In August 2026 it relaunched the platform as Cortex, with a Context Graph, a signal layer and an agent platform. Gartner named it a Leader for Talent Acquisition Suites in 2026. | Partial | Core | Partial | Core | Core |  | 4 |
| Employment Hero <https://employmenthero.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in." Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial |  | 6 |
| HiBob <https://www.hibob.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "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. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Core | Core |  | 3 |
| isolved <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | isolved, "a Workforce Capital Management (WCM) company", sells payroll, benefits, HR and talent acquisition to small and mid-sized US employers. Its ATS (formerly ApplicantPro) includes Attract & Hire, with "automated candidate scoring and ranking", and isolved is piloting Indeed's Talent Scout recruiting agent. In 2026 it began shipping named AI agents, starting with The Guardian for payroll, plus a Claude connector and Agent View, which puts AI agents on the org chart. None of its own agents is a recruiting agent yet. | Partial | Partial |  | Core | Partial |  | 4 |
| Personio <https://www.personio.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "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. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial |  | 2 |
| Remote <https://remote.com/> | HR suites and HRIS | "The financial operating system for the global workforce." Remote sells global payroll, employer of record, PEO and contractor management in 150+ countries to companies hiring across borders. Hiring AI sits in Recruit: AI Matches surfaces best-fit candidates from Remote's job board when a role is posted, and AI Sourcing searches 800M+ profiles from a plain-language description. Remote MCP lets AI agents read and act on payroll, contract and org data. It does not sell an ATS. | Partial | Partial |  | Core | Partial |  | 3 |
| iCIMS <https://www.icims.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Power exceptional hiring." iCIMS sells an enterprise talent acquisition platform: ATS, candidate CRM (iCIMS CXM), career sites and frontline hiring, used by more than 4,400 companies including a quarter of the Fortune 500. Its AI, branded iCIMS Coalesce AI since March 2026, covers candidate search and match, digital assistants, agents (Sourcing Agent, Hiring Agent in Microsoft Teams, Interview Scheduling Agent) and Frontline AI, a chat-led apply and screening flow from the Apli acquisition. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 6 |
| Access Vincere Evo <https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/products/vincere/> | Applicant tracking systems | Vincere is a recruitment CRM and ATS for recruitment agencies, now sold by The Access Group as Access Vincere Evo. Access calls it "a powerful AI-first recruitment software trusted by 22,000+ recruiters worldwide". It covers candidate and client CRM, job posting, temp scheduling and timesheets (TimeTemp) and analytics (Intelligence). AI writes job ads, scores candidates against a job, rewrites emails and briefs, summarises interviews and answers natural-language questions. It is for agencies, not in-house HR teams. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Ashby <https://www.ashbyhq.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "What an ATS should be." Ashby sells an all-in-one recruiting platform (ATS, CRM, scheduling, analytics) to startups through enterprises, with "AI embedded in every layer." AI reviews applications against recruiter-set criteria, flags fraudulent applicants, records and summarizes interviews, rediscovers past candidates, and runs custom agents through Ashby Assistant. An AI Interviewer from the Talent Llama acquisition is in private beta. Ashby also sells Ashby Analytics on top of other ATSs. | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Core |  | 6 |
| Avature <https://www.avature.net/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The AI Platform for Strategic HR Transformation." Avature sells a configurable talent platform to large enterprises: recruiting CRM, applicant tracking, career sites, onboarding, internal mobility, performance and learning. It says 110 Fortune 500 companies use it. Its AI is platform-native and multi-model: semantic matching, a candidate chatbot, Avature Copilot, workflow-embedded agents with an agent builder, predictive analytics and candidate fraud detection. Customers can switch AI on or off feature by feature. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Breezy HR <https://breezy.hr/> | Applicant tracking systems | An ATS for growing and mid-sized businesses, with a free single-job tier. Its AI add-on, Breezy Intelligence, is pitched as "Big-Company AI Recruiting Minus the Big-Company Contract": Applicant Insights gives every candidate a 0 to 10 score with a written explanation, Resume Audit flags resumes built by bots or generators, Interview Analysis scores recorded interviews (beta, separate subscription) and a Breezy MCP Server (beta) connects Claude and ChatGPT. AI runs on prepaid credits. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 4 |
| Bullhorn <https://www.bullhorn.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The AI recruitment ATS & CRM powering 10,000+ staffing agencies." Bullhorn sells applicant tracking, CRM, middle office and onboarding software to staffing and recruitment firms, not to corporate HR teams. Its Amplify product adds AI "digital workers" whose skills enrich records, match and screen candidates by chat or voice, run outreach, build client submittals, prospect for new business, verify, audit and transcribe. Amplify Chat is a staffing-specific assistant inside the ATS that answers questions and takes actions. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial |  | 5 |
| Ceipal <https://www.ceipal.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Ask Anything. Hire Faster. Stop Switching Systems." Ceipal sells one platform for staffing firms, healthcare staffing and corporate recruiting teams: an ATS, a vendor management system (VMS) and workforce management. AI sources, parses, matches and ranks candidates, runs voice AI interviews and SMS pre-screening, writes outreach, checks compliance and reads timesheets. Ceipal says it has over 2,500 clients. Its main buyers are IT, general and healthcare staffing agencies, not in-house enterprise HR. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | technical, compliance | 5 |
| Cezanne Recruitment <https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/recruitment/> | Applicant tracking systems | Cezanne Recruitment is the ATS formerly sold as Occupop, a Dublin recruitment software company that UK HR and payroll vendor Cezanne bought in March 2025 and renamed in July 2025; occupop.com now redirects to it. Cezanne calls it a "fully featured applicant tracking system" for growing businesses, sold alone or with Cezanne's HRIS. AI scores CVs against the job description, explains each score and anonymises CVs for blind review by hiring managers. | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  |  | 4 |
| ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany) <https://www.clearcompany.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Clarity. It's how you build stronger teams." ClearCo, renamed from ClearCompany in 2026, sells a talent platform that started as an applicant tracking system and now covers hiring, background checks, onboarding, performance, engagement and people analytics. It serves about 3,000 organizations. Its AI includes AI Talent Match, an AI Sourcing Engine, AI Notetaker, a Virtual Recruiter chatbot and AI content generation, plus a 2026 Agent Platform with Req, Sourcing (AI prescreening calls) and Interview agents and an Agent Studio for custom agents. Not the fintech Clearco at clear.co. | Core | Core | Core | Core | Partial |  | 2 |
| Crelate <https://www.crelate.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Your Recruiting, brought to life by AI." Crelate sells one recruiting platform that combines sourcing, a recruiting CRM and applicant tracking to executive search firms, staffing and consulting firms and in-house teams. Its AI comes as two named agents, Discover (outside talent sourcing by chat) and Insights (data refresh and suggested next moves), plus a Co-Pilot and an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT and custom agents work with Crelate data. It does not run AI interviews. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 3 |
| Greenhouse <https://www.greenhouse.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Hiring. Orchestrated." Greenhouse sells an applicant tracking system plus sourcing, interviewing and scheduling, tied to MyGreenhouse, a profile network for job seekers. Mid-market and enterprise talent teams buy it. Its AI sorts and verifies applicants (Real Talent), runs first-round voice interviews (Voice AI, from the Ezra AI Labs deal), takes interview notes, builds analytics charts, and exposes Greenhouse to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini through an MCP server. Greenhouse frames its AI as support for structured hiring, not a shortcut. | Partial | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  | 9 |
| Hireology <https://hireology.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The hiring platform built for how you actually hire." Hireology sells an ATS to multi-location employers with frontline teams, mainly car dealerships, long-term care and hospitality. Its "AI Hiring Intelligence" suite has AI Match, which scores applicants against employer-set attributes with evidence, AI Candidate Summary, and AI Interview, a structured first screen that candidates finish on their own schedule. Background screening, skills tests and onboarding are add-ons. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| JazzHR <https://www.jazzhr.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The Best ATS for Small Businesses." JazzHR sells low-cost applicant tracking to small and mid-size employers. Employ Inc., which also runs Lever and Jobvite, owns it. Its AI is Talent Fit, which "uses AI to analyze resumes and flag strong candidates based on your job description" and explains each match. Employ says every AI capability in JazzHR is built with IBM watsonx.governance. Employ's AI Interview and AI Screening Companions launched first on Lever and Jobvite, not JazzHR. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| JobAdder <https://jobadder.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The intelligent recruitment platform that puts people first." JobAdder sells an ATS and CRM to recruitment agencies and in-house talent teams in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Canada. SEEK has owned it since 2017. Its AI layer, Adder Intelligence, runs in the background. It scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, writes candidate fit summaries with a match recommendation, proposes record and skill updates from documents and outreach, and scores new business opportunities. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 3 |
| JobScore <https://www.jobscore.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Simplify your hiring." JobScore is an ATS for small and mid-size in-house hiring teams, with job posting, candidate scoring, sourcing tools, automations and reports; it says it has 1,000+ active employers. Candidate scores come from rules the employer sets, and JobScore says "There is no 'black box' or hallucination-prone machine learning AI used to calculate candidate scores." Generative AI, in beta since July 2026, writes job descriptions, suggests scoring criteria and similar job titles, drafts interview questions and summarises candidate activity. | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Jobvite <https://www.jobvite.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Customizable Hiring Software." Jobvite is Employ Inc.'s applicant tracking system for mid-sized and enterprise talent teams with high-volume, multi-location hiring, including hourly and frontline roles in retail, hospitality and transportation. It sells a core ATS with add-on modules for onboarding, recruitment marketing and an AI Companion. Its AI is AI-powered candidate matching with written explanations and Employ's AI Interview Companion for structured interviews. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 4 |
| Lever <https://www.lever.co/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Hiring That Doesn't Hijack Your Week." Lever is an applicant tracking system and candidate CRM owned by Employ Inc., sold to mid-market talent teams. Its AI is delivered as Employ "AI Companions": Talent Fit ranks applicants against job requirements with a written reason, the AI Interview Companion writes interview guides, transcripts and summaries and flags biased language, and the AI Screening Companion launched on Lever first. Lever also syncs LinkedIn Hiring Assistant evaluations and offers fraud signals. | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  | 6 |
| Loxo <https://loxo.co/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The Talent Intelligence Platform now comes with an agentic workforce." Loxo sells an ATS, recruiting CRM, sourcing database, multichannel outreach and sales CRM in one system to direct hire, executive search and staffing firms. Its launch release says the platform is built to replace legacy applicant tracking systems. AI agents handle job intake, job descriptions, longlists of up to 10,000 people and ranked shortlists, while recruiters choose who gets contacted. It also offers an AI Notetaker, AI Chat and an MCP connector. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Manatal <https://www.manatal.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Transform the way you recruit with AI." Low-cost ATS and recruitment CRM for in-house HR teams and recruiting agencies, used by 10,000+ recruiting teams in 135+ countries. AI recommendations score candidates against job requirements, profiles are enriched from 20+ public sources, an AI Copilot answers questions, and an AI Interviewer add-on runs 24/7 video first-round screens. An MCP server and LLM integration connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot Studio to account data. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 2 |
| Oorwin <https://oorwin.ai/> | Applicant tracking systems | Oorwin sells one platform with an ATS, a sales CRM and an HRMS, mainly to staffing and consulting firms; its homepage headline is "AI-Powered Talent Intelligence Platform" and it says it is "Trusted by 1,000+ customers". AI generates job descriptions and outreach emails, parses and harvests resumes, matches candidates to jobs (it claims "AI Match Genie with 95% accuracy") and runs a screening chatbot. Since September 2026 its ATS data is reachable from Claude and ChatGPT through a native MCP connector. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 1 |
| Recruit CRM <https://recruitcrm.io/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The AI recruitment CRM & ATS built for Recruitment Agencies." Recruit CRM sells an agency ATS and CRM, with timesheets and billing for contract staffing, to recruitment agencies, executive search, staffing and RPO firms. AI sourcing searches 800M+ external profiles in plain language, and named agents format resumes, write client submissions and pitch emails, and parse custom fields. A Recruit CRM MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity to agency data. A Screening Agent is listed as coming soon. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Recruitee <https://recruitee.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The customizable hiring software that helps you hire smarter and faster." Sold as Tellent Recruitee, an ATS for growth-stage and mid-market employers of 50 to 1,000 staff, mostly in Europe, with 7,000+ customer companies across the Tellent group. AI includes a Screening Assistant that checks applications against hiring-team criteria, a Matching Assistant that rediscovers past candidates, AI Smart Fill for job fields, AI Evaluation Insights and AI Writer. Tellent Agent, in beta, adds hiring and analytics capabilities. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 1 |
| Recruiterflow <https://recruiterflow.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "AI-native intelligence. Enterprise-grade depth." Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM in one database for executive search firms, recruiting agencies and staffing agencies; it says it is "Trusted by 2,100+ search firms globally." Its AIRA agents search the web and the firm's own database, rank candidates, draft outreach and client submissions, join calls and update the CRM. It also sells BI reporting. It does not target in-house corporate recruiting teams. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| SmartRecruiters <https://www.smartrecruiters.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "AI-Powered Hiring Platform That Delivers Results." Enterprise applicant tracking and talent acquisition suite, owned by SAP since September 2025 and sold both standalone and inside SAP SuccessFactors. Its AI layer, Winston, chats with candidates, scores and screens applicants, runs on-demand first-round interviews and answers recruiter questions. Buyers are large and high-volume employers such as Amazon, Visa, McDonald's and Domino's. It does not sell payroll or core HR itself; SAP SuccessFactors covers that. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 6 |
| Spark Hire <https://www.comeet.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Finally, an ATS that hiring managers love to use." Comeet, a collaborative ATS, joined Chicago-based Spark Hire in June 2023 and is now sold as Spark Hire Recruit to lean, globally distributed hiring teams. Spark Hire AI reviews and ranks resumes, writes job descriptions, drafts interview questions and scorecards, takes interview notes (add-on), scores one-way video interviews and suggests candidate follow-ups. A Recruit MCP connection is in beta. | Partial | Core | Core |  |  |  | 6 |
| Workable <https://www.workable.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The agent recruits. You manage talent." Recruiting and HR software for small and mid-size companies, used by 35,000+ teams. Workable Agent, built into the ATS, runs a job intake conversation, writes the brief, searches 400M+ profiles, screens, messages and advances top matches, then hands off to humans. Four agents (Job Brief, Sourcing, Screening, Engagement) run on pay-as-you-go credits. An MCP server lets Claude and ChatGPT operate Workable. It also sells employee records and HR tools. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Zoho Recruit <https://www.zoho.com/recruit/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Say hello to your AI-powered, automation-friendly and all-things-recruitment tool - Zoho Recruit." Zoho's ATS and recruitment CRM serves corporate HR teams and staffing agencies, with a free trial and paid tiers. Its assistant Zia, built on Zoho's own Zia LLM, matches candidates and jobs, writes profile summaries, generates assessments, runs a screening bot, and transcribes and summarises one-way and live video interviews. Zoho lists "AI agents" for Recruit as coming soon. | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  | 6 |
| Dover <https://www.dover.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Your startup's all-in-one hiring solution." Dover pairs a free ATS ("unlimited users, jobs, and candidates") with a marketplace of human fractional recruiters, sold to startups. AI in the ATS scores applicants against per-job criteria, takes interview notes and writes job descriptions and career pages. The Dover MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT and Codex review applicants and move candidates. Dover does not sell an autonomous AI recruiter: its "recruiters" are people. | Core | Partial | Partial |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Jobylon <https://www.jobylon.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Enterprise hiring, without the complexity." Jobylon is a Stockholm ATS for large employers running hiring "across brands, markets, and teams," with career sites, an Agency Portal and a Talent CRM. Its AI (Co-Pilot, or Jobylon AI, built on Anthropic models) writes job ads, suggests screening questions and scores applicants on skill fit with talent suggestions. Screening AI such as Tengai, Hubert and Scotty AI comes through partner integrations rather than Jobylon's own product. | Core | Partial | Partial |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Kula <https://www.kula.ai/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The only AI-Native ATS, built by recruiters, for modern hiring." Kula sells an all-in-one ATS with sourcing, CRM, scheduling and analytics to startups and scaling companies. Kula AI scores and summarizes applicants, drafts personalized outreach and job descriptions, takes interview notes and fills scorecards, and answers analytics questions in plain language. A hosted Kula MCP connector works with Claude. Named "AI Teammates" (Fraud Agent, Screener, Recruiting coordinator) are marketed, but AI Agents are labeled "Coming soon." | Core | Core | Core |  | Core |  | 0 |
| Pinpoint <https://www.pinpointhq.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The ATS built for multi-stream hiring." Pinpoint sells an ATS to in-house talent teams that run several hiring streams at once, "from desk-based to deskless, early career to executive." Its AI includes a candidate-facing AI Candidate Companion, AI filters, criteria checklists and match scores, an AI Notetaker, and AI Hiring Copilot, which searches candidates, writes job content and works in Microsoft Teams. A Pinpoint MCP lets outside AI assistants take actions in Pinpoint. | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | hourly | 6 |
| Screenloop <https://www.screenloop.com/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Automate the Mundane, Amplify the Human." Screenloop began as a London hiring intelligence tool and now sells an AI-native ATS to in-house talent teams at start-ups, SMEs and growing companies. Its Talent Operations Platform comes with the ATS at no extra cost and adds interview intelligence, background checks, reference checks, interviewer training and dashboards. Its AI Notetaker takes interview notes and auto-fills scorecards. | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial |  | 0 |
| Spott <https://spott.io/> | Applicant tracking systems | "The AI-native workspace for agency recruiters." Spott, founded in Leuven in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator, Base10 and Balderton, builds what it calls "the AI-native ATS/CRM for recruitment firms". It replaces tools like Bullhorn for staffing and search agencies with one platform for candidates, clients, semantic search and matching, multichannel outreach, call notes, automations and an MCP server. Spott says it does not move candidates into pipelines or present them to clients without human approval. | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 3 |
| Teamtailor <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/> | Applicant tracking systems | "For hiring people." Stockholm-built ATS and career-site platform for employers, with onboarding, analytics and WhatsApp messaging. Its AI, Co-pilot ("your recruitment ally powered by OpenAI"), screens applicants against set criteria, rediscovers past candidates, drafts job ads, summarises CVs, answers questions about candidates, builds analytics charts from a text prompt and flags hidden prompt-injection text in resumes. An MCP add-on and agent-ready career sites open it to outside AI assistants. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 6 |
| Leonar <https://www.leonar.app/> | Applicant tracking systems | "Source, engage, and place faster." Leonar is a French ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and search firms with built-in AI sourcing across 30+ sources and 870M+ profiles, plus email, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp sequences. Its live Sourcing Agent runs daily against open briefs and adds a ranked shortlist to the pipeline. Recruiters accept, edit or reject each proposed action. Conversations and Business Development agents are listed as coming in 2026. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 0 |
| Indeed <https://www.indeed.com/hire> | Hiring networks and job platforms | Indeed is the job site owned by Recruit Holdings that sells sponsored job ads, resume search and screening to employers; "3.5M+ Employers use Indeed to hire." Its employer AI now includes Talent Scout, a conversational hiring agent; Sourcing Assistant, which finds and invites candidates from more than 380 million sourceable profiles; and Smart Screening, which gives each applicant a 0 to 100 Smart Fit Score against the employer's criteria. Glassdoor merged into Indeed in July 2026. It does not sell an HRIS. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 8 |
| LinkedIn Talent Solutions <https://business.linkedin.com/hire> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "LinkedIn Recruiter + Hiring Assistant: Hire top talent with our recruiting platform and agentic AI." LinkedIn sells Recruiter seats, job posts and the Hiring Pro small-business plan to employers and staffing firms. Hiring Assistant, an add-on to Recruiter, turns a hiring goal into searches across a network of 1B+ members, drafts outreach, sends prescreening questions and reviews applicants. Recruiters choose which projects it works on and stay in control. It does not sell an ATS or HRIS. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 5 |
| ZipRecruiter <https://www.ziprecruiter.com/> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "A leading online employment marketplace" that sells job ads, a Resume Database of more than 50 million job seekers and candidate matching to "businesses of all sizes." It says it is "leveraging AI to strengthen our active matchmaking," and Smart Outreach (June 2026) turns a job description into a personalized message series of up to three messages. It also offers job search apps in ChatGPT and Claude. It does not sell an ATS; resumes export to an ATS by webhook. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 3 |
| ClearanceJobs <https://about.clearancejobs.com/> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "Find security-cleared talent, fast." ClearanceJobs is DHI Group's career network for people with active US security clearances, sold to defense contractors and government agencies, with about 2 million registered candidates and 1,805 hiring companies. Recruiters search with IntelliSearch, message and automate outreach with Workflow. In 2025 it bought AgileATS, an applicant tracking system for government contractors that DHI says adds AI-powered features. Its AI is thin next to peers: no named AI agent or 2025 to 2026 AI launch appears on its own feature log. | Core | Partial |  |  |  | technical, compliance | 2 |
| Dice <https://www.dice.com/hiring> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "Find and hire qualified AI and tech talent, faster." Dice is DHI Group's career marketplace for technology professionals, with 8.5 million tech profiles that recruiters and staffing firms search and post jobs to. Its September 2025 Employer Experience added an AI Job Description Generator, an AI Boolean Enhancer and automated talent alerts, and in Q2 2026 an AI Applicant Score that ranks every applicant. A June 2026 MCP server lets ChatGPT and Claude users search Dice jobs. It does not sell an ATS, interviewing or HRIS. | Core | Partial |  |  |  | technical | 2 |
| Handshake <https://joinhandshake.com/> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "The career network for the AI economy." Handshake is the early-career hiring network, with 25 million job seekers, 1,600+ university partners and employers including 97% of the Fortune 500. Employers post jobs free and pay for Pro and Enterprise, where Hiring Intelligence sources candidates, sends personalized outreach on the employer's behalf and adds AI fit signals to applicant review. A second business, Handshake AI, pays a network of experts and students ("188k+ fellows") for remote projects that train and evaluate AI models. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 4 |
| Wellfound <https://wellfound.com/> | Hiring networks and job platforms | "The AI recruiting platform for startups." Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) sells startups three hiring products. Jobs is free job posting with a built-in ATS. Reach is self-serve AI sourcing: agents run around the clock, search 10M+ opted-in candidates and 500M+ external profiles, draft tailored outreach and send it from the recruiter's own inbox. Autopilot is a managed service where a human recruiter, backed by AI search, delivers 5 to 10 ready-to-talk candidates a week. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 3 |
| Eightfold AI <https://eightfold.ai/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Talent intelligence, human-led." Eightfold sells a talent intelligence platform to large employers and governments for talent acquisition, talent management and resource management. A skills model trained on what it says are 1.6 billion career trajectories matches people to roles. Since 2025 it has added a family of Talent Agents: an AI Interviewer that runs voice interviews, a Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring, a Candidate Agent on SMS and WhatsApp, an AI Interview Companion for human interviews, and TalentForge for building custom HR apps. | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Core | hourly, technical | 7 |
| iMocha <https://www.imocha.io/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The Context Layer for Skills & Work Intelligence." Started as a coding and skills test vendor and now sells mainly skills intelligence: skills architecture, AI skills inference and validated skills assessments for hiring and workforce planning. It keeps a 10,000+ assessment library with coding tests and conversational AI interviews. It sells through SAP, Workday and SmartRecruiters marketplaces and reports 300+ enterprise customers. |  | Core | Partial |  | Core | technical | 2 |
| Juicebox <https://juicebox.ai/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The Leading AI Recruiting Platform." Juicebox (formerly marketed as PeopleGPT) sells natural-language candidate search across 800M+ profiles, AI-written outreach and always-on sourcing agents to in-house talent teams and staffing agencies. Recruiters describe a role in plain words and get a ranked candidate pool. Agents source, rank and engage candidates around the clock. Humans calibrate each agent, sign off on outreach copy and run the interviews. It does not sell an ATS or AI interviews. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 4 |
| Phenom <https://www.phenom.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Where shared intelligence meets human intuition." Phenom sells enterprise employers a talent experience platform: talent CRM, intelligent career site, chatbot, interview scheduling, onboarding, talent marketplace and workforce intelligence. Its AI now ships as named agents (Voice Screening, Fraud Detection, Career Coach and Sourcing) and an AI Interviewer, run under WorkOps, its agent orchestration and governance system. In 2026 it bought Included (agentic people analytics), Be Applied and Plum (assessments). | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Core | hourly | 7 |
| SourceWhale <https://sourcewhale.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The AI recruitment platform built on context." SourceWhale sells recruitment, staffing and executive search agencies a platform for sourcing, multichannel outreach (email, SMS, WhatsApp, phone), calls, an AI notetaker and its own CRM and ATS. AI ranks candidates from a plain-English brief, drafts replies in the recruiter's tone, summarizes calls and meetings, and refreshes contact data. It is built for agencies placing candidates with clients, not for in-house employer teams. | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  |  | 2 |
| Visage <https://www.visage.jobs/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Sourcing Work Completed. Candidates in Your ATS." Visage sells outbound sourcing for hard-to-fill roles to enterprise talent teams; the merger release names Siemens, Ford and ASML. In August 2025 it merged with Rolebot, a self-serve AI sourcing tool, under the Visage brand. AI runs sourcing from job intake through outreach, AI-supported experts vet candidates, and outreach goes from real, authenticated inboxes. Interested candidates land in the client's ATS, and its recruiters decide who moves forward. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Beamery <https://beamery.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The AI Platform For Workforce Transformation." Beamery sells large enterprises a talent CRM and talent acquisition suite (sourcing and matching, talent marketing, career sites and chatbot, events) on top of a jobs, skills and tasks data platform. Since July 2025 it leads with a Workforce Intelligence Suite built on Task Intelligence, which breaks roles into tasks to find automation and redesign options, and Ray, an embedded agentic AI consultant that turns that data into hiring and workforce recommendations. | Core | Partial |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| Findem <https://www.findem.ai/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | Findem sells a "People Intelligence platform" built on a 3D talent data graph (850M+ profiles, 1.6T labeled data points) for sourcing, talent CRM, market intelligence, executive search and workforce planning. Enterprise TA and HR teams buy it. Since 2025 it has moved into outcome-priced agents: Intelligent Job Posts, ReadySlate candidate slates, and Studio agents that produce succession plans and market maps. It bought Getro (job-board networks) and Glider AI (assessments, AI interviews, identity checks). | Core | Core | Partial |  | Core |  | 7 |
| Gem <https://www.gem.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | Gem calls itself "the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform": a recruiting CRM, sourcing tool, ATS, scheduling and analytics in one product. Recruiting teams at tech and growth companies buy it, either on top of their existing ATS or as the full stack. Named AI agents source candidates, review inbound applications, rediscover past candidates and flag fraudulent applicants. GeMCP puts Gem data inside Claude and ChatGPT. Gem says it is "Trusted by 1,200+ talent acquisition teams." | Core | Core | Core | Partial | Core |  | 5 |
| Gloat <https://gloat.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Any workforce agent, shipped in weeks." Gloat began as an internal talent marketplace for large enterprises (internal mobility, gigs, career paths, redeployment) and now sells "Agentic HR": prebuilt and custom workforce agents that sit on top of Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle HCM and run in Microsoft Teams, Copilot and Slack. Its Loomra Workforce Context Engine and multi-ontology Workforce Graph supply skills matching, career trajectories and market data. It does not sell external recruiting tools. | Partial |  |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| hireEZ <https://hireez.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | hireEZ (formerly Hiretual, renamed in 2022) now calls itself "the agent-native talent acquisition platform": outbound sourcing across 1B+ profiles on 45+ platforms, a recruiting CRM, applicant matching and rediscovery, outreach and scheduling, sold as an agentic layer on top of a customer's ATS. Corporate TA teams and agencies buy it. In August 2026 it rebuilt the platform on agents that research, source, engage and schedule, extending its 2025 EZ Agent, while recruiters direct the work. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Pearch AI <https://pearch.ai/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "World's leading candidate sourcing API." Pearch sells natural-language candidate search as a REST API and a low-code MCP integration. Buyers are ATS vendors, recruiting tools, HR products and AI agents that embed it. A query returns ranked profiles with work history, skills and contact details from "940M+ profiles across 30M companies". Most recruiters reach it through the 150+ recruiting platforms the vendor says integrate it. Pricing is credit-based. | Core |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Pin <https://www.pin.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The AI Recruiting Platform That Fills Your Pipeline While You Sleep." Pin sells AI sourcing over 850M+ profiles, AI-written multichannel outreach, interview scheduling and a pipeline CRM to recruiters, founders and staffing agencies. Paste a job description and Pin returns a ranked list. Its new Autopilot agent answers candidate replies and books interviews. Recruiters choose how much Autopilot handles, from reviewing drafts to full autonomy, and answer the questions it escalates. It plugs into 120+ ATSs rather than replacing them. | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  |  | 5 |
| SeekOut <https://www.seekout.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | SeekOut sells an "AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders": candidate search across 1B+ profiles plus the customer's ATS, outreach, applicant evaluation and AI screening. Enterprise TA teams buy it, with deep pools for engineers (GitHub), healthcare and security-cleared talent. It now pushes recruiting into the customer's own AI assistant through SeekOut MCP and an AI Coworker. SeekOut Spot is a separate agent-plus-recruiter service that delivers candidate slates. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial | technical, compliance | 4 |
| Talentium <https://www.talentium.io/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Find who's actually right for the role." Stockholm-based Talentium sells an AI hiring system to in-house talent teams, recruiters and founders. It searches 850M+ profiles from a plain-language brief. It scores sourced people and inbound applicants against the same criteria and shows the evidence and gaps for each match. Recruiters send outreach from their own inbox, with follow-ups that stop on reply, and push responders to their ATS. MCP connectors let it run inside Claude and ChatGPT. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Weekday <https://www.weekday.works/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "AI Outbound Recruiting for Passive Candidates." Weekday (YC W21) runs outbound sourcing campaigns, mostly for software and product roles, over a candidate marketplace and referral network. An AI sourcing agent finds candidates and AI drafts emails and follow-ups. Weekday's own team then chases non-responders by WhatsApp and phone and, on contingency plans, a senior recruiter schedules interviews. It sells either a 15% contingency fee or a credit-based marketplace subscription. | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  | technical | 0 |
| Fuel50 <https://fuel50.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Build the Workforce You Need as AI Changes Work." Fuel50 sells enterprises a talent intelligence platform that combines Skills Intelligence (ontology, architecture, inventory, Insights, Task Intelligence) with a Talent Marketplace for mobility, gigs, development and succession. In 2026 it launched an Agentic Hub with a Career Advisor Agent for employees and a Leader Coach Agent for managers, and an MCP server. Phoenix Education Partners, parent of the University of Phoenix, agreed to buy it in September 2026. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| HeroHunt.ai <https://www.herohunt.ai/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "AI Recruiter recruits for you on complete autopilot." HeroHunt.ai, based in Amsterdam, sells AI Recruiter to recruiters hiring tech talent. It searches about 1 billion web profiles including GitHub and Stack Overflow, screens candidates with language models, finds emails and sends personalized outreach with automatic follow-ups. The user supplies the job requirements, approves who gets contacted, can edit the outreach prompts and reviews the delivered profiles. | Core | Partial |  |  |  | technical | 0 |
| HireQuotient <https://www.hirequotient.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "The Future of Hiring is Agentic." HireQuotient sells EasySource, an AI sourcing agent, plus voice, interview and onboarding agents. Buyers are talent teams in frontline industries such as healthcare, insurance, building services, construction and manufacturing. EasySource scans LinkedIn, GitHub and 50+ open-web sources and checks licences against NPI, NIPR and state registries. It runs outreach by email, LinkedIn, SMS and voice. Recruiters can edit AI insights before they are final. It is listed on the Paylocity Marketplace. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| Leoforce <https://leoforce.com/> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "Agents that transform your job advertising and candidate engagement." Leoforce, maker of the Arya AI sourcing tool, now sells outcome-priced agents to employers, staffing firms and public sector teams. Source spreads job-ad spend across channels; Capture sources from 30+ channels, qualifies candidates and delivers interview-ready shortlists, with optional human checks; Convert is a career-site agent; Rediscovery re-engages past applicants in the ATS. Customers pay only for candidates who meet their criteria. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 2 |
| SourceGeek <https://www.sourcegeek.com/en> | Sourcing and talent intelligence | "SourceGeek is the AI assistant for recruiters." A Dutch sourcing tool sold to in-house teams and agencies. Its AI agent searches candidate profiles from a chat prompt, including GitHub for developers, scores each candidate against the job description with evidence, drafts personalized outreach and acts in connected ATS, email, calendar and Slack tools. It also plugs into Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor so recruiters can source and shortlist from those assistants. | Core | Partial |  |  |  | technical | 4 |
| Alfa AI <https://www.welovealfa.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "The #1 AI Recruiting Platform." London-based Alfa sells AI agents to recruiters and hiring teams. It scans "over 800 million profiles", writes and posts job ads and reaches out on its own. Lisa, an AI avatar, then runs audio or video interviews as soon as candidates apply and scores each one for fit. It syncs two ways with Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, Bullhorn and 70+ other ATSs. Recruiters review the scored candidates and interview recordings and move people through their pipeline. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Carefam <https://www.carefam.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Hire Clinicians with AI Built for Healthcare." Sold to hospitals, long-term care and home care employers. AI assistants source candidates, run round-the-clock AI screening calls and auto-credential them. They match, schedule interviews and nudge no-shows. They confirm offers, automate onboarding paperwork and check in with new hires through day 90. Complex or sensitive decisions go to human HR staff. It is not a staffing agency and is free for clinicians. It claims to "reduce time-to-hire by 3X." | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly, compliance | 3 |
| Carv <https://www.carv.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Build, deploy & manage recruitment agents at scale". Carv is an agent platform for high-volume recruiting at staffing firms and large employers in logistics, retail and contact centres. A library of agents covers screening, job discovery, rediscovery, scheduling, onboarding and compliance. Its voice agent calls applicants as soon as they apply and runs first-round phone screens in 99 languages, then logs transcripts to the ATS. It bought conversational AI firm Recrubo (WhatsApp, SMS and voice bots) in March 2025. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 2 |
| Clera <https://www.getclera.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | Calls itself "the first AI talent agent". The agent learns what each candidate wants in a conversation over chat, WhatsApp, iMessage or email. It matches them to startup roles and sends a warm intro straight to the hiring manager. It also helps with interview prep and with negotiating salary, equity and start date. Candidates use it free; companies pay 15% of first-year base salary only on a hire. The hiring manager runs the interviews and decides. It covers 900+ venture-backed startups in US and European hubs. | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  |  | 1 |
| Contrario <https://www.contrario.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Hire great talent faster." A company uploads a job description or syncs its ATS. A vetted network of 500+ expert recruiters sources and vets candidates. AI agents run the "follow-ups, scheduling, and coordination behind the scenes." Vetted candidates land in the client's ATS pipeline and Slack "within days." The client still interviews and decides. The vendor claims "20 days to meet the candidate you hire." Buyers are mostly startups hiring engineers and designers. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 2 |
| Dex <https://meetdex.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "The talent agent for senior software engineers." Every candidate has a voice or text conversation with Dex's AI agent about their experience, goals and deal-breakers. An employer briefs Dex once on what "great" looks like. Dex's matching engine and its human "matchmaker and talent team" then send a small flow of warm, opt-in introductions through Ashby, Slack or the existing process. Dex does not sell software to recruiters; it charges a placement fee. The employer runs the interviews and makes the offer. | Core | Core |  |  |  | technical | 1 |
| GoPerfect <https://www.goperfect.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "One Agent. Your Entire Hiring Pipeline. Running Right Now." GoPerfect (also called Perfect) sells in-house talent teams and agencies one AI recruiter that builds talent pools, sources candidates, writes and sends multi-step outreach by email, LinkedIn and phone, runs a first-round AI interview on inbound applicants, and keeps its own ATS and CRM in sync. The agent can send outreach without per-message approval. A human recruiter calibrates searches, approves sends in marketing campaigns, and makes every hiring decision. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 2 |
| HireBound <https://hirebound.io/> | AI recruiters and agents | "AI Agents That Actually Recruit For You." HireBound sells AI recruiting agents to staffing firms and in-house talent teams in the US and India. The agents source from 30+ sources, engage candidates over WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice, screen and score them, schedule interviews and hand recruiters a ranked shortlist. Recruiters still review flagged edge cases and make the shortlist, reject and hire calls. It calls itself an execution layer, not a system of record, and syncs with existing ATS and HRMS tools. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Hunar.AI <https://www.hunar.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Turn conversations into better workforce outcomes." Voice and WhatsApp AI agents for large frontline employers in India, such as Swiggy, Zepto and Croma. Named agents screen all applicants, run AI interviews and assessments, schedule and remind, and collect and validate documents. They verify each hire "before Day 1, with a full audit trail," then train and survey workers. Agents speak 20+ Indian languages. The vendor says recruiter coordination hours drop to zero but does not say what recruiters still do. | Partial | Core | Partial | Core |  | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| Jack & Jill <https://jackandjill.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Jack is the AI agent for careers. Jill is the AI agent for hiring." Candidates talk to Jack, a voice agent, about what they want, and Jack scans millions of jobs. An employer briefs Jill with a job description, notes or a conversation. Jill sharpens the role, writes a rubric and job description, matches it against Jack's network and introduces opted-in candidates directly, skipping the application stage. It works over email and Slack and connects to ATSs such as Ashby. The hiring team still interviews and makes the offer. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 2 |
| Jooba <https://www.jooba.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "The AI-native recruiting firm that runs your entire top-of-funnel." Jooba builds a custom AI sourcing agent for each open role. The agent searches candidates and sends outreach in the founder's name. Human "talent engineers" review and approve each pipeline before outreach. Jooba's team handles replies, scheduling, follow-ups and ATS updates. The client approves candidates in Slack and runs the interviews. It charges a flat monthly fee per role, not a placement fee. It claims "22hrs to first intro" and "52% faster to hire." | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Metaview <https://www.metaview.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Metaview is the Agentic Recruiting Platform built for radically efficient hiring, end to end." It began as an AI interview notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes interviews, and now sells agents for sourcing, application review, screening, outreach, job posts and reports. Its autonomous outbound agent, fillmore, sources candidates and books screening calls. Buyers are in-house talent teams; it does not sell an ATS or background checks. | Partial | Partial | Core |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Pluto <https://talentpluto.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "LinkedIn for agents." Pluto is a YC Summer 2026 talent network. A free AI voice agent calls or texts a professional for a 10-minute talk and builds a searchable profile. Companies tell Pluto who they want to meet; Pluto searches its network and the wider market, checks fit on both sides, confirms interest privately and makes a warm introduction. The hiring team still runs interviews and decides. No self-serve employer product or price is published. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Serra <https://serra.io/> | AI recruiters and agents | "The trades job board that lands you your first hire in under two weeks." Serra (YC S23) began as a general AI recruiter and now sells hiring for skilled trades such as diesel technicians, heavy-equipment mechanics, CDL drivers and field-service techs. The employer sends the role and jobsite. Serra matches and ranks candidates, reads every resume, contacts only people the employer approves and books interviews on the employer's calendar. The employer hires directly. Pricing starts at $10k a month with no placement fees. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 0 |
| Torre <https://torre.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "The global job network." Employers post jobs for free. Its AI talent agent Emma "attracts professionals, engages them, helps them apply, screens them, filters them, runs tests, ranks them, checks references, presents them to you with detailed reports" and helps book interviews. The hiring team sets criteria, reviews the reports and runs the interviews. Paid headhunting and managed tiers add reach. An API and MCP allow automated recruiting. It claims "Up to 3x faster recruiting." | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  | 3 |
| Lantern AI <https://lantern.md/> | AI recruiters and agents | "AI Recruiting Platform for Connected Hiring," sold to enterprises. Agents share one hiring context across sourcing, application review, AI interviews with follow-up questions, meeting notes and analytics. They work beside the existing ATS. Humans set the hiring standard, review the evidence, approve changes to the bar and make the final decision. The vendor publishes no speed claims. It also sells a people-data product for AI agents. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| NauWork <https://www.nauwork.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Meet your AI recruiting team." NauWork sells AI recruiting for tech and engineering teams, with semiconductor and chip companies such as Intel and SiFive among its logos. AI recruiters on its NauMatch platform search, match and screen candidates, and senior human recruiters review the shortlist before delivery. Employers pay a contingent fee per hire, a retainer, or for embedded recruiters. It is a search service, not self-serve software, and targets design and engineering roles rather than fab technicians. | Core | Core |  |  |  | technical | 1 |
| Noon <https://www.noon.ai/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Noon is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources, screens, and reaches out to qualified candidates." Built by Portal Inc. in New York and sold to in-house teams and agencies. Its agents search the web and the ATS, screen inbound applicants, check for fraud, contact candidates by email and SMS, book interviews, run first screening interviews and take notes. Recruiters set up roles, accept or reject ranked candidates and, in Noon's words, "focus on interviewing and hiring." | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 2 |
| Perfectly <https://www.perfectly.so/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Fill roles in days, not months." An AI recruiting service for startups. After a 45-minute intake, its agent Paul sources candidates with a recommendation model. Paul sends personal outreach by LinkedIn, email and text and AI-screens the matches. Interview-ready candidates arrive in Slack, and approved ones book their own interviews. A forward-deployed human recruiter calibrates the role and the outreach tone. The client gives feedback and interviews. It claims "4x faster" fills than agencies. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 2 |
| Prism <https://tryprism.com/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Qualified talent leads. A lot faster." An AI-native recruiting agency. The client briefs Prism once. Prism opens the role and sources from its pre-screened pool, the client's network and ATS, and the open web. It screens candidates and sends one ranked, interview-ready shortlist. The client runs the interviews and makes offers. The site does not say which steps are automated and which are done by people. Pricing is a monthly retainer plus a fee on a signed offer. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Standout <https://standout.work/> | AI recruiters and agents | "Agentic hiring marketplace." Every candidate and every company gets an agent. A company enters its URL. The agent reads its team, stack and stage, searches LinkedIn and GitHub, and pre-screens inbound applicants. It sends warm intros to Slack with a note on fit and books a 30-minute call. It also sends follow-up and rejection emails. Candidates run a CLI ("npx standout") that assesses how they build. Candidates stay anonymous until they accept an intro. Companies pay only on success. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 2 |
| Paraform <https://paraform.com/> | AI talent marketplaces | "Hire great people in days, not months." Paraform is a marketplace where 10,000+ expert recruiters and custom AI agents fill an employer's critical roles. The employer posts a role. Agents trained on past hiring outcomes ("Paraform Hiring Intelligence") give a shortlist of vetted candidates. Recruiters bring and vet candidates from their own networks. A dedicated talent strategist actively manages the search. The hiring team still interviews and decides. Recruiters get free AI sourcing, matching, CRM, a notetaker and a scheduler. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  | 4 |
| Ethos <https://agent.askethos.com/> | AI talent marketplaces | "Human intelligence, on-demand." A London AI-native expert network. A voice AI agent runs a structured interview with each expert and asks follow-up questions. It adds their papers, code and other public work to build a profile. Clients such as AI labs, investment funds and corporates search in plain language. Ethos matches experts to expert calls, surveys, consulting, AI data projects and full-time roles. It mainly sells expert access, not a hiring tool for an HR team. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Fika Jobs <https://fikajobs.ai/> | AI talent marketplaces | "Standout. From the crowd." Stockholm startup Fika Jobs has job seekers take a roughly 10-minute video interview with an AI agent, then turns the answers into a video profile that employers browse. Employers pay no subscription: Fika takes a 10% fee on the hire's first-year salary. It is a success-fee talent marketplace rather than a screening tool employers run on their own applicants. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 1 |
| Fonzi <https://fonzi.ai/> | AI talent marketplaces | "Where Top Startups Meet Top Engineers." Fonzi runs a curated hiring marketplace for software and AI engineers. Applicants talk briefly with Fonzi's AI interviewer, then a recruiter calls those who fit. Top candidates enter a monthly Match Day where startups, who must commit to salary ranges up front, request interviews. Each candidate gets a human recruiter and employers run their own interviews. In January 2026 it bought Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring. | Core | Core |  |  |  | technical | 2 |
| Braintrust AIR <https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-ai-recruiter/ai-hiring-tool> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI interview software for enterprise screening." AIR (AI Recruiter) runs conversational voice interviews with adaptive follow-up questions in 16+ languages, scores answers against a role rubric, ranks resumes by fit and sends ranked evidence to recruiters and the ATS. It does not auto-reject. Braintrust, its maker, also runs an AI-powered talent network (Talent Marketplace) and a workflow automation product, Nexus. Buyers are enterprise TA teams in technology, healthcare, financial services, retail and manufacturing. | Partial | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 4 |
| HireVue <https://www.hirevue.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI hiring technology to reveal proven skills and capabilities." HireVue sells enterprise video interviewing, validated assessments, a career-site matching and engagement agent, interview intelligence, and since June 2026 a voice AI Interviewer that runs two-way screening interviews and scores answers against rubrics. Buyers are large employers' talent acquisition teams, including hourly and high-volume hiring. It does not sell an ATS or HRIS. | Partial | Core | Core |  |  | hourly | 6 |
| InCruiter <https://incruiter.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI Interview and Interview as a Service Platform." Bengaluru-based InCruiter sells AI interview software (IncBot one-way AI interviews, IncScreen conversational phone screening), live video interviews with code collaboration, scheduling, proctoring with deepfake detection, and a network of 4,500+ human expert interviewers for tech and non-tech roles. In June 2026 it launched an agentic workflow platform from resume screening to onboarding. It claims 600+ clients. |  | Core | Core | Partial |  | technical | 2 |
| Jobma <https://www.jobma.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Intelligent, Human-first Hiring System." Jobma is a Minnesota-based video interviewing and assessment platform, founded in 2012, that now sells an agentic AI Interviewer for first-round screening alongside one-way and live video interviews, scheduling, fraud prevention and skills, coding and language tests. Buyers are enterprise and high-volume hiring teams; logos include Mayo Clinic, Samsung, AMN Healthcare and Bank of China. It does not sell an ATS. |  | Core | Core |  |  | technical | 3 |
| Paradox <https://www.paradox.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Meet the AI assistant for all things hiring." Paradox sells Olivia, a conversational AI assistant that screens, schedules and onboards candidates by chat and text, plus a Conversational ATS, career sites, CRM and AI-generated job preview videos. It is built for frontline, high-volume employers such as 7-Eleven, Chipotle and McDonald's franchisees. Workday bought it in October 2025 and now sells it as the Workday Paradox Candidate Experience Agent, also to non-Workday customers. | Partial | Core | Core | Partial |  | hourly | 5 |
| Tengai <https://tengai.io/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Automatic Shortlists. Faster Candidate Screening." Tengai is a Swedish AI interviewer: an AI avatar interviews candidates at any hour and replaces CV screening and phone screens, with questions built on the Five-Factor personality model. Recruiters get a ranked shortlist with competency data; the vendor says the AI never makes a decision. Buyers are Nordic employers, agencies and public bodies such as SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax and several Swedish municipalities. |  | Core |  |  |  |  | 2 |
| VidCruiter <https://vidcruiter.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI Recruiting Software" for high-volume hiring. VidCruiter sells pre-recorded and live video interviews, structured interview guides, scheduling, skills testing, automated reference checks and an applicant tracking system. AI scores pre-recorded answers against client-approved rubrics with a written rationale, transcribes and summarizes interviews, and flags fraudulent candidates. An agentic AI Interviewer is listed as coming soon. Buyers include public-sector, education and high-volume hourly employers. |  | Core | Core | Partial |  | hourly, compliance | 1 |
| Willo <https://www.willo.video/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Screen at scale. Shortlist with confidence." Willo sells one-way video, audio and written screening interviews to employers and agencies, with transcripts, AI summaries and benchmarks, plus identity and right-to-work checks. Willo Insights, launched June 2026, builds a role "blueprint" from job descriptions, frameworks and hiring-manager conversations and assesses applicants against it. The vendor says AI gives insights while humans decide. It does not run a live AI interviewer. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| Alex <https://www.alex.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Interview everyone. Hire the best." Alex (legal name Apriora Inc.) sells an AI recruiter that runs first-round interviews by phone, video, SMS and WhatsApp soon after a candidate applies, in 30 languages. It also screens resumes, scores applications for fraud, proctors interviews, checks ID against a live selfie, books calls and rediscovers past applicants in the ATS. Buyers are enterprise employers and staffing and RPO firms, across healthcare, manufacturing, retail and professional services. It does not sell an ATS. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 3 |
| Classet <https://www.classet.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI phone interviews for high-volume hiring." Classet sells Joy, an AI recruiter that phones applicants after they apply, runs the first screening interview, answers questions and sends summaries, transcripts and recordings. It adds a Call to Apply number answered 24/7, scheduling by text, Fast-track flags and pool insights. It connects to an ATS or runs as a standalone Hiring Hub. Buyers hire hourly and frontline staff in skilled trades, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and staffing. | Partial | Core | Partial |  | Partial | hourly | 3 |
| ConverzAI <https://www.converzai.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Staffing recruits faster with ConverzAI." ConverzAI sells a Virtual Recruiter for staffing firms. The agent leads screening interviews on its own, calls, texts and emails candidates, follows up on tasks such as certificate submissions, matches existing ATS candidates to open roles and books interviews. It integrates with staffing ATSs such as Bullhorn, Avionte, TempWorks and JobDiva. Buyers are staffing agencies, including Apex Systems; it is not built for direct employers. | Partial | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 0 |
| HeyMilo <https://www.heymilo.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The AI Recruiter for teams swamped by applications." HeyMilo screens and interviews every applicant with "structured AI voice, video, SMS, and forms" in 20+ languages. It scores resumes, runs knockout screens, phone and two-way video interviews and scenario-based skill tests, detects cheating, and syncs reports to the ATS. Buyers are corporate recruiters, staffing agencies, BPOs and franchises hiring roles such as warehouse associates, nurses and CDL drivers. Customers include Coca-Cola and AB InBev. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 2 |
| Hirevoice <https://www.hirevoice.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The voice AI recruiter for hiring at scale, in minutes instead of weeks, without losing quality." Hirevoice is a Spanish startup whose voice agents run adaptive spoken screening interviews with many candidates in parallel, then score and summarize each one with transcript citations. It adds WhatsApp outreach and scheduling, live cheating detection and post-interview document checks. Customers named include Desigual, Factorial and AraVinc. Co-founded by InfoJobs creator Nacho Gonzalez-Barros. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial |  |  | 1 |
| Humanly <https://www.humanly.io/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI Recruiting Platform for High-Volume Hiring". Humanly sells an AI Recruiter that engages, screens and schedules candidates around the clock, an AI Interviewer that runs structured video and phone interviews, an AI Notetaker, a talent CRM and an ATS. Buyers are hourly and frontline employers in retail, restaurants, healthcare, logistics and manufacturing. In 2025 and 2026 it bought Sprockets, Qualifi, HourWork, Anthill and CareerArc. With its 2026 Series B it is also building a pool of pre-interviewed job seekers for employers. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial |  | hourly | 7 |
| Interviewer.AI <https://interviewer.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The World's Most Advanced AI Interview Platform". Singapore vendor of one-way AI video interviews, AI resume screening and a conversational voice avatar interviewer that asks follow-up questions in a 5 to 10 minute screen. Sells self-serve plans to employers, staffing agencies and university admissions teams. Claims 850+ companies, including AIA and Emaar. |  | Core |  |  |  |  | 0 |
| LizzyAI <https://www.lizzy-ai.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI Recruiting. Hire Smarter. Faster." LizzyAI sells an AI interviewer named Lizzy that runs structured, role-specific interviews with candidates and hands recruiters evidence and scorecards to review. Modules around it cover CV screening and matching, AI scheduling, AI phone calls, WhatsApp and SMS recruiting, a career page agent and an interview copilot. Use cases named: high-volume hiring, expert roles, early careers and agencies. Buyers are employer talent teams and agencies. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 1 |
| Maki <https://www.makipeople.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The intelligence running your hiring, end to end." Maki is a set of named AI agents that sit on top of an employer's ATS. Shiro screens skills, Mochi runs voice screening 24/7 in 45+ languages, Ken runs deep assessments, Kumi schedules interviews, and Tomo records, structures and scores the human interview. Each candidate ends with a hire recommendation card. Maki does not source candidates. Humans run the final interview and decide. Use cases include frontline, early talent, specialists and staffing. |  | Core | Core |  | Partial | hourly, technical | 5 |
| Peoplebox.ai <https://www.peoplebox.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Hiring used to need a team. Now it needs Nova." Peoplebox.ai, a Y Combinator company from Bengaluru, sells Nova, an AI recruiter for first-round hiring: it ranks applicants, rediscovers past ATS candidates, answers candidates on the career site and runs AI interviews by phone, video, chat or text, then sends scored reports to the ATS. It also sells text-to-apply, an ATS and performance management (OKRs, reviews, 360 feedback). Customers it names include Razorpay, KPMG, Ripple and Sprinto. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 1 |
| Ribbon <https://www.ribbon.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "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. | Partial | Core |  |  | Partial | hourly | 3 |
| Ringtime <https://www.ringtime.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Find, screen & book workers. Even on Sundays." Ghent-based Ringtime sells AI agents that call and WhatsApp frontline candidates in 22 languages, screen them on availability, certificates, licences and travel time, and book them, all synced with the buyer's ATS. Buyers are staffing firms and employers hiring drivers, cleaners and operators; named clients include House of HR, Synergie, Trixxo and Logi-Technic. It does not sell an ATS. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 1 |
| Sapia.ai <https://sapia.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | Text-based AI interview platform, "Pioneering AI Interviews since 2018". Candidates answer a structured chat interview on any device; Sapia.ai scores answers against role competencies, gives every candidate feedback and hands recruiters ranked results. Built for frontline and volume hiring (retail, contact centres, healthcare, airlines, rail) plus graduate and professional roles. Adds scheduling, live analytics, the Tia talent intelligence agent and the Phai career coach. It does not use video or voice signals. It does not sell an ATS. |  | Core | Partial |  | Partial | hourly | 7 |
| Tenzo AI <https://www.tenzo.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The AI Interviewer Candidates Love." Tenzo sells an AI recruiter named Morgan that screens, interviews and schedules candidates around the clock in 40+ languages, by phone, video, WhatsApp and email. It also reviews resumes, flags fraud with 40+ signals, rediscovers past applicants and, since 2026, offers a Recruiter Note Taker for human-led calls. The vendor says it starts with the RPO market, replacing offshore recruiters on repetitive tasks. It does not sell an ATS. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Upwage <https://www.upwage.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI interviews designed for fairer hiring, better performance, & lower turnover." Upwage sells AI agents for talent teams: an AI Interviewer that runs 24/7 behavioral interviews in any language with follow-up questions, an AI Analyst that scores skills and highlights quotes, and an AI Builder for custom interviewers. It integrates with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse and others. Customers include Gopuff, REI, Easterseals and Jackson Hewitt, with a focus on turnover in frontline roles. |  | Core | Partial |  | Partial | hourly | 0 |
| VARIETAS <https://ai-interview.online/> | AI interviewers and screening | "AI Interviewer" (AI面接官) from Tokyo-based VARIETAS reads each applicant's submitted application, generates tailored questions and runs the first-round interview, scoring candidates on up to 16 criteria at once. It is sold to Japanese employers, mainly for new-graduate hiring. Customers named include Kirin Holdings, Lawson, Mitsubishi Chemical, Idemitsu Kosan, Daiwa House and JBIC. The AI interviewer is one of several AI agents in its TA Team recruiting platform. |  | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 3 |
| Fabric <https://www.fabrichq.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "The AI Platform for End to End Hiring." Fabric sells AI agents that "help recruiters source and interview the best candidates": AI first-round interviews (live coding for engineers, cold-call simulations for sales), cheating detection that flags AI-assisted answers from tools like Cluely or a second screen, AI sourcing across 1.3 billion profiles, ATS rediscovery and outreach by email, WhatsApp and phone. Buyers are IT services firms, staffing companies and recruiting agencies, many in India. It does not sell an ATS or background checks. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 3 |
| Hyring <https://hyring.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Your AI-native hiring platform." Hyring sells a chain of AI screening tools: an AI Video Interviewer for async and live two-way interviews with anti-cheat proctoring, an AI Phone Screener, an AI Resume Screener, an AI Coding Interviewer and an English proficiency test. It also bundles an ATS, HRIS, job portal, a recruiter marketplace paid on success, a done-for-you agency option and free jobseeker tools. It says it is "Trusted by 5,000+ HR teams." | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial |  | technical | 1 |
| Pete & Gabi <https://www.petegabi.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Conversational AI Agents for Sales and Recruiting." Pete & Gabi, powered by Chicago IT staffing firm Peterson Technology Partners, sells Rebecca, an AI recruiter that sources candidates, runs voice and video screening interviews (with live coding for technical roles), scores them and hands qualified people to recruiters through 42+ ATS integrations. It targets high-volume and seasonal hiring in retail, logistics and hospitality. It also sells an AI sales agent, Olivia. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 1 |
| Talently.ai <https://interview.talently.ai/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Your AI Interviewer". Small vendor whose AI runs live, conversational interviews and scores candidates in real time. Its site targets software agencies, campus and internship recruiting, sales teams and caregiver employers, with a free AI interview trial and a Talently Pro tier. No funding, customers at scale or dated news found. |  | Core |  |  |  |  | 0 |
| Truffle <https://www.hiretruffle.com/> | AI interviewers and screening | "Screening applicants sucks. So we fixed it." Truffle is a self-serve AI screening tool for small, lean teams doing high-volume hiring. Candidates record async one-way video or audio interviews; Truffle transcribes and scores them against a rubric, alongside resume scoring and assessments, and cuts 30-second Candidate Shorts. The vendor says scores never reject anyone. Logos include Randstad, Mathnasium, The Salvation Army and Chick-fil-A. |  | Core |  |  |  |  | 0 |
| BrightHire <https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "AI built for exceptional hiring." BrightHire records and summarizes interviews, writes notes and scorecards, guides interviewers in real time and measures interview quality. It also drafts job descriptions and structured interview plans, and sells BrightHire Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screens. Zoom bought it in late 2025 and sells it as part of Zoom Workplace. Buyers are corporate talent teams. |  | Partial | Core |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Pillar (AI Interview Companion by Employ) <https://www.employinc.com/ai-interview-companion/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "Great Teams Start with Great Interviews." Formerly Pillar, this is Employ Inc.'s interview intelligence product. It writes interview questions from a job description, records and summarizes interviews, collects feedback, guides interviewers live and coaches them afterward. It works inside Lever and connects to ATS, video and calendar tools. Employ says it does not score candidates or make hiring recommendations. |  |  | Core |  |  |  | 0 |
| GoodTime <https://goodtime.io/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "Smarter scheduling. Sharper decisions. Better experiences." GoodTime automates interview scheduling for one-day, multi-day and panel loops, and adds AI applicant screening, SMS and WhatsApp messaging, an AI notetaker, interviewer training and hiring analytics. Its AI hiring coordination agent, Cori, screens, schedules, reschedules and talks to candidates. Buyers are enterprise talent teams; it is not an ATS. |  | Partial | Core |  | Partial |  | 2 |
| ModernLoop <https://modernloop.com/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "Efficiently transform your candidate experience." ModernLoop is an interview scheduling platform for panel, superday and high-volume loops, with scheduling queues, Zero Click Scheduling from ATS stage changes, interviewer training and reporting. It now also sells Taylor AI, "Your Always-On AI Recruiter", an agent that interviews candidates 24/7 at any volume, pitched at retail, food service and warehouse hiring. Scheduling buyers are recruiting coordinators at tech companies such as Instacart, Brex and Ramp. |  | Partial | Core |  | Partial | hourly | 0 |
| Cronofy <https://www.cronofy.com/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "See, schedule and transcribe every HR conversation." Cronofy sells embedded scheduling and conferencing infrastructure that HR tech platforms and ATS vendors build into their products, covering hiring, onboarding and one-to-ones. It adds video links and returns speaker-attributed transcripts, recordings and summaries for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, and offers a white-label notetaker. It also sells an interview scheduling assistant to recruiters. |  |  | Core |  |  |  | 0 |
| HireLogic <https://www.hirelogic.com/> | Interview scheduling and intelligence | "Get AI-Powered Insights by Listening to any Interview." HireLogic joins phone, video or in-person interviews, then produces topic summaries, a match to the job description and flags for potential compliance issues. It adds an interview chatbot, intake-call analysis, recruiter team analytics, resume analysis and an AI interview agent for first screens. Buyers include staffing firms and in-house recruiters. |  | Partial | Core |  | Partial |  | 0 |
| Alva Labs <https://www.alvalabs.io/> | Skills assessments | "One system for hiring, run by an agent trained on the science." Stockholm-based psychometric assessment company that has turned into an agentic hiring system with its own ATS, sourcing, CV screening, structured interviews and analytics. Assessments include logic, personality and coding tests. AI suggests interview scores against role criteria, drafts job ads and feedback, and an Agentic Psychometrics add-on interprets results inside an existing ATS. 650+ hiring teams use it. | Partial | Core | Core |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Aon Assessment <https://www.aon.com/en/capabilities/talent-and-rewards/pre-hire-talent-assessment> | Skills assessments | Aon's pre-hire talent assessment unit: cognitive, personality and skills tests, coding assessments and asynchronous video interviews (vidAssess-AI scores spoken answers by competency). Aon partners with impress.ai for AI hiring automation. It serves volume and graduate hiring and integrates with 80+ ATS and HRIS. Aon says it deploys 30M+ assessments a year in 40+ languages. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly, technical | 0 |
| Coderbyte <https://coderbyte.com/> | Skills assessments | "Evaluate any skill quickly, accurately, and affordably." Assessment and interview platform for startups, enterprises and staffing platforms, sold on an unlimited usage plan. It sells AI resume scoring, automated phone screens with grading, graded take-home challenges across 500+ skills, and live interviews with an agent mode on frontier models. Its integrity stack includes identity checks, AI detection, paste and tab-leaving detection and webcam proctoring. Coderbyte says 3,000+ organizations use it. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 0 |
| CoderPad <https://coderpad.io/> | Skills assessments | "Every role is technical now. Hire like it." Technical hiring platform with three products: Qualify (async video screening with an AI reviewer that ranks candidates against a rubric), Screen (real-world coding assessments) and Interview (live collaborative coding). Candidates can use AI assistants in the editor, and interviewers review their prompt history. Integrity tools include real-time alerts, paste detection and playback. CoderPad reports over 4,000 customers. |  | Core | Core |  |  | technical | 1 |
| Codility <https://www.codility.com/> | Skills assessments | "AI can write code now. Hire the engineers who can build." Technical assessment platform with three products: Screen, Interview and Skills Intelligence. Candidates can work with Claude Code or an AI Copilot inside the assessment, and every prompt and answer is saved for reviewers to replay. Integrity tools cover identity checks, impersonation detection and proctoring. Buyers are engineering and recruiting teams; Codility says it powers over 20,000 engineering teams. |  | Core | Core |  | Partial | technical | 1 |
| Criteria <https://www.criteriacorp.com/> | Skills assessments | "People are more than their resumes." Pre-employment testing company (Criteria Corp) selling cognitive aptitude, personality and skills tests, plus structured and predictive interviewing. Its AI layer scores video interviews from transcripts (Interview Intelligence), proctors tests, and since June 2026 runs early-round interviews by voice, text and video with an AI Interview Agent. It reports 4,000+ customers in 60 countries and ISO 42001 certification. |  | Core | Core |  |  |  | 2 |
| Equip <https://equip.co/> | Skills assessments | "Hiring is hard. Yours won't be." Low-cost shortlisting platform (Socratease, Inc.) that runs CV screening, skills tests for tech and non-tech roles, coding tests, and one-way and conversational AI interviews inside its own AI-native ATS. AI proctoring produces a Trust Score, and an auxiliary-device mode uses the candidate's phone to watch hands, keyboard and screen. It prices per candidate, includes the ATS on every plan and reports 1,000+ customers. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 0 |
| eSkill <https://www.eskill.com/> | Skills assessments | "Comprehensive tests for hiring." Pre-hire skills testing platform with 600+ subjects and 70,000+ questions, cognitive and behavioral tests, one-way interviews and AI-powered proctoring. Linea, its AI layer launched August 2026 on Anthropic Claude models, builds role assessments from a job description; Linea Sample, launched October 2026, adds scored contact-center work simulations. Scaleworks bought eSkill in July 2024. It serves 1,000+ organizations, including manufacturing employers. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 2 |
| HackerEarth <https://www.hackerearth.com/> | Skills assessments | Technical hiring platform with hiring challenges, coding assessments, FaceCode live interviews and, since April 2026, OnScreen: an AI interviewer that runs structured technical interviews at any hour with lifelike avatars, identity checks and proctoring. HackerEarth reports a 10M+ developer community, 150M+ assessments completed, and use by Google, Amazon and Microsoft. | Partial | Core | Core |  |  | technical | 1 |
| HackerRank <https://www.hackerrank.com/> | Skills assessments | "Hire for the agentic era." Technical hiring platform for engineering teams: coding tests (Screen), live pair-programming interviews (Interview), and Chakra, an agentic AI interviewer that became generally available in October 2026. Candidates can use an AI assistant inside the IDE, and HackerRank grades how they use it. An AI Add-on sells proctoring, a lockdown desktop app and plagiarism checks. Customers can also hire directly from its community of 30 million+ developers. It does not sell an ATS. | Partial | Core | Core |  |  | technical | 4 |
| Harver <https://harver.com/> | Skills assessments | Predictive talent assessment and hiring platform (Outmatch rebranded as Harver; includes pymetrics). It sells validated pre-employment assessments, one-way video interviews, automated reference checks and a candidate chatbot, with a dedicated hourly hiring product. In 2026 it launched AI PREVAIL, an AI aptitude and readiness assessment, and bought Symphony Talent to add recruitment marketing and CRM. Backed by Rubicon Technology Partners. | Partial | Core | Partial |  | Partial | hourly | 2 |
| Mercer \| Mettl <https://mettl.com/> | Skills assessments | Mercer's online assessment and exam business (India-founded Mettl). It sells psychometric, aptitude, domain and AI-assisted coding assessments, hackathons, an AI-assisted exam platform, and AI plus human proctoring with a secure exam browser. It serves corporate hiring and education. Mettl says 6,000+ organizations and 700+ educational institutions in over 100 countries use it. |  | Core | Partial |  | Partial | technical | 0 |
| SHL <https://www.shl.com/> | Skills assessments | "Everyone has AI. Not everyone is ready." Long-standing psychometric assessment company: personality (OPQ), cognitive (Verify), situational judgment, job-focused assessments, video interviews and coding and technical simulations. It sells to talent acquisition and talent management teams, with volume-hiring solutions for retail, contact center and BPO. SHL says it serves over 10,000 businesses and that 45 million SHL assessments are taken each year. |  | Core | Partial |  | Partial | hourly, technical | 2 |
| CodeSignal <https://codesignal.com/> | Skills assessments | "Agentic skills validation & development." Skills assessment and AI interview platform for technical and business roles, plus a Learn product for upskilling. Hiring teams use coding assessments with Cosmo, an in-IDE AI assistant, and Interviewer Agents that run role-specific first-round interviews by web or phone in 20+ languages and return scorecards to the ATS. Named customers include Google, Anthropic, Meta and Capital One. It does not sell an ATS. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 5 |
| Glider AI <https://glider.ai/> | Skills assessments | Skills validation platform for staffing firms and enterprises. Glider sells autonomous AI interviews, skills assessments, AI proctoring and ID Verify, a biometric identity check against deepfakes and proxy candidates. In March 2026 Findem signed a definitive agreement to acquire it; Glider keeps its brand inside Findem's platform. Named customers include Intuit, FedEx and Emirates. Its main product is skills validation, so it fits assessment better than ai_interview. | Partial | Core | Core |  |  |  | 3 |
| Karat <https://karat.com/> | Skills assessments | 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. |  | Partial | Core |  | Partial | technical | 2 |
| TestGorilla <https://www.testgorilla.com/> | Skills assessments | "The proof-first AI recruiting platform." Amsterdam-founded pre-employment testing company that now pairs a skills test library and AI video interviews with Gorilla Sourcing, a search over 900M candidate profiles that shows why each one matches. In March 2026 it added AI readiness and AI fluency assessments and five conversational AI simulation tests. Homepage logos include PayPal, PepsiCo and Instacart. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Bryq <https://www.bryq.com/> | Skills assessments | "Hire better. Hire faster." Talent assessment platform with cognitive, personality (16PF and OCEAN), culture-fit and 140+ skills tests. In July 2026 it launched a simulation-based, tool-agnostic AI Fluency Assessment. Its homepage also lists a read-only Bryq MCP so assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot can query candidate results under each user's access rights. |  | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Canditech <https://www.canditech.io/> | Skills assessments | "The Skill Assessment Platform for the AI-age". Job-simulation skills tests for technical skills, soft skills and AI proficiency, with an AI assessment builder, AI auto-scoring and tools such as ChatGPT and Claude embedded inside tests. Also sells one-way video interviews and a WhatsApp and SMS screening chatbot. It does not run AI-conducted interviews, so it fits assessment, not ai_interview. Customers include Wolt, Glovo, EY and ManpowerGroup. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | technical | 0 |
| Hogan Assessments <https://www.hoganassessments.com/> | Skills assessments | Personality assessment publisher (Hogan inventories) used for selection and leadership development, mostly through certified practitioners. In July 2026 it bought Convogo, an AI platform that combines Hogan data with other talent information to write a first-draft interpretation for practitioners to review. AI here supports interpretation; Hogan does not sell an AI interviewer. |  | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Vervoe <https://vervoe.com/> | Skills assessments | Skills assessment company that calls itself "an AI-powered skills validation platform." Employers build job simulations, skills tests and cognitive tests, which Vervoe grades and ranks with machine learning. It also screens applicants by chat or voice. In September 2026 it added a Skills Advisory service and Intelligent Interview Scheduling, which books interviews in the platform and shares assessment results with interviewers. It names the US as a priority market. |  | Core | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Woven <https://www.woventeams.com/> | Skills assessments | "Woven is a human-powered technical assessment that simulates real engineering work and AI-proofs your hiring process." Employers pick role-specific scenarios (code review, debugging, system design) that two certified engineers score double-blind, with human proctoring to check the work is the candidate's own. Newer AI-Enabled scenarios test how well candidates ship code with AI tools. Andela bought Woven in January 2026; the standalone product is still sold. |  | Core |  |  |  | technical | 1 |
| Appcast <https://www.appcast.io/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Better Hiring Outcomes. Less Wasted Spend." Appcast runs programmatic recruitment advertising (AppcastOne), search and brand ads, career sites, an apply layer and employer brand creative, plus benchmark data through Recruitonomics. Employers and staffing firms buy it to place and optimize job-ad spend. It is a Stepstone Group subsidiary. Its job listings feed ChatGPT's job search, and its new career sites are built to be found by AI search tools. | Core |  |  |  | Partial |  | 2 |
| Broadbean by Veritone <https://www.veritone.com/solutions/hire/> | Job ads and employer brand | Veritone's hiring business, sold as Veritone Hire and now branded Broadbean by Veritone. It combines Broadbean job distribution to thousands of boards with PandoLogic's AI programmatic job advertising (pandoIQ) and a conversational AI candidate chat. Staffing agencies, employers and public bodies buy it. Veritone, a public AI company, reports declining Hire revenue in 2026. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Datapeople <https://datapeople.io/> | Job ads and employer brand | "AI for Talent Teams." Datapeople centralizes job descriptions, writes and checks job ads, and reports on job-post performance. Talent acquisition teams use it to standardize job content and keep posts compliant across an ATS. Payscale bought it in September 2025 to tie job posts to pay ranges and job profiles. It does not run ad spend or screen candidates. | Core |  |  |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Joveo <https://www.joveo.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Be the Agentic." Joveo started as a programmatic job-ad buyer and now sells a set of AI agents across the top of the hiring funnel: job advertising, career sites, chatbot apply, talent CRM campaigns, AI interviews, interview scheduling and analytics. Buyers are direct employers, staffing firms, RPOs and recruitment marketing teams. In September 2026 it joined these into one agentic recruiting platform that plugs into the employer's ATS. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 8 |
| Radancy <https://www.radancy.com/en/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Simplify Hiring With One Responsible, AI-Powered Platform." Radancy sells the Radancy Talent Acquisition Cloud: AI-driven talent attraction, career sites, candidate engagement, screening and scheduling, and analytics, sold to large enterprises. Its 2025 myInterview acquisition added conversational agents that engage candidates by text, voice or video. It integrates with SAP SuccessFactors and other ATSs rather than replacing them. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | 2 |
| Recruitics <https://www.recruitics.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Everything before the hire, working as one." Recruitics sells a talent acquisition platform for employers with continuous hiring needs: labor market and performance intelligence (Predict), multichannel job advertising (Attract) and AI-ready application flows (Convert), plus employer brand and strategy services. Its AdaptiveApply flow now adds ID.me identity checks and Maki People voice interviews. It led the Open Job Context Protocol, an MCP-based standard for AI agents applying to jobs. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Symphony Talent <https://www.symphonytalent.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Full-funnel TA technology meets bold brand storytelling." Symphony Talent sells the SFX suite: recruiting CRM, programmatic ad tech and media, AI career sites, assessments, on-demand video interviews and analytics, plus employer brand creative from The Studio. Its AI assistant, Tala, runs across the suite. Harver, an assessment vendor, acquired it in September 2026. | Core | Partial | Partial |  | Partial |  | 3 |
| Talroo <https://www.talroo.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Smarter job ads built for frontline hiring results." Talroo sells pay-for-performance job advertising aimed at frontline and skilled trades workers, plus conversational AI pre-qualification (SmartQualify), hiring event ads and job-level analytics. Employers in retail, logistics, healthcare and trades buy it to get applicants at a target cost per application. It does not sell an ATS. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial | hourly | 2 |
| VONQ (EQO) <https://www.vonq.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | VONQ sells EQO, launched July 2026 as "a unified Talent Attraction Platform" that runs top-of-funnel hiring as one agentic workflow: job description writing, multiposting and programmatic ads, recruitment marketing, AI screening, AI interviews and scoring. Enterprises and staffing firms buy it directly or inside their ATS; it integrates with 70+ systems, including Employ's JazzHR and Lever, iCIMS and SAP SuccessFactors. Based in Rotterdam. | Core | Core |  |  |  |  | 3 |
| Textio <https://textio.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Attract. Interview. Hire. Develop. It's all on Textio." Textio began as AI writing guidance for job posts and recruiting messages (Textio Recruiting) and performance feedback (Textio Feedback). In March 2026 it launched Lavalier, an interview intelligence product that builds structured interview guides, guides interviewers live and summarizes interview evidence. Buyers are talent and people teams at large companies. | Core |  | Partial |  |  |  | 1 |
| Wonderkind <https://www.wonderkind.com/> | Job ads and employer brand | "Turn hiring intent into interview-ready talent." Wonderkind runs social job advertising on Meta, TikTok and Snap and across 1,000+ job boards (Attract), screens candidates before they apply (Qualify), and delivers interview-ready candidates into the ATS for a fee per qualified candidate (Deliver). Buyers are mainly staffing firms and high-volume employers in Europe. | Core | Partial |  |  |  |  | 2 |
| Apploi <https://apploi.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "Built for Healthcare, Backed by Ai." Apploi sells healthcare employers (senior living, home health, skilled nursing, behavioral health) one platform to hire, onboard and schedule staff: job distribution and recruitment ad spend (Reach), recruiting with credential verification (Hire), onboarding with ongoing license checks (Onboard) and shift scheduling (Schedule). Viventium bought it in January 2026 to join it with payroll. | Core | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial | compliance | 1 |
| FactoryFix <https://www.factoryfix.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "The #1 Recruiting Platform for Skilled Trades and Manufacturing." FactoryFix sells manufacturers AI recruiters plus access to a talent pool it puts at 10M+ manufacturing and trades professionals. Its AI recruiter, Copilot, sources passive candidates, optimizes job visibility, screens applicants in natural conversations and can schedule interviews when enabled. It pitches itself as a replacement for job board subscriptions and high-cost agencies, and it produces local labor market reports. | Core | Core | Partial |  | Partial |  | 0 |
| Emi <https://www.emilabs.ai/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "1 de cada 10 contrataciones operativas en México pasa por Emi" (1 in 10 frontline hires in Mexico goes through Emi). Emi Labs, founded in Buenos Aires, sells AI agents for high-volume operational hiring, mainly in Mexico. Generative AI conversations on WhatsApp, Messenger and SMS attract, pre-screen, schedule interviews, collect documents, validate them against Mexican government records and register hires in the HRIS. A newer retention agent platform interviews leavers and checks in with current staff. | Partial | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly, compliance | 0 |
| Fountain <https://www.fountain.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "The #1 agent that runs your frontline operations." Fountain sells a hiring, onboarding and workforce platform to large hourly employers in retail, logistics, delivery, food service, hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing. Its Frontline OS bundles sourcing, CRM, ATS, onboarding with I-9, and shift scheduling. Named AI agents screen applicants (Anna), support workers 24/7 including I-9 and W-4 help (Emma), check in on new hires (Sam), and Cue runs hiring operations from one prompt. | Core | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly, compliance | 6 |
| Harri <https://harri.ai/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "The AI workforce OS built to run hospitality." Harri sells hiring, scheduling, labor compliance, payroll links and engagement to restaurants, hotels and retail. Its Hire module posts to 50+ boards, writes AI job descriptions, and uses the Carri chat assistant and AI screening calls to screen, rank and schedule frontline applicants. Salli, an agentic assistant, runs scheduling, coverage and compliance checks for managers. | Partial | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 3 |
| Laborup <https://www.laborup.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "Industrial ambition needs a workforce." Laborup sells manufacturers an "AI workforce platform" that joins its own network of skilled industrial workers with AI agents that find, engage and qualify machinists, welders, mechanics and maintenance technicians. A voice-first AI system interviews workers who are often missed by online networks and verifies their skills and certifications. It also offers labor market intelligence. It does not publish whether it charges per hire or by subscription. | Core | Core |  | Partial | Partial |  | 1 |
| Sense <https://www.sensehq.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "Automate your recruiting process, exactly how you want it." Sense sells an AI recruiting automation platform to staffing firms and enterprise talent teams doing volume hiring. Its AI agents answer candidate FAQs, re-source past applicants from the database, score and match candidates, run chat and voice AI interviews and phone screens, and run SMS, WhatsApp and email nurture. It lists Manufacturing and Warehousing among its industries and says it works with 5 of the 10 largest staffing firms. | Core | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 0 |
| Skillit <https://www.skillit.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | Skillit calls itself "an AI-powered hiring platform transforming how construction workers are sourced, screened and coordinated." Contractors search, match with and message craft workers, then hire them directly (Craft Hire), or buy an enterprise tier with workforce intelligence, bulk outreach and workflows. Workers use it free. It serves construction, including data center, semiconductor fab, battery plant and advanced manufacturing projects. | Core | Partial |  |  | Partial |  | 1 |
| Workstream <https://www.workstream.us/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "The AI-native operating platform that runs your hourly team." Workstream sells hiring, onboarding, scheduling, HR and payroll to multi-location hourly employers, mostly restaurant franchisees (it claims 46 of the top 50 restaurant brands). AI agents call and remind applicants (Voice AI), record video interview answers (Video AI), flag payroll and labor-compliance issues such as expiring I-9s, and answer plain-English questions (AskAI). | Partial | Core | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly, compliance | 0 |
| Blucor <https://www.blucor.ai/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "AI Recruiter for Blue-Collar and High-Volume Hourly Hiring." Blucor sells Hope, an AI recruiter for lean HR teams hiring welders, warehouse associates, forklift operators, maintenance technicians and production supervisors. Hope posts jobs on Indeed, reviews applicants, runs AI phone interviews against the employer's criteria, writes evaluation reports, schedules interviews and writes results into the employer's ATS. Its named customer is the fan manufacturer Twin City Fan, and it says it runs at more than 80 US sites. | Partial | Core | Partial |  |  | hourly | 4 |
| Talkpush <https://www.talkpush.com/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "Hiring at scale that feels like a conversation." Talkpush sells an AI-powered ATS and recruitment CRM for high-volume hiring, mostly in emerging markets, to BPOs, contact centers, retail, food service, staffing and logistics employers filling 500 to 50,000 roles a year. AI handles chat and voice screening, AI interviews with TalkScore voice scoring, best-match ranking, onboarding voice check-ins, and an MCP server with 90 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. | Core | Core | Partial | Partial | Partial | hourly | 2 |
| Team Engine <https://www.teamengine.io/> | Hourly and frontline hiring | "Recruiting Software for Field Teams." Team Engine sells recruiting, onboarding and employee texting software to companies with "field-based, deskless, and multilingual workforces": landscaping, construction, plumbing and HVAC, cleaning and manufacturing. It posts and sponsors jobs, pre-screens applicants with custom criteria and AI text follow-ups, schedules interviews, and since September 2025 collects I-9s and W-4s by text with an AI assistant and starts Checkr background checks. Its manufacturing page pitches "Hiring and Communication for the Workforce That Keeps Your Line Moving." | Core | Partial | Partial | Core | Partial | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| Qualtrics EmployeeXM <https://www.qualtrics.com/employee-experience/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Qualtrics sells experience management software; its employee experience suite (EmployeeXM) runs engagement and lifecycle surveys for large employers under the headline 'Close the gap between feedback and action'. For HR analytics, Retention Analytics links survey data to HR data to flag at-risk groups and 'simulate flight-risk scenarios', AI groups thousands of comments into themes, and managers get AI action recommendations. Its Experience Agents are pitched mainly for customer service. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 1 |
| 15Five <https://www.15five.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | 15Five sells 'The AI-powered performance management platform built for business impact': reviews, engagement surveys, manager enablement, compensation and an HR outcomes dashboard for mid-market and enterprise HR teams. Its Amaya agent lets HR leaders ask open questions of their people data, and an Insights Dashboard and Discovery Feed surface patterns and outliers. Kona, an AI coach it acquired in 2025, joins 1:1s and coaches managers. Work Context reads signals from Slack, Jira and GitHub. It does not sell recruiting. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| Culture Amp <https://www.cultureamp.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Culture Amp sells employee engagement surveys (Engage) and performance management (Perform), and says it is 'Trusted by 6,000+ companies'. People teams and managers buy it. Its AI Coach reads survey results and surfaces the top actions, structures reviews and role-plays hard conversations. Since August 2026 an MCP server puts engagement and performance insights inside ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools. It bought people analytics firm Orgnostic in 2024 to combine people data from other HR systems with survey data. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| Lattice <https://lattice.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Lattice sells performance reviews, goals, engagement surveys, career growth and compensation software, plus an HRIS, under the headline 'High-performing teams are built here'. HR teams and managers at mid-size companies buy it. Its Lattice AI Agent answers employee HR questions, summarizes 1:1s, coaches managers and 'identifies trends in employee inquiries'. Lattice MCP brings performance data into Claude, ChatGPT and Glean, and the planned AI Leverage Insights links AI usage to performance outcomes. It does not sell recruiting. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 2 |
| Leapsome <https://www.leapsome.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Leapsome sells an HR platform for lean people teams: a talent suite (reviews, engagement surveys, goals, learning, compensation), an HRIS and, since July 2026, an ATS in early access. It says '2,000+ companies trust Leapsome'. Its Data Analyst agent gives 'Board-ready answers from a prompt' on attrition drivers and program ROI and drafts dashboards and board slides. Other agents coach employees, run onboarding steps and answer policy questions. MCP connectivity moves people data in and out. | Partial |  |  | Partial | Core |  | 1 |
| Lightcast <https://lightcast.io/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Labor market data and skills intelligence company. "Build your labor market strategy with better data." Employers, colleges, governments and HR tech vendors buy its job-posting and workforce data, the Lightcast skills taxonomy, the Analyst platform and Talent Transform for skills-based workforce planning. AI maps skills to jobs (Skills Agent), answers plain-language workforce questions (ASK) and feeds its data to AI assistants over MCP. It does not sell an ATS or a recruiting workflow tool. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 6 |
| Nakisa <https://nakisa.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Nakisa sells enterprise software in three lines: HR (org chart, org design and strategic workforce planning), lease accounting and real estate (IWMS). Its HR portfolio lets large SAP and Workday customers model org structures and headcount plans. Nakisa Decision Intelligence (NDI) lets users ask questions in plain language by text or voice and get recommendations that "Nakisa AI agents" can carry out, and Nakisa MCP connects outside agents to its products. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| Orgvue <https://www.orgvue.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Orgvue sells organizational design and strategic workforce planning software to large enterprises and consulting firms. Teams model org structures, roles, costs and scenarios before a restructuring. Its Henshaw AI suite uses generative AI and machine learning to group positions into roles, role clusters and job families and to answer plain-language questions about org data. A WebMCP interface lets a customer's own agent work inside an open Orgvue workspace. It does not sell an HRIS or recruiting software. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| Pave <https://www.pave.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "The AI compensation platform." HR and total rewards teams use PaveOS for real-time pay benchmarking from 9,000+ client companies, market pricing, pay ranges, merit cycles, total rewards and visual offer letters. The Pave Agent acts as an AI compensation analyst: it runs multi-step work such as merit-cycle simulations and pay-equity cases on the company's own comp data, cites its sources and now reaches Claude over MCP. It does not sell recruiting or payroll software. |  |  |  | Partial | Core |  | 4 |
| Payscale <https://www.payscale.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Compensation data, benchmarking and pay analytics. "Confident pay decisions. Real business impact." Compensation and HR teams buy Ascent (AI-first benchmarking on Peer data from 4,500+ organizations), JobNav (job architecture), JobNav Recruiter (pay-aligned job postings, built on its 2025 Datapeople acquisition) and Paycycle (merit cycles). AI writes compensation reports from chat requests (Smart Reporting) and walks users through job pricing (Smart Price). It does not sell payroll. | Partial |  |  |  | Core |  | 6 |
| Peoplelogic <https://peoplelogic.ai/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Peoplelogic sells Peoplelogic Impact, performance management for small HR teams: goals, 1:1s, feedback, surveys, reviews, development plans and a career lattice, 'from $3,000 a year'. It says it is 'Trusted by 1200+ organizations'. AI drafts content in every module and suggests 1:1 talking points, and analytics show goal completion, 1:1 frequency and engagement by team and manager. Managers work in Slack or Teams. It does not sell recruiting. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 0 |
| Perceptyx <https://www.perceptyx.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Perceptyx sells employee listening and engagement software it calls 'The AI-Powered Employee Experience Platform That Drives Action And Builds Capability' to large enterprises; it says it is trusted by more than 30% of the Fortune 100. Discover runs surveys and analytics, Activate nudges and coaches, and Develop builds skills. Its Narrative Analysis Agent reads open comments, predictive signals flag attrition risk, and Perceptyx Anywhere feeds listening data into AI assistants through an MCP server and org-specific forecasting models. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 3 |
| Syndio <https://synd.io/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Pay equity and pay decision analytics. "Every pay decision, guided by humans, powered by AI." Compensation, HR and legal teams at large enterprises buy Essentials (pay equity analysis, pay gap reporting, pay transparency compliance) and Decisions, which checks offers, promotions, merit and transfers against policy, pay equity and market data. Its AI, Syndi, recommends pay and shows its reasoning inside Teams, Slack and the ATS. It does not sell payroll or a full compensation cycle suite. |  |  |  | Partial | Core |  | 3 |
| TalentNeuron <https://www.talentneuron.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "Plan for the workforce you need, not just the one you have." TalentNeuron sells labor market intelligence (hiring, skills, location and competitor analysis from global job-posting data) plus work architecture, workforce planning and organizational design tools to large employers and consultancies. Its AI assistant, launched as Synappy in March 2026 and now sold as Synapse, routes workforce questions to domain-expert agents. It does not sell recruiting workflow tools. Leeds Equity Partners bought it from Gartner in 2023. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| TechWolf <https://www.techwolf.ai/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Skills and work intelligence data layer for large enterprises. "The data layer for the AI era of work." HR and talent leaders buy it to infer employee skills from system activity, break roles into tasks to model where AI can automate or augment work, and compare skill supply and demand in the market. It feeds Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Visier and Oracle rather than replacing them. SAP agreed to acquire it in October 2026 (closing expected Q4 2026). It does not sell an ATS or HRIS. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 5 |
| Visier <https://www.visier.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "Give AI a complete understanding of your workforce, securely." Visier sells people analytics and workforce planning to large enterprises, now pitched as "the workforce context layer for enterprise AI." Its Vee agent answers workforce questions in plain language, Talent Agents guide managers through HR programs, Org Design models restructuring scenarios, and an MCP server feeds governed people data to outside agents such as Claude. It does not sell an HRIS, payroll or an ATS. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 5 |
| ChartHop <https://www.charthop.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "People analytics, workforce planning & HCM." ChartHop sells a people operations platform with modules for HRIS, headcount planning, performance, engagement and compensation, bought mostly by mid-size and growth companies. Ask ChartHop answers questions in plain English and builds dashboards, headcount plans and comp cycles by chat. AI Pro adds Agentic Actions that monitor changes and act on them, plus MCP links to Claude and ChatGPT. It does not sell payroll or recruiting software. |  |  |  | Partial | Core |  | 5 |
| Crunchr <https://www.crunchr.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "See the signals. Shape what's next." Crunchr is a Dutch people analytics platform that connects workforce data from HR systems into dashboards for HR teams and business leaders at enterprises of a few thousand to tens of thousands of employees. Users ask questions in plain language and get sourced answers, every chart carries an AI explanation, and story pages open with AI findings ranked by urgency. It does not sell an HRIS or recruiting software. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 0 |
| Draup <https://draup.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "Draup is an enterprise agentic AI company built on proprietary global labor and market data." Large enterprise HR and talent teams buy Draup Talent Intelligence for workforce planning, talent acquisition strategy and skills architecture, plus Etter for AI workforce transformation (task-level automation modeling and work redesign). Curie is its agentic AI interface to the data, and the data is also served over MCP and the Databricks Marketplace. Draup also sells a separate sales intelligence line with AI agents. | Partial |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| Functionly <https://www.functionly.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "Chart the course to your future org." Functionly sells interactive org design software to operational leaders, HR teams and org design consultants. Teams map roles, responsibilities and structures, sync live org data and compare future-state scenarios. OrgPilot AI offers "Agent and Advisor modes for AI workforce design," and AI-assisted recommendations suggest responsibilities and functions. It has a free trial and published per-seat plans. It does not sell an HRIS or analytics on hiring. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 0 |
| One Model <https://www.onemodel.co/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | "The governed data platform global enterprises trust to understand their workforce." One Model sells people analytics infrastructure to large enterprises: it pulls HR data from many systems into one governed model for reporting, storyboards and machine learning. One AI is its embedded machine learning engine, One AI Assistant answers workforce questions in plain language, MCP services feed its governed data to enterprise AI tools, and AI Impact, launched in October 2026, measures how employees use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot at the prompt level. It does not sell an HRIS or recruiting software. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 2 |
| Revelio Labs <https://www.reveliolabs.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Workforce intelligence data company. "Understand the workforce." Investors, consultancies, researchers and enterprise workforce planning teams buy its data on headcount, hiring, attrition, pay, skills and job postings across 30M+ companies, through the Revelio Terminal, data feeds and an API. The Terminal adds Talent Discovery across 1.1 billion professional profiles, AI Chat for plain-language questions and an MCP connection for outside AI agents. It also publishes free monthly US jobs data (RPLS). It sells no applicant tracking or outreach tools. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| Aura <https://www.getaura.ai/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Bain & Company's workforce data platform: "Power every business decision with Aura, our AI platform that collects, analyzes, and visualizes workforce data in minutes." Originally incubated at Bain, it now sits on Bain's own site, and getaura.ai redirects there. Consulting firms, private equity investors and corporate strategists use it to benchmark headcount, hiring, attrition and org structure across 20M+ companies. A multi-agent system gathers data and does analyst-style work, and a Claude connector answers questions over MCP. HR teams are not its main buyer. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 1 |
| SplashBI <https://splashbi.com/> | HR analytics and workforce planning | Enterprise analytics for HR and finance with a conversational AI layer. Its Workforce Intelligence product "brings headcount, turnover, pay, time, and performance data together" with 800 prebuilt KPIs and 100+ HCM connectors, including Oracle HCM, Workday, SuccessFactors, UKG, Dayforce and iCIMS. HR leaders ask SplashAI plain-language questions and get cited answers, also inside Microsoft Teams, plus alerts when attrition, absence or compliance numbers cross a threshold. Its homepage now leads with finance and IT buyers. |  |  |  |  | Core |  | 4 |
| Checkr <https://checkr.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "The AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions." Checkr runs employment background checks (criminal, MVR, DOT, drug, education, employment, license) and, since 2026, sells identity verification and a Fraud Detection Suite that flags fake resumes, deepfake interview video, device spoofing and VPN-masked locations. Buyers range from gig platforms to enterprises. It also sells income verification (Truework) and identity products outside hiring. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | compliance | 4 |
| CLEAR <https://identity.clearme.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | CLEAR, the airport identity company (NYSE: YOU), sells CLEAR1, "the identity platform for businesses". For hiring, candidates verify inside their MyGreenhouse profile with a selfie matched to a government ID, and can reverify during interviews with the same reusable identity. Greenhouse flags verified candidates from application to onboarding. Hiring is one use case: T-Mobile and Community Health Network use CLEAR1 to verify employees before they reach sensitive systems, and it also serves healthcare, finance and rentals. |  | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | compliance | 1 |
| First Advantage <https://fadv.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Know Every Hire." First Advantage sells employment background screening, identity verification, drug and health screening, Form I-9/E-Verify and continuous monitoring to employers of every size. It says it has over 80,000 customers and runs more than 200 million screens a year. Its AI sits mainly in identity checks. In October 2026 it launched an FCRA-compliant identity fraud check with ID.me. It bought Sterling in 2024, so Sterling now sits inside First Advantage. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| HireRight <https://www.hireright.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Say yes to the right talent with accurate and compliance-focused background screening." HireRight sells background screening, identity checks, verifications, drug and health screening, driving records and Form I-9/E-Verify to mid-market and enterprise employers. It says it has 55,000+ customers and screened about 85 million people in 2025. AI shows up in its candidate chatbot and in Global ID, which reads ID documents with AI-driven OCR and matches a live selfie. Its yearly Global Benchmark Report tracks identity fraud and AI hiring risk. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | compliance | 4 |
| Accurate Background <https://www.accurate.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Accurate sells employment background checks, identity verification, drug and health screening, Form I-9 and E-Verify, monitoring and social media searches to employers worldwide. It calls itself the largest privately held, minority-owned global screening provider, with 16,000+ customers. In 2026 it added an ID-plus-selfie identity check against candidate fraud and the AccurateWatch continuous monitoring platform. Its AI today is AccurateAlly, a self-service support assistant, and it hired a Senior Director of AI in June 2026. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | hourly, compliance | 1 |
| Pindrop <https://www.pindrop.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Voice security and deepfake detection vendor, best known for contact centers; hiring is one use case. Its hiring page says "Catch a fake job candidate before they're hired" and uses Pindrop Pulse for Meetings inside Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams interviews to flag deepfake video, synthetic voice, VPN or odd location, and a different voice across interview rounds. Results write back to the candidate record in hiring platforms. It does not verify documents or replace background checks. |  |  | Partial |  |  |  | 3 |
| Proof <https://www.proof.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Identity and online notarization company (formerly Notarize) with a candidate fraud product: "Stop candidate fraud with identity verification." Recruiters send no-code links or trigger checks from the ATS; candidates scan a government ID and selfie, and Proof adds risk signals and live agent video checks for sensitive roles. Results land as tags in Lever and Greenhouse, and a verified identity carries through interview, offer and onboarding. Hiring is one of several identity use cases. |  | Core | Partial | Partial |  | compliance | 2 |
| Certn <https://certn.co/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "The World's Easiest Background Checks." Certn is a Canadian background screening platform for employers, landlords and individuals, with criminal checks in 200+ countries and territories, biometric ID checks, credit, driving, references and post-hire rescreening. It says 20,000+ teams use it. AI shows up as a machine-learning social media check and biometric ID verification. It rebuilt its stack as CertnCentric and now runs its own certified UK identity verification. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | hourly, compliance | 1 |
| GetReal Security <https://www.getrealsecurity.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Deepfake and impersonation defense company (formerly GetReal Labs) for enterprise security teams; hiring is one use case. Its candidate fraud page says "Secure Your Hiring Process Against Candidate Fraud" and targets deepfakes, synthetic identities and human stand-ins in remote interviews. GetReal Protect watches live video calls in Teams, Webex and Zoom with continuous identity verification and deepfake detection. It also sells forensic analysis (GetReal Inspect). No ATS integrations are named. |  |  | Partial |  |  | compliance | 3 |
| Persona <https://withpersona.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Persona is a general identity verification platform; hiring is one use case. Its Candidate Verification product is "designed for recruiting teams and built for security": candidates verify with a government ID and selfie at application, again before key interviews, and at offer, inside Greenhouse, Ashby or Workday. Its Workforce IDV checks new hires and employees through Okta and Cisco Duo. Buyers are recruiting and security teams. |  | Partial | Partial | Partial |  | compliance | 2 |
| Reality Defender <https://www.realitydefender.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | General deepfake detection vendor (audio, video, image) with a hiring use case among several. Its hiring page pitches "Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation" for recruiting, HR and security teams. RealMeeting scans live interviews for manipulated faces and cloned voices and returns verdicts with confidence scores; RealAPI and RealScan check submitted files. The vendor says media analysis does not establish identity, so it is not an ID check or background check. |  |  | Partial |  |  |  | 2 |
| Socure <https://socure.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | Socure is an identity verification and fraud company for banks, fintechs and government; hiring is one use case. Its Workforce Verification product screens applicants for manipulated or fabricated identities using phone, email, device, location and behaviour signals, routes risky candidates to document and biometric checks, and keeps a persistent SocureID token from application to offer. It plugs into ATS, job boards and payroll by API or SDK, and supplies the biometrics behind Checkr's identity verification. |  | Partial |  | Partial |  | compliance | 2 |
| Strider <https://striderintel.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "The Frontier of Strategic Intelligence." Strider sells a strategic intelligence platform on state-sponsored threats to companies, governments and universities. Its hiring product is People Search, which lets HR "screen candidates for nation-state risk inside your existing hiring workflow, without slowing time-to-hire", and Falsified Resume Screening, which checks remote applicants' emails, phone numbers and job histories for fraud such as North Korean IT workers. It does not sell an ATS or standard background checks. |  | Partial |  | Partial |  | compliance | 1 |
| Talview <https://www.talview.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Security partner for high-stakes testing and hiring platforms." Talview sells an identity and evidence layer for exams and interviews: ID and face checks repeated mid-session, deepfake, second-device and AI-assistance detection, and timestamped audit trails. Products include agentic AI proctoring (Alvy), an AI interviewer (Ivy) with a lifelike avatar, an AI assistant (Livy) and Verity identity checks. It embeds in LMS and ATS platforms. Buyers are recruiting teams, certification bodies, universities and partner platforms. |  | Core | Core |  |  | compliance | 2 |
| Tofu <https://www.hiretofu.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Candidate fraud detection for hiring & security teams." Toronto startup that flags fake applicants as they enter the ATS, checking them against billions of data points and public profile signals such as account age and activity. It also detects deepfakes and proxy interviewers in Zoom, Meet and Teams interviews, and sells AI resume screening agents plus fraud and deepfake APIs. Integrates with Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Gem, Workday and Oracle. It powers Gem's Fraud Detection Agent. |  | Core | Partial |  |  | compliance | 3 |
| GCheck <https://gcheck.com/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Better Teams Start With Better Background Checks." GCheck calls itself "a modern, compliance-first hire-to-retire screening platform". It sells criminal, employment and education checks, license checks, drug testing, monitoring and Form I-9/E-Verify to healthcare, staffing, transportation, retail and other employers. Its candidate-fraud line is Verified Entry, a biometric ID check run before the background search, plus deepfake detection for virtual interviews. In October 2026 it added a credential wallet so employers can reconfirm identity on later shifts. |  | Partial |  | Core |  | hourly, compliance | 2 |
| Hire ID <https://hireid.ai/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Trust Layer for Modern Hiring." Candidate fraud platform that verifies identity and screens identity and work-authorization documents before interviews (Candidate Intake), then runs interviews with live fraud detection across Zoom, Teams and Meet, watching 20+ signals for deepfakes, voice cloning, AI assistance and proxies. Candidates can also hold a Hire ID Profile, a verified credential record shared with recruiters. Integrates with Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Gem and SmartRecruiters. |  | Core | Core | Partial |  | compliance | 2 |
| Polyguard <https://polyguard.ai/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Fake candidates never make it into your pipeline." New York identity company with two hiring products. PreScreen runs a phone-based presence, ID, face and location check before an application reaches recruiters, with Greenhouse, Rippling and Workday integrations. ScreenTest verifies the candidate before and during Zoom and Teams interviews without bots or recording. Every check yields a signed, timestamped Transaction Affidavit. Biometrics stay on the candidate's device. |  | Core | Core |  |  | compliance | 1 |
| Sherlock AI <https://www.sherlock.sh/> | Background, identity and fraud checks | "Fraud Intelligence for Video Interviews." Sherlock AI joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams interviews and flags AI copilots, deepfakes and proxy candidates in real time, so teams "hire who you actually interviewed." It also takes interview notes, gives insights on candidate performance and interviewer effectiveness, and scores how candidates use AI where a company allows it. Pay-as-you-go credits include calendar, Slack and ATS integrations; an enterprise plan covers high-volume interview loads. |  |  | Core |  |  |  | 0 |
| Credo AI <https://www.credo.ai/> | AI hiring compliance | "AI Governance, Built for the Agentic Era." Credo AI sells an AI governance platform with an AI registry, a risk and control library and a policy engine that turns policy into code. For hiring it offers a Policy Pack for NYC Local Law 144; a GOV.UK case study describes an HR talent-matching startup using it, with human-in-the-loop reviews. Most buyers are large enterprises such as Mastercard and Northrop Grumman, not HR teams. It does not run hiring software. |  |  |  | Partial |  |  | 2 |
| Holistic AI <https://www.holisticai.com/> | AI hiring compliance | "AI Governance that Accelerates Transformation." Holistic AI sells an enterprise AI governance platform that finds AI systems, tests them for bias and other risks, and enforces policy. It was an early seller of NYC Local Law 144 bias audits for automated employment decision tools, with a platform that produces the required public Summary of Results. Its customer logos include UKG, Allegis Group and ManpowerGroup. Its 2026 product work is horizontal (agent governance, shadow AI) rather than hiring-specific. |  |  |  | Partial | Partial |  | 3 |
| Warden AI <https://www.warden-ai.com/> | AI hiring compliance | "Safeguarding AI Transformation in HR." Warden runs independent, ongoing bias audits of AI used in hiring and HR, and keeps audit records that buyers and lawyers can use as evidence. Most buyers are HR tech vendors that publish results on a Warden Assured dashboard, for example Greenhouse for Talent Matching, Findem and PageUp. It maps results to NYC Local Law 144, the EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado SB 26-189. It does not sell hiring software itself. |  |  |  | Partial | Partial | compliance | 6 |

## Agentic and always-on launches

| Date | Company | Launch | Kind | Human role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | Dayforce | Agentic HCM Platform and Agentic Recruiting: At Dayforce Discover, Dayforce unveiled the Agentic HCM Platform and Agentic Recruiting for frontline and high-volume hiring, with agents for sourcing, screening, scheduling and candidate engagement planned through 2027. | Agent | Recruiters handle the higher-value candidate and hiring-manager interactions. | <https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-agentic-talent-experiences-to-transform-how-organizations-hire-and-develop-talen> |
| 2026-10-26 | eSkill | eSkill launches Linea Sample contact-center simulation: Linea Sample places candidates in a text or voice customer interaction and scores them on weighted rubric dimensions, for contact centers and BPOs. | Agent |  | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eskill-launches-linea-sample-a-work-simulation-that-helps-employers-identify-qualified-customer-facing-candidates-faster-302918876.html> |
| 2026-10-23 | Pin | Pin launches Autopilot to answer candidates and book interviews: Pin launched Autopilot, a pipeline, inbox and AI recruiting assistant that answers candidate replies, books interviews and moves candidates through pipeline stages. Pin says: "Every reply answered and every interview booked, before you open your inbox." | Agent | Recruiters choose between reviewing drafts and letting Autopilot send on its own, and it asks them on Slack when it does not know an answer. | <https://www.pin.com/blog/autopilot/> |
| 2026-10-22 | Paylocity | Paylocity launches Recruiting Optimizer agents: Recruiting Optimizer adds two Ignite AI agents to Paylocity Recruiting: a Candidate Engagement Agent that uses conversational AI over web and SMS to run screening questions and help schedule interviews, and a Talent Rediscovery Agent that surfaces past applicants who match open roles. | Agent | Recruiters set the criteria and triggers, review agent outputs and make hiring decisions. | <https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Paylocity+Launches+AI-Powered+Recruiting+Optimizer+to+Automate+Recruiting+Workflows+and+Speed+Hiring> |
| 2026-10-22 | Hireology | Hireology presents AI Hiring Intelligence suite: Hireology's post names its "AI Hiring Intelligence suite": AI Match to focus review, AI Candidate Summary with strengths, gaps and questions, and AI Interview for a self-scheduled first screen. | Agent | Employers define the attributes for each role, and managers decide who moves forward. | <https://www.hireology.com/blog/ai-has-changed-how-people-apply-hiring-needs-to-catch-up> |
| 2026-10-22 | Breezy HR | Applicant Insights scores questionnaire attachments: "Applicant Insights scoring now includes questionnaire attachments!" | Always-on | A recruiter opens each attached file; scores that include attachments are flagged and never move candidates automatically. | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-10-21 | Visier | Visier debuts Talent Agents: Visier launched Talent Agents at HR Tech 2026, AI agents on its Workforce Intelligence Platform that guide managers to the next step in HR programs in real time and show talent leaders what each program changed. Outcomes feed back into the AI so guidance improves. | Always-on | Managers take the recommended next action in each HR program. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-debuts-talent-agents/> |
| 2026-10-21 | Findem | Findem launches ReadySlate pay-per-candidate agents: ReadySlate recruiting agents turn job requirements into interview-ready slates with outreach, AI screening interviews, skills tests and identity checks; Enterprise customers pay only for candidates they unlock. | Agent | Hiring teams set requirements, review the evidence and decide which candidates to unlock and advance. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-readyslate-interview-ready-candidates> |
| 2026-10-20 | Findem | Findem launches Authenticity Suite Pro for candidate fraud: Authenticity Suite Pro cross-checks resumes and profiles for inconsistencies and offers consent-based verification with liveness and government ID checks, logged in a timestamped Authenticity Report. | Always-on | Recruiters review the findings and decide who advances; no applicant is automatically advanced or rejected. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-authenticity-suite-pro-candidate-fraud-detection> |
| 2026-10-15 | Lantern AI | Lantern AI crosses $1M ARR and launches people tools for AI agents: CEO Thomas Chan said Lantern AI crossed $1M ARR and launched a CLI-native product that gives agents such as Codex and Claude Code 70+ tools for people data, research and outreach. | Agent |  | <https://www.arr.club/signal/lantern-ai-crossed-1m-arr-agents-launch> |
| 2026-10-15 | Greenhouse | Greenhouse launches the Orchestrated Hiring Ecosystem with Voice AI and sourcing: Greenhouse puts "sourcing, interviewing, scheduling and the applicant tracking system in one place". Voice AI gives every applicant a first interview; sourcing is in closed beta. | Agent | Recruiters review transcripts and evaluations, and people make each hiring decision. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-break-ais-hiring-doom-loop> |
| 2026-10-13 | Workday | Talent Acquisition Agent gets autopilot: At Workday Rising 2026, Workday launched autopilot agents; the Talent Acquisition Agent watches open requisitions, finds qualified candidates once a job is posted, runs sourcing in the background and drafts outreach for recruiter approval, across Workday Recruiting, HiredScore, Paradox and connected sourcing providers. Early adopters only; GA is planned for early 2027. | Always-on | Recruiters approve outreach before anything is sent; the organization decides which actions run on their own. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-10-13-Workday-Launches-Autopilot-Agents-That-Get-Real-Work-Done-Across-HR,-Finance,-and-IT> |
| 2026-10-08 | Checkr | Checkr launches Fraud Detection Suite: Checkr launched a Fraud Detection Suite covering application to post-hire: resume fraud detection, image comparison, deepfake detection of interview video and audio, biometric IDV with liveness, device signals and location correlation. | Always-on | The employer reviews resumes the suite flags for further review. | <https://www.webull.com/news/15712756793607168> |
| 2026-10-05 | HackerRank | HackerRank makes Chakra AI interviewer generally available: Chakra, HackerRank's agentic AI interviewer, reached general availability after a six-month beta of more than 500,000 interviews; companies that tried it include Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini. HackerRank says suspicious-activity flags were 70% to 80% lower than in traditional assessments. | Agent | Chakra scores candidates, but people make the final hiring decision and answer questions about the company, team and role. | <https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/> |
| 2026-10-01 | Breezy HR | Applicant Insights gets must-have criteria: Recruiters can "Set up to 3 Must-have categories in your Applicant Insights criteria" for AI scoring. | Always-on | Candidates are never moved to a disqualified stage automatically; the hiring team reviews scores. | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-09-30 | Metaview | fillmore recruiting agent becomes generally available: Metaview made fillmore, "our autonomous recruiting coworker", generally available; it sources candidates, writes outreach, manages follow-up and books screening calls. | Agent | People stay in the loop where it matters and make the key hiring decisions. | <https://www.metaview.ai/resources/blog/metaview-raised-an-additional-60m-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting> |
| 2026-09-29 | Teamtailor | Smart action lets AI act on every candidate in a stage: Smart action is a stage trigger: "Describe the work in plain language, and AI handles it for every candidate who lands in the stage", such as adding comments, tags, custom fields or to-dos. | Always-on | A recruiter writes the plain-language instruction for the stage; each run is recorded in the audit log. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/smart-action-just-tell-ai-what-to-do/> |
| 2026-09-29 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant 2: LinkedIn announced Hiring Assistant 2, its "next generation hiring agent," with more advanced reasoning, memory and personalization and the ability to manage an entire talent pool. LinkedIn says over 20,000 companies use its agentic hiring solutions; English customers get the update free from November. | Agent | Recruiters work out what hiring managers need and build trust with candidates. | <https://news.linkedin.com/2026/hiring-assistant-2> |
| 2026-09-23 | Paychex | Paychex launches WISE Hire, AI-native recruiting: WISE Hire "combines AI agents for digital candidate sourcing, recruiting, and hiring coaching" to automate sourcing, screening, coordination and scheduling, with patented candidate matching and reach into Google for Jobs, Meta's local jobs marketplace and ChatGPT. It is sold standalone or inside Paychex's HCM platforms. | Agent | Employers evaluate candidates and make hiring decisions. | <https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-wise-hire-ai-recruiting> |
| 2026-09-22 | Joveo | Joveo agentic recruiting platform: Joveo joined its job advertising, career site, sourcing, screening, scheduling and interview agents into one agentic recruiting platform that works with existing ATSs, announced ahead of RecFest USA 2026. | Agent | Recruiters set hiring goals and can approve, override or adjust agent actions. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-first-agentic-recruiting-platform-at-recfest-2026/> |
| 2026-09-22 | Findem | Findem launches Studio agents and Findem MCP: Findem Studio is a set of AI agents that produce finished people work such as succession plans, market maps, hiring briefs and skills-gap analyses, usable in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini through Findem MCP. | Agent | People review and refine the agent outputs and make the final decisions. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-studio-people-intelligence-platform> |
| 2026-09-17 | Tengai | Tengai 4.0 gives recruiters control over AI screening interviews: Tengai 4.0 adds a modular interview builder, mid-process edits with logging, automatic translation into four languages, questions suggested from an uploaded requirements profile and auditable, explainable scoring. | Agent | A recruiter builds the interview, chooses which voice answers to review manually and makes the hiring decision from the shortlist. | <https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening> |
| 2026-09-01 | iCIMS | iCIMS unveils Hiring Agent for Teams and an Interview Scheduling Agent: The Intelligent Hiring Platform adds the ICIMS Hiring Agent, which "brings common hiring actions directly into Microsoft Teams" (October 2026), and an Interview Scheduling Agent due by end of 2026. | Agent | Hiring managers and interviewers review candidates, give feedback and approve steps in Teams. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/intelligenthiringplatform/> |
| 2026-09-01 | Vervoe | Vervoe adds Skills Advisory and Intelligent Interview Scheduling: Vervoe launched a Skills Advisory service and "Intelligent Interview Scheduling," which books interviews in the platform and shares assessment results with interviewers. | Agent | Interviewers connect their Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendars, and candidates pick their own slots. | <https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260831ae35849/> |
| 2026-09 | Workable | Workable splits AI into four agents on credits and adds an MCP server: Workable made four agents (Job Brief, Sourcing, Screening, Engagement) available to all customers on pay-as-you-go AI credits and released an MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants to Workable at no extra cost. | Always-on | Recruiters set the ideal candidate profile and interview the ranked shortlist. | <https://resources.workable.com/backstage-at-workable/the-agent-recruits-you-manage-talent-the-workable-agents-are-here/> |
| 2026-08-27 | Pluto | Pluto launches its AI voice agent profile: Pluto, "an AI voice agent that learns your story in 10 minutes and makes you discoverable to the right people and AI agents," was featured on Product Hunt on August 27, 2026. Its cofounder says that when a professional and a startup in talentpluto's network fit, Pluto checks with the professional first and can make a warm introduction. | Agent | Pluto checks with the professional before it makes a warm introduction. | <https://hunted.space/product/pluto-11> |
| 2026-08-24 | Ceipal | Ceipal automates pre-screening by SMS with conversational AI: A conversational AI pre-screening flow takes candidates "From job interest to interview scheduling, now fully automated via SMS"; in the healthcare ATS an AI agent screens against required certifications and licenses and attaches a rated summary. | Agent | A recruiter tags the candidate to a job to start the flow and reviews the rated summary. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-august-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management> |
| 2026-08-21 | Teamtailor | Co-pilot detects hidden instructions in resumes: "Co-pilot now scans every uploaded resume for hidden content" aimed at manipulating AI assessment, ignores it, warns the recruiter and logs each detection; it never auto-rejects. | Always-on | The recruiter reviews each warning and makes the decision; detections never auto-reject. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/co-pilot-now-detects-hidden-instructions-in-resumes/> |
| 2026-08-19 | Blucor | Blucor starts phone screens as soon as an application reaches the ATS: Release note: "Start phone screening as soon as an application reaches your ATS." | Always-on | A recruiter holds the final interview with the ranked candidates. | <https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes> |
| 2026-08-18 | hireEZ | hireEZ rebuilds its platform on agents: hireEZ announced it "has rebuilt itself from the ground up on agents," with access from August 27, 2026; existing customers keep data and contracts and migrate at their own pace. | Agent | Recruiters approve the strategy, review every shortlist and rule on every exception. | <https://www.webull.com/news/15423731699852288> |
| 2026-08-17 | Recruiterflow | Recruiterflow details its full AIRA agent suite: Recruiterflow published its guide to every AIRA agent, including AIRA Source ("850M+ candidates on the web"), AIRA Matchmaker, AIRA Notetaker, Scorecard, Outreach, Submission, Research and data-upkeep agents. | Always-on | Recruiters review and edit drafted outreach and submission emails before sending, and can set field updates to suggestions for review. | <https://recruiterflow.com/blog/ai-agents-in-recruiterflow-a-complete-guide-to-every-aira-agent/> |
| 2026-08-17 | Hire ID | HireID launches Interview Integrity Platform and Candidate Intake: HireID launched an Interview Integrity Platform that monitors 20+ live interview signals for deepfakes, impersonation, proxies and AI assistance, plus Candidate Intake for identity and document checks before interviews. | Always-on |  | <https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/21252825-hireid-launches-interview-integrity-platform-ai-interview-platform-and-candidate-intake-to-detect-candidate-fraud-before-and-during-interviews> |
| 2026-08-12 | Loxo | Loxo launches an Agent Workforce that runs a search through the shortlist: Loxo launched Next Generation Loxo and its agent workforce. Its proprietary agents can take a search from hiring manager intake through sourcing strategy, market mapping, candidate evaluation and a ranked shortlist, and then the recruiter decides who to pursue. Autonomy works as a dial, from one step to a whole search, and an Agent Impact Center shows work completed and hours of labor absorbed by AI. | Agent | The recruiter decides who to pursue from the ranked shortlist. | <https://www.buildingthetalentmachine.com/p/announcing-next-generation-loxo> |
| 2026-08-05 | Paraform | Paraform launches Hiring Intelligence to power its agents: Paraform introduced Hiring Intelligence, "the data layer that powers every agent across our platform," built from real hiring outcomes. It says its agents produce a shortlist of vetted candidates and that companies meet their eventual hire in about 12 days. | Agent | Recruiters and Paraform's team run the full hiring process until the hire is made. | <https://paraform.com/blog/hiring-intelligence> |
| 2026-08-04 | isolved | isolved debuts The Guardian payroll agent: The Guardian, isolved's first AI agent, analyzes "every payroll run, flagging potential errors before close" and prepares corrections for the administrator's approval. | Always-on | A payroll administrator reviews and approves each correction before it is made. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agent-for-payroll> |
| 2026-08-04 | Darwinbox | Darwinbox launches Cortex, an AI-native HCM platform: Darwinbox launched Cortex, "Rebuilt from the ground up for the AI era", with "the first Context Graph in the category", a Signal Layer that flags risks early, and the Cortex Agent Platform, where agents act within existing permissions. It delivers experiences inside Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Slack and Glean. | Always-on | Agents act within the permissions and limits the organization sets. | <https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/darwinbox-launches-cortex-ai-native-hcm-platform> |
| 2026-07-21 | Hireology | Hireology explains how its AI Interview works: A Hireology post describes AI Interview as live: "After a candidate applies, they get a text or email inviting them to complete an AI interview," with an accommodation request flow built in. | Agent | A recruiter reviews the scored transcript and can override the score. | <https://www.hireology.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-interview-a-real-conversation> |
| 2026-07-15 | Eightfold AI | Eightfold launches Candidate Agent in Talent Agents 2.0: Candidate Agent is "the candidate-facing front door": one conversation across job discovery, application, scheduling and follow-ups, then handoff to AI Interviewer, on channels such as SMS and WhatsApp. | Agent | Recruiters focus on closing candidates while the agent handles FAQs, scheduling, status updates and follow-ups. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-grows-talent-agents-to-2-0/> |
| 2026-07-13 | Ceipal | Ceipal VMS blocks submissions below an AI match score: Buyers can set a minimum AI match score so supplier submissions that fall below it are blocked automatically. | Always-on | The buyer sets the minimum AI match score. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-july-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management> |
| 2026-07-09 | Handshake | Handshake rolls out Automated Outreach: Automated Outreach "leverages Hiring Intelligence to send personalized outreach to qualified candidates on your behalf"; rollout began July 9, 2026. | Agent |  | <https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/ann_jrMABQTCwNxzO> |
| 2026-07-08 | Pete & Gabi | Rebecca AI interviewer launches in India: Peterson Technology Partners launched Rebecca AI, its voice AI interviewer, in India after deployments with U.S. clients. Rebecca adapts its follow-up questions during first-round interviews, runs live coding assessments for technical roles and produces scored reports. | Agent |  | <https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/us-staffing-firm-ptp-introduces-rebecca-ai-in-india-to-solve-hiring-challenges/> |
| 2026-07 | Employment Hero | Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer: A free standalone Recruitment Agent "lets anyone sign up, create a job and send AI interview invitations with no sales call"; in August free AI video interviews began to "invite qualified candidates before a recruiter even opens their application." | Agent | A hirer creates the job and sends the AI interview invitations. | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/> |
| 2026-06-25 | InCruiter | InCruiter launches AI hiring workflow automation platform: InCruiter launched an AI-driven hiring workflow platform that automates recruitment from resume screening through conversational interviews to onboarding, sold whole or by component. | Agent | The hiring team makes the hiring decisions; interviewers and outside experts run live evaluations. | <https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/incruiter-launches-ai-driven-hiring-workflow-automation-platform/2969246/> |
| 2026-06-21 | Nakisa | Nakisa MCP supported across its product suite: Nakisa made MCP available across its product suite, including Nakisa Workforce Planning, at no additional cost: "Nakisa MCP lets any MCP-compatible AI agent connect to Nakisa applications and take real action." | Agent | Sensitive operations trigger existing human approval workflows. | <https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-mcp-supported-across-full-product-suite/> |
| 2026-06-18 | HireVue | HireVue launches voice AI Interviewer: AI Interviewer conducts "dynamic, two-way voice interviews with every applicant 24/7" and scores answers against rubrics validated by I-O psychology research. | Agent | Recruiters review the ranked, evidence-backed results before a screening call. | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-ai-interviewer> |
| 2026-06-16 | isolved | isolved introduces autonomous AI agents and a Claude connector: isolved introduced six autonomous agents built to "own HR outcomes" (The Guardian, The Advisor, The Signal, The Orchestrator, The Watchdog, The Helper), arriving in phases across 2026 and 2027, and made the isolved Connector for Claude generally available. None is a recruiting agent. | Always-on | Each agent keeps a human in the loop. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/claude-ai-agents-built-for-hr-outcomes> |
| 2026-06-16 | Criteria | Criteria adds an AI Interview Agent and Real-Time Video Interviewing: The AI Interview Agent "helps organizations deliver structured, standardized early-stage interviews at scale" across voice, text and video; Real-Time Video Interviewing adds AI note capture and scoring help. | Agent | A person reviews the agent's evaluations and makes the hiring decision. | <https://www.criteriacorp.com/press-releases/2026/criteria-corp-expands-talent-signal-platform-predictive-interviewing-the-ai-era> |
| 2026-06-16 | ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany) | ClearCo launches an Agent Platform with Req, Sourcing and Interview agents: "A suite of AI agents purpose-built for the talent lifecycle" with an Agent Studio for custom agents. The Sourcing Agent runs AI prescreening calls; generally available July 16, 2026. | Agent | Agents ask a person to confirm before advancing a candidate, submitting a review or closing a role. | <https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/clearco-releases-ai-agent-platform> |
| 2026-06-16 | Classet | Classet turns on AI screening by default: For standalone and Workable-connected accounts, "Joy now switches on AI screening by default" when a job is published, so candidates are evaluated as soon as they apply. | Always-on |  | <https://docs.classet.ai/changelog/added-improved-fixed-classet-platform-release-16-june-2026> |
| 2026-06-15 | SAP SuccessFactors | Winston and Joule pair up on agentic hiring: SAP said SmartRecruiters' Winston works alongside Joule to surface top candidates, and cited agentic interviewing and an agentic CRM that ranks and re-engages talent pools. | Agent | Recruiters focus on higher-value hiring decisions. | <https://news.sap.com/2026/06/sap-strategic-leader-2026-fosway-9-grid-talent-acquisition/> |
| 2026-06-15 | Indeed | Indeed Sourcing Assistant finds and invites candidates: Sourcing Assistant, part of Smart Sourcing, finds and invites qualified candidates from 370 million sourceable profiles using natural-language prompts instead of Boolean strings, and syncs with ATSs through Indeed Apply. Indeed says sourced applicants were hired 6 days faster. | Agent | A recruiter sets the natural-language criteria and outreach volume and approves the personalized messages. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeeds-ai-powered-sourcing-assistant-helps-employers-hire-over-30-faster?co=US> |
| 2026-06-12 | Pinpoint | AI Candidate Match Scores and Copilot memories: AI Match Score "grades each applicant against scoring criteria you've reviewed and approved for that job" with a score out of 10; Hiring Copilot can now "remember your preferences and working style across conversations." | Always-on | A person reviews and approves the scoring criteria for each job. | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/15231825-may-2026-new-features-ai-candidate-match-scores-hiring-copilot-memories-billing-management-and-more> |
| 2026-06-04 | Standout | Standout launches a CLI talent agent for builders: Standout launched "Standout - A Talent Agent For Builders." Candidates run "npx standout" to have their building and debugging assessed, and companies get intros "in hours, not weeks" and pay only on hire. | Always-on | Talent stay invisible until they greenlight a role. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/standout> |
| 2026-06-03 | Joveo | AI Talent Campaigns for multi-touch outreach: AI agents turn a recruiter's description of the role into outreach messaging, targeting and follow-up sequences, and pause outreach when a candidate applies, replies or opts out. | Agent | A recruiter describes the ideal candidates and goals, launches the campaign and can refine messaging mid-cycle. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-talent-campaigns/> |
| 2026-06-02 | Gusto | Gusto launches Cofounder, an AI teammate for small businesses: Gusto launched Gusto Cofounder in early access, an "AI teammate" that knows the business's team, payroll and calendar and runs automations such as payroll with anomaly alerts and weekly labor cost reports via SMS, Slack or web. | Always-on | The owner sets up the automations and approves flagged payroll items before submission. | <https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/06/02/gusto-introduces-an-ai-teammate-for-small-businesses/184399/> |
| 2026-06-01 | ZipRecruiter | ZipRecruiter launches Smart Outreach: Smart Outreach "uses AI to turn a job description into a personalized message series sent to candidates" from the Resume Database, sending up to three messages or until a candidate replies. | Agent | A recruiter selects the candidates and can edit the messages before they go out. | <https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-New-AI-Feature-to-Automate-Recruiter-Outreach/default.aspx> |
| 2026-05-28 | Bullhorn | Bullhorn unveils Amplify Digital Workers and Amplify Chat: At Engage 2026, Bullhorn introduced Amplify Digital Workers with new Prospect, Verify, Audit and Transcribe skills alongside Enrich, Match, Screen, Outreach and Present, and Amplify Chat as the conversational command layer. Screen can "Run interviews by chat or voice and deliver candidate summaries." | Agent | Recruiters direct the digital workers through Amplify Chat and make the hiring decisions. | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-unveils-amplify-digital-workers-at-engage-2026/> |
| 2026-05-21 | Juicebox | Juicebox launches always-on sourcing agents for every open role: Juicebox launched Juicebox Agents as a suite that sources and contacts candidates around the clock for every open role, reading public work on GitHub, Google Scholar and Stack Overflow. Early customers reported up to 5x recruiter efficiency and a 50% cut in sourcing time. | Always-on | Recruiters brief the agents in natural language and refine searches with feedback. | <https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/talent-acquisition/juicebox-launches-ai-agents-for-continuous-talent-sourcing> |
| 2026-05-20 | Contrario | Contrario launches its AI recruiting network: Contrario announced its launch after crossing $6M in annualized revenue in under six months. It pairs expert recruiters with agents that take over sourcing, scheduling and follow-up work. | Agent | Recruiters build relationships with candidates while agents handle sourcing, scheduling and follow-ups. | <https://www.contrario.ai/blogs/announcement/better-recruiting-built-on-contrario> |
| 2026-05-19 | Paychex | Paychex launches WISE agentic AI platform: Paychex announced WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), an AI layer across Paychex Flex, Paycor and SurePayroll with autonomous agents, multi-channel assistants, and HR reporting and predictive analytics. | Agent | Employers set the parameters the agents act within. | <https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/announcing-wise-ai-for-agentic-workforce> |
| 2026-05-18 | Wonderkind | Wonderkind Deliver sells interview-ready candidates: Wonderkind Deliver handles sourcing and qualification end to end and charges per qualified candidate delivered into the ATS. | Agent | The employer provides the job; recruiters take over at the first interview touchpoint. | <https://www.wonderkind.com/blog/interview-ready-candidates-in-your-ats-not-a-promise-a-product> |
| 2026-05-18 | GetReal Security | GetReal launches continuous identity verification in GetReal Protect: GetReal made continuous identity verification generally available in GetReal Protect, combining it with impersonation and deepfake detection for Teams, Webex and Zoom calls; the company named hiring decisions among the moments it protects. | Always-on | Participants consent and enroll; verification does not run without consent. | <https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/getreal-security-launches-first-trust-and-authenticity-platform-that-combines-real-time-continuous-identity-verification-and-deepfake-detection> |
| 2026-05-12 | Eightfold AI | Eightfold launches TalentForge and 360 Interview: TalentForge lets enterprises "build, deploy, and scale HR technology with talent intelligence"; 360 Interview "combines multiple interview types into a single conversation" (functional, coding and language). | Agent |  | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ushers-in-the-golden-age-of-hr-software-with-launch-of-talentforge/> |
| 2026-05-09 | Prism | Prism launches on Product Hunt: Prism launched its AI-native recruiting agency on Product Hunt with the tagline "Hire the best candidates, not just the available" and ranked #3 Product of the Day. | Agent |  | <https://hunted.space/product/prism-26> |
| 2026-05-07 | Standout | Standout launches its agentic hiring marketplace: Standout posted "Standout - The Agentic Hiring Marketplace" on Launch YC: talent and companies each get an agent that makes intros when it matters. | Always-on | Talent stay invisible until they greenlight a role; companies pay only on hire. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/standout> |
| 2026-05-06 | Pinpoint | AI Notetaker for interviews: Pinpoint's AI Notetaker "automatically joins your video interviews, transcribes the conversation, and generates a structured summary," with AI notes on each scorecard question. | Always-on | The hiring team runs the interview while the notetaker records and summarizes it. | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/14789109-april-2026-new-features-multi-signer-documents-ai-notetaker-for-interviews> |
| 2026-05-05 | Joveo | Joveo adds AI Scheduling: AI Scheduling automates interview coordination, lets candidates self-schedule and syncs changes with the ATS. | Agent |  | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-scheduling/> |
| 2026-05-04 | Pave | Pave launches the Pave Comp Agent: Pave launched the Pave Comp Agent, which "sits directly inside PaveOS with full access to each organization's structured compensation data" and runs multi-step work such as building cases for employees flagged as underpaid, monitoring for retention risks and running merit-cycle simulations. It went to select enterprise clients with a waitlist. | Agent | Compensation leaders set the rules, permissions, data context and compensation philosophy. | <https://hrdive.com/press-release/20260502-pave-launches-its-comp-agent-to-reinvent-compensation-management-with-agent> |
| 2026-04-21 | Gem | Gem launches AI Fraud Detection Agent: Gem's third agent rates inbound applications high, medium or low fraud risk from resume metadata, email, phone, LinkedIn, identity and IP or device signals. Recruiters run it automatically on high-risk roles or on demand. "The agent flags. You decide." It works with Gem ATS, Greenhouse, Workday, iCIMS and SuccessFactors. | Always-on | A recruiter reviews each flag and decides; the agent only flags. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-ai-fraud-detection-agent> |
| 2026-04-16 | Holistic AI | Holistic AI adds runtime enforcement for AI agents: Holistic AI added three inline runtime controls to its Guardian Agents framework: tool calling allowlists and blocklists, access boundaries on files, databases and customer PII, and cost limits that can cut off runaway sessions. | Always-on | A team sets the allowlists, access boundaries and cost limits and connects its agents through the Guardian SDK. | <https://www.holisticai.com/blog/runtime-agentic-monitoring-tools-access-control-cost> |
| 2026-04-15 | HackerEarth | HackerEarth launches OnScreen AI interviewer: OnScreen runs structured technical interviews at any hour with lifelike avatars, identity verification and proctoring; one customer screened 2,000+ candidates in a weekend. | Agent |  | <https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hackerearth-launches-ai-interview-tool-for-technical-hiring> |
| 2026-04-14 | Wellfound | Wellfound launches one AI video interview for all jobs: Wellfound built an AI video interview that candidates record once and share with the companies they apply to. An AI interviewer asks follow-up questions, an LLM summarizes each answer from the transcript and writes feedback for the candidate, and recruiters jump to pre-clipped sections. A person on the hiring team reviews each interview. | Agent | A real person on the hiring team reviews each interview, not AI. | <https://www.mux.com/blog/wellfound> |
| 2026-04-14 | Fountain | Fountain launches Cue to run frontline hiring and operations: Fountain launched Cue, an autonomous agent that builds and updates hiring workflows, sources and screens candidates, detects and fills shift gaps, flags weak locations and writes operational reports. Fountain says Cue "reports on what it already did." | Agent | Sourcing and screening run with manual oversight under configurable governance policies. | <https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-launches-cue-to-run-frontline-hiring-and-workforce-operations> |
| 2026-04-10 | Ceipal | Ceipal shows its AI agent lineup at Ceipal Connect: Ceipal demoed a Job Optimization Agent, a Candidate Relevancy Agent, a Voice Agent that "Executes technical screenings and conversational interviews", the Recruiter Assistant and an Orchestrator that coordinates the agents. | Agent | Recruiters keep oversight, review agent performance and tune configurations. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/ceipal-connect-ceipal-product-demo-ai> |
| 2026-04-08 | SmartRecruiters | SmartRecruiters shows Winston Interview and agentic CRM: SmartRecruiters presented Winston Interview, "an agentic interviewer, available on-demand" for scored first-round screening, embedded assessments in Winston Chat, Winston Match sub-scores, an agentic CRM and a prototype fraud-risk tool. | Agent | Recruiters review the scored answers and make the final decisions. | <https://techrseries.com/talent-acquisition/smartrecruiters-introduces-the-future-of-hiring-from-ai-agents-to-autonomous-talent-acquisition/> |
| 2026-03-31 | BrightHire | BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants: BrightHire added a candidate Practice Round, a Hiring Manager Introduction video, and Setup Assistant, Guide Assistant and Quick-Start so recruiters can build guides and launch AI interviews without an ATS integration. | Agent | Recruiters build and refine interview guides, then launch the AI interviewer and send invitations. | <https://brighthire.com/?p=13594> |
| 2026-03-24 | InCruiter | InCruiter reports deepfake detection in AI interviews: InCruiter said its continuous deepfake detection, launched in early 2026, flagged an AI-generated avatar during a fully automated AI interview for a fintech client, and that it now flags fraud in 25 to 30% of suspicious sessions. | Always-on | The client reviews the proctoring report and evidence and decides the action. | <https://www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/press-release/bengaluru-based-ai-interview-platform-flags-ai-generated-deepfake-candidate-during-automated-interview-for-global-fintech-client> |
| 2026-03-24 | ChartHop | ChartHop launches AI Pro with agentic actions and MCP: ChartHop launched AI Pro in early access, a premium tier with Agentic Actions ("these agents perform complex tasks autonomously"), custom agents that monitor items such as span of control in real time, and support for the Model Context Protocol. | Always-on | Leaders configure each agent with a plain-language prompt. | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/observerreporter/article/bizwire-2026-3-24-charthop-launches-ai-pro> |
| 2026-03-17 | Phenom | Phenom unveils WorkOps and new agents at IAMPHENOM 2026: At its IAMPHENOM conference Phenom unveiled a new AI architecture that forms Phenom WorkOps, with agents for job posting, job description compliance, voice screening, scheduling, intake, AI interviews, skills validation, onboarding coaching and exit interviews. | Agent | People make the hiring decision from a decision brief, and escalated cases go to human review. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-ai-work-operations-hr> |
| 2026-03-17 | Joveo | Joveo launches AI Interviewer: AI Interviewer runs candidate interviews at any hour by web, phone or WhatsApp, scores applicants against set criteria and sends summaries to the ATS. | Agent | Hiring teams review the summaries, scores and hiring recommendations written to the ATS. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-launches-ai-interviewer/> |
| 2026-03-16 | iCIMS | iCIMS Spring Release ships Frontline AI: ICIMS Frontline AI offers "A 24/7 AI-led conversational candidate experience across SMS, WhatsApp and web" and an AI-powered mobile app for hiring managers. | Agent | Hiring managers handle screening, scheduling and approvals in a mobile app. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/springrelease2026/> |
| 2026-03-13 | Workable | Workable launches Workable Agent inside its ATS: Workable launched Workable Agent, "an AI recruiting agent built directly into its ATS" that runs a job intake conversation, searches 400M+ profiles, engages, screens, scores and advances top matches, with recruiter-set thresholds and overrides. The intake conversation is free on all plans; the Agent is a paid add-on with flat pricing by company size. | Agent | Recruiters set must-haves and advancement thresholds, can override or pause the Agent, and the Agent steps back once a person engages a candidate. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-3-13-workable-launches-agentic-ai-for-hiring-with-new-workable-agent> |
| 2026-03-12 | JobAdder | JobAdder adds Smart Skills and transcript-based Smart Sync: Adder Intelligence gained Smart Skills, which suggests skills from resumes, and Smart Sync for resumes and interview transcripts (beta), which captures candidate insights into the record. | Always-on |  | <https://jobadder.com/resources/platform-updates> |
| 2026-03-11 | Persona | Persona launches Candidate Verification for recruiting teams: Persona launched Candidate Verification, "designed for recruiting teams and built for security", with ID and selfie checks at application, before key interviews and at offer, integrated with Greenhouse, Ashby and Workday. | Always-on | The company sets the verification checkpoints and risk tolerance, and higher-risk sessions are flagged for review. | <https://marketing.withpersona.com/blog/introducing-candidate-verification-solution-by-persona> |
| 2026-03-03 | TestGorilla | TestGorilla launches AI readiness and AI fluency assessments: Seven new AI assessments: two AI video interviews (AI readiness and learning agility) built on its AI Fluency Framework and five conversational AI simulation tests. It also added one or two AI fluency questions to more than 70 existing AI video interviews. | Agent |  | <https://www.01net.it/testgorilla-launches-new-ai-readiness-and-ai-fluency-assessments-to-help-companies-hire-for-the-skills-that-matter-now/> |
| 2026-02-23 | Indeed | Indeed introduces the Smart Fit Score: Indeed's Smart Screening gives "every application" a score from 0 to 100 against the employer's weighted screening criteria, with a Candidate Summary Page. Indeed says it is "intentionally not a final decision-maker." | Always-on | Hiring teams set and weight the screening criteria and make the decision; Indeed says the score is not a final decision-maker. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/introducing-indeeds-smart-fit-score?co=US> |
| 2026-02-18 | SeekOut | SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access: SeekOut made AI Screening with Sam available to all Recruit customers in Early Access. Candidates take a 15 to 20 minute AI interview on their own schedule, and Sam scores answers against the recruiter's criteria with summaries and full transcripts. | Agent | Recruiters send interview links, review results and decide whether to advance or reject each candidate. | <https://support.seekout.com/en/articles/13853182-sam-ai-screening-in-seekout> |
| 2026-01-28 | ADP | ADP launches ADP Assist agents: ADP introduced persona-based ADP Assist agents for payroll variance, tax registration, HR policy answers, analytics and talent actions such as promotions. | Agent | Payroll practitioners oversee the remediations the agents suggest and facilitate. | <https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges> |
| 2026-01-26 | Classet | Classet adds campaigns, looser qualification logic and one-click summaries to Joy: Classet added custom email and SMS follow-up campaigns, qualification logic that still interviews candidates who miss a hard requirement, and one-click call summaries to its AI recruiter Joy. | Agent | A recruiter sets the outreach rules and decides on candidates who miss a requirement. | <https://www.classet.ai/blog/joy-hire-faster-smarter> |
| 2026-01-21 | Perfectly | Perfectly launches as an AI recruiting agency: Perfectly launched "Hire with Perfectly: Your AI Recruiting Agency" on Launch YC. It says it automates sourcing, outreach, screening and qualification, and interview-ready candidates show up in Slack. | Agent | The hiring team approves screened candidates before Perfectly sends them a calendar link. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/perfectly> |
| 2026-01-08 | Paradox | Paradox Conversational ATS available through Workday: Workday made the Paradox Conversational ATS available for frontline hiring; "Conversational AI helps handle screening and scheduling directly with candidates" by chat or text. | Agent |  | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-01-08-Paradox-Conversational-Applicant-Tracking-System-ATS-Now-Available-Through-Workday,-Helping-Organizations-Hire-Frontline-Workers-Faster> |
| 2026-01 | Manatal | Manatal adds AI Interviewer add-on: Manatal's pricing page added an AI Interviewer add-on with 24/7 automated video screening, a customizable AI interview builder, AI candidate assessments and interviews in six languages. | Agent |  | <https://pricingsaas.com/companies/manatal/diffs/2025Q4> |
| 2025-12-10 | CodeSignal | CodeSignal AI Interviewer adds live phone interviews in 20+ languages: The AI Interviewer now runs "Live phone interviews" in more than 20 languages with the same skills reports as web interviews. | Agent | Hiring teams use the skills reports to decide which candidates advance. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-multilingual-ai-phone-interviews-to-scale-skills-based-screening/> |
| 2025-12-09 | Indeed | Indeed Connect subscription with Advanced Screening: Indeed previewed Indeed Connect, a subscription available to US employers in January 2026. Its Advanced Screening starts from a hiring-intent description, gives each candidate a fit score with an explanation, handles early outreach and delivers summaries inside connected ATSs. | Always-on | The employer describes what it wants and decides whom to advance. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/an-early-look-at-indeed-connect-our-new-subscription-designed-to-streamline-hiring?co=US> |
| 2025-12-08 | Paychex | Paychex rolls out agentic AI for payroll and GenAI platforms: Paychex said it "deployed agentic AI technology to process thousands of client payrolls via voice and email channels", described a patent-pending AI knowledge mesh, and launched a GenAI employment law and compliance platform and a GenAI agent for its sales and service teams. | Agent |  | <https://paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-unveils-workforce-management-ai-solutions> |
| 2025-12-01 | Peoplebox.ai | Peoplebox launches Nova AI interviewer: Peoplebox.ai launched Nova, billed as the "world's most human-like AI Interviewer". Nova screens resumes, runs pre-screening calls and first-round voice and video interviews with real-time scoring, and delivers structured candidate reports. | Agent | A recruiter sets the job description and interview settings and reviews the reports. | <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc> |
| 2025-11-20 | Humanly | Humanly updates its conversational AI platform: Humanly released an updated platform with chat qualification, automated phone screens and AI video interviews, trained on five years of interview data. | Agent |  | <https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/humanly-launches-updated-conversational-ai-platform-to-accelerate-high-volume-enterprise-hiring/> |
| 2025-11-19 | Pindrop | Pindrop Pulse for Meetings available on Zoom, Webex and Teams: Pindrop made Pulse for Meetings generally available across Zoom, Webex Meetings and Microsoft Teams, naming "Deepfake candidates in virtual interviews" as a core threat. | Always-on | Hosts or security teams receive alerts by in-app notice, meeting chat or email and act on them. | <https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-available-across-conferencing-platforms/> |
| 2025-11-18 | Crelate | Crelate adds Insights Agent: Crelate's second agent analyzes recruiter activity and data, refreshes contact, company and candidate records, combines internal and outside sources, and proactively suggests "Ideas" in an Agent Dashboard. | Always-on | Recruiters decide which Ideas and recommendations to act on. | <https://www.crelate.com/blog/crelate-launches-insights-agent-living-platform> |
| 2025-11-13 | Lever | Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever: The AI Screening Companion "continuously matches candidates to open roles", flags top candidates at risk of dropping off and sends feedback to rejected candidates. It launches first for Lever customers. | Always-on | Recruiters get drop-off alerts and act on the suggested re-engagement steps. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-introduces-ai-screening-companion-to-help-recruiters-identify-best-fit-talent-faster-fairer-and-with-greater-transparency/> |
| 2025-11-13 | JobAdder | JobAdder launches Adder Intelligence with Smart Summary and Smart Sync: JobAdder released Adder Intelligence: Smart Summary generates candidate overviews and job relevance assessments, and Smart Sync flags missing or inconsistent record data from notes and activities. Press coverage of the launch followed on 5 December 2025. | Always-on | Recruiters review the summaries and recommended record updates; the system runs without prompts. | <https://jobadder.com/resources/platform-updates> |
| 2025-11-11 | Phenom | Phenom launches Voice Screening Agent: "Phenom's Voice Screening Agent is available 24/7, connecting with candidates the moment they apply." | Always-on | A recruiter follows up after the AI screen. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-conversational-voice-screening-agent-hiring> |
| 2025-11-04 | UKG | UKG launches Rapid Hire, built on Chattr: UKG launched Rapid Hire, built on its acquisition of frontline hiring startup Chattr: a chat-style, no-account apply flow that automates posting, follow-up, interview scheduling and onboarding paperwork. | Agent |  | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/pennwell.oilgasjournal/article/bizwire-2025-11-4-ukg-transforms-real-time-labor-and-staffing-strategies-by-launching-rapid-hire-and-dynamic-labor-management> |
| 2025-11-04 | Employment Hero | Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews: The Recruitment Agent "automates first-round, structured video interviews" and is "an AI-driven feature fully integrated into the Employment Hero platform that manages the entire first-round interview process." | Agent | A recruiter reviews and edits the questions and rubrics before invites go out and makes the final decision. | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/> |
| 2025-10-20 | iCIMS | iCIMS Fall Release leads with an AI Sourcing Agent: The early-access AI Sourcing Agent lets recruiters "activate intelligent sourcing workflows that find, match and engage top talent" inside iCIMS CXM, "the first in iCIMS' intelligent network of agents". | Agent | Recruiters choose the roles to activate it on and set the pre-approved outreach templates. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/fallrelease2025/> |
| 2025-10-15 | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM | Oracle Career Coach brings agents to recruiting: Oracle announced Career Coach in Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting: agentic job matching, 24/7 conversational help including qualification screenings and mock interviews, and one-click interview scheduling. | Agent |  | <https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-helps-organizations-optimize-the-candidate-and-hiring-experience-with-agentic-ai-2025-10-15/> |
| 2025-10-13 | Fountain | Fountain shows 12-product agent-first frontline suite at HR Tech 2025: At HR Tech 2025 Fountain said it now offers 12 products across the frontline workforce lifecycle, including shift and attendance with AI-powered scheduling, internal communications, referrals and compliance management, plus agents that set up implementations, configure workflows, analyze data and iterate on workflows toward business goals. | Agent | Managers approve compliance documents that AI extracts. | <https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-unveils-agentic-first-frontline-operating-system-with-12-product-suite-at-hr-tech-2025> |
| 2025-10-08 | Eightfold AI | Eightfold AI Interviewer made available to firms of all sizes: Eightfold made AI Interviewer "available to both SMBs and large enterprises starting today"; it "conducts thousands of structured interviews in parallel" and gives hiring teams transcripts and summaries. | Agent | Hiring teams review the transcripts and summaries and keep oversight of every interaction. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-ai-interviewer-to-deliver-faster-and-more-equitable-hiring/> |
| 2025-10 | BrightHire | BrightHire Screen AI interviewer launches: BrightHire launched Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screening, which it says set out to prove AI interviews could expand recruiting capacity and raise hiring quality. | Agent | Recruiters build the interview guide and rubric, launch the interviewer and review results. | <https://brighthire.com/?p=13594> |
| 2025-09-26 | Team Engine | Team Engine launches Onboarding with AI I-9 collection by text: Team Engine Onboarding collects I-9 Section 1 by text with an AI assistant that "verifies addresses, catches common errors", plus W-4s, offer letters with e-signature and Checkr background and MVR checks. | Agent | HR finalizes the I-9 during in-person verification. | <https://www.teamengine.io/blog/onboarding> |
| 2025-09-18 | Pindrop | Pindrop Pulse app for Zoom Meetings goes live: Pindrop Pulse for Meetings became generally available in Zoom's App Marketplace with deepfake detection, background voice authentication and country checks; Pindrop pitched it against interview fraud and to confirm the same candidate across rounds. | Always-on | Meeting hosts get real-time alerts and decide how to respond. | <https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-app-zoom-meetings-defend-ai-deepfakes/> |
| 2025-09-16 | Perceptyx | Perceptyx debuts AI agent suite and reworks Discover: Perceptyx launched an Employee Activation Agent, a Conversational Listening Agent and a Narrative Analysis Agent that 'Uncovers key insights from rich, nuanced conversational and other unstructured data', and reworked its listening and analytics product as Discover. | Agent |  | <https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/perceptyx-debuts-ai-agent-suite-and-reimagined-platform-to-transform-employee-experience/> |
| 2025-09-16 | Ashby | Fraudulent candidate detection: Applicants are "automatically run through multiple fraud checks" on device, IP, email and phone signals, and reviewers see "An AI summary of the fraud signals detected." | Always-on | A reviewer decides whether to mark a flagged candidate as fraudulent. | <https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/introducing-fraudulent-candidate-detection-and-management-to-help-you-focus-on-legitimate-candidates> |
| 2025-09-15 | Darwinbox | Darwinbox launches Super Agent: Darwinbox announced Super Agent, "an AI teammate that gives every employee one interface to get work done across enterprise systems". A manager can ask it to backfill a role and it creates the requisition and notifies approvers; customers choose from "30+ HR agents", and external agents connect through Darwinbox's MCP server. Open to design partner customers at launch. | Agent | Humans stay in the loop for sensitive steps. | <https://www.hrdive.com/press-release/20250915-darwinbox-launches-super-agent-an-ai-teammate-for-every-employee-that-gets-1/> |
| 2025-09-03 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Hiring Assistant goes global in English: LinkedIn said Hiring Assistant, "LinkedIn's first AI agent for recruiters," would be globally available in English by the end of September 2025. Early adopters reviewed 62% fewer profiles and saw a 69% improvement in InMail acceptance. | Agent | Recruiters refine intake notes and give the agent feedback. | <https://news.linkedin.com/2025/hiring-assistant-globally-available> |
| 2025-09-03 | ADP | ADP Assist adds AI analytics and anomaly detection: At Innovation Day 2025 ADP added payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, workforce trend insights and AI compliance monitoring to Workforce Now, Global Payroll and Lyric HCM. | Always-on | HR practitioners review and approve the suggested payroll corrections. | <https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025> |
| 2025-08-26 | Fountain | Fountain launches Frontline OS with Copilot: Fountain launched Frontline OS, an AI-native system for hiring, onboarding and workforce management. Fountain Copilot, powered in part by Anthropic's Claude models, takes plain-language prompts and runs Fountain agents to post jobs, screen and hire, fill shifts and run compliance reports. | Agent |  | <https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/onboarding/fountain-launches-frontline-os-to-cut-new-hire-screening-time-of-frontline-workers-by-up-to-98-and-boost-retention-by-50-through-agentic-ai/> |
| 2025-08-24 | Fonzi | Business Insider profiles Fonzi's Match Day model and AI interviewer: Business Insider reported that applicants talk to Fonzi's AI interviewer, top candidates join a monthly Match Day, and employers pay 18% of base salary per hire. The model was about three months old. | Agent | A Fonzi recruiter calls candidates who look like a good fit before Match Day. | <https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hiring-process-broken-software-engineers-152521767.html> |
| 2025-08-20 | Team Engine | Team Engine adds AI onboarding assistant and AI job title validation: Summer 2025 update: an AI Onboarding Assistant in beta that texts new hires to collect form data, which the CEO calls "our first real application of agentic AI", plus a Job Title Validation Tool that "Uses AI to ensure compliance with Indeed's rules" and LinkedIn sponsored ads. | Agent |  | <https://www.teamengine.io/blog/summer-2025-product-update> |
| 2025-08-19 | Eightfold AI | Eightfold launches Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring: Recruiter Agent lets enterprises "engage, evaluate, and advance talent autonomously", with voice AI interviews and an SMS assistant that answers applicant questions and sends reminders. | Always-on |  | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-recruiter-agent-built-for-hyper-personalized-always-on-high-volume-hiring/> |
| 2025-08-12 | Lightcast | Lightcast launches Skills Agent: Skills Agent "continuously updates skill-to-job associations in real-time, eliminating the need for manual skill mapping" and "identifies, recommends, and justifies skills for job profiles based on real-time labor market data." | Always-on |  | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/skills-agent-press-release-2025-08-12> |
| 2025-08-12 | CodeSignal | CodeSignal launches Interviewer Agents: Interviewer Agents "autonomously conduct role-specific interviews" and "return structured scorecards straight to any applicant-tracking system"; humans make the advance decision. | Agent | The hiring team decides whether a candidate advances. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-interviewer-agents-agentic-interviewers-that-scale-with-your-hiring-plans/> |
| 2025-08-11 | Polyguard | Polyguard releases PG-Presence check: Polyguard launched PG-Presence, its method for verifying "true physical presence" of the person holding the device, alongside offline ePassport checks and an SDK for enterprises. | Always-on |  | <https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/polyguard-introduces-presence-detection-with-pg-presence-release> |
| 2025-07-27 | Hyring | Hyring launches AI Phone Screener: Hyring launched an AI Phone Screener that calls candidates, asks contextual questions and returns reports with scores, transcripts and recordings, tagline "Screen 1000 candidates before lunch". | Agent |  | <https://webmail.hunted.space/product/ai-interviewer-by-hyring/launches/ai-phone-screener-by-hyring> |
| 2025-07-23 | Humanly | Humanly unveils AI video interviewer: Humanly launched an AI Interviewer that interviews "every candidate over video, any time of day", then scores the candidate and recommends whether to advance them. | Agent | Recruiters get the score and feedback and spend their time on the best fits. | <https://www.geekwire.com/2025/meet-your-ai-interviewer-seattle-startup-humanly-unveils-video-bot-that-grills-job-applicants/> |
| 2025-07-16 | Socure | Socure launches Workforce Verification: Socure launched Workforce Verification to stop fake applicants at the point of entry. It checks device, behavioral and identity signals in real time before an applicant reaches recruiters, and integrates with HR platforms, job boards, payroll systems and ATSs. | Always-on |  | <https://socure.com/blog/workforce-verification-to-stop-fake-applicants> |
| 2025-07-09 | HackerRank | HackerRank opens AI interviewer and AI proctoring to customers: HackerRank's AI interviewer became "Now available for initial candidate screening" with real-time hints and thought-process evaluation, alongside Proctor mode, which "provides AI-powered assessment integrity" with session replay. | Agent |  | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/empowering-future-ready-teams-hackerranks-ai-driven-solutions-modernize-tech-talent-strategies-302500667.html> |
| 2025-06-27 | GoodTime | Orchestra agents advance candidates and chat with applicants: GoodTime's agents can now advance qualified candidates, trigger interview requests, send personalized rejections and summarize candidate sentiment; it also added a customizable candidate-facing AI agent for rescheduling and FAQs. | Always-on | Critical candidate issues escalate to a person. | <https://goodtime.io/blog/product-updates/goodtime-product-updates-whats-new-from-june-2025/> |
| 2025-06-24 | Persona | Persona expands Workforce IDV to catch deepfake candidates: Persona expanded Workforce IDV with tools to detect AI-generated personas and deepfakes during hiring, integrated with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and Cisco Duo. | Always-on |  | <https://venturebeat.com/ai/75-million-deepfakes-blocked-persona-leads-the-corporate-fight-against-hiring-fraud> |
| 2025-06-18 | Braintrust AIR | Braintrust AIR interviews in 10 languages: "Braintrust AIR now supports fully conversational interviews in 10 languages", with standardized English scorecards and transcripts for recruiters. | Agent | Recruiters receive standardized English scorecards and transcripts for every candidate. | <https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/now-interviewing-in-10-languages> |
| 2025-06-17 | VONQ (EQO) | VONQ launches CPA+ agentic hiring with Employ: CPA+ uses AI agents to guide applicants, run a six-minute screening interview and score candidates on 15 skill dimensions, giving recruiters up to 20 ranked candidates for a fixed price via JazzHR and Lever. | Agent | Recruiters stay in control of how candidates are interviewed, assessed and hired; scores and rankings are recommendations. | <https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/vonq-launches-cpa-the-worlds-first-agentic-ai-cost-per-application-hiring-solution-powered-by-linkedin-and-in-partnership-with-employ/> |
| 2025-06-10 | SmartRecruiters | SmartRecruiters launches Winston agentic hiring platform: SmartRecruiters released a rebuilt platform with Winston, an agentic AI companion, at its core: Winston Chat went live, and Winston Match, Winston Screen, Winston Companion and the SmartOS layer went on sale with modular packaging and outcome-aligned pricing. CEO Rebecca Carr said "The ATS era is over." | Agent | Recruiters use the scores to prioritize candidates, and hiring managers give feedback and decide next steps. | <https://smartrecruiters.com/news/smartrecruiters-unveils-ai-powered-platform-that-ends-the-ats-era/> |
| 2025-06-09 | iCIMS | iCIMS announces iCIMS Agents: iCIMS Agents are "a purpose-built, domain-specific AI platform designed to accelerate the entire recruiting lifecycle", starting with six agents such as a Sourcing Pipeline Agent and Conversational Analytics Agent, first available in Q3. | Agent | Recruiters keep decision-making at key stages of the hiring process. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/icimsagents/> |
| 2025-06-03 | Workday | Agent System of Record opens to partner agents: Workday announced the Agent Partner Network and Agent Gateway so partner agents, including Paradox, connect to the Workday Agent System of Record. | Agent |  | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-06-03-Workday-Announces-New-AI-Agent-Partner-Network-and-Agent-Gateway-to-Power-the-Next-Generation-of-Human-and-Digital-Workforces> |
| 2025-06-03 | JazzHR | Employ unveils AI Companion strategy, with Smart Screening for JazzHR: JazzHR owner Employ launched its AI Companion strategy, led by an AI Interview Companion for Lever and Jobvite, and named Smart Screening, which delivers pre-qualified, top-ranked applicants with scores, as available for JazzHR. | Always-on |  | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-unveils-bold-ai-companion-strategy-responsibly-built-for-recruiters-designed-for-impact/> |
| 2025-06-03 | Greenhouse | Greenhouse launches Real Talent to rank applicants and flag fraud: Real Talent sorts applicants into a tiered inbox: it "analyzes applicant data against job requirements" and flags spam, bot submissions and misrepresentation. Features phase in from Q3 2025. | Always-on |  | <https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/greenhouse-real-talent-launches-to-fix-overwhelming-candidate-pipelines-while-combatting-fraud-and-spam-in-hiring/> |
| 2025-05-28 | Bullhorn | Bullhorn launches Amplify AI agents for staffing firms: At Engage Boston, Bullhorn announced Amplify, which uses generative AI and autonomous agents with skills for sourcing, matching, voice or chat screening, submitting, outreach, enriching, scheduling and analyzing. Recruiters "can deploy Amplify agents directly within their workflows." | Agent | Teams decide when, where and how AI is applied; recruiters keep the relationships and placements. | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-launches-amplify/> |
| 2025-05-21 | GoodTime | GoodTime launches Orchestra AI agents: GoodTime launched Orchestra, "a digital workforce of proactive, autonomous agents that work in sync to handle hiring's most time-consuming tasks." | Always-on | Talent teams stay in control, and every agent action is visible and traceable. | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/814716257/goodtime-launches-orchestra-a-digital-workforce-of-ai-agents-built-to-transform-hiring> |
| 2025-05-21 | Findem | Findem introduces next-gen Talent CRM: Findem launched an AI-enabled Talent CRM that updates talent pools automatically, sends smart follow-up reminders and refreshes candidate data. "Talent CRM eliminates the manual effort and stale data that slow teams down." | Always-on |  | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-introduces-next-gen-talent-crm-to-help-talent-teams-go-from-reactive-to-ready> |
| 2025-05-08 | Eightfold AI | Eightfold unveils AI Interviewer and Digital Twin at Cultivate 2025: Eightfold introduced AI Interviewer, which autonomously interviews candidates 24/7, and Digital Twin, a personalized model of an employee's knowledge and skills. | Agent |  | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/talent-intelligence-to-talent-advantage-eightfold-ai-revolutionizes-hr-through-agentic-ai/> |
| 2025-05-06 | Joveo | Joveo unveils five autonomous AI agents for recruitment marketing: At UNLEASH America 2025 Joveo showed an AI job advertiser, AI career site builder, AI campaign manager, AI recruiting assistant and AI talent advisor. | Always-on |  | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-industrys-first-autonomous-ai-agents-for-recruitment-marketing-at-unleash-america-2025/> |

## What the companies have in common

How many companies sell each AI capability today, of 235.

| Capability | Companies | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Named agents | 138 | A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own. |
| Screening and ranking | 133 | AI resume screening, ranking or candidate matching. |
| AI analytics | 86 | AI analytics or natural-language reporting on HR or hiring data. |
| AI sourcing | 85 | AI candidate search or talent discovery. |
| AI interviews | 77 | AI conducts the interview by voice, video or chat. |
| Assistant | 75 | A general AI assistant for recruiters, HR or employees. |
| AI outreach | 74 | AI-written or automated candidate outreach and nurture. |
| MCP and agent APIs | 67 | An MCP server, an agent API, or an app inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot. |
| Fraud and identity | 62 | Candidate fraud, identity, deepfake or cheating detection. |
| Scheduling | 59 | Automated interview scheduling. |
| Job posts and ads | 56 | AI job descriptions, job-ad writing or programmatic ad spend. |
| Candidate chat | 54 | A conversational assistant for candidates: questions, apply, pre-screen. |
| Interview notes | 53 | Interview intelligence: recording, notes, summaries, scorecards. |
| AI assessments | 51 | AI-built or AI-scored skills assessments. |
| Skills and planning | 28 | Skills ontologies, internal mobility or workforce planning. |
| Rediscovery | 24 | AI that resurfaces past applicants, silver medalists or internal candidates for a new role. |
| Bias audit and governance | 3 | Bias audits, explainability or regulatory reporting for hiring AI. |
| AI for candidates | 2 | AI the vendor sells or gives to job seekers. |
| Runs inside others | 1 | The product runs inside another platform, such as Workday, LinkedIn, Indeed or Teams. |

## Every dated event

| Date | Company | Kind | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | Dayforce | Product launch | Agentic HCM Platform and Agentic Recruiting: At Dayforce Discover, Dayforce unveiled the Agentic HCM Platform and Agentic Recruiting for frontline and high-volume hiring, with agents for sourcing, screening, scheduling and candidate engagement planned through 2027. | <https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-agentic-talent-experiences-to-transform-how-organizations-hire-and-develop-talen> |
| 2026-10-27 | ChartHop | Product launch | Ask ChartHop drafts headcount plans and builds agentic actions: ChartHop's October 2026 update lets Ask ChartHop draft a headcount plan in one conversation and configure AI Pro agentic actions from a plain-language description, each "reviewable and editable before it goes live." | <https://www.charthop.com/resource/charthop-product-updates-october-2026> |
| 2026-10-26 | eSkill | Product launch | eSkill launches Linea Sample contact-center simulation: Linea Sample places candidates in a text or voice customer interaction and scores them on weighted rubric dimensions, for contact centers and BPOs. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eskill-launches-linea-sample-a-work-simulation-that-helps-employers-identify-qualified-customer-facing-candidates-faster-302918876.html> |
| 2026-10-26 | EEOC | Law or ruling | OFCCP version of the Uniform Guidelines comes off the books: DOL's rule rescinding the Executive Order 11246 regulations took effect, removing OFCCP's UGESP at 41 CFR Part 60-3. | <https://directemployers.org/2026/10/23/eeoc-ugesp-rescission-final-rule-oira/> |
| 2026-10-23 | Ribbon | Acquisition | Dayforce agrees to acquire Ribbon: 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. | <https://betakit.com/?p=411302> |
| 2026-10-23 | Pin | Product launch | Pin launches Autopilot to answer candidates and book interviews: Pin launched Autopilot, a pipeline, inbox and AI recruiting assistant that answers candidate replies, books interviews and moves candidates through pipeline stages. Pin says: "Every reply answered and every interview booked, before you open your inbox." | <https://www.pin.com/blog/autopilot/> |
| 2026-10-23 | Dayforce | Acquisition | Dayforce agrees to buy AI interviewer Ribbon: Dayforce signed an agreement to acquire Ribbon AI, whose voice and video AI interviewer has run more than one million interviews, to power agentic recruiting. | <https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-to-acquire-ribbon-ai-inc-to-advance-agentic-recruiting> |
| 2026-10-23 | Crelate | Product launch | Crelate ships MCP server and puts Discover Agent on every plan: Crelate's October 2026 release added an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants query Crelate records, with "a record of every action an AI assistant takes," put Discover Agent on all plans with AI Credits, and added a Co-Pilot Search Assistant and an AI support assistant. | <https://www.crelate.com/blog/crelate-october-2026-release-ai-agents> |
| 2026-10-23 | Braintrust AIR | Product launch | AIR adds five years of hiring analytics: AIR release notes: analytics "can show up to five years of hiring history," retake requests for closed jobs are set aside, and interviews start more smoothly. | <https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-release-notes> |
| 2026-10-22 | Paylocity | Product launch | Paylocity launches Recruiting Optimizer agents: Recruiting Optimizer adds two Ignite AI agents to Paylocity Recruiting: a Candidate Engagement Agent that uses conversational AI over web and SMS to run screening questions and help schedule interviews, and a Talent Rediscovery Agent that surfaces past applicants who match open roles. | <https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Paylocity+Launches+AI-Powered+Recruiting+Optimizer+to+Automate+Recruiting+Workflows+and+Speed+Hiring> |
| 2026-10-22 | Hireology | Product launch | Hireology presents AI Hiring Intelligence suite: Hireology's post names its "AI Hiring Intelligence suite": AI Match to focus review, AI Candidate Summary with strengths, gaps and questions, and AI Interview for a self-scheduled first screen. | <https://www.hireology.com/blog/ai-has-changed-how-people-apply-hiring-needs-to-catch-up> |
| 2026-10-22 | Gusto | Product launch | Gusto Fall Showcase adds AI connectors and accountant MCP: At its Fall Showcase, Gusto let owners connect Gusto to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools to ask about payroll and teams, prep payroll and generate reports, and added a multi-client MCP for accounting firms. | <https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/10/22/gusto-touts-new-products-and-features-for-small-businesses/192269/> |
| 2026-10-22 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse in Claude plugin enters open beta: Recruiters "can get answers from live hiring data and take approved actions in Greenhouse" inside Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code, with skills such as daily briefs and draft scorecards. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-brings-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-anthropics-claude> |
| 2026-10-22 | Fountain | Product launch | Fountain's Emma agent adds voice help for I-9 and W-4: Frontline workers can now call Emma, a voice support agent, for help finishing their I-9 and W-4 forms. | <https://fountain.launchnotes.io/> |
| 2026-10-22 | Breezy HR | Product launch | Applicant Insights scores questionnaire attachments: "Applicant Insights scoring now includes questionnaire attachments!" | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-10-21 | isolved | Product launch | isolved launches Agent View for AI agents on the org chart: "Agent View gives AI agents an assigned manager, performance record and escalation path alongside human employees", inside isolved's HR and payroll system. Available now for mid-sized organizations. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agents-org-chart> |
| 2026-10-21 | Visier | Product launch | Visier debuts Talent Agents: Visier launched Talent Agents at HR Tech 2026, AI agents on its Workforce Intelligence Platform that guide managers to the next step in HR programs in real time and show talent leaders what each program changed. Outcomes feed back into the AI so guidance improves. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-debuts-talent-agents/> |
| 2026-10-21 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai launches Love-jection for rejected candidates: At UNLEASH Paris, Sapia.ai launched Love-jection, which offers candidates its customers reject an AI career coach. | <https://sapia.ai/about-sapia-ai-recruitment-software/sapia-press-releases/> |
| 2026-10-21 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Partnership | Small businesses can post LinkedIn jobs from Claude: A LinkedIn plugin lets hirers describe a role in Claude, which drafts the job post; LinkedIn's Hiring Pro then surfaces and shortlists candidates. It is "live in Claude today and coming soon to Copilot." | <https://news.linkedin.com/2026/making-it-easier-for-small-businesses-to-hire-on-linkedin> |
| 2026-10-21 | Findem | Product launch | Findem launches ReadySlate pay-per-candidate agents: ReadySlate recruiting agents turn job requirements into interview-ready slates with outreach, AI screening interviews, skills tests and identity checks; Enterprise customers pay only for candidates they unlock. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-readyslate-interview-ready-candidates> |
| 2026-10-20 | Visier | Product launch | Vee Diagnostics explains why the workforce changed: Visier added Vee Diagnostics in early access to Vee, its Workforce Insights Agent. It uses statistical models to rank the drivers behind workforce changes with confidence levels and an audit trail, and models the impact of changing a driver, at no extra cost. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-launches-vee-diagnostics-capabilities-at-hrtech-2026/> |
| 2026-10-20 | Visier | Product launch | Visier expands its Workforce Context Engine: Visier showcased an expanded Workforce Context Engine that maps, models and governs workforce data across a customer's systems and passes that governed context to any AI agent, and back into Databricks, Snowflake and Google Cloud Platform. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-showcases-expanded-workforce-context-engine/> |
| 2026-10-20 | Lightcast | Product launch | Lightcast launches ASK and an MCP server: Lightcast added ASK, "a conversational AI experience in the Lightcast Analyst platform" whose answers link back to Analyst reports, and an MCP server that "connects AI assistants to Lightcast's global labor market data." | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-announces-ask-and-mcp> |
| 2026-10-20 | Jooba | Funding | Jooba raises $4M seed for its AI-native recruiting firm: Jooba raised $4M in seed funding from a16z speedrun, Scribble Ventures and Genius Ventures. It builds a custom AI sourcing agent for each role with human review and charges a flat subscription. | <https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=363059> |
| 2026-10-20 | GCheck | Product launch | GCheck adds reusable credential wallet to Verified Entry: GCheck "added a credential wallet to Verified Entry, its biometric identity verification service", so employers can reconfirm a worker's identity at onboarding, on job sites and at shift start. Debuted at HR Tech 2026. | <https://gcheck.com/blog/gcheck-debuts-credential-wallet-for-verified-entry-identity-verification-to-fight-hiring-fraud/> |
| 2026-10-20 | First Advantage | Product launch | First Advantage and ID.me launch FCRA-compliant identity fraud check for hiring: The companies formed an exclusive partnership and launched "an identity fraud detection product that is purpose-built for hiring and compliant with the FCRA". Results "will now appear within the background screening report". | <https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FA/first-advantage-and-id-me-announce-fcra-compliant-identity-fraud-i61bqapqh3dn.html> |
| 2026-10-20 | Findem | Product launch | Findem launches Authenticity Suite Pro for candidate fraud: Authenticity Suite Pro cross-checks resumes and profiles for inconsistencies and offers consent-based verification with liveness and government ID checks, logged in a timestamped Authenticity Report. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-authenticity-suite-pro-candidate-fraud-detection> |
| 2026-10-19 | Hunar.AI | Funding | Hunar.AI raises Rs 40 crore Series A: Hunar.AI raised about Rs 40 crore (about $4.2M) led by Blume Ventures to scale its voice AI agents for frontline hiring, onboarding and retention. | <https://inc42.com/buzz/hunar-raises-₹40-cr-to-scale-agentic-ai-for-frontline-hiring/> |
| 2026-10-19 | Cornerstone | Product launch | Cornerstone unveils Workforce Planning and Agent Ready: Workforce Planning helps leaders decide whether to develop people, "hire new talent" or use AI to fill skill gaps; Agent Ready "holds agents to the same standards of conduct as people in equivalent roles". | <https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/building-the-agentic-future-responsibly-cornerstone-unveils-cornerstone-workforce-planning-and-cornerstone-agent-ready/> |
| 2026-10-18 | SourceGeek | Product launch | SourceGeek connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor: Recruiters can search, score and shortlist candidates from inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. The connector is read-only for outreach: "SourceGeek only reads; it never sends messages or connection requests." | <https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/recruiting-from-claude> |
| 2026-10-16 | Leoforce | Law or ruling | Leoforce earns ISO/IEC 42001 certification for its AI: Leoforce achieved "ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems," covering its agentic and non-agentic recruiting, screening and matching systems. | <https://leoforce.com/news/leoforce-achieves-iso-iec-42001-certification-for-responsible-ai/> |
| 2026-10-16 | EEOC | Law or ruling | EEOC sends Uniform Guidelines rescission to White House review: The EEOC asked OIRA to review a final rule (RIN 3046-AB43) removing the interpretive portions of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. Final action is projected for November 2026 and an effective date in January 2027. | <https://directemployers.org/2026/10/23/eeoc-ugesp-rescission-final-rule-oira/> |
| 2026-10-15 | SHL | Research | SHL report on hidden internal talent: SHL's Talent Mobility at Work in 2026 survey of 2,036 US and UK workers found most would sit a skills assessment to qualify for a bigger role. | <https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/press-releases/the-skills-youre-trying-to-hire-for-might-already-be-on-your-payroll/> |
| 2026-10-15 | Lantern AI | Product launch | Lantern AI crosses $1M ARR and launches people tools for AI agents: CEO Thomas Chan said Lantern AI crossed $1M ARR and launched a CLI-native product that gives agents such as Codex and Claude Code 70+ tools for people data, research and outreach. | <https://www.arr.club/signal/lantern-ai-crossed-1m-arr-agents-launch> |
| 2026-10-15 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse launches the Orchestrated Hiring Ecosystem with Voice AI and sourcing: Greenhouse puts "sourcing, interviewing, scheduling and the applicant tracking system in one place". Voice AI gives every applicant a first interview; sourcing is in closed beta. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-break-ais-hiring-doom-loop> |
| 2026-10-15 | Checkr | Research | Checkr Hiring Hoax 2026 survey on AI candidate fraud: Checkr's survey of 3,000 US hiring managers found 40% have interviewed a candidate later found to be using a fake identity, up from 31% in 2025, and 68% say AI fraud is outpacing detection. | <https://checkr.com/blog/hiring-hoax-2026-ai-fraud-outpacing-detection> |
| 2026-10-14 | Humanly | Acquisition | Humanly acquires CareerArc: Humanly bought CareerArc, a recruitment marketing firm (HireSocial social recruiting, Job Maps career sites), to reach candidates earlier. | <https://www.geekwire.com/2026/humanly-acquires-careerarc-to-connect-recruitment-marketing-with-ai-hiring/> |
| 2026-10-14 | CodeSignal | Law or ruling | CodeSignal listed on FedRAMP Marketplace: CodeSignal is listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace for federal hiring and "is actively completing FedRAMP 20x Class C authorization." | <https://codesignal.com/codesignal-listed-on-fedramp-marketplace/> |
| 2026-10-13 | Workday | Product launch | Talent Acquisition Agent gets autopilot: At Workday Rising 2026, Workday launched autopilot agents; the Talent Acquisition Agent watches open requisitions, finds qualified candidates once a job is posted, runs sourcing in the background and drafts outreach for recruiter approval, across Workday Recruiting, HiredScore, Paradox and connected sourcing providers. Early adopters only; GA is planned for early 2027. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-10-13-Workday-Launches-Autopilot-Agents-That-Get-Real-Work-Done-Across-HR,-Finance,-and-IT> |
| 2026-10-13 | VARIETAS | Partnership | JBIC adopts VARIETAS AI Interviewer: Japan Bank for International Cooperation adopted the AI Interviewer, one of the AI agents in VARIETAS's TA Team platform, in its recruitment process. | <https://resemom.jp/release/prtimes/20261013/219263.html> |
| 2026-10-13 | Bullhorn | Partnership | Bullhorn and American Staffing Association launch AI Job Impact research: Bullhorn and the American Staffing Association launched "ASA \| Bullhorn AI Job Impact," a research partnership to measure the impact of AI on job availability and employment trends in the US. | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-american-staffing-association-launch-ai-job-impact-research-partnership-to-measure-ais-impact-on-u-s-jobs/> |
| 2026-10-12 | Spark Hire | Product launch | Recruit MCP connection in beta: "Spark Hire Recruit now supports a secure MCP connection" so teams can query live candidate, position and pipeline data from ChatGPT and Claude, with role-based access. | <https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog> |
| 2026-10-12 | SourceGeek | Product launch | SourceGeek's AI Agent now sources developers on GitHub: "The SourceGeek AI Agent now sources on GitHub too": it searches for developers from a described brief, reads their languages, projects and activity, and ranks matches. | <https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/github-sourcing-without-the-legwork> |
| 2026-10-12 | Lightcast | Product launch | Lightcast expands Work Intelligence with task data: Lightcast expanded Work Intelligence, "connecting jobs, tasks and skills in a common framework," with more than 36,000 job-specific task statements and a task taxonomy embedded in Talent Transform for major employers, to help buyers "target AI investments with unified job, task, and skill insight." | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-expands-its-work-intelligence-capabilities> |
| 2026-10-08 | Wellfound | Product launch | Wellfound Reach adds AI market mapping: Reach can now build company lists from a plain description of a market: it "checks the web and employee profiles, then shows why each company made the list," and the list can feed a sourcing agent. | <https://wellfound.com/blog/wellfound-reach-market-mapping-company-lists> |
| 2026-10-08 | Fuel50 | Product launch | Fuel50 launches Leader Coach Agent for managers: Leader Coach gives managers "a manager-focused copilot for understanding team capability" and career conversations. | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/947997314/fuel50-launches-leader-coach-agent-to-build-organizational-capability-for-the-age-of-ai> |
| 2026-10-08 | Checkr | Product launch | Checkr launches Fraud Detection Suite: Checkr launched a Fraud Detection Suite covering application to post-hire: resume fraud detection, image comparison, deepfake detection of interview video and audio, biometric IDV with liveness, device signals and location correlation. | <https://www.webull.com/news/15712756793607168> |
| 2026-10-08 | BambooHR | Product launch | BambooHR launches Claude connector on new BambooHR MCP: BambooHR launched a connector for Claude, "the first built on the BambooHR MCP," so users can run reports, handle time off and look up colleagues inside Claude within their BambooHR permissions. | <https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-announces-claude-connector-built-on-bamboohr-mcp> |
| 2026-10-07 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Workday allowed to depose 15 class declarants: Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler allowed Workday to depose 15 of the 38 applicants whose declarations support class certification, remotely between October 15 and 30. | <https://www.warden-ai.com/warden-watch/litigations/mobley-v-workday-inc> |
| 2026-10-07 | Maki | Research | Maki ties for top score on HireAIScore AI-law ranking: Maki says it ranks first (joint, with Greenhouse) of 191 AI hiring vendors on HireAIScore, scoring 67 of 100 against the EU AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, Colorado and Illinois rules. | <https://www.makipeople.com/blog/maki-first-ai-hiring-vendors> |
| 2026-10-06 | TechWolf | Acquisition | SAP agrees to acquire TechWolf: SAP agreed to acquire TechWolf to power skills tracking, workforce planning and org redesign in SuccessFactors and ground Joule agents; TechWolf stays open to other HR systems. Close expected Q4 2026; terms not disclosed. | <https://www.reworked.co/learning-development/sap-acquires-techwolf-to-add-live-skills-data-to-successfactors/> |
| 2026-10-06 | Orgvue | Product launch | Orgvue adds a WebMCP interface for customer agents: Orgvue launched a WebMCP interface that "connects a customer's agent of choice to an already-open Orgvue Workspace browser tab," with no org data changed without human review. It is in early access, with general availability planned for January 2027. | <http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orgvue-accelerates-ai-powered-workforce-design-with-innovative-webmcp-interface-302899071.html> |
| 2026-10-06 | One Model | Product launch | One Model launches AI Impact: One Model launched AI Impact, a standalone product that "uses prompt-level intelligence to reveal how AI is being used, how effectively, and where organizations can improve," across tools including ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, sold alone or alongside its workforce data. | <https://www.onemodel.co/news/one-model-launches-ai-impact-extending-its-governed-data-platform-to-measure-ai-effectiveness> |
| 2026-10-06 | Juicebox | Acquisition | Juicebox acquires Fetcher's assets as Fetcher retires its platform: Juicebox agreed to acquire the assets of Fetcher, a human-in-the-loop sourcing tool founded in 2016 that raised more than $30M. Fetcher is retiring its platform over the coming weeks and its customers can move to Juicebox. | <https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-acquires-fetcher-assets> |
| 2026-10-05 | HackerRank | Product launch | HackerRank makes Chakra AI interviewer generally available: Chakra, HackerRank's agentic AI interviewer, reached general availability after a six-month beta of more than 500,000 interviews; companies that tried it include Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini. HackerRank says suspicious-activity flags were 70% to 80% lower than in traditional assessments. | <https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/> |
| 2026-10-02 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent builds files from a conversation: "The Agent can generate real files directly from a conversation," producing PowerPoint, Word, Markdown and HTML dashboard drafts grounded in the same data as its answers. | <https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/pave-agent-can-build-the-deliverable> |
| 2026-10-02 | Holistic AI | Product launch | Holistic AI launches Global Agent assistant: Product update "Global Agent: One AI Assistant for Search, Docs and Support" adds one AI assistant across the platform. | <https://www.holisticai.com/blog/global-agent-ai-search-answers-support> |
| 2026-10-02 | HireQuotient | Partnership | EasySource gets a featured listing on Paylocity Marketplace: HireQuotient's EasySource AI sourcing agent became a featured listing on the Paylocity Marketplace just under a month after going live. Frontline clients report 45 to 60% faster time to hire. | <https://www.everythingstartups.com/news/hirequotient-s-easysource-elevated-to-featured-listing-on-paylocity-marketplace-within-a-month-of-launching> |
| 2026-10-02 | Codility | Product launch | Codility lets interviewers make the coding agent slip in a bug: October 2026 update: AI Assistance switches on or off per task, interviewers can have the coding agent insert a bug to see whether candidates review AI code, new models reach Claude Code and the AI Copilot, and Codility Desktop adds a remote access signal. | <https://www.codility.com/lab/product-updates/> |
| 2026-10-01 | SourceWhale | Product launch | SourceWhale launches an MCP for AI tools: The MCP "connects compatible AI tools to the candidates, clients, roles and conversations already in SourceWhale," and searches calls, meetings, notes and resumes even when nobody filled in a field. | <https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/sourcewhale-launches-mcp-to-bring-recruitment-context-into-ai-tools/> |
| 2026-10-01 | Ceipal | Product launch | Ceipal adds Ask Anything assistant and AI timesheet anomaly checks: Ask Anything, "a natural-language assistant", lets authorized users query VMS records in conversation, and AI flags unusual timesheet patterns before submission. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-latest-release-ats-healthcare-vms-workforce> |
| 2026-10-01 | Breezy HR | Product launch | Applicant Insights gets must-have criteria: Recruiters can "Set up to 3 Must-have categories in your Applicant Insights criteria" for AI scoring. | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-10 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho Recruit ships Enhanced Zia Matches and live interview insights: Zoho Recruit added Enhanced Zia Matches, an LLM-based model weighing skills, title variations and experience, extended Interview Insights to live video interviews, and added Assessment Summary and Compare Applications with Zia Insights (beta). | <https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html> |
| 2026-10 | Pinpoint | Product launch | Hiring Copilot in Microsoft Teams: Users can message the Pinpoint app in Microsoft Teams to ask about jobs, candidates and interviews, "with their own Pinpoint permissions applied." | <https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/october-2026-product-spotlight> |
| 2026-10 | Noon | Product launch | Noon adds a chat-driven sourcing agent and campaign agent: Recruiters can now "ask the sourcing agent to tighten or loosen a search" from a sidebar chat, and edit outreach drafts by talking to a campaign agent. | <https://www.noon.ai/changelog> |
| 2026-09-30 | Tengai | Research | Tengai data: 44% of Swedish AI interviews happen outside office hours: Tengai analysed 20,291 Swedish screening AI interviews from Jan 2025 to Sep 2026 and found 44 percent started before 8 a.m., from 5 p.m. or on weekends. | <https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours> |
| 2026-09-30 | Metaview | Funding | Metaview raises $60M Series C: Metaview raised $60 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, with GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures. | <https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/metaview-raises-60m-series-c-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting/> |
| 2026-09-30 | Metaview | Product launch | fillmore recruiting agent becomes generally available: Metaview made fillmore, "our autonomous recruiting coworker", generally available; it sources candidates, writes outreach, manages follow-up and books screening calls. | <https://www.metaview.ai/resources/blog/metaview-raised-an-additional-60m-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting> |
| 2026-09-30 | Harper v. Sirius XM | Law or ruling | Sirius XM wins AI hiring bias suit: The court granted Sirius XM summary judgment, finding no direct or circumstantial evidence of discriminatory intent and no showing of how the alleged AI use discriminated by race. | <https://www.hrdive.com/news/sirius-xm-beats-allegations-of-ai-fueled-racial-bias/832115/> |
| 2026-09-30 | California SB 947 (No Robo Bosses Act) | Law or ruling | Newsom signs revised No Robo Bosses Act: Governor Newsom signed SB 947, effective July 1, 2027. Employers may not rely solely on an automated decision system to discipline or fire, and must give notice and human corroboration when they primarily rely on one. | <https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/newsom-signs-revamped-no-robo-bosses-act-into-law> |
| 2026-09-29 | Teamtailor | Product launch | Smart action lets AI act on every candidate in a stage: Smart action is a stage trigger: "Describe the work in plain language, and AI handles it for every candidate who lands in the stage", such as adding comments, tags, custom fields or to-dos. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/smart-action-just-tell-ai-what-to-do/> |
| 2026-09-29 | Perceptyx | Product launch | Perceptyx Anywhere links employee data to enterprise AI: Perceptyx launched Perceptyx Anywhere with three parts: Connect (MCP server and APIs), Evaluate, and Predict, where 'Org-specific models surface attrition and disengagement signals'. | <https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/perceptyx-anywhere-links-employee-data-to-enterprise-ai/> |
| 2026-09-29 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Product launch | LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant 2: LinkedIn announced Hiring Assistant 2, its "next generation hiring agent," with more advanced reasoning, memory and personalization and the ability to manage an entire talent pool. LinkedIn says over 20,000 companies use its agentic hiring solutions; English customers get the update free from November. | <https://news.linkedin.com/2026/hiring-assistant-2> |
| 2026-09-28 | Gloat | Partnership | Gloat and The Josh Bersin Company put Galileo inside Gloat agents: Gloat added Bersin's Galileo HR research corpus to Loomra so its agents combine HR best practice with live workforce data, starting with SAP SuccessFactors customers. | <https://gloat.com/newsrooms/gloat-and-the-josh-bersin-company-partner-to-bring-galileoinside-gloat-ai-agents-for-enterprise-hr/> |
| 2026-09-25 | Spark Hire | Product launch | Spark Hire AI Notetaker gets consent controls: AI Notetaker (beta) adds candidate consent requests, manual add or remove, and transcript downloads. | <https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog> |
| 2026-09-24 | Torre | Partnership | Torre launches a Distribution Partners program: Torre founder Alexander Torrenegra posted that "The Torre Distribution Partners program is now live." The linked program page invites partners to "Resell Torre's products and earn significant margins." | <https://torrenegra.com/p/mufvs5y7pd4f> |
| 2026-09-24 | Fuel50 | Product launch | Fuel50 launches Task Intelligence: Task Intelligence shows how AI changes the tasks inside roles because "AI is not changing work role by role, but rather task by task." | <https://fuel50.com/press/fuel50-launches-task-intelligence-to-drive-responsible-work-redesign-in-the-age-of-ai> |
| 2026-09-24 | Breezy HR | Product launch | Breezy adds AI Interview Analysis in beta: "New in Beta: AI-powered Interview Analysis!" turns recorded interviews into scored evidence a hiring team can compare; it is sold as a separate subscription. | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-09-23 | Paychex | Product launch | Paychex launches WISE Hire, AI-native recruiting: WISE Hire "combines AI agents for digital candidate sourcing, recruiting, and hiring coaching" to automate sourcing, screening, coordination and scheduling, with patented candidate matching and reach into Google for Jobs, Meta's local jobs marketplace and ChatGPT. It is sold standalone or inside Paychex's HCM platforms. | <https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-wise-hire-ai-recruiting> |
| 2026-09-23 | Bullhorn | Research | Bullhorn report: 92 percent of candidates rate AI voice interviews as good as human ones: Bullhorn's 2026 GRID Talent Trends Report found that 92 percent of candidates interviewed by an AI voice agent rated the experience equal to or better than a live recruiter interview. | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorns-2026-grid-talent-trends-report-finds-92-percent-of-candidates-rate-ai-voice-interviews-as-good-as-or-better-than-human-interviews/> |
| 2026-09-22 | Spott | Funding | Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton: Balderton Capital led a $21M Series A, with Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino, to fund expansion to New York and Sydney, enterprise features and agentic AI. | <https://tech.eu/2026/09/22/spott-secures-21m-series-a-to-expand-its-ai-platform-for-recruitment-agencies/> |
| 2026-09-22 | Joveo | Product launch | Joveo agentic recruiting platform: Joveo joined its job advertising, career site, sourcing, screening, scheduling and interview agents into one agentic recruiting platform that works with existing ATSs, announced ahead of RecFest USA 2026. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-first-agentic-recruiting-platform-at-recfest-2026/> |
| 2026-09-22 | Findem | Product launch | Findem launches Studio agents and Findem MCP: Findem Studio is a set of AI agents that produce finished people work such as succession plans, market maps, hiring briefs and skills-gap analyses, usable in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini through Findem MCP. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-studio-people-intelligence-platform> |
| 2026-09-17 | Wellfound | Product launch | Wellfound Reach opens an MCP for AI assistants: The Reach MCP gives "compatible AI assistants access to your sourcing projects, searches, and candidate matches," so tools such as Claude and Codex can run sourcing experiments and add strong matches to a shortlist each morning. | <https://wellfound.com/blog/wellfound-reach-mcp-ai-assistant> |
| 2026-09-17 | Tengai | Product launch | Tengai 4.0 gives recruiters control over AI screening interviews: Tengai 4.0 adds a modular interview builder, mid-process edits with logging, automatic translation into four languages, questions suggested from an uploaded requirements profile and auditable, explainable scoring. | <https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening> |
| 2026-09-17 | Symphony Talent | Acquisition | Harver acquires Symphony Talent: Assessment vendor Harver bought Symphony Talent to form a combined talent intelligence business with more than 1,500 clients, backed by Rubicon Technology Partners. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/harver-acquires-symphony-talent/> |
| 2026-09-17 | Harver | Acquisition | Harver acquires Symphony Talent: Harver bought recruitment marketing and CRM firm Symphony Talent to form "a single, connected solution" for AI-era hiring, with 1,500+ combined clients. | <https://harver.com/press/harver-acquires-symphony-talent/> |
| 2026-09-17 | Fuel50 | Acquisition | Phoenix Education Partners agrees to acquire Fuel50: The parent of the University of Phoenix signed a definitive agreement to buy Fuel50; terms were not disclosed and close was expected within 30 days. | <https://fuel50.com/press/phoenix-education-partners-to-acquire-fuel50-advancing-the-future-of-workforce-transformation> |
| 2026-09-16 | Recruitics | Rebrand | Recruitics rebrands for the AI era of hiring: Recruitics refreshed its brand and named a new CFO and two SVPs; its AdaptiveApply flow now includes ID.me identity verification and Maki People AI voice interviews. | <https://techrseries.com/hiring/recruitics-announces-brand-refresh-and-addition-of-three-senior-executives-for-the-ai-era-of-hiring/> |
| 2026-09-16 | Jack & Jill | Funding | Jack & Jill raises $40M Series A: Jack & Jill raised a $40 million Series A led by Air Street Capital, with Madrona, Creandum and Entrepreneurs First. Total funding is $60 million. | <https://siliconangle.com/?p=847114> |
| 2026-09-16 | Infor HCM | Research | Gartner names Infor a Leader for workforce management: Infor was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology; Infor WFM "schedules staff in real time based on demand, skills, availability and preferences" for frontline employers. | <https://www.infor.com/news/infor-named-leader-2026-gartner-wfm-technology> |
| 2026-09-16 | HiBob | Partnership | HiBob launches Galileo-powered AI agents in Bob: 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. | <https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-and-the-josh-bersin-company-launch-galileopowered-workforce-intelligence-in-bob/> |
| 2026-09-15 | Torre | Funding | Torre opens a community crowdfunding round: Torre founder Alexander Torrenegra posted that anyone can now invest in Torre.ai, with a USD $1,000 minimum, through a crowdfunding round for its community. | <https://torrenegra.com/p/mu36c4ozxwam> |
| 2026-09-15 | Pin | Product launch | Pin adds Talent Preview to show the pool while typing: Pin added Talent Preview: "See your talent pool as you type, before you hit search." | <https://www.pin.com/blog/talent-preview/> |
| 2026-09-15 | Jobylon | Product launch | Jobylon Talent CRM goes live: Jobylon launched a Talent CRM with "Smart matching" among its key features; the post does not describe the matching as AI. | <https://www.jobylon.com/blog/talent-crm-is-live> |
| 2026-09-14 | Spark Hire | Product launch | AI-suggested candidate follow-ups: In Recruit, "Spark Hire AI suggests a follow-up message that you can enable with a click" to re-engage candidates who have not answered invites. | <https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog> |
| 2026-09-14 | Spark Hire | Product launch | Spark Hire AI suggests assessment competencies: Predictive Behavioral Assessment: the AI Assistant suggests a behavioral profile from the job description. | <https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog> |
| 2026-09-14 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Plaintiffs move to certify classes against Workday: Plaintiffs moved for class certification. The court set a hearing for March 9, 2027. Workday denies the claims. | <https://openclassactions.com/news/ai/ai-class-action-lawsuits-2026-tracker.php> |
| 2026-09-10 | Torre | Product launch | Torre 2.0 launches with new AI matching and MCP: Torre 2.0 brought faster job posting, AI help aligning job requirements, a new AI model for candidate matching and ranking, and an API and MCP for fully automated recruiting. It stays free. | <https://torrenegra.com/p/mtw34afm2qnm> |
| 2026-09-08 | Warden AI | Product launch | Warden AI launches Warden Watch regulation tracker: A free public tracker of AI regulation, lawsuits and governance changes affecting hiring and employment, covering 29 regulatory and 5 litigation records across 25 jurisdictions. | <https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/warden-ai-launches-the-warden-watch-the-first-public-tracker-for-employment-ai-regulation-and-litigation> |
| 2026-09-08 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches Ascent AI-first benchmarking: Ascent is "an AI-first benchmarking platform within the Payscale Intelligence Cloud" on Peer data from 4,500+ organizations; it bundles Smart Price and Smart Reporting ("Ask in plain language and get a report back"). | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-ascent> |
| 2026-09-08 | Orgvue | Acquisition | Main Capital Partners takes a majority stake in Orgvue: Main Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Orgvue, its first UK platform investment. Terms were not disclosed; Orgvue has close to 200 enterprise customers and c. 250 staff. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/main-capital-partners-enters-the-uk-market-with-acquisition-of-orgvue-302871857.html> |
| 2026-09-08 | Handshake | Product launch | Handshake adds AI-personalized template hub: "Standard and AI-personalized message templates now live in one centralized template hub", outside Automated Outreach. | <https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/handshake-employer-product-updates-september-28-2026> |
| 2026-09-04 | Oorwin | Product launch | Oorwin connects its ATS to Claude and ChatGPT with native MCP: Native MCP "puts your live ATS" (candidates, jobs, requisitions, submissions, accounts) inside Claude or ChatGPT, with Oorwin's Ira matching wired in, read access limited to the user's permissions and no add-on fee. | <https://oorwin.ai/?p=14487> |
| 2026-09-03 | Breezy HR | Product launch | Breezy MCP Server enters beta: Breezy's changelog listed the "Breezy MCP Server beta", which connects Breezy HR to AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT. | <https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy> |
| 2026-09-02 | Darwinbox | Partnership | Darwinbox expands Microsoft partnership with Frontier Tuning: Darwinbox said it is among the first enterprise software companies to apply Microsoft Frontier Tuning to HCM, to "individualize every workforce interaction" through Microsoft Copilot and Teams. | <https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/press-release/darwinbox-expands-microsoft-partnership-frontier-tuning> |
| 2026-09-01 | iCIMS | Product launch | iCIMS unveils Hiring Agent for Teams and an Interview Scheduling Agent: The Intelligent Hiring Platform adds the ICIMS Hiring Agent, which "brings common hiring actions directly into Microsoft Teams" (October 2026), and an Interview Scheduling Agent due by end of 2026. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/intelligenthiringplatform/> |
| 2026-09-01 | Vervoe | Product launch | Vervoe adds Skills Advisory and Intelligent Interview Scheduling: Vervoe launched a Skills Advisory service and "Intelligent Interview Scheduling," which books interviews in the platform and shares assessment results with interviewers. | <https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260831ae35849/> |
| 2026-09-01 | Pearch AI | Funding | Pearch AI takes more funding from Formula VC: Armenian startup Pearch AI received additional funding from Formula VC, bringing that investor's total to $300K across two funds. Pearch builds AI people-search infrastructure for ATS platforms, AI agents and HR software. | <https://the-tech.kz/armyanskij-startap-pearch-ai-privlek-300-000-investiczij-ot-formula-vc/> |
| 2026-09-01 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent reaches Claude over MCP: Pave opened The Pave Agent to outside AI tools over MCP: it "is reachable from the AI tools you're already using, starting with Claude." | <https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/pave-agent-mcp> |
| 2026-09-01 | HiBob | Funding | Salesforce leads $166M investment in HiBob: 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. | <https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/salesforce-leads-166m-investment-in-hibob/> |
| 2026-09 | Workable | Product launch | Workable splits AI into four agents on credits and adds an MCP server: Workable made four agents (Job Brief, Sourcing, Screening, Engagement) available to all customers on pay-as-you-go AI credits and released an MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants to Workable at no extra cost. | <https://resources.workable.com/backstage-at-workable/the-agent-recruits-you-manage-talent-the-workable-agents-are-here/> |
| 2026-09 | Noon | Product launch | Noon rebuilds analytics and adds JobAdder: Noon's changelog for the week of September 29, 2026 lists a rebuilt analytics view, role pin and archive, a Zapier webhook and that "JobAdder joins the ATS integrations." | <https://www.noon.ai/changelog> |
| 2026-09 | Employment Hero | Product launch | Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub: The Recruitment Agent Hub "is a chat-based home base that builds job ads, sets criteria and surfaces salary and talent insights." | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/> |
| 2026-08-27 | UKG | Product launch | Bryte Voice and AI high-volume recruiting: UKG's quarterly release added Bryte Voice, Agentic Pay, and AI job recommendations, profile summaries and bulk apply for up to 100 candidates at a time. | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/pennwell.oilgasjournal/article/bizwire-2026-8-27-ukg-deepens-workforce-operating-platform-with-ai-built-to-help-chros-improve-frontline-work> |
| 2026-08-27 | Pluto | Product launch | Pluto launches its AI voice agent profile: Pluto, "an AI voice agent that learns your story in 10 minutes and makes you discoverable to the right people and AI agents," was featured on Product Hunt on August 27, 2026. Its cofounder says that when a professional and a startup in talentpluto's network fit, Pluto checks with the professional first and can make a warm introduction. | <https://hunted.space/product/pluto-11> |
| 2026-08-26 | eSkill | Product launch | eSkill launches Linea AI layer on Claude: Linea Build and Linea Search create role assessments from eSkill's question library; Linea "runs on large language models from Anthropic's Claude family" and no candidate personal data passes through it. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eskill-launches-linea-the-ai-powered-intelligence-layer-for-role-relevant-pre-hire-testing-302860203.html> |
| 2026-08-26 | Sapia.ai | Partnership | PageUp embeds Sapia.ai AI interviews: PageUp and Sapia.ai expanded their partnership so Sapia.ai's chat interviews run inside PageUp and the results feed PageUp's Paige AI agent. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pageup-and-sapiaai-embed-intelligent-ai-interviewing-directly-into-enterprise-hiring-workflows-302860717.html> |
| 2026-08-25 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai expands Tia, its Talent Intelligence Agent: Tia, Sapia.ai's "Talent Intelligence Agent", now answers plain-language questions about a talent pool, compares shortlists, drafts candidate feedback and builds interview packs from structured interview data. It runs in TalentHub and as a browser extension in supported ATS platforms. | <https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/sapiaai-expands-tia-to-let-hiring-teams-ask-what-resumes-never-show-302859382.html> |
| 2026-08-25 | Proof | Partnership | Proof explains candidate fraud checks inside Greenhouse: Proof described checks that trigger at configured Greenhouse stages, with "Risk and identity verification results" appearing as tags on the candidate record. | <https://www.proof.com/blog/how-to-catch-candidate-fraud-without-changing-your-greenhouse-workflow> |
| 2026-08-24 | Culture Amp | Product launch | Culture Amp brings its insights into ChatGPT and Claude through MCP: Culture Amp said that 'Using Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity, leaders will be able to securely access Culture Amp from anywhere', putting engagement and performance insights inside AI assistants. | <https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/culture-intelligence-in-daily-tools> |
| 2026-08-24 | Ceipal | Product launch | Ceipal automates pre-screening by SMS with conversational AI: A conversational AI pre-screening flow takes candidates "From job interest to interview scheduling, now fully automated via SMS"; in the healthcare ATS an AI agent screens against required certifications and licenses and attaches a rated summary. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-august-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management> |
| 2026-08-21 | Teamtailor | Product launch | Co-pilot detects hidden instructions in resumes: "Co-pilot now scans every uploaded resume for hidden content" aimed at manipulating AI assessment, ignores it, warns the recruiter and logs each detection; it never auto-rejects. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/co-pilot-now-detects-hidden-instructions-in-resumes/> |
| 2026-08-19 | Joveo | Product launch | Job Discovery for employers in ChatGPT: Employers can make live job openings findable in ChatGPT through a branded conversational experience fed by their existing job feed. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-job-discovery-for-employers-in-chatgpt/> |
| 2026-08-19 | Blucor | Product launch | Blucor starts phone screens as soon as an application reaches the ATS: Release note: "Start phone screening as soon as an application reaches your ATS." | <https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes> |
| 2026-08-18 | hireEZ | Product launch | hireEZ rebuilds its platform on agents: hireEZ announced it "has rebuilt itself from the ground up on agents," with access from August 27, 2026; existing customers keep data and contracts and migrate at their own pace. | <https://www.webull.com/news/15423731699852288> |
| 2026-08-17 | Recruiterflow | Product launch | Recruiterflow details its full AIRA agent suite: Recruiterflow published its guide to every AIRA agent, including AIRA Source ("850M+ candidates on the web"), AIRA Matchmaker, AIRA Notetaker, Scorecard, Outreach, Submission, Research and data-upkeep agents. | <https://recruiterflow.com/blog/ai-agents-in-recruiterflow-a-complete-guide-to-every-aira-agent/> |
| 2026-08-17 | Hire ID | Product launch | HireID launches Interview Integrity Platform and Candidate Intake: HireID launched an Interview Integrity Platform that monitors 20+ live interview signals for deepfakes, impersonation, proxies and AI assistance, plus Candidate Intake for identity and document checks before interviews. | <https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/21252825-hireid-launches-interview-integrity-platform-ai-interview-platform-and-candidate-intake-to-detect-candidate-fraud-before-and-during-interviews> |
| 2026-08-13 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent reasons across the full compensation system of record: Pave expanded the Pave Agent: "The Agent can now reason across a company's full compensation context," including merit cycles, pay ranges, a new job-posting dataset and customer documents, and "Every recommendation cites its sources and explains its reasoning." | <https://techintelpro.com/news/pave-expands-ai-compensation-agent-to-reason-across-full-compensation-system-of-record> |
| 2026-08-12 | Loxo | Product launch | Loxo launches an Agent Workforce that runs a search through the shortlist: Loxo launched Next Generation Loxo and its agent workforce. Its proprietary agents can take a search from hiring manager intake through sourcing strategy, market mapping, candidate evaluation and a ranked shortlist, and then the recruiter decides who to pursue. Autonomy works as a dial, from one step to a whole search, and an Agent Impact Center shows work completed and hours of labor absorbed by AI. | <https://www.buildingthetalentmachine.com/p/announcing-next-generation-loxo> |
| 2026-08-11 | Spark Hire | Product launch | Spark Hire adds role-aligned AI ratings: AI Video Review now uses the job description, scorecard and questions "to generate role-specific ratings and takeaways" for one-way video answers (beta). | <https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog> |
| 2026-08-11 | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM | Product launch | Agentic apps for talent management: Oracle announced Fusion Agentic Applications and AI agents for HR, including Job Architect Agent, Role Guide Generation Agent, Intelligent Talent Profiles Agent and Grow Coach. | <https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-adds-new-fusion-agentic-applications-and-ai-agents-to-help-improve-talent-management-2026-08-11/> |
| 2026-08-05 | Paraform | Product launch | Paraform launches Hiring Intelligence to power its agents: Paraform introduced Hiring Intelligence, "the data layer that powers every agent across our platform," built from real hiring outcomes. It says its agents produce a shortlist of vetted candidates and that companies meet their eventual hire in about 12 days. | <https://paraform.com/blog/hiring-intelligence> |
| 2026-08-05 | Dover | Product launch | Dover MCP and free AI scoring models: "The new Dover MCP securely connects your ATS to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and more" to review applicants, prepare interview questions and update stages. Free Gemini, Mistral and Nvidia models give up to 2,000 AI scores a month with no API key. | <https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-july-2026> |
| 2026-08-05 | Alfa AI | Funding | Alfa AI raises GBP 1M seed and adds James Caan as adviser: London-based Alfa AI raised a GBP 1M seed round led by Sake Bosch, with FirstDegree, Golden Egg Check and Black Green Capital. The money goes to product development and expansion. | <https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/former-dragons-den-star-joins-alfa-ai-following-1m-investment/> |
| 2026-08-04 | isolved | Product launch | isolved debuts The Guardian payroll agent: The Guardian, isolved's first AI agent, analyzes "every payroll run, flagging potential errors before close" and prepares corrections for the administrator's approval. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agent-for-payroll> |
| 2026-08-04 | Phenom | Research | Phenom reports results from WorkOps multi-agent deployments: Phenom published customer results for WorkOps, "its orchestration and governance system for coordinating AI agents", citing 50% faster hiring and customers adding Reference Check, Intake and Sourcing Agents to its Voice Screening Agent under one policy layer. | <https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/phenom-workops-moves-enterprises-multi-133000464.html> |
| 2026-08-04 | Gem | Product launch | GeMCP brings Gem data into Claude and ChatGPT: GeMCP, Gem's Model Context Protocol server, "connects Gem to Claude, ChatGPT, and the AI tools your team already uses" so recruiters can query candidates, pipelines, scorecards and funnel analytics and build reports in chat, under existing Gem permissions. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-gem-mcp> |
| 2026-08-04 | Darwinbox | Product launch | Darwinbox launches Cortex, an AI-native HCM platform: Darwinbox launched Cortex, "Rebuilt from the ground up for the AI era", with "the first Context Graph in the category", a Signal Layer that flags risks early, and the Cortex Agent Platform, where agents act within existing permissions. It delivers experiences inside Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Slack and Glean. | <https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/darwinbox-launches-cortex-ai-native-hcm-platform> |
| 2026-08-03 | Paychex | Partnership | Paychex brings WISE into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams: WISE is now available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, where Paychex customers can see headcount and turnover data, get compliance reminders, and approve time-off requests. | <https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-wise-microsoft-365-teams> |
| 2026-08-03 | Deel | Acquisition | Deel acquires Clarity for deepfake and identity checks in hiring: Deel acquired Clarity, "an AI cybersecurity company specializing in identity verification, deepfake detection, and fraud prevention." Identity checks start in Deel's Talent product at sourcing and carry through onboarding into Deel IT access. | <https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-acquires-clarity/> |
| 2026-07-31 | Illinois SB 3777 (Civil Rights Safeguard Act) | Law or ruling | Illinois codifies disparate-impact liability: Governor Pritzker signed SB 3777, adding Section 2-103.5 to the Human Rights Act to bar criteria or methods with a discriminatory effect, including automated decision tools, effective January 1, 2027. | <https://ktslaw.com/insights/alert/2026/8/illinois-enacts-civil-rights-safeguard-act> |
| 2026-07-31 | Handshake | Product launch | Handshake AI applicant review live for paid employers: "Hiring Intelligence's applicant review is now live for all paid employers", showing AI-generated relevance and fit signals next to each application. | <https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/handshake-employer-product-updates-august-28-2026> |
| 2026-07-31 | EEOC | Law or ruling | OPM removes Uniform Guidelines from civil service rules: OPM's interim final rule removing UGESP references from federal civil service regulations took effect. | <https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/eeoc-sends-oira-final-rule-rescinding-uniform-guidelines-on-employee-selection-procedures/> |
| 2026-07-30 | Paraform | Product launch | Paraform adds Candidate-First tools for recruiters: Recruiters can send a candidate they already know into roles across the platform, with AI-recommended roles, AI calibration of each candidate-role match and single submissions. | <https://paraform.com/blog/candidate-first> |
| 2026-07-29 | Recruitics | Product launch | Recruitics leads launch of Open Job Context Protocol: OJCP is a free, vendor-neutral standard built on the Model Context Protocol that lets employers and AI agents exchange structured job and application data; coalition includes Workday, Cross Country Healthcare and HiringCafe. | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/930040230?promo=4400> |
| 2026-07-28 | Revelio Labs | Research | Revelio Labs introduces the AI Labor Market Tracker: Revelio Labs began "a monthly tracker of AI's measurable impact on the labor market," covering worker supply, employer demand, wages and job tasks. | <https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/ai-and-work/introduction-the-revelio-ai-labor-market-tracker> |
| 2026-07-28 | Revelio Labs | Product launch | Revelio Labs launches the Revelio Terminal with AI Chat and MCP: Revelio Labs launched the Revelio Terminal, a single workforce intelligence platform. "AI Chat allows users to explore the full depth of Revelio Labs' data in plain language" and "Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration brings that data directly into the AI tools organizations already use." | <https://aijourn.com/?p=560437> |
| 2026-07-28 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches JobNav Recruiter for pay-aligned job postings: JobNav Recruiter, built on Datapeople technology, works from the recruiter's ATS and uses AI-guided scoring to flag compliance, clarity and inclusivity issues in postings before they go live. | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-jobnav-recruiter> |
| 2026-07-28 | Nakisa | Partnership | Nakisa Decision Intelligence comes to Databricks: Nakisa said its solutions, including Nakisa Workforce Planning, are production-ready with Databricks integration, bringing its decision intelligence to Databricks customers. | <https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-brings-decision-intelligence-to-databricks-customers/> |
| 2026-07-24 | EU AI Act | Law or ruling | AI Omnibus published as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744: The Digital Omnibus on AI was published in the Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. Stand-alone high-risk obligations now apply from December 2, 2027. | <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/package-digital-package/file-digital-omnibus-on-ai> |
| 2026-07-23 | TechWolf | Partnership | TechWolf and WTW partner on skills execution: TechWolf and WTW partnered to pair WTW's skills design and job architecture advice with TechWolf's AI-driven skills, work and market intelligence for large employers. | <https://www.techwolf.ai/press/techwolf-and-wtw-partner-to-turn-skills-and-workforce-data-into-ai-driven-business-impact> |
| 2026-07-22 | Lever | Partnership | Lever syncs LinkedIn Hiring Assistant evaluations: Through LinkedIn RSC+, "LinkedIn Hiring Assistant [can] evaluate your entire pool of applicants" and the evaluations are "synced and visible within Lever in real-time". | <https://www.lever.co/blog/the-next-wave-of-ai-how-lever-and-linkedin-are-leading-the-way-with-connected-ai-capabilities> |
| 2026-07-21 | Paylocity | Product launch | Paylocity launches Ignite AI with recruiting agents: Paylocity introduced Ignite AI, "its platform-wide AI with agents", including a Candidate Fit Agent that surfaces and summarizes applicants against role criteria, a Resume Summary Agent, an Answer & Insight Agent for natural-language workforce questions, and an Ignite AI Hub to manage agents. | <https://finviz.com/news/370506/paylocity-launches-ignite-ai-redefining-industry-ai-leadership> |
| 2026-07-21 | Hogan Assessments | Acquisition | Hogan acquires Convogo to add AI interpretation: Hogan bought Convogo, an AI platform that drafts interpretations of Hogan assessment data for practitioners, to "responsibly incorporate AI into the delivery of talent insights." | <https://www.hoganassessments.com/news-events/updates/hogan-assessments-acquires-convogo-to-advance-talent-insights-with-ai/> |
| 2026-07-21 | Hireology | Product launch | Hireology explains how its AI Interview works: A Hireology post describes AI Interview as live: "After a candidate applies, they get a text or email inviting them to complete an AI interview," with an accommodation request flow built in. | <https://www.hireology.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-interview-a-real-conversation> |
| 2026-07-21 | BambooHR | Product launch | BambooHR launches Bamboo AI agents: BambooHR introduced Bamboo AI, "an embedded system of AI agents and intelligence," for report generation, shift scheduling, payroll checks, benefits answers and recognition nudges, with MCP connections to ChatGPT and Claude and a platform for customer-built agents. | <https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-launches-bamboo-ai> |
| 2026-07-20 | HireQuotient | Partnership | HireQuotient joins Paylocity partner network for frontline hiring: HireQuotient integrated its EasySource platform with Paylocity to bring AI sourcing and screening to Paylocity customers in manufacturing, building services, construction, healthcare and insurance. | <https://hackernoon.com/hirequotient-extends-ai-recruiting-capabilities-to-paylocity-customers-in-frontline-industries> |
| 2026-07-17 | Teamtailor | Product launch | Teamtailor MCP add-on connects Claude and ChatGPT: A new MCP add-on lets an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT work with jobs, candidates and pipelines in Teamtailor; access is read-only by default and can allow actions such as moving applications. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/connect-your-ai-assistant-to-teamtailor-with-mcp/> |
| 2026-07-15 | Talkpush | Product launch | Talkpush publishes MCP server for AI assistants: The Talkpush MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini Enterprise to live Talkpush campaigns, candidates and autoflows through 90 tools in 18 categories, including voice agents and analytics; the assistant can also take actions such as updating campaigns and sending follow-up messages. | <https://help.talkpush.com/en/articles/15284736-getting-started-with-talkpush-mcp> |
| 2026-07-15 | Leapsome | Product launch | Leapsome launches AI platform with five agents, MCP and an ATS: Leapsome launched an AI-driven HR platform with five agents including a Data Analyst, AI-generated workflows, MCP connectivity and a new ATS, Leapsome Recruiting, in early access. | <https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/leapsome-unveils-ai-hr-platform-with-new-ats/> |
| 2026-07-15 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold launches Candidate Agent in Talent Agents 2.0: Candidate Agent is "the candidate-facing front door": one conversation across job discovery, application, scheduling and follow-ups, then handoff to AI Interviewer, on channels such as SMS and WhatsApp. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-grows-talent-agents-to-2-0/> |
| 2026-07-14 | Handshake | Product launch | Handshake Source tab opens to all employers: The Source tab, formerly Matches, uses Hiring Intelligence to "generate hiring criteria and surface qualified candidates for your open roles" and became available to all employers. | <https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/ann_jrMABQTCwNxzO> |
| 2026-07-14 | CodeSignal | Product launch | CodeSignal launches AI Literacy Assessments: Scenario-based assessments where "participants complete timed, scenario-based tasks using embedded AI tools," validated in-house. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignals-ai-literacy-assessments-measure-effectiveness-of-ai-skills-across-the-workforce/> |
| 2026-07-13 | Ceipal | Product launch | Ceipal VMS blocks submissions below an AI match score: Buyers can set a minimum AI match score so supplier submissions that fall below it are blocked automatically. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-july-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management> |
| 2026-07-10 | Bryq | Product launch | Bryq AI Fluency assessment goes live: Bryq launched a simulation-based AI Fluency assessment that targets "practical, job-relevant AI competency." | <https://news.bryq.com/product-updates/ai-fluency-now-live> |
| 2026-07-09 | hireEZ | Partnership | hireEZ adds Nexxt and Talroo candidates to its agentic workflow: hireEZ partnered with Nexxt (150M+ nurtured profiles, live now) and Talroo (active job seekers via performance job ads, design partners first) to combine passive, nurtured and active candidates in "one agentic workflow." | <https://hireez.com/blog/hireez-nexxt-talroo-partnership/> |
| 2026-07-09 | Jobvite | Partnership | Employ and ID.me bring identity checks to Jobvite, Lever and JazzHR: Employ is embedding "trusted identity verification directly within Employ's applicant tracking systems" against candidate fraud, planned for JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite in the second half of 2026. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-and-id-me-partner-to-prevent-ai-driven-candidate-fraud/> |
| 2026-07-09 | Handshake | Product launch | Handshake rolls out Automated Outreach: Automated Outreach "leverages Hiring Intelligence to send personalized outreach to qualified candidates on your behalf"; rollout began July 9, 2026. | <https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/ann_jrMABQTCwNxzO> |
| 2026-07-08 | Pete & Gabi | Product launch | Rebecca AI interviewer launches in India: Peterson Technology Partners launched Rebecca AI, its voice AI interviewer, in India after deployments with U.S. clients. Rebecca adapts its follow-up questions during first-round interviews, runs live coding assessments for technical roles and produces scored reports. | <https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/us-staffing-firm-ptp-introduces-rebecca-ai-in-india-to-solve-hiring-challenges/> |
| 2026-07-07 | Recruitee | Product launch | Tellent opens closed beta of agentic AI with recruitment and analytics agents: Tellent launched a closed beta of its agentic layer, moving Tellent Intelligence "from assistant to agent": one HR assistant that coordinates a Recruitment Agent and an Analytics Agent, both reading live product data through Tellent's internal MCP layer. The agents surface information and recommend but do not act. | <https://tellent.com/hubfs/Communiqu%C3%A9-Tellent-AgentIA-VF.pdf> |
| 2026-07-07 | JobScore | Product launch | JobScore opens an AI Integration Beta: Seven AI features, on by default and free on all plans for now, generate job descriptions, scoring criteria, similar job titles and interview questions, summarise candidate activity and refine text. | <https://www.jobscore.com/blog/ai-integration-beta/> |
| 2026-07-07 | Holistic AI | Research | Holistic AI named Challenger in first Gartner AI governance Magic Quadrant: Holistic AI was the only Challenger among 13 vendors and ranked first for the AI Risk and Compliance use case in the companion Critical Capabilities report. | <https://www.holisticai.com/blog/holistic-ai-recognized-gartner-magic-quadrant-ai-governance-platforms> |
| 2026-07-03 | Pinpoint | Product launch | Hiring Copilot writes job content: Pinpoint added "AI-powered job content generation via the Hiring Copilot" alongside Hiring Intake Notes. | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/15554242-june-2026-new-features-job-generation-using-the-hiring-copilot-hiring-intake-notes-onboarding-activity-feeds-and-more> |
| 2026-07-02 | Maki | Product launch | Maki launches Tomo interview co-pilot: Maki introduced Tomo, an interview intelligence co-pilot that joins Zoom, Teams or Meet, transcribes live, takes structured notes against an interview plan and writes evidence to the ATS. | <https://www.makipeople.com/blog/end-to-end-hiring-tomo-interview-co-pilot> |
| 2026-07-01 | VONQ (EQO) | Rebrand | VONQ launches EQO agentic talent attraction platform: EQO is the new brand for VONQ's products and runs top-of-funnel hiring as one agentic workflow across six agents: Write, Distribute, Attract, Screen, Interview and Score. | <https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/eqo-agentic-talent-attraction-platform/> |
| 2026-07-01 | Indeed | Acquisition | Glassdoor legally merges into Indeed: Glassdoor became part of Indeed, Inc. on July 1, 2026, completing the plan Recruit Holdings announced in July 2025 alongside about 1,300 job cuts in its HR technology unit. The Glassdoor brand and anonymous reviews continue. | <https://reworked.co/employee-experience/glassdoor-folds-into-indeed/> |
| 2026-07-01 | Fountain | Partnership | The Service Companies picks Fountain for 24/7 screening in 35 states: Outsourced cleaning provider The Service Companies adopted Fountain for 24/7 screening, multilingual mobile AI interviews and onboarding with I-9 compliance for hundreds of hires a month. | <https://www.fountain.com/news/the-service-companies-chooses-fountain-for-hiring-across-35-states-with-24-7-screening> |
| 2026-07 | TechWolf | Product launch | TechWolf Job Architecture Redesign Agent goes GA: The TechWolf Agent, first previewed in April 2025, "launched generally in July 2026 as the Job Architecture Redesign Agent, part of our Summer '26 launch." | <https://techwolf.ai/resources/blog/introducing-the-techwolf-agent-with-a-first-focus-to-transform-how-enterprises-create-and-maintain-their-job-architecture> |
| 2026-07 | HackerRank | Product launch | HackerRank adds MCP server and gaze detection: July 2026 release notes add a "read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server" in limited availability, Diff View and Plan Mode in the IDE, and Gaze Detection as a proctoring signal. | <https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8142080826-july-2026-release-notes> |
| 2026-07 | Federal AI preemption | Law or ruling | FRONTIER Act introduced with narrow preemption: Reps. Obernolte and Trahan introduced the FRONTIER Act, which would preempt new state obligations on frontier AI developers in three areas while preserving state regulation of deployers and users. | <https://www.theregreview.org/2026/10/07/knapp-the-hidden-costs-of-ai-preemption/> |
| 2026-07 | Employment Hero | Product launch | Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer: A free standalone Recruitment Agent "lets anyone sign up, create a job and send AI interview invitations with no sales call"; in August free AI video interviews began to "invite qualified candidates before a recruiter even opens their application." | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/> |
| 2026-07 | Cezanne Recruitment | Product launch | Cezanne explains each AI CV score: "Every AI CV score now comes with a one-line summary of the overall match" plus bullets on strengths and gaps against the job description. | <https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-june-july-2026-release-notes> |
| 2026-06-30 | HireRight | Research | HireRight releases 2026 Global Benchmark Report: Survey of more than 1,900 professionals. Respondents reported "growing concerns around identity fraud, AI-enabled hiring risks, and workforce trust", with more use of identity verification and post-hire screening. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-30-hireright-releases-2026-global-benchmark-report> |
| 2026-06-29 | Recruit CRM | Product launch | Recruit CRM adds AI agents and contract staffing timesheets: Recruit CRM expanded into contract staffing with timesheets and invoicing and launched named AI agents: Custom Field Parser, Resume Formatting, Candidate Submission and Candidate Pitching. | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/923006859?promo=4400> |
| 2026-06-29 | EU AI Act | Law or ruling | Council adopts AI Omnibus: The Council adopted the Digital Omnibus on AI, completing legislative approval. | <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/package-digital-package/file-digital-omnibus-on-ai> |
| 2026-06-29 | Ashby | Product launch | Ashby MCP Server in open beta: "Today, we're launching the Ashby MCP Server in Open Beta, available on all Ashby plans," with user-level OAuth so outside AI tools see only what the user can see. | <https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/mcp> |
| 2026-06-25 | iMocha | Partnership | iMocha Skills Intelligence listed on Workday Marketplace: iMocha feeds "AI-validated, proficiency-rated skills data directly into Workday Skills Cloud" through its Workday Marketplace listing. | <https://www.imocha.io/press-releases/imocha-skills-intelligence-on-workday-marketplace> |
| 2026-06-25 | Rippling | Product launch | Rippling launches Data Cloud, AI BI tied to worker identity: Rippling introduced Rippling Data Cloud, "AI-powered BI that understands your workforce," linking business data from other tools to employee identity, org structure and permissions. | <https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-rippling-data-cloud> |
| 2026-06-25 | InCruiter | Product launch | InCruiter launches AI hiring workflow automation platform: InCruiter launched an AI-driven hiring workflow platform that automates recruitment from resume screening through conversational interviews to onboarding, sold whole or by component. | <https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/incruiter-launches-ai-driven-hiring-workflow-automation-platform/2969246/> |
| 2026-06-25 | Deyerler v. HireVue | Law or ruling | HireVue $3.75M biometric privacy settlement gets preliminary approval: A $3.75 million settlement of Illinois BIPA claims over biometric data collected by HireVue in video interviews received preliminary approval. Claims were due October 13, 2026. | <https://www.classaction.org/news/3.75m-hirevue-settlement-wraps-up-class-action-lawsuit-over-alleged-biometric-info-violations> |
| 2026-06-23 | Syndio | Acquisition | Syndio acquires agentic AI company Embrace.ai: Syndio, "the leader in Decision Intelligence for Pay", acquired Embrace.ai, "an agentic AI company built to deploy AI-driven automation across business workflows"; its founders join Syndio's product and go-to-market team. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.01net.it/syndio-acquires-embrace-ai/> |
| 2026-06-23 | Maki | Partnership | Maki and Recruitics put AI voice screening before the apply step: Recruitics customers can embed Maki's AI voice interviews "directly within the application flow" of AdaptiveApply, so screening happens before the ATS. | <https://www.makipeople.com/blog/maki-and-recruitics-bring-ai-voice-screening-to-the-pre-apply-experience> |
| 2026-06-23 | Fika Jobs | Funding | Fika Jobs raises $4M pre-seed for AI video interview hiring platform: Fika Jobs raised a $4 million pre-seed led by Luminar Ventures for a platform where AI agents interview candidates on video and employers browse the resulting profiles. | <https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/fika-jobs-raises-4m-to-build-a-video-first-hiring-platform-where-ai-agents-interview-candidates/> |
| 2026-06-22 | Skillit | Funding | Skillit takes strategic investment from DPR and Suffolk venture arms: Skillit announced a strategic partnership with DPR Construction and Suffolk Technologies, backed by equity from WND Ventures and Suffolk Technologies, to scale its AI hiring platform for construction craft labor. Amounts were not disclosed. | <https://www.constructionbusinessowner.com/skillit-announces-strategic-partnership-with-dpr-construction-suffolk-technologies/> |
| 2026-06-22 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Court largely denies Workday's motion to dismiss third amended complaint: Judge Rita Lin denied dismissal of the FEHA claims, finding a California nexus because Workday allegedly designs and operates its screening tools from California, and kept an ADA claim. A new Title VII race claim and an employer-liability theory were dismissed or struck. | <https://blogs.duanemorris.com/classactiondefense/2026/06/24/california-federal-court-grants-in-part-and-denies-in-part-workdays-motion-to-dismiss-in-mobley-v-workday/> |
| 2026-06-21 | Nakisa | Product launch | Nakisa MCP supported across its product suite: Nakisa made MCP available across its product suite, including Nakisa Workforce Planning, at no additional cost: "Nakisa MCP lets any MCP-compatible AI agent connect to Nakisa applications and take real action." | <https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-mcp-supported-across-full-product-suite/> |
| 2026-06-18 | HireVue | Product launch | HireVue launches voice AI Interviewer: AI Interviewer conducts "dynamic, two-way voice interviews with every applicant 24/7" and scores answers against rubrics validated by I-O psychology research. | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-ai-interviewer> |
| 2026-06-18 | HiBob | Product launch | HiBob brings Bob into Slackbot through MCP: 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. | <https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-brings-people-intelligence-into-slackbot-to-turn-workforce-insights-into-business-action/> |
| 2026-06-17 | Lever | Partnership | VONQ AI screening comes to Lever and JazzHR: Employ and VONQ "deliver automated early stage candidate screening for recruiters directly within Employ's applicant tracking systems", now in JazzHR and Lever. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-and-vonq-partner-to-bring-responsible-ai-candidate-screening-directly-into-the-hiring-workflow/> |
| 2026-06-17 | HeyMilo | Product launch | HeyMilo launches scenario assessments, candidate recommendations and a notetaker: With the round, HeyMilo launched AI Scenario Assessment (tests how candidates prompt, plan and judge AI output), Candidate Recommendations (re-ranks previously screened applicants) and a Notetaker for recruiter-led interviews. | <https://pulse2.com/heymilo-ai-raises-6-million-to-expand-agentic-recruiting-platform-and-launch-new-ai-hiring-agents/> |
| 2026-06-17 | HeyMilo | Funding | HeyMilo raises funding led by Category Ventures, reaching $6M total: HeyMilo, "the agentic recruiting platform for high-volume hiring", said it has raised a total of $6 million, led by Category Ventures with Canaan Partners, Alumni Ventures and ERA. | <https://www.vcnewsdaily.com/HeyMilo/venture-capital-funding/jcgfcgztcn> |
| 2026-06-16 | isolved | Product launch | isolved introduces autonomous AI agents and a Claude connector: isolved introduced six autonomous agents built to "own HR outcomes" (The Guardian, The Advisor, The Signal, The Orchestrator, The Watchdog, The Helper), arriving in phases across 2026 and 2027, and made the isolved Connector for Claude generally available. None is a recruiting agent. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/claude-ai-agents-built-for-hr-outcomes> |
| 2026-06-16 | Gusto | Product launch | Gusto launches six AI agents for accounting firms: Gusto launched six AI agents for accountants focused on practice growth: getting found by clients, winning them, deepening relationships and moving into advisory work. | <https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/06/16/gusto-rolls-out-suite-of-ai-agents-that-assist-accountants-on-business-development/185241/> |
| 2026-06-16 | EU AI Act | Law or ruling | European Parliament approves AI Omnibus: Parliament adopted the Digital Omnibus on AI by 423 to 57 with 174 abstentions. | <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/package-digital-package/file-digital-omnibus-on-ai> |
| 2026-06-16 | Dice | Product launch | Dice launches MCP server for ChatGPT and Claude: Dice launched an MCP server that "enables AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to interact directly with Dice's tech job database", letting candidates search in natural language and automate recurring searches. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-16-tech-professionals-find-relevant-roles-faster-with-dices-llm-connector> |
| 2026-06-16 | Criteria | Product launch | Criteria adds an AI Interview Agent and Real-Time Video Interviewing: The AI Interview Agent "helps organizations deliver structured, standardized early-stage interviews at scale" across voice, text and video; Real-Time Video Interviewing adds AI note capture and scoring help. | <https://www.criteriacorp.com/press-releases/2026/criteria-corp-expands-talent-signal-platform-predictive-interviewing-the-ai-era> |
| 2026-06-16 | ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany) | Product launch | ClearCo launches an Agent Platform with Req, Sourcing and Interview agents: "A suite of AI agents purpose-built for the talent lifecycle" with an Agent Studio for custom agents. The Sourcing Agent runs AI prescreening calls; generally available July 16, 2026. | <https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/clearco-releases-ai-agent-platform> |
| 2026-06-16 | Classet | Product launch | Classet turns on AI screening by default: For standalone and Workable-connected accounts, "Joy now switches on AI screening by default" when a job is published, so candidates are evaluated as soon as they apply. | <https://docs.classet.ai/changelog/added-improved-fixed-classet-platform-release-16-june-2026> |
| 2026-06-15 | Warden AI | Partnership | PageUp completes Warden AI certification: ATS vendor PageUp said monthly independent audits by Warden AI found its AI meets Warden's standards for fairness, transparency, disparate impact and consistency, with results on the Warden Assured Directory. | <https://smb.state-journal.com/article/Doubling-Down-on-AI-Transparency-PageUp-Completes-Warden-AI-Certification-Ahead-of-New-Regulations/6a2fbfe945b635ab6be4e095> |
| 2026-06-15 | SAP SuccessFactors | Product launch | Winston and Joule pair up on agentic hiring: SAP said SmartRecruiters' Winston works alongside Joule to surface top candidates, and cited agentic interviewing and an agentic CRM that ranks and re-engages talent pools. | <https://news.sap.com/2026/06/sap-strategic-leader-2026-fosway-9-grid-talent-acquisition/> |
| 2026-06-15 | Indeed | Product launch | Indeed Sourcing Assistant finds and invites candidates: Sourcing Assistant, part of Smart Sourcing, finds and invites qualified candidates from 370 million sourceable profiles using natural-language prompts instead of Boolean strings, and syncs with ATSs through Indeed Apply. Indeed says sourced applicants were hired 6 days faster. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeeds-ai-powered-sourcing-assistant-helps-employers-hire-over-30-faster?co=US> |
| 2026-06-12 | Pinpoint | Product launch | AI Candidate Match Scores and Copilot memories: AI Match Score "grades each applicant against scoring criteria you've reviewed and approved for that job" with a score out of 10; Hiring Copilot can now "remember your preferences and working style across conversations." | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/15231825-may-2026-new-features-ai-candidate-match-scores-hiring-copilot-memories-billing-management-and-more> |
| 2026-06-10 | Phenom | Partnership | Phenom hiring agents run inside ServiceNow: Phenom agents integrate into the ServiceNow AI Platform so hiring managers can run intake, job descriptions, sourcing and screening there. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-servicenow-ai-hiring-agents> |
| 2026-06-10 | Lattice | Product launch | Lattice launches Lattice MCP and AI Leverage Insights: Lattice launched 'workforce intelligence': Lattice MCP in early access, 'the first performance management platform to implement the open Model Context Protocol standard', plus AI Leverage Insights, the AI Agent in 1:1s and Evidence-Based Review Drafts. | <https://lattice.com/blog/lattice-launches-workforce-intelligence-for-ai-era-connecting-people-strategy-to-business-outcomes> |
| 2026-06-10 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse adds Notetaker, Chart Agent and two hiring agents: Six AI features: Greenhouse MCP, an Analytics Chart Agent, Greenhouse Notetaker, AI Report Insights, a Job Kickoff Agent and a Candidate Insights Agent, rolling out from June to Q3 2026. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-new-ai-capabilities-built-to-strengthen-structured-hiring-not-shortcut-it> |
| 2026-06-09 | ZipRecruiter | Product launch | ZipRecruiter connector launches in Claude: ZipRecruiter launched a connector for Claude that returns real-time job matches as cards; job seekers apply on ZipRecruiter. | <https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Expands-AI-Powered-Job-Search-with-Claude-Integration/default.aspx> |
| 2026-06-09 | EEOC | Law or ruling | DOJ legal opinion calls EEOC disparate-impact guidelines unconstitutional: The Office of Legal Counsel concluded EEOC's Title VII guidelines are unconstitutional because they contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone, and said aptitude tests and similar selection procedures are presumptively job-related. | <https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/constitutionality-disparate-impact-liability-under-title-vii> |
| 2026-06-09 | 15Five | Product launch | 15Five adds Work Context and AI Assisted Reviews: 15Five launched Work Context, which reads signals from Slack, Teams, Jira, GitHub and other tools, plus AI Assisted Reviews and Focus Briefs, 'turning disparate data into timely manager insights'. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-9-15five-launches-new-ai-capabilities-that-facilitate-a-continuous-performance-management-feedback-loop> |
| 2026-06-08 | Willo | Product launch | Willo launches Willo Insights: Willo Insights builds a role-specific blueprint from job descriptions, frameworks and hiring-manager conversations and assesses applicants against it. CEO Euan Cameron: "The aim isn't to automate hiring decisions." | <https://www.willo.video/blog/world-first-ai-technology-will-help-employers-find-right-candidates-faster-amid-surge-in-high-volume-ai-generated-applications> |
| 2026-06-06 | Ribbon | Partnership | Ribbon adds a BambooHR connector: 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". | <https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-bamboohr-integration> |
| 2026-06-04 | Standout | Product launch | Standout launches a CLI talent agent for builders: Standout launched "Standout - A Talent Agent For Builders." Candidates run "npx standout" to have their building and debugging assessed, and companies get intros "in hours, not weeks" and pay only on hire. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/standout> |
| 2026-06-03 | Leoforce | Partnership | Leoforce case study: AI sourcing for Career Town's government client: Leoforce says its AI sourcing, layered into Career Town's virtual hiring platform, took over upfront matching and filtering, and that nearly 70% of candidates surfaced for a government agency client were hirable. | <https://leoforce.com/the-recruiting-volume-trap-and-how-career-town-escaped-it/> |
| 2026-06-03 | Joveo | Product launch | AI Talent Campaigns for multi-touch outreach: AI agents turn a recruiter's description of the role into outreach messaging, targeting and follow-up sequences, and pause outreach when a candidate applies, replies or opts out. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-talent-campaigns/> |
| 2026-06-02 | Illinois HB 3773 | Law or ruling | IDHR withdraws and postpones AI notice rules: IDHR withdrew and postponed its proposed AI employment rules and canceled the June 10 hearing. No new timeline was announced; the statute still applies. | <https://www.burkelaw.com/alert-illinois-department-of-human-rights-withdraws-proposed-ai-in-employment-rules> |
| 2026-06-02 | Hunar.AI | Partnership | ElevenLabs case study on Hunar.AI voice agents: ElevenLabs published a case study on Hunar.AI's voice agents for frontline hiring and onboarding, citing 90% faster onboarding cycles and a 35% rise in annual retention. | <https://elevenlabs.io/blog/hunar> |
| 2026-06-02 | Gusto | Product launch | Gusto launches Cofounder, an AI teammate for small businesses: Gusto launched Gusto Cofounder in early access, an "AI teammate" that knows the business's team, payroll and calendar and runs automations such as payroll with anomaly alerts and weekly labor cost reports via SMS, Slack or web. | <https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/06/02/gusto-introduces-an-ai-teammate-for-small-businesses/184399/> |
| 2026-06-02 | Appcast | Partnership | Appcast listings feed ChatGPT job search: OpenAI added job search to ChatGPT with live listings from sources including Indeed, Upwork and Appcast. | <https://the-decoder.com/openai-turns-chatgpt-into-a-career-platform-with-job-search-and-cv-editor/> |
| 2026-06-01 | ZipRecruiter | Product launch | ZipRecruiter launches Smart Outreach: Smart Outreach "uses AI to turn a job description into a personalized message series sent to candidates" from the Resume Database, sending up to three messages or until a candidate replies. | <https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-New-AI-Feature-to-Automate-Recruiter-Outreach/default.aspx> |
| 2026-06-01 | Jobma | Rebrand | Jobma rebrands around human-centered AI interviewing: Jobma launched a new brand identity and website built around 'Human-Centered AI Interviewing Solutions', listing Autonomous AI Interviewing among its products. | <https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-unveils-new-brand-identity-to-advance-human-centered-ai-interviewing> |
| 2026-06 | SeekOut | Product launch | SeekOut goes self-serve and lands in ChatGPT: SeekOut's June 2026 release notes say SeekOut Sourcing Core (Recruit Core) is live with self-serve monthly and annual plans, and SeekOut is now available inside ChatGPT. A self-service free trial opened in April 2026. | <https://www.seekout.com/release-notes> |
| 2026-06 | Pinpoint | Product launch | Pinpoint MCP V2 rebuild: Pinpoint released V2 of its MCP, a ground-up rebuild that lets AI tools "take real actions in Pinpoint" such as advancing candidates, drafting outreach and generating reports. | <https://www.pinpointhq.com/features/mcp> |
| 2026-06 | Employment Hero | Product launch | Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker: AI Notetaker "transcribes and summarises Google Meet and Microsoft Teams interviews." | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/> |
| 2026-05-28 | Teamtailor | Product launch | All Teamtailor career sites become agent-ready: Teamtailor upgraded every career site with llms.txt, AI-friendly robots rules, markdown content negotiation and content signals so assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Comet can find jobs. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/agent-ready-career-sites> |
| 2026-05-28 | Proof | Partnership | Proof explains candidate fraud checks inside Lever: Proof described its Lever integration: teams choose where in the pipeline to trigger identity verification, and "Risk signals appear directly in Lever." | <https://www.proof.com/blog/how-to-catch-candidate-fraud-without-changing-your-lever-workflow> |
| 2026-05-28 | Bullhorn | Product launch | Bullhorn unveils Amplify Digital Workers and Amplify Chat: At Engage 2026, Bullhorn introduced Amplify Digital Workers with new Prospect, Verify, Audit and Transcribe skills alongside Enrich, Match, Screen, Outreach and Present, and Amplify Chat as the conversational command layer. Screen can "Run interviews by chat or voice and deliver candidate summaries." | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-unveils-amplify-digital-workers-at-engage-2026/> |
| 2026-05-27 | VARIETAS | Research | VARIETAS releases a quality framework and checklist for AI interviews: VARIETAS released a quality evaluation framework for AI interview services (5 quality requirements, 7 evaluation categories) and a 100-question approval checklist for legal, HR and DX teams. | <https://www.zaikei.co.jp/releases/3450803/> |
| 2026-05-27 | Greenhouse | Acquisition | Greenhouse completes acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, a voice AI interviewer: Ezra is "the voice AI interviewer that delivers structured, on-demand conversations"; every candidate gets the same role-specific questions and rubric. Founder Ophir Samson becomes Head of Voice AI. Terms not disclosed. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-completes-acquisition-of-ezra-ai-labs-bringing-conversational-ai-to-the-hiring-process> |
| 2026-05-27 | CoderPad | Product launch | CoderPad ships AI Assist Edit Mode, Plan Mode and new integrity controls: CoderPad's 2026 recap lists AI Assist Edit Mode that lets candidates "directly write and modify code" with AI in Screen and Interview, Plan Mode in Interview, and integrity controls such as concurrent session prevention and "Copied all code" alerts. | <https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/2026-product-recap/> |
| 2026-05-25 | Teamtailor | Product launch | Co-pilot builds analytics charts from a text prompt: "Just describe the chart you want, and Co-pilot generates it for you." Charts land in custom historic reports and stay editable. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/build-custom-reports-using-ai/> |
| 2026-05-22 | Warden AI | Research | Warden AI publishes findings from 150+ hiring bias audits: Warden reported that 85% of audited AI hiring systems met the four-fifths impact-ratio threshold and that average impact ratio was 0.94 for AI selection versus 0.67 for human-led decisions. | <https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/bias-audits-hiring> |
| 2026-05-21 | Juicebox | Product launch | Juicebox launches always-on sourcing agents for every open role: Juicebox launched Juicebox Agents as a suite that sources and contacts candidates around the clock for every open role, reading public work on GitHub, Google Scholar and Stack Overflow. Early customers reported up to 5x recruiter efficiency and a 50% cut in sourcing time. | <https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/talent-acquisition/juicebox-launches-ai-agents-for-continuous-talent-sourcing> |
| 2026-05-21 | Clera | Funding | Clera raises $3M pre-seed for its AI talent agent: Clera raised $3M in pre-seed funding led by 1984 Ventures. Founders say it represents 85,000+ candidates, works with 600+ tech companies and passed $1M in annualized revenue. | <https://www.munich-startup.de/en/news/with-spezi-grit-and-ai-clera-raises-3-million-dollars> |
| 2026-05-21 | Carefam | Product launch | Carefam adds Nudge for stalled candidates: "Nudge is a new view in Carefam built for regional leaders." It flags stalled candidates with their stage and days in it, and one click opens a pre-filled message asking the facility's hiring managers for an update. | <https://www.carefam.com/product-updates> |
| 2026-05-20 | Hire ID | Product launch | Hire ID launches verified professional identity profile: Hire ID launched the Hire ID Profile, which checks identity, employment and education once, records them in a tamper-resistant ledger, and adds deepfake detection. | <https://idtechwire.com/hire-id-launches-verified-professional-identity-platform-to-counter-hiring-fraud/> |
| 2026-05-20 | Cornerstone | Product launch | Cornerstone launches Workforce AI with Readiness Agents: Cornerstone Workforce AI is "the intelligence platform for workforce readiness", with pre-built, adaptive and custom Readiness Agents; adaptive agents cover areas such as internal mobility, onboarding and workforce insights. Recruiting sits in its Talent Development and Skills Optimization package. | <https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/cornerstone-launches-cornerstone-workforce-ai-the-intelligence-platform-for-workforce-readiness-built-to-amplify-human-potential-exponentially-with-ai/> |
| 2026-05-20 | Contrario | Product launch | Contrario launches its AI recruiting network: Contrario announced its launch after crossing $6M in annualized revenue in under six months. It pairs expert recruiters with agents that take over sourcing, scheduling and follow-up work. | <https://www.contrario.ai/blogs/announcement/better-recruiting-built-on-contrario> |
| 2026-05-20 | Contrario | Funding | Contrario raises $2.3M seed: Contrario announced a $2.3M seed round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with Inventum Ventures and Goodwater Capital, as it launched with more than 200 companies using its platform. | <https://pulse2.com/contrario-2-3-million-funding/> |
| 2026-05-20 | Blucor | Product launch | Blucor scores knowledge, skills and behavior separately: Release note: "Assess knowledge, skills, and behavior separately" in AI phone interviews. | <https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes> |
| 2026-05-19 | VARIETAS | Research | VARIETAS publishes candidate satisfaction data for its AI Interviewer: VARIETAS published survey results from 33,467 candidates who took its AI Interviewer in Jan to Mar 2026: average 4.1 of 5, 89.5% positive; March 2026 interview volume was about 10 times March 2025. | <https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000056.000079152.html> |
| 2026-05-19 | Paychex | Product launch | Paychex launches WISE agentic AI platform: Paychex announced WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), an AI layer across Paychex Flex, Paycor and SurePayroll with autonomous agents, multi-channel assistants, and HR reporting and predictive analytics. | <https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/announcing-wise-ai-for-agentic-workforce> |
| 2026-05-19 | GoPerfect | Partnership | Qdrant case study details GoPerfect's agentic recruiting workforce: A Qdrant case study describes GoPerfect's sourcing and outreach agents searching "200M+ profiles enriched with 1B+ data points," with complex searches finishing in under 10 seconds. | <https://qdrant.tech/blog/case-study-go-perfect/> |
| 2026-05-18 | Wonderkind | Product launch | Wonderkind Deliver sells interview-ready candidates: Wonderkind Deliver handles sourcing and qualification end to end and charges per qualified candidate delivered into the ATS. | <https://www.wonderkind.com/blog/interview-ready-candidates-in-your-ats-not-a-promise-a-product> |
| 2026-05-18 | TalentNeuron | Rebrand | TalentNeuron names David Wilkins CEO: TalentNeuron appointed its chief product and strategy officer, David Wilkins, as CEO as it expands into workforce planning and AI-powered workforce analytics. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-appoints-david-wilkins-as-chief-executive-officer-302774347.html> |
| 2026-05-18 | GetReal Security | Product launch | GetReal launches continuous identity verification in GetReal Protect: GetReal made continuous identity verification generally available in GetReal Protect, combining it with impersonation and deepfake detection for Teams, Webex and Zoom calls; the company named hiring decisions among the moments it protects. | <https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/getreal-security-launches-first-trust-and-authenticity-platform-that-combines-real-time-continuous-identity-verification-and-deepfake-detection> |
| 2026-05-15 | Illinois HB 3773 | Law or ruling | IDHR publishes proposed AI notice rules: The Illinois Department of Human Rights published proposed rules in the Illinois Register to clarify notice and recordkeeping duties under HB 3773. | <https://natlawreview.com/article/illinois-postpones-proposed-regulations-ai-employment> |
| 2026-05-14 | Remote | Product launch | Remote passes $300M ARR and pitches Remote MCP for AI agents: Remote said its payroll business grew more than 300% and it passed $300M ARR, cash-flow positive. The release presents Remote MCP, which "gives any AI agent a live, secure connection to Remote's payroll, contracts, compliance data, and org structure." | <https://remote.com/blog/remotes-modern-payroll-platform-surpasses-300-growth-fueling-ambitious-next-chapter-as-the-leading-global-employment-infrastructure> |
| 2026-05-14 | Darwinbox | Research | Gartner names Darwinbox a Leader for talent acquisition suites: Darwinbox said it debuted as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Acquisition Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises, up from Visionary a year earlier, crediting its Super Agent and "multiple context-aware, autonomous agents." | <https://www.peoplematters.in/news/hr-technology/darwinbox-named-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-suites-49744> |
| 2026-05-14 | Colorado AI Act | Law or ruling | Colorado repeals and replaces AI Act with ADMT law: SB26-189 was signed, repealing and reenacting SB 24-205's provisions as automated decision-making technology rules for consequential decisions, including employment. Developer documentation duties start January 1, 2027. | <https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189> |
| 2026-05-13 | VidCruiter | Product launch | VidCruiter launches AI Interview Scoring: AI Interview Scoring applies a client-approved rubric to every pre-recorded answer and gives a rationale for each score; it does not analyze facial features or speech patterns. | <https://digital-release.kxan.com/business/press-releases/cision/20260513HA57919/vidcruiter-launches-ai-interview-scoring-setting-a-new-standard-for-transparent-defensible-ai-in-hiring> |
| 2026-05-13 | Spott | Product launch | Spott launches an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: "Spott now has its own MCP server, making it easy to connect with tools like Claude and ChatGPT", with secure read and write access to the recruiting database. | <https://spott.io/resources/spott-update-april-2026> |
| 2026-05-13 | Fuel50 | Product launch | Fuel50 launches Career Advisor Agent: The Career Advisor Agent, built into Microsoft Teams, gives employees explainable skills-based career guidance and is the first release in the Fuel50 Agents ecosystem. | <https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/fuel50-launches-career-advisor-agent-bring-trusted-ai-career-guidance-flow> |
| 2026-05-13 | Fountain | Research | Fountain named Niche Player in Gartner TA suites Magic Quadrant: Fountain was included for the first time in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Acquisition Suites, as a Niche Player. | <https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-named-a-niche-player-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-suites> |
| 2026-05-13 | Credo AI | Product launch | Credo AI makes GAIA governance agent generally available: GAIA (Govern AI Assistant) drafts intake answers, recommends risk scenarios and suggests matching controls. Credo said a public MCP server would follow "in preview later this quarter." | <https://www.credo.ai/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-govern-ai-assistant-gaia-credo-ais-ai-governance-agent> |
| 2026-05-13 | Avature | Product launch | Avature introduces new AI agents and an agent builder: In its Gartner Magic Quadrant release, Avature said it "is introducing a new generation of AI agents" for hiring tasks "from writing job descriptions and screening questions to surfacing data insights and interview scheduling", plus "an agent builder enabling enterprises to create and deploy their own AI agents". | <https://www.avature.net/press-release/avature-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-recruiting-suites/> |
| 2026-05-12 | Orgvue | Research | Orgvue survey: 78% say AI projects stalled or failed: Orgvue's third annual survey of 1,163 senior decision-makers found 92% of organizations have invested in AI but 78% say projects have stalled or failed. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/92-of-organizations-have-invested-in-ai-but-78-say-projects-have-either-stalled-or-failed-302769202.html> |
| 2026-05-12 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold launches TalentForge and 360 Interview: TalentForge lets enterprises "build, deploy, and scale HR technology with talent intelligence"; 360 Interview "combines multiple interview types into a single conversation" (functional, coding and language). | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ushers-in-the-golden-age-of-hr-software-with-launch-of-talentforge/> |
| 2026-05-09 | Prism | Product launch | Prism launches on Product Hunt: Prism launched its AI-native recruiting agency on Product Hunt with the tagline "Hire the best candidates, not just the available" and ranked #3 Product of the Day. | <https://hunted.space/product/prism-26> |
| 2026-05-08 | Pin | Product launch | Pin launches an AI recruiting CRM with pipeline automation: Pin launched a Kanban-style recruiting CRM that combines AI sourcing, automated outreach and AI interview scheduling, with AI candidate cards, stale-candidate alerts and 120+ ATS integrations. Pin claims a 14-day average time-to-fill and 12 hours a week saved per recruiter. | <https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/pincom-launches-ai-recruiting-crm-pipeline-automation-2026> |
| 2026-05-07 | Standout | Product launch | Standout launches its agentic hiring marketplace: Standout posted "Standout - The Agentic Hiring Marketplace" on Launch YC: talent and companies each get an agent that makes intros when it matters. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/standout> |
| 2026-05-07 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale Smart Reporting builds compensation reports from chat: Smart Reporting lets compensation teams "use natural language chat to request reports" across pay, equity, performance and market data, "powered by AI that has been trained on decades of compensation expertise." | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/smart-reporting-launch> |
| 2026-05-07 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse launches an MCP server for governed AI access: Greenhouse MCP gives hiring teams "a governed way to connect AI tools directly to Greenhouse", built with design partners StubHub and Komodo Health, rolling out from June. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-mcp-giving-hiring-teams-a-governed-way-to-connect-ai-tools-to-greenhouse> |
| 2026-05-07 | Eightfold AI | Partnership | Eightfold AI Interviewer embedded in Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting: Oracle Recruiting customers can use Eightfold AI Interviewer for screening, functional and coding rounds inside their Oracle workflows. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-announces-integration-of-agentic-interviewing-with-oracle-fusion-cloud-recruiting/> |
| 2026-05-07 | EU AI Act | Law or ruling | EU reaches provisional deal to delay high-risk AI duties: Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus on AI, deferring stand-alone high-risk obligations to December 2, 2027. | <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/package-digital-package/file-digital-omnibus-on-ai> |
| 2026-05-07 | Ashby | Product launch | Ashby Assistant, Custom Agents and AI Talent Rediscovery: At Ashby One, Ashby launched Ashby Assistant, a chat interface that "can answer questions and take actions across your entire recruiting dataset," plus Custom Agents, Assistant in Slack and AI Talent Rediscovery, and previewed Scheduling Agents. | <https://ashbyhq.com/blog/culture/ashby-one-2026-keynote> |
| 2026-05-07 | Ashby | Acquisition | Ashby buys Talent Llama, unveils AI Interviewer: Ashby disclosed its first acquisition, the team and assets of Talent Llama, bought in 2025, and announced a "voice and text-based" AI Interviewer, with a waitlist for design partners. | <https://ashbyhq.com/blog/culture/talent-llama> |
| 2026-05-06 | Pinpoint | Product launch | AI Notetaker for interviews: Pinpoint's AI Notetaker "automatically joins your video interviews, transcribes the conversation, and generates a structured summary," with AI notes on each scorecard question. | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/14789109-april-2026-new-features-multi-signer-documents-ai-notetaker-for-interviews> |
| 2026-05-06 | Ethos | Funding | Ethos raises $22.75M Series A: Ethos raised a $22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with General Catalyst, Evantic and XTX, to develop its AI agent and expand its expert network. | <https://tech.eu/2026/05/06/ai-consulting-startup-co-founded-by-deepmind-scientist-lands-22-75m-series-a/> |
| 2026-05-05 | Joveo | Product launch | Joveo adds AI Scheduling: AI Scheduling automates interview coordination, lets candidates self-schedule and syncs changes with the ATS. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-scheduling/> |
| 2026-05-05 | Hirevoice | Funding | Hirevoice closes EUR 900,000 round led by Draper B1: Barcelona voice AI interviewer Hirevoice closed a EUR 900,000 round led by Draper B1 with 4FoundersCapital, to improve the platform and expand in Spain, Europe and the US. | <https://capital-riesgo.es/en/articles/hirevoice-closes-a-900-000-round-led-by-draper-b1-to-transform-the-job-interview-with-artificial-intelligence/> |
| 2026-05-05 | Alex | Research | Alex named to CB Insights AI 100: Alex said it is the first recruiting software company on the CB Insights AI 100 list, describing itself as an agentic platform for phone screens, video interviews, fraud detection and notetaking. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alex-ai-named-to-the-2026-cb-insights-list-of-the-100-most-innovative-artificial-intelligence-startups-302762307.html> |
| 2026-05-04 | Pave | Product launch | Pave launches the Pave Comp Agent: Pave launched the Pave Comp Agent, which "sits directly inside PaveOS with full access to each organization's structured compensation data" and runs multi-step work such as building cases for employees flagged as underpaid, monitoring for retention risks and running merit-cycle simulations. It went to select enterprise clients with a waitlist. | <https://hrdive.com/press-release/20260502-pave-launches-its-comp-agent-to-reinvent-compensation-management-with-agent> |
| 2026-05 | Cezanne Recruitment | Product launch | Cezanne releases AI blind scoring to all recruitment customers: Blind scoring, "an optional feature designed to reduce bias during CV reviews", uses AI to remove personal details before hiring manager review; CV scoring moved to an updated AI model. | <https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-april/may-2026-release-notes> |
| 2026-04-30 | Broadbean by Veritone | Partnership | UK DWP selects Broadbean by Veritone: The UK Department for Work and Pensions, leading a cluster of four departments, adopted Broadbean by Veritone's job distribution platform, which posts to more than 7,000 job boards. | <https://www.veritone.com/newsroom/press-releases/broadbean-and-uk-dwp/> |
| 2026-04-29 | Checkr | Product launch | Checkr launches Profiles portable verified identity: Checkr launched Profiles, "a portable identity solution that gives individuals control over their verified credentials." | <https://checkr.com/resources/articles/checkr-launches-profiles> |
| 2026-04-28 | Phenom | Acquisition | Phenom acquires Plum behavioral assessments: Phenom bought Plum, "a pioneer in psychometric-based talent assessments", after its February 2026 Be Applied deal, framing it as a response to AI-generated resumes, deepfake interview answers and fabricated work histories. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-acquires-plum-ai> |
| 2026-04-28 | Dex | Funding | Dex raises $5.3M seed for its AI talent agent: Notion Capital led a $5.3M seed with a16z Speedrun and Concept Ventures, bringing total funding to $8.4M. Dex focuses on AI researchers and software, ML and quant engineers and charges employers 20% to 30% of salary. | <https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/exclusive-dex-ai-powered-recruiting-startup-raises-seed-round-notion-capital/> |
| 2026-04-27 | Ribbon | Product launch | Ribbon ships MCP servers for Workday and other ATSs: 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. | <https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-mcp-workday> |
| 2026-04-27 | Certn | Partnership | Certn partners with PageUp ATS: Certn checks, including "Integrated identity verification with fraud detection", can now be ordered and tracked inside the PageUp ATS. | <https://certn.co/press-releases/certn-partners-with-global-ats-provider-pageup/> |
| 2026-04-25 | GoPerfect | Research | GoPerfect study of 180,000 applications finds human screening fades late in the queue: GoPerfect's Perfect Labs reported that the chance a qualified applicant is shortlisted falls 34% after the first 40 applications, and that human picks drift from AI match scores by late afternoon. It argues AI screening should surface candidates for human review. | <https://www.goperfect.com/perfect-labs/what-ai-screening-catches> |
| 2026-04-24 | Colorado AI Act | Law or ruling | DOJ intervenes in xAI suit against Colorado AI Act: The Justice Department moved to intervene in xAI's lawsuit, alleging SB24-205 violates the Equal Protection Clause by requiring AI companies to prevent unintentional disparate impact. xAI had sued on April 9. | <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-intervenes-xai-lawsuit-challenging-colorados-algorithmic-discrimination> |
| 2026-04-24 | Alva Labs | Product launch | Alva Labs launches its AI Hiring System: Alva held the launch of "a connected AI Hiring System built on 9 years of certified psychometric science" that joins assessments, interviews and decisions. | <https://www.alvalabs.io/webinar/webinar-the-launch-of-the-alva-ai-hiring-system> |
| 2026-04-22 | Symphony Talent | Product launch | Career Finder replaces career site search: Career Finder, built on Tala, replaces keyword job search on SFX career sites with conversational, AI-guided job discovery. | <https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/symphony-talent-introduces-career-finder/> |
| 2026-04-22 | Personio | Acquisition | Personio acquires recruiting AI startup aurio and turns profitable: 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. | <https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-profitability-acquisition-aurio/> |
| 2026-04-22 | Harver | Product launch | Harver launches AI PREVAIL AI-readiness assessment: AI PREVAIL is "the first purpose-built AI aptitude and adaptability assessment module," covering both AI technical aptitude and behavioral readiness for candidates and employees. | <https://techrseries.com/hiring/harver-launches-ai-prevail-the-first-purpose-built-ai-readiness-assessment-for-talent-acquisition-and-employee-development/> |
| 2026-04-21 | SmartRecruiters | Product launch | Winston Companion gains a knowledge-base agent; AI disclosure for candidates: The April 2026 release added a Winston Companion conversational agent connected to the help knowledge base and a candidate-facing AI disclosure message with regional controls. | <https://www.smartrecruiters.com/fr/resources/article/ia-plus-utile-pour-les-recruteurs-comme-pour-les-candidats/> |
| 2026-04-21 | Gem | Product launch | Gem launches AI Fraud Detection Agent: Gem's third agent rates inbound applications high, medium or low fraud risk from resume metadata, email, phone, LinkedIn, identity and IP or device signals. Recruiters run it automatically on high-risk roles or on demand. "The agent flags. You decide." It works with Gem ATS, Greenhouse, Workday, iCIMS and SuccessFactors. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-ai-fraud-detection-agent> |
| 2026-04-20 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches Payscale Intelligence Cloud: Payscale grouped its products into the Payscale Intelligence Cloud, "powered by contextual intelligence that surfaces risks, reveals opportunities, and guides decisions in real time." | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-intelligence-cloud-announcement> |
| 2026-04-17 | SplashBI | Research | SplashBI named Leader in Everest Group People Analytics PEAK Matrix 2026: Everest Group named SplashBI a Leader and Star Performer in its People Analytics Platforms PEAK Matrix 2026. | <https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-recognized-as-a-star-performer-in-everest-groups-peak-matrix-assessment-2026/> |
| 2026-04-16 | Holistic AI | Product launch | Holistic AI adds runtime enforcement for AI agents: Holistic AI added three inline runtime controls to its Guardian Agents framework: tool calling allowlists and blocklists, access boundaries on files, databases and customer PII, and cost limits that can cut off runaway sessions. | <https://www.holisticai.com/blog/runtime-agentic-monitoring-tools-access-control-cost> |
| 2026-04-15 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai launches Ask Sapia.ai: A chat tool on Sapia.ai's site answers plain-language questions on how its AI scores candidates, checks fairness and handles data. CEO Barb Hyman: "AI in hiring should not be trusted by default; it should be understood". | <https://www.onrec.com/news/launch/sapiaai-launches-%E2%80%9Cask-sapiaai%E2%80%9D-to-bring-transparency-to-ai-driven-hiring> |
| 2026-04-15 | HackerEarth | Product launch | HackerEarth launches OnScreen AI interviewer: OnScreen runs structured technical interviews at any hour with lifelike avatars, identity verification and proctoring; one customer screened 2,000+ candidates in a weekend. | <https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hackerearth-launches-ai-interview-tool-for-technical-hiring> |
| 2026-04-14 | Wellfound | Product launch | Wellfound launches one AI video interview for all jobs: Wellfound built an AI video interview that candidates record once and share with the companies they apply to. An AI interviewer asks follow-up questions, an LLM summarizes each answer from the transcript and writes feedback for the candidate, and recruiters jump to pre-clipped sections. A person on the hiring team reviews each interview. | <https://www.mux.com/blog/wellfound> |
| 2026-04-14 | Humanly | Acquisition | Humanly acquires Anthill: Humanly bought Anthill, a frontline employee engagement platform, to add post-hire engagement. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ai-powered-hiring-startup-humanly-acquires-anthill-to-boost-employee-engagement/> |
| 2026-04-14 | Fountain | Product launch | Fountain launches Cue to run frontline hiring and operations: Fountain launched Cue, an autonomous agent that builds and updates hiring workflows, sources and screens candidates, detects and fills shift gaps, flags weak locations and writes operational reports. Fountain says Cue "reports on what it already did." | <https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-launches-cue-to-run-frontline-hiring-and-workforce-operations> |
| 2026-04-10 | Ceipal | Product launch | Ceipal shows its AI agent lineup at Ceipal Connect: Ceipal demoed a Job Optimization Agent, a Candidate Relevancy Agent, a Voice Agent that "Executes technical screenings and conversational interviews", the Recruiter Assistant and an Orchestrator that coordinates the agents. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/ceipal-connect-ceipal-product-demo-ai> |
| 2026-04-09 | Pin | Product launch | Pin adds an MCP connection and AI-written outreach: Pin's March 2026 update added an invite-only MCP connection "for your favorite AI's like Claude Desktop or OpenAI", an AI-written outreach step, a pipeline board view and a "Likely to respond" signal. | <https://www.pin.com/blog/march-2026-product-updates/> |
| 2026-04-09 | NauWork | Partnership | Arm partners with NauWork on agentic AI hiring for semiconductors: Arm announced a partnership with NauWork, "an AI-native recruiting platform" built as an agentic AI platform, to speed hiring of semiconductor engineering talent on Arm compute. | <https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/announcements/posts/arm-and-nauwork-partner-to-scale-agentic-ai-hiring-for-the-semiconductor-industry> |
| 2026-04-08 | TalentNeuron | Product launch | TalentNeuron launches Organizational Design: TalentNeuron added Organizational Design to its workforce planning product, linking org structure to labor market data; "Automation impact is built into the analysis at the task and role level." | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-expands-workforce-planning-solution-with-the-launch-of-organizational-design-302736920.html> |
| 2026-04-08 | SmartRecruiters | Product launch | SmartRecruiters shows Winston Interview and agentic CRM: SmartRecruiters presented Winston Interview, "an agentic interviewer, available on-demand" for scored first-round screening, embedded assessments in Winston Chat, Winston Match sub-scores, an agentic CRM and a prototype fraud-risk tool. | <https://techrseries.com/talent-acquisition/smartrecruiters-introduces-the-future-of-hiring-from-ai-agents-to-autonomous-talent-acquisition/> |
| 2026-04-08 | Humanly | Funding | Humanly raises $25M Series B and pivots to supplying candidates: Humanly raised a $25M Series B with SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, Zeal Capital Partners and Converge ($52M to date). It is repositioning as a "service-as-a-software" company that delivers "pre-vetted, ready-to-hire job seekers on demand" and launched a job seeker coaching product. | <https://www.geekwire.com/2026/humanly-raises-25m-to-put-ai-to-work-for-job-seekers-not-just-the-companies-hiring-them/> |
| 2026-04-08 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold adds AI Interview Companion for human-led interviews: AI Interview Companion is "a new intelligent agent designed to enhance human-led interviews with real-time guidance, structured insights", extending Talent Agents across the interview journey. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-expands-talent-agents-across-the-full-interview-journey-introducing-ai-interview-companion-and-new-interview-capabilities/> |
| 2026-04-07 | Pinpoint | Product launch | AI Hiring Copilot and Pinpoint MCP: Pinpoint introduced Hiring Copilot, "an AI-powered assistant available when reviewing individual job applications," and the Pinpoint MCP to "connect Pinpoint to your AI tools and start asking questions about your hiring data." | <https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/14321647-march-2026-new-features-ai-hiring-copilot-the-pinpoint-mcp-and-increased-visibility-for-users> |
| 2026-04-07 | Paylocity | Acquisition | Paylocity buys Grayscale, an AI recruiting automation company: Paylocity acquired Grayscale Labs, "an AI-powered recruiting automation company that helps businesses hiring at scale move faster", to help employers engage candidates earlier in high-volume hiring. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-4-7-paylocity-acquires-grayscale-to-expand-ai-powered-recruiting-capabilities> |
| 2026-04-02 | Wonderkind | Product launch | Wonderkind adds TikTok job ads: Wonderkind launched TikTok as an integrated recruitment channel, so teams create, manage and optimise TikTok job campaigns alongside Meta and Google activity from one workspace. | <https://www.wonderkind.com/blog/wonderkind-now-supports-tiktok-heres-what-that-means-for-your-recruitment> |
| 2026-04-01 | Maki | Partnership | Hudson RPO embeds Maki across its delivery: Hudson Talent Solutions, a global RPO provider, will integrate Maki's AI hiring platform, which runs skills screening, assessment and automated scheduling, across its hiring programs. | <https://tools.prnewswire.com/en-us/live/20823/release/20260401EN23211> |
| 2026-04-01 | ChartHop | Partnership | ChartHop lands on the SAP Store: ChartHop's AI-powered people operations platform became available on the SAP Store, integrating with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. | <https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/charthop-ai-powered-people-operations-130000901.html> |
| 2026-04 | SeekOut | Product launch | SeekOut launches SeekOut MCP: SeekOut's MCP server lets AI assistants search SeekOut's talent data across 7 talent verticals and the customer's ATS pipeline, with guided workflows, workspace creation and candidate saving. | <https://www.seekout.com/release-notes> |
| 2026-04 | Colorado AI Act | Law or ruling | Court order pauses Colorado AI Act enforcement: A stipulated order by Magistrate Judge Cyrus Y. Chung barred the Attorney General from enforcing SB 24-205 until 14 days after a ruling on xAI's preliminary injunction motion. | <https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/04/28/court-order-delays-enforcement-of-states-first-in-the-nation-ai-law/> |
| 2026-04 | Access Vincere Evo | Product launch | Vincere integrates Evo Meeting Assistant: Evo Meeting Assistant brings "AI-powered meeting intelligence" into Vincere: interview summaries are saved to the Candidate Brief and key candidate fields are pushed to the profile. | <https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764318-vincere-platform-updates-april-26> |
| 2026-03-31 | Gloat | Product launch | Gloat launches Agentic HR on the Loomra context engine: Gloat Agentic HR builds agents that work in Microsoft Copilot, Teams and Slack using rules from Oracle, Workday or SuccessFactors, with prebuilt agents for redeployment, career development, internal sourcing, succession and reskilling. | <https://joshbersin.com/2026/03/gloat-enters-the-crowded-war-for-ai-agents-in-hr/> |
| 2026-03-31 | Carefam | Product launch | Carefam adds an Insights tab for hiring pipelines: Carefam added "a new tab in Carefam that shows you exactly where hiring stands across all your facilities," which highlights hiring bottlenecks. | <https://www.carefam.com/product-updates> |
| 2026-03-31 | BrightHire | Product launch | BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants: BrightHire added a candidate Practice Round, a Hiring Manager Introduction video, and Setup Assistant, Guide Assistant and Quick-Start so recruiters can build guides and launch AI interviews without an ATS integration. | <https://brighthire.com/?p=13594> |
| 2026-03-27 | Spott | Product launch | Spott adds Ask AI and suggested tasks: Users "can now ask questions on any Candidate, Contact, or meeting transcript", and Spott "suggests follow-up tasks after every conversation" for the recruiter to accept or reject. | <https://spott.io/resources/spott-updates-february-2026> |
| 2026-03-24 | InCruiter | Product launch | InCruiter reports deepfake detection in AI interviews: InCruiter said its continuous deepfake detection, launched in early 2026, flagged an AI-generated avatar during a fully automated AI interview for a fintech client, and that it now flags fraud in 25 to 30% of suspicious sessions. | <https://www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/press-release/bengaluru-based-ai-interview-platform-flags-ai-generated-deepfake-candidate-during-automated-interview-for-global-fintech-client> |
| 2026-03-24 | GCheck | Research | GCheck Trust in Hiring Report finds 93% of job seekers embellish: Survey of 1,500 recent job seekers: 93 percent admit to embellishing or lying during the hiring process to appear more qualified. | <https://gcheck.com/blog/93-percent-of-candidates-lie-to-get-hired-2026-gcheck-report/> |
| 2026-03-24 | ChartHop | Product launch | ChartHop launches AI Pro with agentic actions and MCP: ChartHop launched AI Pro in early access, a premium tier with Agentic Actions ("these agents perform complex tasks autonomously"), custom agents that monitor items such as span of control in real time, and support for the Model Context Protocol. | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/observerreporter/article/bizwire-2026-3-24-charthop-launches-ai-pro> |
| 2026-03-23 | DOJ IER export-control hiring | Law or ruling | Manufacturer commits to fix 'U.S. person' descriptions: IER found a Miami manufacturing and distribution company's export control compliance practices could lead to citizenship status discrimination; the company committed to correct its descriptions of U.S. persons. | <https://www.justice.gov/crt/ier-letters-resolutions-fy-2026> |
| 2026-03-20 | Federal AI preemption | Law or ruling | White House releases National Policy Framework for AI: The White House released a non-binding framework recommending federal preemption of state AI laws that impose undue burdens, with carve-outs for state police powers and child protection laws. | <https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/03/white-house-releases-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial> |
| 2026-03-19 | ZipRecruiter | Product launch | ZipRecruiter launches a ChatGPT app: Job seekers can search ZipRecruiter listings by title, location, salary and remote options inside ChatGPT, then apply on ZipRecruiter. | <https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-ChatGPT-App-for-AI-Powered-Job-Discovery/default.aspx> |
| 2026-03-19 | Ringtime | Funding | Ringtime raises EUR 1.8M seed: Ringtime raised a EUR 1.8M seed round led by Volta Ventures for its AI agents that call and message blue-collar candidates to screen and match them. | <https://tech.eu/2026/03/19/ringtime-secures-eur18m-to-improve-blue-collar-hiring-processes/> |
| 2026-03-19 | Glider AI | Acquisition | Findem agrees to acquire Glider AI: Findem agreed to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation company with AI interviews and identity checks. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://findem.ai/news/findem-to-acquire-glider-ai-to-deliver-hire-ready-candidates> |
| 2026-03-19 | Findem | Acquisition | Findem to acquire Glider AI: Findem agreed to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation platform with assessments, AI interviews and identity verification; terms were not disclosed and Glider keeps its brand. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-to-acquire-glider-ai-to-deliver-hire-ready-candidates> |
| 2026-03-18 | TalentNeuron | Product launch | TalentNeuron launches Synappy, a conversational AI assistant: TalentNeuron launched Synappy, "an AI-powered workforce intelligence assistant that transforms labor market data into clear answers for workforce decisions." | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-launches-synappy-bringing-conversational-ai-to-workforce-intelligence-302717307.html> |
| 2026-03-18 | Rippling | Product launch | Rippling launches Rippling AI: Rippling introduced Rippling AI, which answers "deeply specific questions about your company using live data" and takes action across HR, IT and Finance, including reports and employee self-service. | <https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-rippling-ai> |
| 2026-03-18 | Qualtrics EmployeeXM | Product launch | Qualtrics adds conversational feedback and retention analytics to EmployeeXM: At X4 2026 Qualtrics launched AI conversational feedback, retention analytics where 'predictive models identify attrition risk', and AI manager action recommendations, all 'available now'. | <https://www.qualtrics.com/news/new-ex-capabilities-x4-2026/> |
| 2026-03-18 | Paraform | Funding | Paraform raises $40M Series B, reaching $65M total: Paraform announced its Series B, bringing total funding to $65M. Scale Venture Partners led, with Felicis, A* Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures. Paraform's about page lists the round as $40M. It calls itself "an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and intelligent AI systems collaborate." | <https://paraform.com/blog/series-b> |
| 2026-03-18 | Blucor | Product launch | Blucor builds screening criteria and questions from a job description: Release note: "Create screening criteria and questions from a job description." | <https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes> |
| 2026-03-18 | Accurate Background | Product launch | Accurate adds enhanced identity verification against candidate fraud: Accurate Identity Verification matches "a government-issued ID with a candidate's real-time selfie within seconds" before screening, aimed at stolen IDs, synthetic identities and AI-generated deepfakes. | <https://www.accurate.com/about-us/news/accurates-identity-verification-helps-employers-combat-rising-candidate-fraud/> |
| 2026-03-17 | SourceGeek | Product launch | SourceGeek adds an in-app AI Assistant: The AI Assistant "executes complex interface actions through simple natural language": it filters candidates by career criteria LinkedIn filters cannot handle, drafts multi-step outreach and moves or exports candidates. | <https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/the-end-of-the-interface-meet-our-sourcegeek-ai-assistant> |
| 2026-03-17 | Phenom | Product launch | Phenom unveils WorkOps and new agents at IAMPHENOM 2026: At its IAMPHENOM conference Phenom unveiled a new AI architecture that forms Phenom WorkOps, with agents for job posting, job description compliance, voice screening, scheduling, intake, AI interviews, skills validation, onboarding coaching and exit interviews. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-ai-work-operations-hr> |
| 2026-03-17 | Joveo | Product launch | Joveo launches AI Interviewer: AI Interviewer runs candidate interviews at any hour by web, phone or WhatsApp, scores applicants against set criteria and sends summaries to the ATS. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-launches-ai-interviewer/> |
| 2026-03-17 | Jobma | Partnership | Jobma partners with AccuSourceHR for background checks: Jobma and AccuSourceHR integrated so hiring teams can run criminal, identity, employment and education checks alongside interview evaluations. | <https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-and-accusourcehr-partner-to-bring-candidate-screening-and-verification-into-one-seamless-hiring-workflow> |
| 2026-03-16 | iCIMS | Product launch | iCIMS Spring Release ships Frontline AI: ICIMS Frontline AI offers "A 24/7 AI-led conversational candidate experience across SMS, WhatsApp and web" and an AI-powered mobile app for hiring managers. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/springrelease2026/> |
| 2026-03-16 | Tenzo AI | Product launch | Tenzo launches Recruiter Note Taker: Tenzo launched a Recruiter Note Taker that joins recruiter calls, suggests follow-up questions, tracks interview criteria and writes structured notes, positioned as "copilot" next to its AI interviewer Morgan ("autopilot"). | <https://www.tenzo.ai/blog/tenzo-ai-launches-recruiter-note-taker-to-bring-ai-copilot-support-to-recruiter-conversations> |
| 2026-03-16 | Jobma | Product launch | Jobma adds AI interview practice and Interview Agent upgrades: Jobma added practice sessions before AI interviews, explanations for AI resume scores, side-by-side AI evaluations, in-interview ID verification and an upgraded Interview Agent that sets up live and AI interviews in a few clicks. | <https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-announces-new-product-updates-for-enhanced-hiring-visibility-speed-and-security> |
| 2026-03-13 | Workable | Product launch | Workable launches Workable Agent inside its ATS: Workable launched Workable Agent, "an AI recruiting agent built directly into its ATS" that runs a job intake conversation, searches 400M+ profiles, engages, screens, scores and advances top matches, with recruiter-set thresholds and overrides. The intake conversation is free on all plans; the Agent is a paid add-on with flat pricing by company size. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-3-13-workable-launches-agentic-ai-for-hiring-with-new-workable-agent> |
| 2026-03-13 | First Advantage | Research | First Advantage publishes 2026 Global Trends Report: Survey of more than 5,000 CHROs, HR leaders and job seekers. It says "AI is now widely used by employers and candidates, introducing both efficiencies and new avenues for fraud" and 89% of HR hiring managers plan to add more background screening and identity verification solutions within the next two years. | <https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FA/first-advantage-releases-2026-global-trends-report-priorities-and-jl7neamqui4k.html> |
| 2026-03-13 | Carv | Partnership | Jumbo to roll out Carv agents for same-day store hiring: After an 80-store pilot, Dutch grocer Jumbo said it will expand Carv's AI agent across its store network. The agent contacts applicants on WhatsApp, checks they meet the role's requirements and lets qualified candidates pick an interview time. | <https://www.carv.com/press-release/jumbo-carv-introduce-ai-powered-hiring-enables-same-day-recruitment> |
| 2026-03-12 | Perfectly | Product launch | Perfectly launches Parker, a job-seeker agent: Perfectly launched "Parker by Perfectly: Your AI career super-connector," a job-seeker product that connects people with contacts who can open up job opportunities. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/perfectly> |
| 2026-03-12 | JobAdder | Product launch | JobAdder adds Smart Skills and transcript-based Smart Sync: Adder Intelligence gained Smart Skills, which suggests skills from resumes, and Smart Sync for resumes and interview transcripts (beta), which captures candidate insights into the record. | <https://jobadder.com/resources/platform-updates> |
| 2026-03-12 | Gem | Research | Gem reports 10x AI revenue growth: Gem reported "10x AI revenue growth" and "7x AI customer growth" over the prior year, and said it offers unlimited AI sourcing per licensed recruiter instead of credits. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/gem-ai-10x-growth-and-whats-next> |
| 2026-03-12 | Carefam | Funding | Carefam raises $10.5M for healthcare hiring agents: Carefam raised $10.5M led by Pitango HealthTech, bringing total funding to $14M, for conversational AI agents that handle outreach, credential screening, interview scheduling and onboarding for healthcare employers. | <https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1hd004eq11g> |
| 2026-03-11 | Syndio | Partnership | Syndio and Kognitiv partner on EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance: Syndio and Workday services partner Kognitiv partnered to help enterprises meet the EU Pay Transparency Directive with a system that "governs pay decisions continuously and in real time." | <https://synd.io/press-release/kognitiv-and-syndio-partner-to-support-eu-pay-transparency-directive-compliance-across-global-enterprises/> |
| 2026-03-11 | Persona | Product launch | Persona launches Candidate Verification for recruiting teams: Persona launched Candidate Verification, "designed for recruiting teams and built for security", with ID and selfie checks at application, before key interviews and at offer, integrated with Greenhouse, Ashby and Workday. | <https://marketing.withpersona.com/blog/introducing-candidate-verification-solution-by-persona> |
| 2026-03-10 | Socure | Partnership | Socure biometrics power Checkr identity verification: Checkr IDV, "an identity verification product built with Socure biometrics", brings Socure's checks into workforce screening. | <https://www.mobileidworld.com/checkr-brings-mobile-native-identity-verification-to-workforce-screening/> |
| 2026-03-10 | Juicebox | Funding | Juicebox raises $80M Series B at $850M: Juicebox raised $80 million in Series B funding at an $850 million valuation, led by DST Global with Sequoia, Coatue, Y Combinator, NFDG and Verified Capital. | <https://pulse2.com/juicebox-80-million-at-850-million-valuation-raised-for-ai-recruiting-platform/amp/> |
| 2026-03-10 | HireVue | Acquisition | HireVue acquires Hireguide technology: HireVue acquired the technology behind Hireguide, an agentic AI recruiting startup, and its team joined HireVue product to build conversational agents, starting with a voice AI Interviewer. | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-acquires-hireguide-technology-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-hiring> |
| 2026-03-06 | SmartRecruiters | Partnership | SAP embeds SmartRecruiters in SuccessFactors and pairs Winston with Joule: SAP launched an integration that runs SmartRecruiters inside SAP SuccessFactors with one login and unified navigation, and brings SmartRecruiters hiring data into SuccessFactors. SAP said Winston and its Joule copilot will begin working together as connected agents during 2026. SuccessFactors Recruiting customers are not forced to migrate. | <https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026/03/06/sap-launches-smartrecruiters-hiring-platform-integration-into-successfactors> |
| 2026-03-06 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Judge holds job applicants can bring ADEA disparate-impact claims: Judge Rita Lin rejected Workday's argument that the ADEA's disparate-impact protection excludes applicants, and dismissed some California claims and one disability claim with leave to amend. | <https://hrdive.com/news/workday-partial-loss-judge-refuses-claims-dismissal/814227/> |
| 2026-03-04 | Checkr | Product launch | Checkr launches identity verification for hiring: Checkr launched IDV, "a new hiring-native solution designed to help employers confirm candidates are who they say they are", combining liveness detection, device and network signals and forensic document analysis. | <https://checkr.com/resources/articles/checkr-identity-verification> |
| 2026-03-03 | iCIMS | Rebrand | iCIMS rebrands its AI as Coalesce AI: Coalesce AI is "the unified intelligence layer embedded across the entire ICIMS platform", spanning "intelligent candidate search and match, digital assistants, autonomous agents and ICIMS Frontline AI". | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/brand/> |
| 2026-03-03 | Textio | Product launch | Textio launches Lavalier interview intelligence: Lavalier helps teams define the skills a role needs, auto-generates structured interview guides, guides interviewers in real time and summarizes interview evidence. It is free to start. | <https://www.01net.it/textio-launches-lavalier-to-raise-the-hiring-bar-with-interview-intelligence/> |
| 2026-03-03 | TestGorilla | Product launch | TestGorilla launches AI readiness and AI fluency assessments: Seven new AI assessments: two AI video interviews (AI readiness and learning agility) built on its AI Fluency Framework and five conversational AI simulation tests. It also added one or two AI fluency questions to more than 70 existing AI video interviews. | <https://www.01net.it/testgorilla-launches-new-ai-readiness-and-ai-fluency-assessments-to-help-companies-hire-for-the-skills-that-matter-now/> |
| 2026-03-03 | Perceptyx | Acquisition | Perceptyx acquires Lyceum AI: Perceptyx acquired Lyceum AI, 'an AI-native learning platform' whose learning agent Ellie uses conversational learning to personalize training. Lyceum verifies comprehension and skill development. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://blog.perceptyx.com/perceptyx-acquires-learning-platform-lyceum-ai> |
| 2026-03-03 | Dover | Product launch | AI Scoring adds Anthropic and Gemini models: "Dover supports Anthropic and Gemini for scoring candidates (in addition to OpenAI)." | <https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-february-2026> |
| 2026-03-03 | ChartHop | Partnership | ChartHop AI joins the ADP Marketplace: ChartHop announced its AI is available on the ADP Marketplace, integrated with ADP Workforce Now, and said its AI is designed to augment, not replace, human decision-making. | <https://www.charthop.com/resource/charthop-ai-adp-marketplace> |
| 2026-03-02 | ClearanceJobs | Acquisition | DHI buys Point Solutions Group for ClearanceJobs: DHI Group acquired Point Solutions Group, a defense staffing and services firm holding a Top Secret facility clearance, for $5.5M so ClearanceJobs can bid on federal contracts and staff cleared roles. | <https://www.builtincolorado.com/articles/dhi-group-acquires-point-solutions-group-20260302> |
| 2026-03 | Deel | Product launch | Deel adds a hiring agent and a Deel app in ChatGPT: At The Big Deel 2026, Deel launched AI agents for hiring, onboarding, payroll and PTO. The hiring agent "recommends the right talent partners, generates job descriptions, and guides sourcing from day one, including directly inside ChatGPT." AI in Deel's ATS supports screening, scoring and sourcing. | <https://www.deel.com/blog/big-deel-recap-2026/> |
| 2026-02-27 | JobScore | Product launch | JobScore uses AI to suggest similar job titles for scoring: JobScore can "use artificial intelligence to generate a list of similar job titles" that candidate scores then count as matches. | <https://www.jobscore.com/blog/similar-job-titles-in-candidate-scores/> |
| 2026-02-26 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai launches Phai career coach for enterprises: Sapia.ai launched Phai, an AI career coach that runs on Anthropic's Claude, as an enterprise offering for employer branding, pre-application role matching and internal mobility. | <https://www.onrec.com/news/launch/sapiaai-launches-phai-an-ai-career-coach-helping-people-find-their-place-in-a-changing> |
| 2026-02-25 | One Model | Product launch | One Model reports One AI Assistant, agentic data modeling and MCP services: One Model's 2025 momentum release says One AI Assistant, "a conversational interface for exploring workforce questions," is live, One AI Data Intelligence can "agentically model and incorporate new data sets," and "Model Context Protocol (MCP) services are available today" for Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. | <https://www.onemodel.co/news/record-2025-momentum-as-chros-call-out-a-productivity-data-blind-spot> |
| 2026-02-24 | HireBound | Funding | HireBound raises $2M seed for AI recruiting agents: HireBound raised a $2M seed round led by Kalaari Capital, with Antler, Infinyte Club and CareerNet. It positions its agentic AI as an execution layer for sourcing, engagement, screening and evaluation. | <https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-and-investment/hirebound-raises-dollar2-million-to-automate-hiring-with-ai-48548> |
| 2026-02-23 | Indeed | Product launch | Indeed introduces the Smart Fit Score: Indeed's Smart Screening gives "every application" a score from 0 to 100 against the employer's weighted screening criteria, with a Candidate Summary Page. Indeed says it is "intentionally not a final decision-maker." | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/introducing-indeeds-smart-fit-score?co=US> |
| 2026-02-20 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho Recruit mobile app adds Ask Zia and Zia Search: The Zoho Recruit mobile app added Ask Zia for questions about a record, plain-language Zia Search, Zia Candidate Matching and AI profile and notification summaries. | <https://blog.zoho.com/recruit/ai-powered-hiring-mobile-app.html> |
| 2026-02-19 | HireVue | Product launch | HireVue launches Assessment Builder: Assessment Builder lets teams build validated, role-specific assessments in minutes; it "uses AI to analyze job descriptions and inform assessment creation." | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-assessment-builder-to-scale-validated-skills-hiring-across-enterprises> |
| 2026-02-19 | Fabric | Research | Fabric tests its detection against Cluely: Fabric ran a technical interview with every answer from Cluely's paid tier; "Fabric flagged the interview with an 85% cheating probability" from response timing, AI-typical language and behavior signals. | <https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/how-fabric-caught-cluely-full-report-included> |
| 2026-02-18 | SeekOut | Product launch | SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access: SeekOut made AI Screening with Sam available to all Recruit customers in Early Access. Candidates take a 15 to 20 minute AI interview on their own schedule, and Sam scores answers against the recruiter's criteria with summaries and full transcripts. | <https://support.seekout.com/en/articles/13853182-sam-ai-screening-in-seekout> |
| 2026-02-17 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Plaintiffs' counsel announce court-authorized notice to Workday age collective: Plaintiffs' counsel announced that the Northern District of California had authorized notice to applicants age 40 and older who applied through Workday's platform since September 24, 2020, with a March 7, 2026 deadline to opt in. | <https://aijourn.com/federal-court-authorizes-notice-in-lawsuit-challenging-ai-hiring-software-for-potential-age-discrimination-act-by-march-7-2026/> |
| 2026-02-17 | Employment Hero | Funding | SEEK Growth Fund starts sale of its Employment Hero stake as ARR passes A$300M: SEEK Investments said the SEEK Growth Fund began a process to sell its holding. Employment Hero said it passed A$300 million ARR and is "embedding agentic AI directly into complex, regulated employment workflows." | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/at-a300m-arr-ai-powered-employment-hero-enters-next-phase-as-seek-growth-fund-launches-stake-sale> |
| 2026-02-17 | Appcast | Research | 10th annual Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report: Report on 302 million clicks and 27 million applications found cost per application and cost per hire rose sharply in 2025. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appcast-releases-10th-annual-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-with-new-candidate-disposition-and-global-hiring-data-302688064.html> |
| 2026-02-13 | Maki | Partnership | ElevenLabs details Maki's voice AI recruiters: ElevenLabs published a case study saying Maki, whose clients include PwC, H&M and The Restaurant Group, uses the ElevenAPI as the multilingual voice of its AI Recruiters, agents that conduct first-round interviews. | <https://elevenlabs.io/blog/maki-people> |
| 2026-02-12 | Paycom | Research | Paycom publishes Forrester study on IWant: Paycom released findings from a Forrester Consulting study it commissioned, which projects up to 431% three-year ROI from IWant for a composite client. | <https://s201.q4cdn.com/761236765/files/doc_news/New-Study-Finds-Paycoms-IWant-Has-Delivered-Significant-ROI-2026.pdf> |
| 2026-02-11 | 15Five | Product launch | 15Five launches Amaya, an AI agent for people data: 15Five introduced Amaya, 'a powerful new Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) AI agent built directly into the 15Five platform', with an AI Insights Dashboard and a Discovery Feed that 'surfaces unexpected patterns and outliers'. | <https://aijourn.com/hr-leaders-meet-amaya-your-new-thought-partner/> |
| 2026-02-10 | Tofu | Funding | JumpCloud Ventures makes Tofu its first investment: JumpCloud launched a venture arm and named Tofu, which "focuses on preventing identity fraud during the hiring process," as its first investment; amount not disclosed. | <https://jumpcloud.com/press/jumpcloud-launches-venture-arm-to-fuel-it-and-security-innovation> |
| 2026-02-10 | Phenom | Acquisition | Phenom acquires Be Applied assessments: Phenom acquired Be Applied, "an AI-driven cognitive assessment solution that validates candidate and employee capabilities at scale", to support skills-first hiring. The later Plum release says Be Applied provided cognitive and situational judgment assessments. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-acquires-be-applied-skills-ai> |
| 2026-02-10 | Indeed | Product launch | Indeed app launches in ChatGPT: Indeed launched an app in ChatGPT that suggests matching jobs to connected job seekers; applying still happens on Indeed. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-launches-app-in-chatgpt?co=US> |
| 2026-02-04 | Dayforce | Acquisition | Thoma Bravo completes Dayforce take-private: Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of Dayforce, valued at about US$12.3 billion, at US$70.00 per share in cash. | <https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-dayforce> |
| 2026-02-03 | Joveo | Product launch | Ask Joveo analytics agent: Ask Joveo is an AI agent inside Joveo's AI Analytics that answers questions on recruitment marketing and funnel data with explanations, visuals and suggested actions. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-reimagines-recruitment-analytics-launches-ai-agent-for-talent-intelligence/> |
| 2026-02 | Pin | Product launch | Pin ships AI Questions V2 and AI-personalized outreach beta: Pin's February 2026 update added AI Questions V2, which evaluates candidate profiles against the recruiter's questions in the background, a calibration mode for new jobs and AI-personalized outreach steps in beta. | <https://www.pin.com/blog/february-2026-product-updates/> |
| 2026-01-30 | Apploi | Acquisition | Viventium acquires Apploi: Viventium acquired Apploi to combine recruiting, credentialing, onboarding, payroll and workforce management for post-acute healthcare employers. The deal closed on January 30, 2026; terms were not disclosed. | <https://techrseries.com/hcm-and-hris/viventium-acquires-apploi-to-create-a-leading-nationally-scaled-healthcare-exclusive-human-capital-management-platform/> |
| 2026-01-28 | ADP | Product launch | ADP launches ADP Assist agents: ADP introduced persona-based ADP Assist agents for payroll variance, tax registration, HR policy answers, analytics and talent actions such as promotions. | <https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges> |
| 2026-01-27 | Warden AI | Partnership | Findem publishes Warden AI bias audit: Findem said it completed an independent bias audit of its applicant matching with Warden AI in December 2025 and is now Warden Assured, with results on Warden's AI Assurance Dashboard. | <https://findem.ai/blog/findem-ai-bias-audit-warden-ai> |
| 2026-01-26 | Fonzi | Acquisition | Fonzi acquires Cook'd, an AI-native ATS for engineering hiring: Fonzi bought Cook'd, "an AI-native ATS built specifically for engineering hiring" that writes job descriptions, posts roles and screens applicants. Fonzi calls it its second acquisition in eight months, after recruiting firm BKB Talent. | <https://fonzi.ai/blog/fonzi-cookd-acquisition> |
| 2026-01-26 | Classet | Product launch | Classet adds campaigns, looser qualification logic and one-click summaries to Joy: Classet added custom email and SMS follow-up campaigns, qualification logic that still interviews candidates who miss a hard requirement, and one-click call summaries to its AI recruiter Joy. | <https://www.classet.ai/blog/joy-hire-faster-smarter> |
| 2026-01-22 | Woven | Acquisition | Andela acquires Woven: Andela bought Woven, "a human-powered technical assessment company that simulates real engineering work," to assess and match engineers for AI-related roles. Price undisclosed. | <https://techcabal.com/2026/01/22/andela-acquires-woven/> |
| 2026-01-21 | Perfectly | Product launch | Perfectly launches as an AI recruiting agency: Perfectly launched "Hire with Perfectly: Your AI Recruiting Agency" on Launch YC. It says it automates sourcing, outreach, screening and qualification, and interview-ready candidates show up in Slack. | <https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/perfectly> |
| 2026-01-21 | Blucor | Product launch | Blucor lets recruiters set up a role by voice: Release note: "Set up a role by describing your hiring needs aloud." | <https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes> |
| 2026-01-20 | SplashBI | Product launch | SplashBI Tahoe v6.1 adds Analytics Co-Pilot and Teams answers: Tahoe v6.1 added an Analytics Co-Pilot, AI chart explanations and conversational insights where "users can ask natural language questions directly on dashboard visuals", plus delivery in Microsoft Teams. | <https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-launches-tahoe-v61-with-new-ai-and-omnichannel-features/> |
| 2026-01-20 | SourceGeek | Product launch | SourceGeek launches an official MCP server: SourceGeek announced an MCP server it calls "a secure, scalable way to host and manage customized AI models and workflows," letting customers connect their own models and data. | <https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/sourcegeek-announces-official-mcp-server-integration> |
| 2026-01-20 | Remote | Acquisition | Remote acquires expense platform Atlas: Remote bought Atlas, an expense management and corporate card platform for distributed teams with an "AI-native approach" to spending and benefits. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://pulse2.com/remote-buys-atlas/> |
| 2026-01-20 | Kistler v. Eightfold AI | Law or ruling | Applicants file FCRA class action against Eightfold AI: Two applicants sued in Contra Costa County Superior Court, alleging Eightfold's AI creates hidden credit reports by scoring candidates 0 to 5 using third-party data, in violation of the FCRA and California's ICRAA. | <https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/insights/insights/job-applicants-sue-ai-screening-company-for-fcra-violations> |
| 2026-01-14 | Phenom | Acquisition | Phenom acquires Included AI for agentic people analytics: Phenom bought Included, an AI-native agentic people analytics platform, to add conversational analytics to its Workforce Intelligence. | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-acquires-included-ai-agentic-analytics> |
| 2026-01-14 | Fabric | Research | Fabric reports 38.5% of AI interview candidates flagged for cheating: Fabric published an analysis of 19,368 AI interviews from July 2025 to January 2026: 38.5% were flagged for cheating, 48% in technical roles against 12% in sales. | <https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/state-of-ai-interview-cheating-in-2026-insights-from-19-368-interviews> |
| 2026-01-13 | HireVue | Partnership | HireVue joins Workday Agent Partner Network: Workday customers can use the HireVue Talent Engagement Agent inside Workday through the Agent Partner Network. | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-joins-workday-ai-agent-partner-network-accelerating-the-shift-to-skills-based-hiring> |
| 2026-01-13 | DOJ IER export-control hiring | Law or ruling | Staffing firm agrees to export-control discrimination training: In resolving a discrimination charge, a Hialeah Gardens, Florida staffing company agreed to train Form I-9 staff using IER's fact sheet on U.S. export control laws. | <https://www.justice.gov/crt/ier-letters-resolutions-fy-2026> |
| 2026-01-09 | Federal AI preemption | Law or ruling | Attorney General sets up AI Litigation Task Force: The Attorney General formally established the AI Litigation Task Force by memorandum under EO 14365. As of April 2026 it did not appear to have started litigation on its own. | <https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2026/04/what-president-trumps-ai-executive-order-14365-means-for-employers/> |
| 2026-01-08 | Paradox | Product launch | Paradox Conversational ATS available through Workday: Workday made the Paradox Conversational ATS available for frontline hiring; "Conversational AI helps handle screening and scheduling directly with candidates" by chat or text. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-01-08-Paradox-Conversational-Applicant-Tracking-System-ATS-Now-Available-Through-Workday,-Helping-Organizations-Hire-Frontline-Workers-Faster> |
| 2026-01-08 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Product launch | 2026 Hiring Release adds AI follow-ups and applicant targeting: LinkedIn's 2026 Hiring Release Wave 1 began rolling out AI Follow-Ups in Recruiter, AI-Powered Applicant Targeting that builds targeting from a job description, and ATS Connected Projects, which let recruiters evaluate LinkedIn and ATS applicants together. | <https://tcommunity.linkedin.com/product-updates/2026-linkedin-hiring-release-2275> |
| 2026-01-05 | Indeed | Research | Indeed details defenses against resume prompt injection: Indeed said it added checks for "hidden or obscured text" in resumes, treats resume content "as information, not as instructions," and escalates suspicious resumes to human reviewers. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/protecting-trust-in-hiring-ai-how-indeed-detects-and-defends-against-resume-manipulation?co=US> |
| 2026-01-01 | Texas TRAIGA (HB 149) | Law or ruling | Texas TRAIGA takes effect: The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act took effect, with exclusive Attorney General enforcement and penalties from $10,000 to $200,000. | <https://natlawreview.com/article/texas-ai-governance-law-signed-governor> |
| 2026-01-01 | Illinois HB 3773 | Law or ruling | Illinois AI-in-employment law takes effect: HB 3773 (Public Act 103-0804), amending the Illinois Human Rights Act on employers' use of AI, took effect January 1, 2026. | <https://natlawreview.com/article/illinois-postpones-proposed-regulations-ai-employment> |
| 2026-01-01 | California CPPA ADMT regulations | Law or ruling | CCPA ADMT and risk-assessment rules take effect: The CPPA regulations on ADMT, risk assessments and cybersecurity audits took effect January 1, 2026; ADMT duties for significant decisions apply from January 1, 2027. | <https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/2025/20250923.html> |
| 2026-01 | Manatal | Product launch | Manatal adds AI Interviewer add-on: Manatal's pricing page added an AI Interviewer add-on with 24/7 automated video screening, a customizable AI interview builder, AI candidate assessments and interviews in six languages. | <https://pricingsaas.com/companies/manatal/diffs/2025Q4> |
| 2026-01 | Manatal | Product launch | Manatal launches MCP server and LLM integration: Manatal added an MCP server that lets users chat with live account data through ChatGPT and other LLMs, and listed ChatGPT and LLM integration on Enterprise Plus. | <https://pricingsaas.com/companies/manatal/diffs/2025Q4> |
| 2026-01 | Gusto | Product launch | Gusto launches its app inside ChatGPT: Gusto launched an app in the ChatGPT app directory. Owners can "interact with real payroll and business data using natural language," and select customers can run payroll inside ChatGPT. | <https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/01/23/gusto-launches-payroll-inside-chatgpt/176791/> |
| 2026-01 | Cezanne Recruitment | Product launch | Cezanne Recruitment upgrades AI CV scoring: Cezanne rolled out "an enhanced version of our CV scoring tool, powered by the latest AI advancements" and opened a closed beta of AI blind scoring that strips personal details from CVs. | <https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-january-2026-release-notes> |
| 2025-12-31 | Rippling | Product launch | Rippling details AI recruiting features in its ATS: Rippling described "AI-powered features like Application Review and Interview Assistant," plus AI candidate feedback summaries, AI job descriptions and smart scheduling. AI Video Screens and applicant fraud detection are marked coming soon. | <https://rippling.com/blog/meet-rippling-recruiting> |
| 2025-12-23 | Jobylon | Partnership | LinkedIn Pay-for-Performance job promotion in the ATS: Jobylon's 2025 review says it is among the first Nordic ATS partners "certified to offer LinkedIn's Pay-for-Performance job promotion experience," plus self-scheduling and new partner integrations (Hubert, The Selection Lab, Carv). | <https://www.jobylon.com/blog/2025-product-year-in-review> |
| 2025-12-22 | Willo | Research | Willo Hiring Trends Report 2026: Willo's survey found 41% of employers are moving away from CV-first hiring and nearly 80% say final hiring decisions must stay human-led. | <https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/hiring-trends-report-2026-study-finds-ai-pushing-employers-away-from-traditional> |
| 2025-12-16 | Tofu | Partnership | Gem announces Fraud Detection Agent powered by Tofu: Tofu announced it will run applicant fraud detection for Gem, an ATS and AI hiring platform. Gem's Fraud Detection Agent scores each application for fraud risk and opened a waitlist for an early 2026 launch. | <https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2025/12/16/job-applicant-fraud-is-rising-this-startup-is-using-ai-to-stop-it/> |
| 2025-12-16 | Tofu | Funding | Tofu raises $5M seed led by Slow Ventures: Tofu announced the close of a $5 million seed round led by Slow Ventures, to grow employee and customer headcount. | <https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2025/12/16/job-applicant-fraud-is-rising-this-startup-is-using-ai-to-stop-it/> |
| 2025-12-15 | New Jersey disparate impact rules | Law or ruling | New Jersey disparate-impact rules covering AI hiring tools take effect: The Division on Civil Rights rules at N.J.A.C. 13:16 took effect and identify automated decision-making tools as potential sources of disparate-impact liability. | <https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2025/12/new-jersey-codifies-existing-disparate-impact-rules> |
| 2025-12-11 | GetReal Security | Research | GetReal releases Deepfake Readiness Benchmark Report: GetReal published its Deepfake Readiness Benchmark Report on deepfake and impersonation attacks and enterprise preparedness. GetReal says 41% of the 668 IT, cybersecurity, fraud and risk leaders surveyed report their company hired and onboarded an imposter. | <https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/deepfake-readiness-benchmark-report> |
| 2025-12-11 | Federal AI preemption | Law or ruling | Trump signs EO 14365 targeting state AI laws: Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, set up a process to challenge or discourage state AI laws, including an AI Litigation Task Force and a Commerce evaluation of onerous state laws. | <https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2026/04/what-president-trumps-ai-executive-order-14365-means-for-employers/> |
| 2025-12-11 | DOJ IER export-control hiring | Law or ruling | IER resolves 'only open to U.S. citizens' charge against staffing firm: A Columbus, Ohio staffing company allegedly told a naturalized citizen the job was only open to U.S. citizens, asked for proof of status, and withdrew her offer after she showed her naturalization certificate. | <https://www.justice.gov/crt/ier-letters-resolutions-fy-2026> |
| 2025-12-10 | Symphony Talent | Product launch | Symphony Talent introduces Tala and GenAI Email Builder: Tala is an AI talent acquisition assistant; its first feature, the GenAI Email Builder in SFX CRM, writes personalized, on-brand recruitment emails trained on the organization's approved messaging. | <https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/symphony-talent-introduces-tala-and-genai-email-builder-advancing-talent-acquisition-team-efficiency/> |
| 2025-12-10 | Karat | Product launch | Karat launches NextGen human-led, AI-enabled interviews: 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. | <https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/> |
| 2025-12-10 | CodeSignal | Product launch | CodeSignal AI Interviewer adds live phone interviews in 20+ languages: The AI Interviewer now runs "Live phone interviews" in more than 20 languages with the same skills reports as web interviews. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-multilingual-ai-phone-interviews-to-scale-skills-based-screening/> |
| 2025-12-09 | Indeed | Product launch | Indeed Connect subscription with Advanced Screening: Indeed previewed Indeed Connect, a subscription available to US employers in January 2026. Its Advanced Screening starts from a hiring-intent description, gives each candidate a fit score with an explanation, handles early outreach and delivers summaries inside connected ATSs. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/an-early-look-at-indeed-connect-our-new-subscription-designed-to-streamline-hiring?co=US> |
| 2025-12-09 | Gem | Product launch | AI Rediscovery, AI Talent Insights and Ideal Profiles join Gem's agents: Gem added AI Rediscovery to its AI Sourcing Agent to surface past ATS and CRM candidates, plus AI Talent Insights for talent-pool analysis, Ideal Profiles and AI Funding Insights. The AI Application Review Agent gained AI-suggested screening criteria, bias warnings and annual third-party bias audits. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/updates-to-gems-ai-agents-ai-rediscovery-ai-talent-insights-and-more> |
| 2025-12-08 | Paychex | Product launch | Paychex rolls out agentic AI for payroll and GenAI platforms: Paychex said it "deployed agentic AI technology to process thousands of client payrolls via voice and email channels", described a patent-pending AI knowledge mesh, and launched a GenAI employment law and compliance platform and a GenAI agent for its sales and service teams. | <https://paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-unveils-workforce-management-ai-solutions> |
| 2025-12-05 | Avature | Partnership | Avature becomes AI platform partner to the BWT Alpine F1 team: Avature, "an AI-powered platform for strategic recruiting and talent management", signed a team partnership with the BWT Alpine Formula One Team ahead of 2026. | <https://www.avature.net/press-release/bwt-alpine-formula-one-team-avature-partnership/> |
| 2025-12-04 | Findem | Acquisition | Findem acquires Getro and launches the Intelligent Job Post: Findem bought Getro, which runs job networks for 800+ VC, PE and professional organizations, and launched Intelligent Job Posts that turn a posting into an autonomous agent that sources, engages and qualifies candidates, with outcome-based pricing. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-acquires-getro-and-launches-the-first-intelligent-job-post> |
| 2025-12-03 | Orgvue | Product launch | Orgvue unveils the Henshaw AI suite: Orgvue launched Henshaw AI in early access: Henshaw Roles groups similar positions into roles, role clusters and job families, and Henshaw Assistant answers plain-language questions about org data. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orgvue-unveils-henshaw-suite-of-ai-platform-capabilities-302630472.html> |
| 2025-12-02 | NYC Local Law 144 | Law or ruling | State Comptroller audit finds weak DCWP enforcement of AEDT law: Audit 2024-N-6 found DCWP reviewed 32 companies and found one issue of non-compliance, while auditors found at least 17 potential issues. DCWP received only two AEDT complaints from July 2023 to June 2025. | <https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2025/12/02/enforcement-local-law-144-automated-employment-decision-tools> |
| 2025-12-02 | LizzyAI | Funding | LizzyAI raises $5M seed led by NEA: LizzyAI raised a $5 million seed round led by NEA with Speedinvest and Zero Prime Ventures to grow engineering, go-to-market and integrations for its conversational AI interviewer. | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/bizwire-2025-12-2-lizzyai-raises-5m-seed-round-led-by-nea-to-redefine-the-interview-in-the-500b-recruiting-market> |
| 2025-12-01 | Peoplebox.ai | Product launch | Peoplebox launches Nova AI interviewer: Peoplebox.ai launched Nova, billed as the "world's most human-like AI Interviewer". Nova screens resumes, runs pre-screening calls and first-round voice and video interviews with real-time scoring, and delivers structured candidate reports. | <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc> |
| 2025-11-20 | TechWolf | Research | TechWolf adds Skills Intelligence Index: TechWolf introduced a Skills Intelligence Index that shows "which specific capabilities are in demand" and how AI affects each skill, drawn from an ontology of over 35,000 skills. | <https://www.techwolf.ai/resources/blog/the-vision-for-a-skill-first-world-introducing-the-techwolf-skill-intelligence-index> |
| 2025-11-20 | Humanly | Product launch | Humanly updates its conversational AI platform: Humanly released an updated platform with chat qualification, automated phone screens and AI video interviews, trained on five years of interview data. | <https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/humanly-launches-updated-conversational-ai-platform-to-accelerate-high-volume-enterprise-hiring/> |
| 2025-11-20 | Braintrust AIR | Partnership | Yavapai College starts screening applicants with Braintrust AIR: Yavapai College HR began using Braintrust AIR in November to run first-pass interviews for all first-screen applicants, with scorecards and recordings for hiring managers. | <https://www.yc.edu/v6/news/2025/11/hire.html> |
| 2025-11-19 | Pindrop | Product launch | Pindrop Pulse for Meetings available on Zoom, Webex and Teams: Pindrop made Pulse for Meetings generally available across Zoom, Webex Meetings and Microsoft Teams, naming "Deepfake candidates in virtual interviews" as a core threat. | <https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-available-across-conferencing-platforms/> |
| 2025-11-19 | EU AI Act | Law or ruling | Commission proposes Digital Omnibus on AI: The European Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus on AI, which would defer high-risk obligations under the AI Act. | <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/package-digital-package/file-digital-omnibus-on-ai> |
| 2025-11-18 | Crelate | Product launch | Crelate adds Insights Agent: Crelate's second agent analyzes recruiter activity and data, refreshes contact, company and candidate records, combines internal and outside sources, and proactively suggests "Ideas" in an Agent Dashboard. | <https://www.crelate.com/blog/crelate-launches-insights-agent-living-platform> |
| 2025-11-18 | Beamery | Research | Beamery research on C-suite task automation: Beamery research found nearly all C-suite executives say they are automating tasks, but 49% struggle to choose the right tasks to automate. | <https://beamery.com/resources/news/49-of-c-suite-executives-struggle-with-choosing-the-right-tasks-to-automate-new-beamery-research-finds> |
| 2025-11-17 | SHL | Research | SHL research finds AI trust gap with AI-agent interviews: SHL survey: 74% of US workers said an AI-agent interview would change their view of a company, and only 27% fully trust employers to use AI responsibly. | <https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/press-releases/new-research-from-shl-reveals-a-major-ai-trust-gap-in-the-workforce/> |
| 2025-11-13 | Visier | Product launch | Visier launches an MCP server for AI agents: Visier launched an MCP server that "acts as a universal connector for AI agents to discover and invoke governed people functions," listed in Anthropic's connectors directory. It is bundled with the Vee agent at no additional license cost. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-launches-mcp-for-ai-agents/> |
| 2025-11-13 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches Smart Price agentic job pricing and Compass: Payscale launched Smart Price, whose "agentic AI walks users through four simple steps" of job pricing on its Payscale Verse data, and Compass, an executive scorecard for pay strategy. | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-smart-price-and-compass> |
| 2025-11-13 | Lever | Product launch | Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever: The AI Screening Companion "continuously matches candidates to open roles", flags top candidates at risk of dropping off and sends feedback to rejected candidates. It launches first for Lever customers. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-introduces-ai-screening-companion-to-help-recruiters-identify-best-fit-talent-faster-fairer-and-with-greater-transparency/> |
| 2025-11-13 | JobAdder | Product launch | JobAdder launches Adder Intelligence with Smart Summary and Smart Sync: JobAdder released Adder Intelligence: Smart Summary generates candidate overviews and job relevance assessments, and Smart Sync flags missing or inconsistent record data from notes and activities. Press coverage of the launch followed on 5 December 2025. | <https://jobadder.com/resources/platform-updates> |
| 2025-11-13 | BrightHire | Acquisition | Zoom acquires BrightHire: Zoom announced the acquisition of BrightHire, "a leading AI-powered hiring intelligence platform", to add hiring capabilities to Zoom Workplace. The deal closed in December 2025; the announcement did not disclose terms. | <https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/> |
| 2025-11-11 | hireEZ | Product launch | hireEZ launches ResumeSense to catch AI-tampered resumes: ResumeSense adds an integrity layer to Applicant Match that flags resumes with hidden text, prompt injections or unusual match patterns. hireEZ said internal tests found 3% to 5% of resumes had hidden or misleading content. | <https://hireez.com/newsroom/hireez-launches-resumesense/> |
| 2025-11-11 | Teamtailor | Product launch | Ask Co-pilot answers questions about candidates: Teamtailor added Ask Co-pilot, a chat on each candidate profile that searches the resume, meeting transcriptions, answers and messages to answer recruiter questions, within each user's access rights. | <https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/ask-co-pilot/> |
| 2025-11-11 | Phenom | Product launch | Phenom launches Voice Screening Agent: "Phenom's Voice Screening Agent is available 24/7, connecting with candidates the moment they apply." | <https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-conversational-voice-screening-agent-hiring> |
| 2025-11-06 | Glider AI | Partnership | Glider AI and Findem partner: Glider AI and Findem combined Findem's verified talent data with Glider's skills validation, with rollout to select enterprise customers in Q4 2025. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/glider-ai-findem-partnership> |
| 2025-11-06 | ChartHop | Product launch | Ask ChartHop expands to all five modules: ChartHop made Ask ChartHop, its conversational AI assistant, available across HRIS, headcount planning, performance, engagement and compensation, with Access Guard limiting answers to what each user may see. | <https://www.charthop.com/resource/announcing-ask-charthop-ai-now-available-across-all-five-modules> |
| 2025-11-05 | EEOC | Law or ruling | Andrea Lucas named EEOC chair: President Trump named then-acting chair Andrea Lucas as chair of the EEOC. | <https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/12/back-in-business-eeocs-restored-quorum-explained> |
| 2025-11-04 | Workday | Acquisition | Workday closes Sana deal: Workday completed its acquisition of Sana, an AI company building enterprise knowledge tools, to make Workday the new front door for work. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-11-04-Workday-Completes-Acquisition-of-Sana> |
| 2025-11-04 | UKG | Product launch | UKG launches Rapid Hire, built on Chattr: UKG launched Rapid Hire, built on its acquisition of frontline hiring startup Chattr: a chat-style, no-account apply flow that automates posting, follow-up, interview scheduling and onboarding paperwork. | <https://markets.financialcontent.com/pennwell.oilgasjournal/article/bizwire-2025-11-4-ukg-transforms-real-time-labor-and-staffing-strategies-by-launching-rapid-hire-and-dynamic-labor-management> |
| 2025-11-04 | Employment Hero | Product launch | Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews: The Recruitment Agent "automates first-round, structured video interviews" and is "an AI-driven feature fully integrated into the Employment Hero platform that manages the entire first-round interview process." | <https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/> |
| 2025-11-04 | Dover | Product launch | Free AI applicant scoring in Dover ATS: Dover's October 2025 update added "AI-powered applicant scoring": users set per-job criteria, add an OpenAI API key, and applicants are ranked. "Best part? It's totally free." | <https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-october-2025> |
| 2025-11 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho Recruit launches AI Interview Insights: AI Interview Insights produces transcripts and AI-generated summaries for one-way video interviews. | <https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html> |
| 2025-11 | UKG | Product launch | Aspire 2025: agentic apps for the frontline: UKG unveiled its agentic application strategy at Aspire 2025: the Workforce Intelligence Hub command center, an onboarding agent that guides new hires, agents that watch payroll for tax and withholding problems, and a Policy Q&A Assistant. More agentic apps are due through 2026. | <https://www.gflalliance.org/news/2025/11/07/member-news/ukg-showcases-the-future-of-frontline-work-powered-by-agentic-applications/> |
| 2025-10-30 | Ceipal | Partnership | Ceipal adds Ember healthcare staffing AI to Ceipal Healthcare: Ceipal's Ember integration "embeds advanced Healthcare Staffing AI directly into the platform" to enrich candidate data and surface ready-to-submit clinician matches. | <https://www.ceipal.com/resources/ceipal-announces-healthcare-enhacements> |
| 2025-10-27 | Syndio | Product launch | Syndio launches Syndi, AI pay recommendations inside Teams, Slack and the ATS: Syndio launched Syndi, which "delivers AI-guided pay recommendations embedded where teams work"; the first release covers new-hire offers, with promotions, merit cycles and workforce planning to follow. | <https://synd.io/press-release/syndio-launches-syndi/> |
| 2025-10-27 | Culture Amp | Product launch | Culture Amp expands AI Coach across Engage and Perform: AI Coach in Engage became available to all Engage customers and 'Cuts survey analysis time from days to minutes'; early access to AI Coach in Perform opened. | <https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/ai-coach-new-leadership-era> |
| 2025-10-21 | Lever | Product launch | Lever gets a Talent Fit Dashboard and onboarding: Employ added the Talent Fit Dashboard in Lever to show how AI matching affects hiring metrics, onboarding in Lever, and an AI Interview Assistant that "delivers live insights with agentic AI". | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/responsible-ai-that-delivers-employ-sets-new-standard-for-trustworthy-transparent-hiring/> |
| 2025-10-21 | Jobvite | Product launch | ROI dashboards arrive in Jobvite: Employ's fall release put ROI Dashboards "Now in Jobvite" to benchmark against other companies by industry, size and region and track time-to-fill, cost per hire and source effectiveness, with AI recommendations for where and how to improve. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/responsible-ai-that-delivers-employ-sets-new-standard-for-trustworthy-transparent-hiring/> |
| 2025-10-21 | Findem | Funding | Findem raises $51M Series C: Findem raised $51M in new funding: a Series C led by SLW plus growth financing from J.P. Morgan, bringing total funding to $105M. | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-series-c-funding> |
| 2025-10-20 | iCIMS | Product launch | iCIMS Fall Release leads with an AI Sourcing Agent: The early-access AI Sourcing Agent lets recruiters "activate intelligent sourcing workflows that find, match and engage top talent" inside iCIMS CXM, "the first in iCIMS' intelligent network of agents". | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/fallrelease2025/> |
| 2025-10-16 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho adds free agentic matching tools to Zoho Recruit: Zoho said Recruit "now has agentic AI features to match the right candidate to the right role," with Zia-powered Candidate Matches and Job Matches and AI-assisted assessment generation, at no extra cost on paid plans. | <https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html> |
| 2025-10-16 | Personio | Product launch | Personio AI Assistant reaches all employees at HUG 2025: 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. | <https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/hug-2025-feature-updates/> |
| 2025-10-16 | Jack & Jill | Funding | Jack & Jill raises $20M seed for its two hiring agents: Creandum led a $20M seed. Jack gives candidates a 20-minute AI profile interview and a list of roles; Jill builds a role profile for employers and surfaces matching candidates. TechCrunch said it then took a commission on each hire. | <https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/> |
| 2025-10-16 | Deel | Funding | Deel raises $300M at $17.3B: Deel raised $300 million in a Series E at a $17.3 billion valuation, co-led by Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. | <https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/deel-hits-17-3b-valuation-after-raising-300m-from-big-name-vcs/> |
| 2025-10-15 | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM | Product launch | Oracle Career Coach brings agents to recruiting: Oracle announced Career Coach in Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting: agentic job matching, 24/7 conversational help including qualification screenings and mock interviews, and one-click interview scheduling. | <https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-helps-organizations-optimize-the-candidate-and-hiring-experience-with-agentic-ai-2025-10-15/> |
| 2025-10-15 | Fabric | Funding | Fabric raises $110K angel round: Fabric said it "has raised $110,000 in angel funding from founders and operators across the technology and talent industry" to automate first-round interviews. | <https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/fabric-raises-110k-angel-round-to-automate-first-round-interviews> |
| 2025-10-14 | Humanly | Acquisition | Humanly acquires Sprockets, Qualifi and HourWork: Humanly bought Sprockets (frontline hiring platform), Qualifi (automated phone and voice screening) and HourWork (post-hire retention for hourly workers). Terms were not disclosed. | <https://hypepotamus.com/startup-news/humanly-acquires-sprockets-qualifi-hourwork-ai-hiring-platform/> |
| 2025-10-14 | Harri | Product launch | Harri makes Salli generally available: Harri made Salli, its AI hospitality operations partner, generally available, running scheduling, coverage and answers through one conversation. | <https://harri.ai/newsroom/meet-salli-your-ai-hospitality-ops-partner-now-generally-available/> |
| 2025-10-13 | Fountain | Product launch | Fountain shows 12-product agent-first frontline suite at HR Tech 2025: At HR Tech 2025 Fountain said it now offers 12 products across the frontline workforce lifecycle, including shift and attendance with AI-powered scheduling, internal communications, referrals and compliance management, plus agents that set up implementations, configure workflows, analyze data and iterate on workflows toward business goals. | <https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-unveils-agentic-first-frontline-operating-system-with-12-product-suite-at-hr-tech-2025> |
| 2025-10-13 | California SB 7 (No Robo Bosses Act) | Law or ruling | Newsom vetoes No Robo Bosses Act: Governor Newsom vetoed SB 7, which would have required notice before using automated decision systems and barred sole reliance on them for discipline or termination. He called the bill's rules unfocused. | <https://ktslaw.com/insights/alert/2025/10/california-governor-vetoes-the-no-robo-bosses-act> |
| 2025-10-08 | Nakisa | Product launch | Nakisa launches its agentic Decision Intelligence platform: Nakisa launched Nakisa Decision Intelligence (NDI), which combines internal and external data, runs scenarios and projections, and takes plain-language questions by text or voice, with recommendations that Nakisa AI agents can carry out. Nakisa said "all Nakisa products will be powered by NDI." | <https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-launches-agentic-decision-intelligence-platform/> |
| 2025-10-08 | HireVue | Product launch | HireVue launches Interview Insights: Interview Insights flags interview moments that show job-related skills, with AI transcripts, real-time summaries and interviewer metrics. | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-announces-interview-insights-expanding-its-innovation-in-skill-validation> |
| 2025-10-08 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold AI Interviewer made available to firms of all sizes: Eightfold made AI Interviewer "available to both SMBs and large enterprises starting today"; it "conducts thousands of structured interviews in parallel" and gives hiring teams transcripts and summaries. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-ai-interviewer-to-deliver-faster-and-more-equitable-hiring/> |
| 2025-10-08 | Draup | Partnership | Draup brings its datasets to Databricks Marketplace: Draup made "28 curated datasets covering 1M companies and 850M professionals" available through Delta Sharing on the Databricks Marketplace. | <https://techrseries.com/talent-management/draup-brings-talent-and-market-intelligence-to-databricks-marketplace/> |
| 2025-10-08 | BambooHR | Product launch | BambooHR Connect 2025 adds AI insights and feedback summaries: At Connect 2025, BambooHR showed "Ask BambooHR" with embedded AI for trend insights and HR answers, AI-generated feedback summaries, candidate self-scheduling and LinkedIn Paid Job Ads. | <https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/connect-2025-showcase> |
| 2025-10-07 | SAP SuccessFactors | Product launch | First HR Joule Agents announced: SAP said the Performance and Goals Agent would reach GA next month and announced four more Joule Agents for the first half of 2026, including a People Intelligence Agent for natural-language workforce analytics. | <https://news.sap.com/?p=237189> |
| 2025-10-07 | EEOC | Law or ruling | Senate confirms Panuccio, restoring EEOC quorum: The Senate confirmed Brittany Panuccio as the third EEOC commissioner, giving the agency a quorum for the first time since January 2025. | <https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/12/back-in-business-eeocs-restored-quorum-explained> |
| 2025-10-07 | Dayforce | Product launch | Next generation of Dayforce AI Agents: Dayforce announced AI agents for people analytics, content authoring, pay and time. Content authoring agents, which help draft goals, policies and job descriptions, reach most full-suite customers in Q4 2025; the people analytics agent follows in 2026. | <https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-new-dayforce-ai-agents-to-accelerate-how-work-gets-done> |
| 2025-10-06 | Warden AI | Partnership | Warden AI partners with Stakkd HR tech marketplace: Vendors that are Warden Assured show a badge on Stakkd, an HR and AI technology marketplace with more than 320 vendors. | <https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/warden-ai-partners-with-stakkd-to-help-enterprises-spot-trustworthy-ai> |
| 2025-10-06 | SAP SuccessFactors | Product launch | SmartRecruiters to replace SuccessFactors Recruiting: SuccessFactors president Daniel Beck said SmartRecruiters will replace the SuccessFactors recruiting module, with a 3 to 5 year migration window. | <https://www.cio.com/article/4068172/sap-sets-timeline-to-replace-successfactors-recruiting-module-with-smartrecruiters.html> |
| 2025-10-06 | HireRight | Acquisition | HireRight acquires BGC Brasil: HireRight acquired BGC Brasil, a Brazilian background screening provider with direct access to more than 200 research sources, to expand in Latin America. | <https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/hireright-acquires-bgc-brasil-expanding-services-in-latin-americas-largest> |
| 2025-10-01 | Workday | Acquisition | Workday closes Paradox deal: Workday completed the Paradox acquisition; the Paradox agent offers instant responses, self-scheduling and 24/7 support for high-volume roles and is on sale now. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-10-01-Workday-Completes-Acquisition-of-Paradox> |
| 2025-10-01 | Paradox | Acquisition | Workday completes Paradox acquisition: Workday completed the acquisition; the Paradox candidate experience agent is sold to new and existing customers through Workday or Paradox. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-10-01-Workday-Completes-Acquisition-of-Paradox> |
| 2025-10-01 | Lightcast | Acquisition | Lightcast acquires Simply: Lightcast acquired Simply, "a UK-based workforce analytics provider" that helps enterprises identify skills gaps and design career pathways; the team joins Skill Collective. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-simply> |
| 2025-10-01 | California Civil Rights Council ADS regulations | Law or ruling | California FEHA rules on automated-decision systems take effect: The Civil Rights Council's employment regulations on automated decision systems took effect, covering AI, algorithms and other data processing used in hiring, recruitment and promotion. | <https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/08/california-adopts-new-employment-ai-regulations-effective-october-1-2025> |
| 2025-10 | Talview | Product launch | Talview adds AI summaries to Ivy interviews: October 2025 release notes add Ivy playback with scores, an Ivy Summary View with AI-generated summaries, and AI conversation summaries in the Ivy Report. | <https://docs.talview.com/releasenotes/q4-2025/release-notes-oct-2025> |
| 2025-10 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Product launch | Recruiter adds AI follow-ups and prescreening Q&A settings: LinkedIn's October 2025 product update added AI-assisted follow-ups drafted from each candidate's profile and past InMails, AI-assisted search profile highlighting, and settings that let Hiring Assistant answer approved candidate questions during prescreening. | <https://business.linkedin.com/hire/product-update/archival/product-update-q2-2026> |
| 2025-10 | HackerRank | Product launch | AI-assisted IDE comes to HackerRank tests, plus a lockdown desktop app: October 2025 release notes add an AI-assisted IDE in Tests, a Desktop App that locks the screen and flags anomalies, auto-scored code reviews and Scorecard Assist summaries. | <https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8474307750-october-2025-release-notes> |
| 2025-10 | BrightHire | Product launch | BrightHire Screen AI interviewer launches: BrightHire launched Screen, an AI interviewer for first-round screening, which it says set out to prove AI interviews could expand recruiting capacity and raise hiring quality. | <https://brighthire.com/?p=13594> |
| 2025-09-30 | SourceWhale | Product launch | SourceWhale relaunches as a modular recruitment productivity platform: SourceWhale presented outreach, conversations with "real-time transcriptions and AI summaries," an Inbox Agent with "AI-drafted replies, automated follow-ups," and a Notetaker as modules agencies can buy separately. It claimed "8+ hours a week saved per recruiter." | <https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/discover-the-new-sourcewhale-the-recruitment-productivity-platform/> |
| 2025-09-29 | Alex | Funding | Alex raises $17M Series A led by Peak XV: Alex announced $20M in total funding: a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners and a $3M seed led by 1984 Ventures. It calls itself "an AI recruiting partner that automates recruiter busywork." | <https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alex-secures-20m-revolutionize-ai-190000937.html> |
| 2025-09-26 | Team Engine | Product launch | Team Engine launches Onboarding with AI I-9 collection by text: Team Engine Onboarding collects I-9 Section 1 by text with an AI assistant that "verifies addresses, catches common errors", plus W-4s, offer letters with e-signature and Checkr background and MVR checks. | <https://www.teamengine.io/blog/onboarding> |
| 2025-09-26 | Reality Defender | Research | Reality Defender demos catching a deepfake job candidate on Zoom: Reality Defender staged a Zoom job interview with a deepfake candidate that its in-meeting scan flagged as manipulated in seconds, with post-meeting reports for HR and security teams. | <https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/inside-our-live-demo-catching-deepfake-job-candidates-on-zoom> |
| 2025-09-25 | Juicebox | Funding | Juicebox raises $30M Series A led by Sequoia: Juicebox announced $36M in total funding, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia. TechCrunch reported more than 2,500 customers and over $10M in annual recurring revenue. | <https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/juicebox-raises-30m-from-sequoia-to-revolutionize-hiring-with-llm-powered-search> |
| 2025-09-25 | Ashby | Product launch | AI Notetaker in public beta: "AI Notetaker will automatically record, transcribe, and summarize your interviews," with drafts that cite source content and candidate consent at scheduling. | <https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/ai-notetaker> |
| 2025-09-23 | Dice | Product launch | Dice launches new Employer Experience with AI tools: Dice unveiled a recruiter-first employer platform with an "AI Boolean enhancer", "automated talent alerts that work continuously in the background", AI-powered job description optimization and application management that prioritizes the most relevant candidates. | <https://www.placera.se/pressmeddelanden/dhi-group-dice-unveils-new-employer-experience-with-ai-powered-tools-and-streamlined-workflows-20250923> |
| 2025-09-23 | California CPPA ADMT regulations | Law or ruling | California approves CCPA rules on automated decisionmaking technology: The CPPA announced approval of regulations on ADMT, risk assessments and cybersecurity audits, effective January 1, 2026. Businesses using ADMT for significant decisions must comply from January 1, 2027. | <https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/2025/20250923.html> |
| 2025-09-22 | TalentNeuron | Partnership | Roland Berger selects TalentNeuron for workforce intelligence: Roland Berger integrates TalentNeuron's real-time workforce data into its consulting work for clients. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/roland-berger-selects-talentneuron-to-deliver-workforce-intelligence-for-clients-navigating-the-future-of-work-302562446.html> |
| 2025-09-18 | Visier | Product launch | Visier adds AI-powered Org Design to its workforce planning suite: Visier launched Org Design at HR Tech 2025 as part of its Strategic Workforce Planning suite, an "AI-powered solution designed for any scale of org transformation" with GenAI narrating the impact of proposed changes. | <https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-expands-strategic-workforce-planning-suite-with-ai-powered-org-design/> |
| 2025-09-18 | Pindrop | Product launch | Pindrop Pulse app for Zoom Meetings goes live: Pindrop Pulse for Meetings became generally available in Zoom's App Marketplace with deepfake detection, background voice authentication and country checks; Pindrop pitched it against interview fraud and to confirm the same candidate across rounds. | <https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-app-zoom-meetings-defend-ai-deepfakes/> |
| 2025-09-16 | Workday | Acquisition | Workday agrees to buy Sana for about $1.1B: Workday agreed to acquire Sana, maker of Sana Agents and Sana Learn, to become the new front door for work. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-09-16-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Sana> |
| 2025-09-16 | Remote | Product launch | Remote launches AI-native Surveys: Remote Surveys is "an AI-powered way for companies to collect, analyze, and act on employee feedback." | <https://remote.com/blog/remote-introduces-new-ai-native-surveys-to-transform-employee-feedback-into-real-time-workforce-insights> |
| 2025-09-16 | Perceptyx | Product launch | Perceptyx debuts AI agent suite and reworks Discover: Perceptyx launched an Employee Activation Agent, a Conversational Listening Agent and a Narrative Analysis Agent that 'Uncovers key insights from rich, nuanced conversational and other unstructured data', and reworked its listening and analytics product as Discover. | <https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/perceptyx-debuts-ai-agent-suite-and-reimagined-platform-to-transform-employee-experience/> |
| 2025-09-16 | Payscale | Acquisition | Payscale acquires Datapeople: Payscale acquired Datapeople, "an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps hiring teams create clearer, more effective, and more compliant job postings", to link pay benchmarking with published job postings. Terms not disclosed. | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-acquires-datapeople> |
| 2025-09-16 | Datapeople | Acquisition | Payscale acquires Datapeople: Payscale bought the AI-powered recruiting platform Datapeople to connect pay benchmarks, salary ranges and job profiles with published job postings. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-acquires-datapeople> |
| 2025-09-16 | Ashby | Product launch | Fraudulent candidate detection: Applicants are "automatically run through multiple fraud checks" on device, IP, email and phone signals, and reviewers see "An AI summary of the fraud signals detected." | <https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/introducing-fraudulent-candidate-detection-and-management-to-help-you-focus-on-legitimate-candidates> |
| 2025-09-15 | HireRight | Research | HireRight report flags identity fraud gaps in hiring: Findings from the 2025 Global Benchmark Report: only three in five respondents run identity checks, one in six had seen identity fraud in hiring, and generative AI makes it easier for candidates to misrepresent themselves. | <https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/identity-fraud-and-candidate-discrepancies-remain-key-concerns-for-employers> |
| 2025-09-15 | Harri | Product launch | Harri opens beta of Agentic AI with Salli assistant: Harri opened its Agentic AI intelligence layer to all hospitality operators, used through Salli, a digital assistant that builds compliant schedules, flags missed breaks and gives real-time guidance. The release does not describe hiring use. | <https://www.restaurantdive.com/press-release/20250912-harri-launches-open-beta-of-agentic-ai-the-hospitality-first-intelligence-1/> |
| 2025-09-15 | Darwinbox | Product launch | Darwinbox launches Super Agent: Darwinbox announced Super Agent, "an AI teammate that gives every employee one interface to get work done across enterprise systems". A manager can ask it to backfill a role and it creates the requisition and notifies approvers; customers choose from "30+ HR agents", and external agents connect through Darwinbox's MCP server. Open to design partner customers at launch. | <https://www.hrdive.com/press-release/20250915-darwinbox-launches-super-agent-an-ai-teammate-for-every-employee-that-gets-1/> |
| 2025-09-12 | iCIMS | Acquisition | iCIMS acquires Apli for frontline hiring AI: iCIMS bought Apli, "a fast-growing, AI-powered recruitment automation innovator focused on the frontline hiring experience", whose chat screening over text, WhatsApp and web becomes iCIMS Frontline AI. Terms not disclosed. | <https://www.roi-nj.com/2025/09/12/tech/icims-acquires-apli-strengthening-ai-market-leadership/> |
| 2025-09-12 | Talkpush | Product launch | Talkpush adds Best Match ranking for high-volume hiring: Talkpush released a Best Match sort that ranks candidates by job requirements without a resume or long-form assessment. | <https://www.talkpush.com/whats-new> |
| 2025-09-11 | isolved | Partnership | isolved pilots Indeed Talent Scout in its ATS: isolved said it is "one of only two hand-selected partners worldwide" to integrate Indeed Talent Scout, "an intelligent conversational AI agent that acts like a recruiter by your side", inside isolved Applicant Tracking and People Cloud. | <https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/isolved-chosen-pilot-indeed-ai-talent-scout> |
| 2025-09-11 | TechWolf | Research | TechWolf publishes the Workforce Intelligence Index: TechWolf's Workforce Intelligence Index, built from more than two billion job postings from 1,500 public companies between 2015 and 2025, found only 18 percent of tasks are fully automatable by AI and argued for reskilling over layoffs. | <https://www.techwolf.ai/press/ai-wont-take-all-our-jobs-only-18-of-tasks-are-fully-automatable-according-to-landmark-techwolf-study-of-1-500-enterprises> |
| 2025-09-11 | SmartRecruiters | Acquisition | SAP completes SmartRecruiters acquisition: SAP closed the acquisition and said SmartRecruiters will be integrated into SAP SuccessFactors while customers can keep using it with SAP or other HCM providers. More than 4,000 organizations use it. | <https://news.sap.com/2025/09/sap-completes-smartrecruiters-acquisition/> |
| 2025-09-11 | SAP SuccessFactors | Acquisition | SAP closes SmartRecruiters deal: SAP completed the acquisition of SmartRecruiters, the Recruiting AI Company, which will integrate with SuccessFactors and stay available standalone. | <https://news.sap.com/2025/09/sap-completes-smartrecruiters-acquisition/> |
| 2025-09-10 | Talentium | Partnership | Talentium lists its AI recruitment platform on Google Cloud Marketplace: Talentium made its AI recruitment platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace after completing the Google Cloud ISV Startup Springboard program. | <https://www.talentium.io/journal/talentium-launches-ai-powered-recruitment-solution-on-google-cloud-marketplace> |
| 2025-09-10 | Indeed | Product launch | Indeed launches Talent Scout and Career Scout agents: Indeed introduced Talent Scout, "an intelligent, conversational agent" for employers that works in Indeed and ATS platforms, and Career Scout for job seekers, alongside Premium Sponsored Jobs and the Indeed Connect subscription. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-introduces-new-suite-of-hiring-products-career-scout-talent-scout-premium-sponsored-jobs-and-indeed-connect?co=US> |
| 2025-09-09 | Radancy | Acquisition | Radancy acquires myInterview: Radancy bought AI interviewing company myInterview, which has over 170 customers, adding conversational agents that screen, schedule, assess and onboard candidates by text, voice or video. | <https://www.radancy.com/press-coverage/radancy-extends-ai-platform-powering-faster-smarter-more-cost-efficient-hiring-at-scale/> |
| 2025-09-09 | Gloat | Rebrand | Gloat rebrands around the Exponential Workforce with Signal, Mosaic and Ascend: Gloat refreshed its brand and positioned a Work Orchestration Platform of Signal, Mosaic and Ascend on its Multi-Ontology Workforce Graph. | <https://gloat.com/newsrooms/gloat-unveils-the-exponential-workforce-to-bridge-the-ai-productivity-gap/> |
| 2025-09-09 | Aura | Product launch | Aura launches an official Claude MCP connector: Claude Team, Enterprise and Max users can "tap directly into Aura's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server" for workforce benchmarks; the connector is "now listed in Anthropic's official connector directory," with a $100/month self-serve plan. | <https://blog.getaura.ai/aura-launches-official-claude-mcp-connector> |
| 2025-09-04 | iMocha | Partnership | iMocha Skills Intelligence listed on SAP Store: iMocha's Skills Intelligence for Talent Management became available on the SAP Store. | <https://www.imocha.io/press-releases/imocha-skills-intelligence-for-talent-management-on-sap-store> |
| 2025-09-04 | Lightcast | Acquisition | Lightcast acquires Skill Collective: Lightcast acquired Skill Collective, a UK skills strategy and workforce transformation consultancy, which now operates as "Skill Collective - a Lightcast Company." Terms were not disclosed. | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-skill-collective-to-advance-skill-based-transformation-for-glo> |
| 2025-09-03 | LinkedIn Talent Solutions | Product launch | Hiring Assistant goes global in English: LinkedIn said Hiring Assistant, "LinkedIn's first AI agent for recruiters," would be globally available in English by the end of September 2025. Early adopters reviewed 62% fewer profiles and saw a 69% improvement in InMail acceptance. | <https://news.linkedin.com/2025/hiring-assistant-globally-available> |
| 2025-09-03 | ADP | Product launch | ADP Assist adds AI analytics and anomaly detection: At Innovation Day 2025 ADP added payroll anomaly detection, conversational analytics, workforce trend insights and AI compliance monitoring to Workforce Now, Global Payroll and Lyric HCM. | <https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025> |
| 2025-09-02 | Loxo | Product launch | Loxo launches Natural Language Search: Loxo announced Natural Language Search, "an AI sourcing tool" that lets recruiters find candidates in plain language instead of Boolean strings, across their own CRM and Loxo Source's people database. The CEO said its roadmap is "packed with innovative AI Agents." | <https://staffinghub.com/?p=14875> |
| 2025-09 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho Recruit moves AI assessments onto its own Zia LLM: Zoho Recruit introduced AI-powered assessment generation running on Zoho's native LLM, Zia, by default. | <https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html> |
| 2025-09 | EEOC | Law or ruling | EEOC orders closure of disparate-impact-only charges: An internal EEOC memo directed staff to administratively close all pending charges based solely on disparate impact by September 30, 2025 and to issue right-to-sue letters by October 31, 2025. | <https://www.franczek.com/blog/eeoc-to-close-all-pending-disparate-impact-investigations-by-september-30-2025/> |
| 2025-08-28 | Recruitics | Acquisition | Recruitics acquires Change State: Recruitics bought recruitment marketing agency and HR technology consultancy Change State, adding its Voice candidate survey tool and clients. | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/843603677/recruitics-announces-acquisition-of-change-state-llc-to-expand-talent-solutions-platform> |
| 2025-08-28 | Laborup | Funding | Laborup raises seed round led by NVP, bringing total to $7.7M: Laborup said it has raised $7.7M in total, with its latest seed round led by NVP, for an agentic, voice-first AI that sources, interviews and verifies machinists, welders and technicians. Customers quoted include Colortech and MSC Industrial Supply. | <https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariashunina/2025/08/28/how-ai-is-solving-americas-1-trillion-manufacturing-labor-crisis/> |
| 2025-08-28 | Colorado AI Act | Law or ruling | Colorado delays AI Act to June 30, 2026: SB25B-004 from the 2025 extraordinary session was signed, moving the effective date of SB 24-205's requirements to June 30, 2026. | <https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25b-004> |
| 2025-08-26 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai launches Skills Intelligence API: Sapia.ai launched a Skills Intelligence API that embeds its chat-based structured interviews and explainable scoring in other HR systems such as ATSs, CRMs and job boards. | <https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/sapiaai-launches-skills-intelligence-api-embedding-science-backed-hiring-intelligence-into-every-hr-system/> |
| 2025-08-26 | Revelio Labs | Research | Revelio Labs introduces Revelio Public Labor Statistics: Revelio Labs introduced RPLS, "a set of monthly labor market indicators" built from public professional profiles and job postings, released the day before the BLS jobs and JOLTS reports. | <https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/macro/introducing-revelio-public-labor-statistics-rpls> |
| 2025-08-26 | Fountain | Product launch | Fountain launches Frontline OS with Copilot: Fountain launched Frontline OS, an AI-native system for hiring, onboarding and workforce management. Fountain Copilot, powered in part by Anthropic's Claude models, takes plain-language prompts and runs Fountain agents to post jobs, screen and hire, fill shifts and run compliance reports. | <https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/onboarding/fountain-launches-frontline-os-to-cut-new-hire-screening-time-of-frontline-workers-by-up-to-98-and-boost-retention-by-50-through-agentic-ai/> |
| 2025-08-25 | Jobylon | Product launch | Agency Portal for agency hiring: Jobylon launched the Agency Portal, "a central place in Jobylon where in-house recruitment teams can manage every part of agency hiring," with duplicate candidates flagged automatically. Not an AI feature. | <https://www.jobylon.com/blog/agency-portal> |
| 2025-08-24 | Talroo | Partnership | Talroo and Phenom partner on frontline hiring: Talroo and Phenom partnered to deliver frontline hiring experiences inside Phenom's talent experience platform. | <https://www.talroo.com/newsroom> |
| 2025-08-24 | Fonzi | Product launch | Business Insider profiles Fonzi's Match Day model and AI interviewer: Business Insider reported that applicants talk to Fonzi's AI interviewer, top candidates join a monthly Match Day, and employers pay 18% of base salary per hire. The model was about three months old. | <https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hiring-process-broken-software-engineers-152521767.html> |
| 2025-08-21 | Workday | Acquisition | Workday agrees to buy Paradox: Workday signed a definitive agreement to acquire Paradox, a conversational candidate experience agent for high-volume frontline hiring. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-21-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Paradox,-the-AI-Company-Redefining-the-Frontline-Candidate-Experience> |
| 2025-08-21 | Paradox | Acquisition | Workday agrees to acquire Paradox: Workday signed a definitive agreement to acquire Paradox, "the AI company redefining the frontline candidate experience." Price not disclosed in the release. | <https://en-sg.newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-21-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Paradox,-the-AI-Company-Redefining-the-Frontline-Candidate-Experience> |
| 2025-08-21 | Dayforce | Acquisition | Thoma Bravo agrees to take Dayforce private: Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Dayforce in a deal valued at about US$12.3 billion. Shareholders get US$70 per share in cash. | <https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/08/21/thoma-bravo-signs-deal-to-buy-dayforce-in-deal-valued-at-us123-billion> |
| 2025-08-20 | Team Engine | Product launch | Team Engine adds AI onboarding assistant and AI job title validation: Summer 2025 update: an AI Onboarding Assistant in beta that texts new hires to collect form data, which the CEO calls "our first real application of agentic AI", plus a Job Title Validation Tool that "Uses AI to ensure compliance with Indeed's rules" and LinkedIn sponsored ads. | <https://www.teamengine.io/blog/summer-2025-product-update> |
| 2025-08-20 | GetReal Security | Research | GetReal publishes "Hiring Kill Chain" whitepaper: GetReal's whitepaper warned that impostor candidates, including North Korea-linked workers using AI identities and deepfakes, are "directly targeting the hiring process itself." | <https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/hiring-processes-are-under-attack> |
| 2025-08-19 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold launches Recruiter Agent for high-volume hiring: Recruiter Agent lets enterprises "engage, evaluate, and advance talent autonomously", with voice AI interviews and an SMS assistant that answers applicant questions and sends reminders. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-recruiter-agent-built-for-hyper-personalized-always-on-high-volume-hiring/> |
| 2025-08-18 | Recruit CRM | Product launch | Recruit CRM adds AI sourcing and contact data finding: Recruit CRM added AI sourcing that searches public profiles in plain language and returns candidates with contact details, plus automatic finding of missing emails and phone numbers. The CEO said the features "give back the hours recruiters lose to manual work." | <https://techrseries.com/recruitment-and-on-boarding/recruit-crm-introduces-new-ai-features-to-boost-recruitment-productivity/> |
| 2025-08-14 | Workday | Acquisition | Workday acquires Flowise agent builder: Workday acquired Flowise, a low-code, open-source platform for building AI agents, to let customers and partners build agents for HR and finance. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-14-Workday-Acquires-Flowise,-Bringing-Powerful-AI-Agent-Builder-Capabilities-to-the-Workday-Platform> |
| 2025-08-14 | ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany) | Product launch | ClearCompany says it rolled out AI Notetaker, Talent AI and an AI Sourcing Engine in 2025: "This year alone, we've already rolled out new AI-powered products": under the Talent AI name, an AI Sourcing Engine that automatically brings passive candidates into the pipeline when a job is posted, AI Talent Match that surfaces best-fit applicants, and an AI Notetaker that "captures every key insight". | <https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/2025-inc-5000-10th-consecutive-year> |
| 2025-08-12 | Lightcast | Product launch | Lightcast launches Skills Agent: Skills Agent "continuously updates skill-to-job associations in real-time, eliminating the need for manual skill mapping" and "identifies, recommends, and justifies skills for job profiles based on real-time labor market data." | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/skills-agent-press-release-2025-08-12> |
| 2025-08-12 | HireVue | Product launch | HireVue launches Talent Engagement agent: HireVue launched Talent Engagement, an AI hiring agent that talks with job seekers, identifies their skills and recommends best-fit roles they might have overlooked. CPO Marcy Daniel: "This isn't just a chatbot, it's a personalized guide." | <https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-talent-engagement-agent-to-solve-the-hiring-speed-vs-quality-trade-off> |
| 2025-08-12 | CodeSignal | Product launch | CodeSignal launches Interviewer Agents: Interviewer Agents "autonomously conduct role-specific interviews" and "return structured scorecards straight to any applicant-tracking system"; humans make the advance decision. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-interviewer-agents-agentic-interviewers-that-scale-with-your-hiring-plans/> |
| 2025-08-12 | Alex | Research | Alex passes third-party bias audit by Warden AI: Alex said its AI interviewer passed an independent bias audit by Warden AI across race, ethnicity and gender, with consistent selection rates across groups. | <https://www.alex.com/blog/bias-audit> |
| 2025-08-11 | Visage | Acquisition | Visage and Rolebot merge under the Visage brand: Visage combined with Rolebot, a self-serve AI sourcing platform, to run sourcing from job description to candidate pipeline "in minutes". The release also says new funding was secured. | <https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/visage-and-rolebot-merge-to-deliver-the-markets-most-scalable-and-intelligent-ai-recruiting-platform/> |
| 2025-08-11 | Talview | Law or ruling | Talview announces patent for Alvy agentic AI proctoring: Talview announced US Patent 12,361,115 B1, granted July 15, 2025, for Alvy, agentic AI proctoring built to catch Cluely-style cheating tools. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talview-secures-patent-for-alvy--the-first-agentic-ai-proctoring-built-to-outsmart-cluely-style-cheating-302526535.html> |
| 2025-08-11 | Polyguard | Product launch | Polyguard releases PG-Presence check: Polyguard launched PG-Presence, its method for verifying "true physical presence" of the person holding the device, alongside offline ePassport checks and an SDK for enterprises. | <https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/polyguard-introduces-presence-detection-with-pg-presence-release> |
| 2025-08-11 | Paradox | Product launch | Paradox Immersive Job Preview with AI Video Studio: Paradox's Immersive Job Preview, with AI Video Studio generating job preview scripts and video and Immersive Q&A letting candidates talk with AI in video, was named a 2025 Top HR Product. | <https://www.paradox.ai/news/paradoxs-new-immersive-job-preview-named-2025-top-hr-product-of-the-year-by-hr-executive> |
| 2025-08-10 | Talroo | Partnership | Talroo and Mitratech partner on frontline hiring: Talroo and Mitratech announced a strategic partnership to streamline frontline hiring. | <https://www.talroo.com/newsroom> |
| 2025-08-07 | Spark Hire | Product launch | AI Video Review scores one-way video interviews: Spark Hire launched AI Video Review, which "scores candidates' one-way video interview submissions against several key factors"; its insights "are fed back into the ATS." | <https://www.sparkhire.com/news/ai-video-review/> |
| 2025-08-07 | Karat | Partnership | Karat becomes a Workday Innovation Partner: Karat connected its platform to Workday's applicant tracking system as a Workday Innovation Partner and added two board members. | <https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/> |
| 2025-08-06 | VONQ (EQO) | Partnership | VONQ and Avature partner: VONQ and Avature partnered to give enterprise and RPO customers one-click multiposting and programmatic advertising. | <https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/vonq-and-avature-partner-to-deliver-one-click-multiposting-and-programmatic-advertising-to-leading-enterprise-and-rpo-organizations/> |
| 2025-08-06 | ClearanceJobs | Acquisition | DHI buys AgileATS for ClearanceJobs: DHI Group acquired AgileATS, an applicant tracking system for government contractors, for an estimated $2.0M, saying the integration delivers "AI-powered features, including automated job postings, streamlined applicant workflows". | <https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/08/06/dhi-group-inc-acquires-agileats-to-expand-clearancejobs-market-leadership-in-govtech-recruiting/> |
| 2025-08-04 | Harper v. Sirius XM | Law or ruling | Applicant sues Sirius XM over iCIMS-based AI screening: A Black job seeker who applied to about 150 roles sued Sirius XM, alleging its iCIMS hiring software screened out African American applicants. He had received an EEOC right-to-sue letter. | <https://www.hrdive.com/news/sirius-xm-beats-allegations-of-ai-fueled-racial-bias/832115/> |
| 2025-08-01 | SmartRecruiters | Acquisition | SAP agrees to acquire SmartRecruiters: SAP agreed to buy SmartRecruiters to strengthen SAP SuccessFactors with "AI-enabled recruiting and hiring capabilities". Terms were not disclosed; close was expected in Q4 2025. | <https://news.sap.com/2025/08/sap-to-acquire-smartrecruiters/> |
| 2025-08-01 | SAP SuccessFactors | Acquisition | SAP agrees to buy SmartRecruiters: SAP agreed to acquire SmartRecruiters for its high-volume recruiting, recruitment automation and AI-enabled candidate experience. | <https://news.sap.com/2025/08/sap-to-acquire-smartrecruiters/> |
| 2025-08-01 | Bullhorn | Acquisition | Bullhorn acquires TargetRecruit: Bullhorn bought TargetRecruit, a Houston provider of Salesforce-based front and middle office software for recruitment firms, growing its Salesforce user base to nearly 150,000 and its healthcare staffing presence. TargetRecruit customers who move to Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud can use Amplify, delivered via Agentforce. | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-acquires-targetrecruit/> |
| 2025-08 | SeekOut | Product launch | SeekOut launches Workspaces, an AI-guided hiring workflow: SeekOut launched Workspaces, "an AI-enhanced guided workflow for recruiting", with guided sourcing, instant job-description-to-candidate matching, scorecards, shortlist building and reconnection with ATS warm leads. | <https://www.seekout.com/release-notes> |
| 2025-08 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Workday may give AI-feature customer list to administrator, not plaintiffs: Judge Rita Lin let Workday avoid disclosing its full customer list and ordered it to give a list of employers that enabled Candidate Skills Match, Spotlight and Fetch to a third-party administrator by Sept. 10. | <https://www.hrdive.com/news/judge-allows-workday-avoid-disclosing-full-customer-list/758878/> |
| 2025-08 | Deel | Product launch | Deel launches AI Workforce with Hiring Guru agent: Deel launched AI Workforce in beta, a hub for seven AI agents and custom agents. The Hiring Guru is "a talent acquisition agent" that recommends the best countries to source candidates based on role requirements and budget. | <https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-launches-ai-workforce/> |
| 2025-07-31 | Reality Defender | Product launch | Reality Defender opens free deepfake detection API: Reality Defender launched a public developer API and SDK with a free tier of 50 detections a month, starting with audio and image detection. | <https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-launches-free-access-to-deepfake-detection-api> |
| 2025-07-31 | Harri | Partnership | Harri partners with UK job-matching platform Candid Hospitality: Harri and Candid Hospitality launched an exclusive integration that syncs Harri job listings to Candid and moves Candid applicants into the Harri hiring flow in one click. | <https://harri.ai/newsroom/harri-partner-with-job-matching-platform-candid-hospitality/> |
| 2025-07-31 | Crelate | Product launch | Crelate launches Discover Agent for AI sourcing: Crelate made Discover Agent generally available as "the first intelligent AI agent" in its Living Platform, letting recruiters find talent outside their own database by conversation instead of Boolean search. | <https://www.crelate.com/?p=36658> |
| 2025-07-30 | Paycom | Product launch | Paycom launches IWant, a command-driven AI engine: Paycom launched IWant, which it calls "the industry's first command-driven AI engine". Users type or speak a question and IWant answers from Paycom's single database or sends them to the right screen. CEO Chad Richison called it "the biggest release since our founding in 1998". | <https://www.paycom.com/about/press-room/paycom-unveils-iwant-command-driven-ai-engine-with-accurate-rapid-results/> |
| 2025-07-29 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Judge brings HiredScore-screened applicants into the Workday collective: Judge Rita Lin ruled Workday cannot narrow the collective to exclude applicants whose applications were scored, sorted, ranked, or screened using the HiredScore AI features, and set an Aug. 20, 2025 deadline tied to identifying customers who enabled them. | <https://ppc.land/workday-faces-bigger-discrimination-lawsuit/> |
| 2025-07-29 | Lever | Product launch | Lever adds AI interview transcripts and AI ROI insights: Employ's summer release brought AI Interview Transcripts & Summaries "directly in your Lever ATS" and AI-powered insights in the ROI dashboard. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/smarter-hiring-starts-here-employs-new-ai-release-prioritizes-recruiter-efficiency-and-human-connection/> |
| 2025-07-29 | Jobvite | Product launch | Jobvite gets automated onboarding in Employ AI release: "For Jobvite users, onboarding gets a powerful upgrade" with automated onboarding, alongside Employ's governed AI built with IBM watsonx.governance. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/smarter-hiring-starts-here-employs-new-ai-release-prioritizes-recruiter-efficiency-and-human-connection/> |
| 2025-07-29 | Beamery | Product launch | Beamery launches Task Intelligence and Ray agentic AI consultant: Beamery's Workforce Intelligence Suite adds Task Intelligence, which "surfaces opportunities for AI automation, role redesign, and workforce optimization", and Ray, "a single, intelligent guide for workforce transformation integrated across the platform". | <https://beamery.com/resources/news/beamery-launches-first-to-market-task-intelligence-for-workforce-transformation> |
| 2025-07-28 | Gem | Research | Gem says AI agents make it an AI-first all-in-one platform: Gem said it expanded the platform "with AI agents, starting with AI Sourcing" and then AI Application Review, and reported 15x growth in customers using its AI agents and nearly 500 Gem ATS customers. | <https://www.gem.com/blog/gem-ats-incredible-momentum-11x-growth-and-whats-next> |
| 2025-07-27 | Hyring | Product launch | Hyring launches AI Phone Screener: Hyring launched an AI Phone Screener that calls candidates, asks contextual questions and returns reports with scores, transcripts and recordings, tagline "Screen 1000 candidates before lunch". | <https://webmail.hunted.space/product/ai-interviewer-by-hyring/launches/ai-phone-screener-by-hyring> |
| 2025-07-23 | Humanly | Product launch | Humanly unveils AI video interviewer: Humanly launched an AI Interviewer that interviews "every candidate over video, any time of day", then scores the candidate and recommends whether to advance them. | <https://www.geekwire.com/2025/meet-your-ai-interviewer-seattle-startup-humanly-unveils-video-bot-that-grills-job-applicants/> |
| 2025-07-22 | Carv | Partnership | ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions picks Carv as strategic AI partner: Carv's agentic AI will run inside recruiter workflows across ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions' global RPO operations, on its PowerSuite platform. | <https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-selected-as-strategic-partner-by-manpowergroup-talent-solutions-to-power-global-ai-transformation-of-recruitment-operations> |
| 2025-07-22 | Ashby | Funding | Ashby raises $50M Series D: Ashby raised a $50 million Series D led by Mark McLaughlin at Alkeon, with co-lead support from Lachy Groom, after growing revenue 135% year over year. It plans to invest in AI, customer success and enterprise features. | <https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/company/series-d> |
| 2025-07-17 | Zoho Recruit | Product launch | Zoho launches Zia LLM, agents and an MCP server, including Candidate Screener: Zoho launched its Zia LLM, the Zia Agent Studio builder, an MCP server and 25+ pre-built Zia Agents, among them Candidate Screener, which "identifies and ranks the most suitable candidates for a specific job opening". | <https://zstatic.zohostatic.com/news/zoho-takes-strides-in-ai-launches-proprietary-llm-and-asr-models-mcp-server-prebuilt-ai-agents-and-no-code-agent-builder.html> |
| 2025-07-16 | Warden AI | Funding | Warden AI raises funding led by Onfido founders: Warden AI closed a new funding round led by the founders of Onfido, with Playfair. The amount was not disclosed. CEO Jeffrey Pole called the Workday case "a wake-up call." | <https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-warden-ai-secures-funding-meet-demand-ai-audits> |
| 2025-07-16 | Socure | Product launch | Socure launches Workforce Verification: Socure launched Workforce Verification to stop fake applicants at the point of entry. It checks device, behavioral and identity signals in real time before an applicant reaches recruiters, and integrates with HR platforms, job boards, payroll systems and ATSs. | <https://socure.com/blog/workforce-verification-to-stop-fake-applicants> |
| 2025-07-16 | Draup | Product launch | Draup launches Curie, an agentic AI for HR teams: Draup launched Curie, "a GenAI Assistant purpose-built to combine Draup's powerful labor market data" with natural-language conversation, for workforce planning, talent acquisition and skills architecture. | <https://techrseries.com/artificial-intelligence/draup-launches-curie-the-agentic-ai-built-for-enterprise-hr-teams/> |
| 2025-07-15 | Radancy | Product launch | Radancy adds agentic AI to Talent Acquisition Cloud: Radancy announced the next evolution of the Radancy Talent Acquisition Cloud with context-aware AI agents, natural language search and dynamic role previews. | <https://www.radancy.com/press-coverage/radancy-announces-the-next-evolution-of-its-ai-platform-redefining-how-the-world-hires-with-agentic-ai/> |
| 2025-07-15 | JazzHR | Product launch | JazzHR Spring '25 release adds Talent Fit AI matching: "Employ's Spring '25 Release brings practical, easy-to-use AI tools directly into the JazzHR workflows": Talent Fit ranks applicants by skills and experience with explanations, built with IBM watsonx.governance, alongside a cost-per-applicant job ad model with VONQ and LinkedIn. | <https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/ai-for-rapid-recruiting> |
| 2025-07-15 | Draup | Product launch | Draup makes its data available over MCP: Draup said its "entire sales, talent, and market intelligence graph is now available through the Model Context Protocol (MCP)," so AI tools can query its labor data without custom APIs. | <https://draup.com/talent/blogs/draup-data-now-available-via-mcp> |
| 2025-07-15 | Credo AI | Partnership | Credo AI launches Global Partner Program: Credo AI launched its Global Partner Program. Launch partners are Microsoft (Azure AI Foundry integration), IBM (watsonx.governance) and Databricks (MLflow); McKinsey and Version 1 are named as strategic alliances. | <https://www.credo.ai/blog/credo-ai-launches-the-largest-partner-program-operationalizing-ai-governance-for-enterprises> |
| 2025-07-11 | Paradox | Law or ruling | Researchers expose McHire flaw in Paradox system: Researchers found that the McHire admin panel, for the McDonald's hiring chatbot Olivia built by Paradox, accepted default 123456 credentials on a test account, and an API flaw exposed chats from more than 64 million applications. Paradox fixed the flaw and said it is reviewing its systems. | <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/123456-password-exposed-chats-for-64-million-mcdonalds-job-chatbot-applications> |
| 2025-07-09 | HackerRank | Product launch | HackerRank opens AI interviewer and AI proctoring to customers: HackerRank's AI interviewer became "Now available for initial candidate screening" with real-time hints and thought-process evaluation, alongside Proctor mode, which "provides AI-powered assessment integrity" with session replay. | <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/empowering-future-ready-teams-hackerranks-ai-driven-solutions-modernize-tech-talent-strategies-302500667.html> |
| 2025-07-08 | Lightcast | Acquisition | Lightcast acquires Rhetorik: Lightcast acquired UK-based Rhetorik, "marking a major expansion in people and company data"; Rhetorik's dataset covers 46 languages and 164 countries. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-rhetorik-to-expand-global-people-company-and-labor-market-inte> |
| 2025-07-07 | Cezanne Recruitment | Rebrand | Occupop becomes Cezanne Recruitment: After Cezanne bought Occupop earlier in 2025, Occupop "will now operate under the new name: Cezanne Recruitment"; the product is unchanged and the Occupop website will be retired. | <https://cezannehr.com/news/occupop-is-now-cezanne-recruitment/> |
| 2025-07-03 | Access Vincere Evo | Product launch | Vincere adds the Evo Content OptimAIser: An "Access Evo Optimizer" button uses AI to rewrite templated emails, new emails and candidate briefs, with admin-managed and custom prompts. | <https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764149-vincere-platform-updates-v25-3-1-3rd-july-25> |
| 2025-07-02 | Recruiterflow | Product launch | Recruiterflow launches the Candidate Submission Agent: The agent, "trained on tens of thousands of submission emails", drafts candidate submission emails to clients from job context, candidate details and CV insights; Recruiterflow says over 40% of submissions now use it. | <https://recruiterflow.com/blog/recruiterflow-product-update-june24-2/> |
| 2025-07-01 | SplashBI | Product launch | SplashBI unveils SplashAI assistant with Text2SQL Agent for HCM and finance: SplashBI unveiled SplashAI, a role-aware assistant for HCM and finance with "intelligent platform agents like the Text2SQL Agent" that "operate with controlled autonomy using memory, a tool registry, and guardrails." | <https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-unveils-splashai-a-role-aware-ai-assistant-for-hcm-and-finance-decision-making/> |
| 2025-07-01 | Sapia.ai | Product launch | Sapia.ai launches JAS, an AI interview builder: Sapia.ai launched JAS (Job Analysis Studio), "a breakthrough in AI-designed, skills-based hiring", which lets enterprises design role-specific job descriptions and scored, structured interviews in minutes. | <https://techrseries.com/artificial-intelligence/sapia-ai-launches-jas-a-breakthrough-in-ai-designed-skills-based-hiring/> |
| 2025-07-01 | Federal AI preemption | Law or ruling | Senate votes 99-1 to strip 10-year state AI moratorium: In the predawn hours of a vote-a-rama on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Senate voted 99-1 to strip the AI-law moratorium. Sen. Thom Tillis was the only senator who did not vote to strip it. | <https://www.benton.org/headlines/senate-votes-kill-ai-law-moratorium> |
| 2025-06-30 | California Civil Rights Council ADS regulations | Law or ruling | California secures final approval for FEHA rules on automated-decision systems: The Civil Rights Council announced final approval of employment regulations on automated-decision systems, set to take effect October 1, 2025. The rules require employers to keep employment records, including automated-decision data, for four years and define terms such as "agent". | <https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/2025/06/30/civil-rights-council-secures-approval-for-regulations-to-protect-against-employment-discrimination-related-to-artificial-intelligence/> |
| 2025-06-27 | GoodTime | Product launch | Orchestra agents advance candidates and chat with applicants: GoodTime's agents can now advance qualified candidates, trigger interview requests, send personalized rejections and summarize candidate sentiment; it also added a customizable candidate-facing AI agent for rescheduling and FAQs. | <https://goodtime.io/blog/product-updates/goodtime-product-updates-whats-new-from-june-2025/> |
| 2025-06-26 | Lever | Product launch | Lever ships AI Interview Companion and Talent Fit matching: AI Interview Companion writes interview guides and flags biased language; Talent Fit, "Lever's new AI-powered matching engine", ranks candidates against job requirements. | <https://www.lever.co/levers-ai-innovations-are-here/> |
| 2025-06-25 | Metaview | Funding | Metaview raises $35M Series B: Metaview, an AI recruiting notes and agents company, raised a $35 million Series B led by Google Ventures. | <https://fortune.com/2025/06/25/uber-palantir-alums-metaview-raise-35m-ai-revolution-recruitment-hiring> |
| 2025-06-24 | SplashBI | Product launch | SplashBI launches Tahoe v6 with SplashAI conversational engine: SplashBI launched Tahoe (v6), built for finance, HR and supply chain teams, with SplashAI, a conversational AI engine that is "secure, role-aware, and designed to work with structured ERP data out of the box." | <https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-launches-tahoe-v6-transforms-enterprise-reporting-with-unified-analytics-and-ai/> |
| 2025-06-24 | Persona | Product launch | Persona expands Workforce IDV to catch deepfake candidates: Persona expanded Workforce IDV with tools to detect AI-generated personas and deepfakes during hiring, integrated with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and Cisco Duo. | <https://venturebeat.com/ai/75-million-deepfakes-blocked-persona-leads-the-corporate-fight-against-hiring-fraud> |
| 2025-06-24 | Paraform | Funding | Paraform raises $20M Series A: Felicis led a $20M Series A with A*, BOND and Liquid 2, bringing total funding to $25M. Paraform said recruiters had earned $26M on the platform. | <https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-a-announcement> |
| 2025-06-22 | Texas TRAIGA (HB 149) | Law or ruling | Texas governor signs TRAIGA: Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, effective January 1, 2026. It bars AI developed or deployed with the sole intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class. | <https://natlawreview.com/article/texas-ai-governance-law-signed-governor> |
| 2025-06-20 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse tests Dream Job, a one-a-month priority application: Job seekers can mark one application a month as a Dream Job to make it more visible to recruiters. Greenhouse said more than 1,200 companies had signed up. | <https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/greenhouse-unveils-new-tool-makes-job-search-feel-more-like-dating-app> |
| 2025-06-20 | Braintrust AIR | Research | Braintrust AIR passes independent bias audit: An unnamed independent firm audited AIR's scoring against GDPR, EEOC guidance and NYC Local Law 144 and "found zero adverse impact across every demographic group tested". | <https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/independent-ai-bias-compliance-audit> |
| 2025-06-18 | Pindrop | Research | Pindrop publishes data on fraud in its own remote hiring: Pindrop said about 1 in 6 applicants to its fully remote roles showed signs of fraud, 1 in 343 were linked to North Korea, and about 1 in 4 of those used a deepfake in a live interview. | <https://www.pindrop.com/article/why-your-hiring-process-now-cybersecurity-vulnerability/> |
| 2025-06-18 | Joveo | Product launch | Joveo launches AI career site builder: An AI content management system builds career sites, landing pages and microsites from simple prompts, without code. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-launches-first-ever-ai-led-career-site-builder/> |
| 2025-06-18 | Braintrust AIR | Product launch | Braintrust AIR interviews in 10 languages: "Braintrust AIR now supports fully conversational interviews in 10 languages", with standardized English scorecards and transcripts for recruiters. | <https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/now-interviewing-in-10-languages> |
| 2025-06-17 | VONQ (EQO) | Product launch | VONQ launches CPA+ agentic hiring with Employ: CPA+ uses AI agents to guide applicants, run a six-minute screening interview and score candidates on 15 skill dimensions, giving recruiters up to 20 ranked candidates for a fixed price via JazzHR and Lever. | <https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/vonq-launches-cpa-the-worlds-first-agentic-ai-cost-per-application-hiring-solution-powered-by-linkedin-and-in-partnership-with-employ/> |
| 2025-06-12 | Greenhouse | Partnership | Greenhouse and CLEAR add selfie identity checks to Real Talent: CLEAR1 identity verification joins Real Talent: "Candidates can now verify their identity right inside MyGreenhouse with a quick selfie" matched to a government ID. | <https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification> |
| 2025-06-12 | CLEAR | Partnership | CLEAR and Greenhouse partner on candidate verification: Greenhouse will "implement CLEAR1, the identity platform for businesses, to improve hiring trust and reduce manual screening"; candidates verify with a selfie in MyGreenhouse, launching for select customers from Q3 2025. | <https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification> |
| 2025-06-11 | Glider AI | Product launch | Glider AI launches ID Verify: Glider AI launched ID Verify, a biometric identity check with facial recognition, liveness detection and government ID authentication, built into its hiring platform. It targets deepfakes and synthetic identities and confirms the same person is present from interview through the first day of work. | <https://aijourn.com/glider-ai-launches-id-verify-to-combat-sophisticated-candidate-fraud-in-hiring-and-national-security-threats/> |
| 2025-06-10 | SmartRecruiters | Product launch | SmartRecruiters launches Winston agentic hiring platform: SmartRecruiters released a rebuilt platform with Winston, an agentic AI companion, at its core: Winston Chat went live, and Winston Match, Winston Screen, Winston Companion and the SmartOS layer went on sale with modular packaging and outcome-aligned pricing. CEO Rebecca Carr said "The ATS era is over." | <https://smartrecruiters.com/news/smartrecruiters-unveils-ai-powered-platform-that-ends-the-ats-era/> |
| 2025-06-09 | iCIMS | Product launch | iCIMS announces iCIMS Agents: iCIMS Agents are "a purpose-built, domain-specific AI platform designed to accelerate the entire recruiting lifecycle", starting with six agents such as a Sourcing Pipeline Agent and Conversational Analytics Agent, first available in Q3. | <https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/icimsagents/> |
| 2025-06-09 | JobScore | Product launch | JobScore relaunches rules-based candidate scoring: JobScore "rebuilt and modernized our candidate scoring system" to fight resume spam, moving to a 0 to 100 scale; it says no "black box" machine learning AI calculates scores. | <https://www.jobscore.com/blog/candidate-scoring-re-launch/> |
| 2025-06-09 | Classet | Funding | Classet raises $1.2M convertible note: CB Insights lists a $1.2M convertible note for Classet dated June 9, 2025, bringing its total to $7.16M across four rounds. | <https://www.cbinsights.com/company/classet/financials> |
| 2025-06-05 | HireRight | Research | HireRight releases 2025 Global Benchmark Report: 18th annual survey of more than 1,000 HR, risk and talent acquisition professionals. Accuracy stayed the top screening priority, and many businesses still do not run identity checks despite rising ID fraud. | <https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2025-6-5-hireright-releases-2025-global-benchmark-report> |
| 2025-06-04 | Draup | Product launch | Draup launches Etter for AI workforce transformation: Draup introduced Etter.ai, "a next-gen workflow automation platform" for HR and talent leaders. It maps how AI will change tasks, roles and workloads, estimates time savings and helps plan future-ready teams. | <https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/draup-launches-etter-the-agentic-ai-platform-to-build-ai-ready-teams-874310072.html> |
| 2025-06-03 | Workday | Product launch | Agent System of Record opens to partner agents: Workday announced the Agent Partner Network and Agent Gateway so partner agents, including Paradox, connect to the Workday Agent System of Record. | <https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-06-03-Workday-Announces-New-AI-Agent-Partner-Network-and-Agent-Gateway-to-Power-the-Next-Generation-of-Human-and-Digital-Workforces> |
| 2025-06-03 | Jobvite | Product launch | Employ launches AI Companions, with interview feedback into Jobvite: Employ introduced AI Companions, each "purpose-built to optimize a specific stage like sourcing, screening, or interviewing"; the AI Interview Companion feeds results into Lever or Jobvite. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-unveils-bold-ai-companion-strategy-responsibly-built-for-recruiters-designed-for-impact/> |
| 2025-06-03 | JazzHR | Product launch | Employ unveils AI Companion strategy, with Smart Screening for JazzHR: JazzHR owner Employ launched its AI Companion strategy, led by an AI Interview Companion for Lever and Jobvite, and named Smart Screening, which delivers pre-qualified, top-ranked applicants with scores, as available for JazzHR. | <https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-unveils-bold-ai-companion-strategy-responsibly-built-for-recruiters-designed-for-impact/> |
| 2025-06-03 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse launches Real Talent to rank applicants and flag fraud: Real Talent sorts applicants into a tiered inbox: it "analyzes applicant data against job requirements" and flags spam, bot submissions and misrepresentation. Features phase in from Q3 2025. | <https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/greenhouse-real-talent-launches-to-fix-overwhelming-candidate-pipelines-while-combatting-fraud-and-spam-in-hiring/> |
| 2025-05-28 | JobAdder | Product launch | JobAdder sets out AI plan with new Recruiter Plans: JobAdder introduced three Recruiter Plans and framed them as the start of an AI-led product push, with CEO Martin Herbst saying "We're taking a stand with usability as our core differentiator." | <https://itbrief.com.au/story/jobadder-unveils-ai-driven-recruitment-plans-to-ease-workloads> |
| 2025-05-28 | Indeed | Partnership | Indeed deploys Salesforce Agentforce for employer support: Indeed deployed Salesforce's Agentforce to take on "routine onboarding and account-related questions" from employers and explain flagged job postings. | <https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-deploys-salesforces-agentforce-to-power-smarter-hiring?co=US> |
| 2025-05-28 | CodeSignal | Product launch | CodeSignal launches AI-assisted coding assessments with Cosmo: CodeSignal added Cosmo, "CodeSignal's AI assistant and co-pilot," inside the IDE for assessments and interviews, with a full AI Co-Pilot Mode and a limited Guided Support Mode. | <https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-ai-assisted-coding-assessments-and-interviews-redefining-technical-hiring-in-the-ai-era> |
| 2025-05-28 | Bullhorn | Product launch | Bullhorn launches Amplify AI agents for staffing firms: At Engage Boston, Bullhorn announced Amplify, which uses generative AI and autonomous agents with skills for sourcing, matching, voice or chat screening, submitting, outreach, enriching, scheduling and analyzing. Recruiters "can deploy Amplify agents directly within their workflows." | <https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-launches-amplify/> |
| 2025-05-22 | BambooHR | Product launch | BambooHR adds AI benchmarking and recruiting self-scheduling: BambooHR announced a platform update with Ask BambooHR, HR benchmarks with AI peer group filtering, custom dashboards and recruiting features including self-scheduling, interview scorecards and LinkedIn job ads. | <https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-ai-platform> |
| 2025-05-21 | GoodTime | Product launch | GoodTime launches Orchestra AI agents: GoodTime launched Orchestra, "a digital workforce of proactive, autonomous agents that work in sync to handle hiring's most time-consuming tasks." | <https://www.einpresswire.com/article/814716257/goodtime-launches-orchestra-a-digital-workforce-of-ai-agents-built-to-transform-hiring> |
| 2025-05-21 | Findem | Product launch | Findem introduces next-gen Talent CRM: Findem launched an AI-enabled Talent CRM that updates talent pools automatically, sends smart follow-up reminders and refreshes candidate data. "Talent CRM eliminates the manual effort and stale data that slow teams down." | <https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-introduces-next-gen-talent-crm-to-help-talent-teams-go-from-reactive-to-ready> |
| 2025-05-21 | 15Five | Product launch | 15Five launches Kona AI manager coach: At 15Five Next, the company launched Kona, which 'joins virtual meetings and provides personalized, privacy-conscious coaching' and measures changes in manager behavior. | <https://www.15five.com/blog/15five-launches-kona-the-ai-powered-manager-effectiveness-coach> |
| 2025-05-20 | Culture Amp | Product launch | Culture Amp introduces AI Coach for managers: Culture Amp announced AI Coach, which 'delivers on-demand, targeted and contextual guidance, recommendations and action plans' and turns survey insights into action plans. | <https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/introducing-ai-coach> |
| 2025-05-19 | Criteria | Product launch | Criteria launches Interview Intelligence AI interview scoring: Interview Intelligence scores video interviews "as accurately as a human expert"; interviews are "scored based solely on the transcripts," not audio or video. | <https://www.criteriacorp.com/press-releases/2025/criteria-launches-interview-intelligence-the-first-ai-powered-interview-scoring> |
| 2025-05-16 | Mobley v. Workday | Law or ruling | Court conditionally certifies nationwide ADEA collective against Workday: The court granted conditional certification of the ADEA claims, accepting a unified policy of using Workday's AI recommendation system to score, sort, rank, or screen applicants. Workday's filings said 1.1 billion applications were rejected in the period. | <https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/06/ai-bias-lawsuit-against-workday-reaches-next-stage-as-court-grants-conditional-certification-of-adea-claim/> |
| 2025-05-15 | Strider | Product launch | Strider launches Falsified Resume Screening: Strider launched Falsified Resume Screening, which "enables organizations to proactively verify remote job applicants' identities" by checking emails, phone numbers and job histories for fraud, aimed at North Korean IT worker schemes. ATS integration was planned. | <https://striderintel.com/newsroom/strider-launches-fraudulent-resume-screening-to-protect-companies-from-nation-state-and-insider-threats/> |
| 2025-05-14 | Beamery | Partnership | Beamery integrates with LinkedIn CRM Connect: Beamery linked its platform with LinkedIn Recruiter through LinkedIn CRM Connect so candidate data stays in sync across both tools. | <https://beamery.com/resources/news/beamery-announces-linkedin-crm-connect> |
| 2025-05-13 | Humanly | Funding | Humanly raises $7M: Humanly raised a $7 million round from Drive Capital, Y Combinator, Zeal Capital, Spark Growth Ventures and Alumni Ventures, bringing total funding to $24 million. | <https://theaiinsider.tech/?p=34492> |
| 2025-05-09 | Rippling | Funding | Rippling raises $450M Series G at $16.8B: Rippling raised a $450 million Series G at a $16.8 billion valuation. New investors include Sands Capital, GIC, Goldman Sachs Growth and Baillie Gifford. | <https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/rippling-raises-450m-at-a-16-8b-valuation-reveals-yc-is-a-customer> |
| 2025-05-08 | Eightfold AI | Product launch | Eightfold unveils AI Interviewer and Digital Twin at Cultivate 2025: Eightfold introduced AI Interviewer, which autonomously interviews candidates 24/7, and Digital Twin, a personalized model of an employee's knowledge and skills. | <https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/talent-intelligence-to-talent-advantage-eightfold-ai-revolutionizes-hr-through-agentic-ai/> |
| 2025-05-07 | Lattice | Product launch | Lattice AI Agent opens to Talent and HRIS customers: Lattice made its AI Agent available for admins to switch on, describing it as an 'always-on teammate built to answer employee questions' that also 'identifies trends in employee inquiries' to flag burnout and retention risks. | <https://lattice.com/blog/lattice-ai-agent-meet-your-new-partner-in-hr> |
| 2025-05-07 | Greenhouse | Product launch | Greenhouse unveils AI candidate filters, outreach and interview summaries at UNLEASH: Greenhouse said its AI now enables personalized outreach, scorecard attribute generation and "Interview summaries & reports to clarify candidate evaluations", and said it will release filters by years of experience and skills. | <https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-unveils-new-ai-driven-products-at-unleash-to-streamline-hiring-in-saturated-job-market> |
| 2025-05-07 | Employment Hero | Product launch | Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring: EH Hiring is "a free (for now) AI-powered hiring tool that taps into Employment Hero's proprietary SmartMatch tech", giving employers "a curated shortlist of qualified candidates selected by AI" from about 1.5 million jobseekers. | <https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/ai-is-the-shortcut-from-vacant-role-to-hired> |
| 2025-05-06 | Joveo | Product launch | Joveo unveils five autonomous AI agents for recruitment marketing: At UNLEASH America 2025 Joveo showed an AI job advertiser, AI career site builder, AI campaign manager, AI recruiting assistant and AI talent advisor. | <https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-industrys-first-autonomous-ai-agents-for-recruitment-marketing-at-unleash-america-2025/> |
| 2025-05-01 | Revelio Labs | Acquisition | Revelio Labs acquires Salary Board: Revelio Labs acquired Salary Board, "a leading provider of real-time compensation data and labor market insights," effective immediately. Terms were not disclosed. | <https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/revelio-labs-acquires-salary-board-to-expand-global-compensation-analytics-835268029.html> |

## Where candidate data comes from

LinkedIn is a walled garden, so AI recruiting tools draw on other pools. This section shows where the data comes from, how well each source covers engineers and skilled technicians, and what LinkedIn’s rules say about tools that work inside a logged-in session.

### The people-data wholesalers

Most AI sourcing tools do not crawl the web themselves. They license person records from a short list of wholesalers, then add search, ranking and outreach. [Clay](https://www.clay.com/waterfall-enrichment) shows the pattern in public: its “waterfall” checks People Data Labs, Apollo, Lusha, ContactOut and others in turn.

- [People Data Labs](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/data-sources) covers over one billion people from supplier and public sources. Its own policy “strictly prohibits” use of its data for employment eligibility decisions.

- [Coresignal](https://coresignal.com/) sells 915 million employee records. It says it collects only public, business-related data and does not scrape behind logins. It does not name its sources.

- [Bright Data](https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/scrapers/linkedin/collection-options) sells LinkedIn profile data and says it “does not access data behind LinkedIn’s login wall.”

- [Crustdata](https://www.crustdata.com/datasets/people-data) claims over one billion people, pulled live at query time from “15+ sources” it does not name.

All of these lean toward office workers. [Revelio Labs](https://www.reveliolabs.com/ai-labor-market-tracker/us/september-2026/appendix) states that “white-collar occupations and workers in large cities are more likely to appear” in online profiles. Expect good coverage of engineers and thin coverage of plant technicians.

### Open technical signals

- **GitHub** is strong for software and firmware engineers. Mechanical and process engineers rarely publish code. [GitHub’s policy](https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-policies/github-acceptable-use-policies) bars selling personal data “to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.”

- **Patents** find R&D, process and equipment engineers. [PatentsView](https://www.uspto.gov/subscription-center/2026/patentsview-releases-q4-2025-data-update) moved to the USPTO Open Data Portal in March 2026, with free bulk data.

- **Papers.** [OpenAlex](https://help.openalex.org/api/) holds over 300 million works under a CC0 license. [SAE Mobilus](https://libguides.mit.edu/sae-pubs) supports author search for automotive and aerospace work. The [IEEE Xplore API](https://developer.ieee.org/API_Terms_of_Use2) is licensed for non-commercial use.

- **Licenses.** Texas [TDLR](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/LicenseSearch/licfile.asp) publishes daily files of licensed electricians, including industrial and maintenance grades. PE lookups help less: [NSPE](https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/may-2011/industrial-exemption-or-exclusion) estimated that “probably half” of PEs work in exempt industries.

- **Apprenticeships.** The US had about 700,000 registered apprentices in FY2025, per an [IEC analysis](https://ieci.org/merit-shop-apprenticeship-growth-accelerates-but-construction-workforce-gap-persists/). No public person-level registry exists. [FAME](https://themanufacturinginstitute.org/understanding-fame-usa-21902/) chapters train technicians through employer sponsorship, with dues of about $500 to $2,500 a year.

- **Military transition.** [SkillBridge](https://defensecommunities.org/2026/04/air-force-restricts-skillbridge-program/) lets service members train with an employer while the military pays them. The Air Force tightened limits in 2026.

- **Clearance boards.** [ClearanceJobs](https://news.clearancejobs.com/2026/06/04/cleared-talent-community-on-clearancejobs-surpasses-2-million/) passed 2 million registered cleared candidates in June 2026.

Some tools index the engineering signals. [SeekOut](https://www.seekout.com/) names patents, GitHub and publications. [Findem](https://www.findem.ai/platform/3d-data) names GitHub, patents and publications. We found no sourcing tool that says it indexes license files, apprenticeship programs or SkillBridge.

### Job boards and resume databases

Resume databases hold the most technicians that a tool can reach legally. [Indeed Smart Sourcing](https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-launches-ai-powered-smart-sourcing-to-make-hiring-faster-by-matching-and-connecting-people-with-relevant-jobs) searches “nearly 300 million workers.” Its [Talent Scout](https://www.indeed.com/lead/indeed-talent-scout-futureworks-2025) agent also runs inside Workday, Workable and isolved. [ZipRecruiter](https://techintelpro.com/HR/Talent-Acquisition/ziprecruiter-launches-smart-outreach-ai-for-recruiters) offers 50 million job seekers and AI outreach. [hireEZ](https://hireez.com/newsroom/hireez-announces-partnership-with-leading-job-boards/) added Monster resume search in 2024. No major board in our review offers an open resume-search API. Tools reach boards through partnerships or the board’s own agent.

### The employer’s own data

Past applicants are now a large sourcing pool. [Gem’s 2026 benchmark](https://app.gem.com/blog/key-takeaways-from-the-2026-recruiting-benchmarks-report) covers 1.2 million hires from June 2021 to May 2025. It says 46% of sourced hires came from candidates already in the ATS or CRM, up from 26% in 2021. That is a share of sourced hires, not of all hires. An [earlier Gem post](https://app.gem.com/blog/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-untapped-potential-of-candidate-rediscovery) gives 44.0% for 2024, so treat the figure as approximate.

- **Referrals.** In [Ashby’s data](https://www.ashbyhq.com/talent-trends-report/reports/referrals), 40% of referral applicants reached interview, against 3% of inbound applicants.

- **Internal mobility.** [Gem says](https://app.gem.com/blog/key-takeaways-from-the-2026-recruiting-benchmarks-report) internal candidates convert at 32 times the inbound rate.

- **Rediscovery products.** [Greenhouse](https://www.greenhouse.com/blog/find-talent-faster-and-easier-with-greenhouse-talent-filtering-and-talent-rediscovery), [Gem](https://vercel.gem.com/blog/updates-to-gems-ai-agents-ai-rediscovery-ai-talent-insights-and-more), [Phenom](https://www.phenom.com/discovery) and [Eightfold](https://eightfold.ai/learn/the-power-of-talent-rediscovery/) all resurface silver medalists and past applicants.

### LinkedIn’s sanctioned routes

[Recruiter System Connect](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/recruiter-system-connect) (RSC) syncs candidates between an ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter. Only approved developers may use its APIs, under “an API agreement with data restrictions.” LinkedIn’s [RSC page](https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/product-update/recruiting-and-candidate-search-tool) lists 35 ATS partners, including Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, iCIMS, SAP and Oracle. Some popular ATSs are not on the list.

[Hiring Assistant](https://news.linkedin.com/2025/hiring-assistant-globally-available), LinkedIn’s recruiting agent, became available globally in English in September 2025. It can evaluate ATS candidates only through [ATS Connected Projects](https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/ats-partners), which RSC unlocks. [Hiring Assistant 2](https://news.linkedin.com/2026/hiring-assistant-2) was announced on September 29, 2026.

### Tools that work on top of a logged-in session

Many extensions read the LinkedIn page a recruiter has open. The [User Agreement](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement), section 8.2, says members will not:

- “Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services, including profiles and other data from the Services;”

- “Use bots or other unauthorized automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages...”

- “Overlay or otherwise modify the Services or their appearance...”

LinkedIn’s [help page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1341387) adds that members who use such tools “risk having their accounts restricted or shut down.” The risk rises in three steps.

- **Reading the page you view.** A human opens one profile and the tool reads it. As written, 8.2 covers this. The penalty falls on the recruiter’s account. [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/linkedin-browsergate-extension-scanning-privacy-fingerprint) reports that LinkedIn probes browsers for more than 6,000 extensions.

- **Automating actions.** Tools that visit profiles, send invites or message on their own meet the named ban on bots. LinkedIn removed the company page of outreach tool [HeyReach](https://www.heyreach.io/blog/heyreach-ban) in March 2026. [Apollo and Seamless.AI](https://martech.org/a-pair-of-lead-gen-providers-have-disappeared-from-linkedin/) lost theirs in March 2025.

- **Bulk extraction.** Every lawsuit sits here. [hiQ](https://www.proskauer.com/blog/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-proposed-settlement-in-landmark-scraping-case) was found in breach for scraping and fake accounts and agreed to a $500,000 judgment and data deletion in 2022. [Proxycurl](https://nubela.co/blog/goodbye-proxycurl/) shut down on July 4, 2025, after LinkedIn sued. [Its settlement](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-wins-legal-case-data-scrapers-proxycurl/756101/) requires deletion of all LinkedIn data. A [consent judgment](https://digitalpolicyalert.org/event/43954-us-district-court-issued-final-judgment-in-linkedin-v-proapis-data-scraping-lawsuit) against ProAPIs, entered in September 2026, bars it from scraping LinkedIn.

Logged-off scraping is different. In 2024, a court held that Meta’s terms did not bar logged-off scraping of public data by [Bright Data](https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/news-events/client-alert-what-does-the-meta-v-bright-data-summary-judgment-ruling-mean-for-web-scraping/).

Several vendors already sell the read-the-current-page step. [Fetcher](https://fetcher.ai/blog/march-2026-product-release) scores the profile in view against the active search. [Gem](https://help.gem.com/external/the-gem-chrome-extension-overview-installation), [SeekOut](https://support.seekout.com/en/articles/15649778-seekout-chrome-extension) and [Loxo](https://help.loxo.co/en/articles/8614339-the-loxo-chrome-extension) save the profile in view. Others have pulled back. [Ashby](https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/updates-to-ashby-s-chrome-extension) rebuilt its extension in March 2026 and stopped changing LinkedIn pages. [Recruitly](https://help.recruitly.io/kb/article/298/chrome-linkedin-extension-restrictions) says LinkedIn forced it to drop LinkedIn support.

AI browsers read pages the same way. In [Amazon v. Perplexity](https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/alerts-and-articles/2026/08/ninth-circuit-opines-on-agentic-ai-in-e-commerce), the Ninth Circuit held in August 2026 that the user, not the agent maker, accessed the site. The court left room for sites to enforce their terms by contract. We found no LinkedIn rule or block that names AI browsers. The User Agreement text above already covers them.

### How each source compares

| Source | What you get | Engineers | Technicians | Access and cost | Legal risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People-data wholesalers (PDL, Coresignal, Bright Data, Crustdata) | Person records by API or bulk license | High | Low | Paid API and data license | Medium. PDL bars use in eligibility decisions |
| Contact-data tools (ContactOut, Lusha, Apollo, ZoomInfo) | Emails and phone numbers | Medium to High | Low | Freemium to annual contracts | Medium. Right-of-publicity suits |
| GitHub | Code and contribution history | High for software and firmware; Low otherwise | None | Free API | Medium. Policy bars sale to recruiters |
| Patents and papers (OpenAlex, PatentsView, SAE) | Inventors and authors by topic | High for R&D and process | Low to None | Free to subscription | Low |
| Trade licenses (TDLR) | Licensed electricians by grade | None | High in licensing states | Free | Low to Medium |
| Apprenticeships and colleges (FAME, Handshake) | Program cohorts; no person-level registry | Low to Medium | High via partnership | Dues or paid tiers | Low |
| Military and clearance (ClearanceJobs, SkillBridge) | Transitioning and cleared candidates | Medium to High for defense work | Medium to High | SkillBridge free; ClearanceJobs paid | Low |
| Resume databases (Indeed, ZipRecruiter) | Resumes and job seekers at scale | Medium | High | Paid; partner-gated APIs | Low inside the board’s tools |
| Own data (ATS rediscovery, referrals, internal mobility) | Known candidates with history | High | High | Inside the ATS or an add-on | Low. Check retention notices |
| LinkedIn Recruiter, RSC, Hiring Assistant | Full search, InMail, ATS sync | High | Low to Medium | Recruiter Corporate license; partner ATS for RSC | Low |
| Logged-in overlays (Fetcher, Gem, SeekOut) | The profile in view, scored or saved | High | Low to Medium | Paid seats | Medium. Breaches 8.2 as written; account risk |
| Automation and bulk scrapers | Profiles at volume | High | Low | Varies | High to Severe. Lawsuits and injunctions |

## The data

- Companies: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/hiring-software.companies.json
- Events: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/hiring-software.events.json
- Capabilities by company and category: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/hiring-software.features.json

## Methodology and corrections

**Who is on the map.** A company earns a row if an employer that is not already its client can buy or use its AI for recruiting or HR. Staffing agencies and recruiting services without software an employer can license are left off. So are tools sold only to job seekers; Section 05 covers them where they change what employers see. A name in a roundup is not a tool: every row rests on the vendor’s own site. The map covers companies we found, not every company that exists. Corrections and additions are welcome.

**One category per company.** Each company sits in the category its own headline sells. Suites sell far more than one thing, so the five stage columns and the capability list carry the rest. A company owned by another keeps its own row and names its owner, as Paradox does under Workday.

**What counts as an event.** A product launch, a funding round, an acquisition, a partnership, a rebrand, a shutdown, a law or ruling, or published research, dated between the window’s first and last day. Every event links to a page we opened that prints its date, preferably the vendor’s own release, blog or changelog, otherwise the trade press. No date is inferred. A date marks the first time we saw a capability launch in the window, not the first time the company ever offered it. Some launches were announced before they shipped; those carry a status (announced, preview or beta).

**How autonomous a launch is.** We label each AI launch from the vendor’s own description of it. Assistive AI drafts, ranks or suggests when a person asks. An agent completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as sourcing and messaging candidates against a brief or running a screening interview. Always-on AI runs continuously without a prompt, such as screening every new applicant overnight or rediscovering past candidates when a role opens. Vendors use the word agent loosely; we used it only when the vendor names a step the software completes without a person. The labels were set by one model and checked by a second.

**Fit for manufacturing hiring.** Three flags, each set only from the vendor’s own pages: hourly (built for high-volume hourly or frontline hiring), technical (built for engineers or technical roles), and compliance (built for regulated or clearance hiring: background checks, I-9, identity, export-control or clearance support, audit trails). A coding test does not make a tool fit for hiring technicians.

**How it was made.** Research agents worked one segment each from a written spec, opened every source they cited, and returned structured rows. An editor merged them. A second pass re-opened the source of every event and the headline page of every company, fixed dates and claims that did not hold up, and dropped duplicates, launches with no AI in them, and companies that have shut down or been absorbed. Two other models reviewed the map’s design before the data landed. Funding figures come only from the company’s own release or a named report. Nothing here is a ranking: the stage cells show what a company sells, not how well it sells it, and a launch count measures how much a company announces.