# BrightHire AI recruiting features, agents and launches URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/companies/brighthire/ Updated: 2026-10-28 First published: 2026-10-28 Company: BrightHire (https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/) Category: Interview scheduling and intelligence Map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/ > The map puts BrightHire in interview scheduling and intelligence, from its own headline, "AI built for exceptional hiring" [1]. Its core hiring stage is Interview [2]. Since May 2025 the map dates 3 events for BrightHire, 2 of them product launches [2]. The latest launch is "BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants", dated March 31, 2026 [3]. ## BrightHire at a glance | | BrightHire | | --- | --- | | Category | Interview scheduling and intelligence [1] | | Core stages | Interview [2] | | Partial stages | Screen and Report [2] | | AI capabilities sold | Named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, Assistant, Job posts and ads, Interview notes [2] | | Agent or always-on launches since May 2025 | 2 [2] | | Scale | Tier 2, established. Owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025. [2] | | Price on record | Not published; sales-led. [2] | | Site | https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/ | ## What BrightHire sells "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. [1][2] **Its AI.** AI copilots and agents for interview planning, AI notes and one-click scorecards, an AI assistant that recalls what candidates said, an AI interview coaching agent, and BrightHire Screen, an always-on AI interviewer. [2] The AI capabilities it sells today, as the map reads its site: named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, assistant, job posts and ads and interview notes [2]. ## Where BrightHire fits in hiring Core means the product is built on that stage of hiring. Partial means the stage is there but secondary. Not found means the map did not find it on BrightHire's own site. | Stage | BrightHire | What the stage covers | |---|---|---| | Source | Not found | Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach. | | Screen | Partial | Decide who moves on: resume review, matching, chat screening, AI interviews, assessments. | | Interview | Core | Run the interviews: scheduling, interview intelligence, notes, scorecards. | | Hire | Not found | Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records. | | Report | Partial | Report on hiring and the workforce: recruiting analytics, people analytics, workforce planning. | ## Every dated event since May 2025 The map dates 3 events for BrightHire, newest first [2]. Each links to the page that prints its date. - **March 31, 2026.** 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, live. [3] - **Nov. 13, 2025.** Acquisition. Zoom acquires BrightHire. Zoom announced the acquisition of BrightHire, "a leading AI-powered hiring intelligence platform", to add hiring capabilities to Zoom Workplace. [4] - **October 2025.** 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, live. [3] ## Scale and ownership The map puts BrightHire in scale tier 2, established. Its basis is this: Owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025. [2] BrightHire is owned by Zoom [2]. ## On the map BrightHire is one of 6 companies in interview scheduling and intelligence on [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire) [2]. [The company profiles](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/companies/) list every company on the map with a profile. ## What this profile does not cover ### Source not found on its site The map did not find a product for the Source stage on BrightHire's own site. The map defines that stage this way: Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach. ### Hire not found on its site The map did not find a product for the Hire stage on BrightHire's own site. The map defines that stage this way: Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records. ### Not flagged for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring The map flags a company for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring only when its own pages say so. BrightHire's pages did not, as the map read them. ### No published price The map's price note for BrightHire: Not published; sales-led. [2] ### Events before May 2025 The map dates events from May 2025 on. Earlier launches and deals are not on this page. ### We did not test the product This profile is built from BrightHire's own pages and dated announcements, as recorded on the map. We did not use or test the product. ## Questions people ask ### What does BrightHire sell? The map puts BrightHire in interview scheduling and intelligence [1]. "AI built for exceptional hiring." BrightHire records and summarizes interviews, writes notes and scorecards, guides interviewers in real time and measures interview quality. [2] ### Has BrightHire launched an AI agent? Yes. The map labels 2 agent or always-on launches from BrightHire since May 2025 [2]. The latest is "BrightHire Screen adds practice rounds and setup assistants", dated March 31, 2026 [3]. ### How big is BrightHire? The map puts BrightHire in scale tier 2, established. Owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025. [2] ### Does BrightHire publish its prices? No, not in full, as the map records it. Its price note: Not published; sales-led. [2] ## Sources 1. [zoom.com/en/products/brighthire](https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/). zoom.com. Read 2026-10-28. 2. [BrightHire on the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire). Newsprint. Read 2026-10-28. 3. [BrightHire Screen AI interviewer launches](https://brighthire.com/?p=13594). Vendor blog. Read 2026-10-28. 4. [Zoom acquires BrightHire](https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/). Zoom blog. Read 2026-10-28. ## Related - [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/) - [BrightHire on the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-brighthire) - [Companies on the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/companies/)