{ "updated": "2026-10-28", "what": "One row per company on the map. `cat` is its one category, what its own headline sells; `ph` scores the five stages of hiring 0 (not found on its site), 1 (partial) or 2 (core); `caps` lists the AI capabilities it sells today; `fit` flags hourly, technical and compliance hiring from the vendor's own pages; `src` lists every page the researcher opened for the row.", "categories": { "hcm": { "n": "HR suites and HRIS", "d": "Payroll, HR records and talent suites that now build or buy AI recruiting and HR agents." }, "ats": { "n": "Applicant tracking systems", "d": "The system of record for hiring: jobs, applicants, stages, offers, with AI added to review and scheduling." }, "platform": { "n": "Hiring networks and job platforms", "d": "Networks where candidates already are, selling AI search, matching and agents to employers." }, "talent_intel": { "n": "Sourcing and talent intelligence", "d": "Find and engage candidates beyond the applicants: AI search across profiles, CRM, rediscovery, skills data." }, "agentic": { "n": "AI recruiters and agents", "d": "The product is an agent that does a recruiter's job across steps: source, reach out, screen, schedule." }, "marketplace": { "n": "AI talent marketplaces", "d": "Marketplaces that match employers with vetted candidates or recruiters, with AI doing the vetting." }, "ai_interview": { "n": "AI interviewers and screening", "d": "AI holds the first conversation by chat, phone or video, scores it and books the next step." }, "interview_intel": { "n": "Interview scheduling and intelligence", "d": "Book interviews automatically, record them, write notes and scorecards." }, "assessment": { "n": "Skills assessments", "d": "Tests and work samples, from coding to aptitude, now built and scored with AI and guarded against AI cheating." }, "job_ads": { "n": "Job ads and employer brand", "d": "Write job posts, buy job-ad clicks programmatically, run career sites." }, "frontline": { "n": "Hourly and frontline hiring", "d": "High-volume hiring for shifts, plants, stores and warehouses: text-to-apply, instant screening, same-day offers." }, "analytics": { "n": "HR analytics and workforce planning", "d": "Report on the workforce and on hiring, forecast headcount, map skills, with natural-language questions and agents." }, "trust": { "n": "Background, identity and fraud checks", "d": "Background checks, identity verification and detection of fake or deepfake candidates." }, "compliance": { "n": "AI hiring compliance", "d": "Bias audits, AI governance and regulatory reporting for the AI used in hiring." } }, "phases": [ { "k": "source", "n": "Source", "d": "Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach." }, { "k": "screen", "n": "Screen", "d": "Decide who moves on: resume review, matching, chat screening, AI interviews, assessments." }, { "k": "interview", "n": "Interview", "d": "Run the interviews: scheduling, interview intelligence, notes, scorecards." }, { "k": "hire", "n": "Hire", "d": "Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records." }, { "k": "analyze", "n": "Report", "d": "Report on hiring and the workforce: recruiting analytics, people analytics, workforce planning." } ], "caps": [ { "k": "sourcing", "n": "AI sourcing", "d": "AI candidate search or talent discovery." }, { "k": "outreach", "n": "AI outreach", "d": "AI-written or automated candidate outreach and nurture." }, { "k": "job_ads", "n": "Job posts and ads", "d": "AI job descriptions, job-ad writing or programmatic ad spend." }, { "k": "matching", "n": "Screening and ranking", "d": "AI resume screening, ranking or candidate matching." }, { "k": "rediscovery", "n": "Rediscovery", "d": "AI that resurfaces past applicants, silver medalists or internal candidates for a new role." }, { "k": "chat", "n": "Candidate chat", "d": "A conversational assistant for candidates: questions, apply, pre-screen." }, { "k": "scheduling", "n": "Scheduling", "d": "Automated interview scheduling." }, { "k": "ai_interview", "n": "AI interviews", "d": "AI conducts the interview by voice, video or chat." }, { "k": "assessment", "n": "AI assessments", "d": "AI-built or AI-scored skills assessments." }, { "k": "notes", "n": "Interview notes", "d": "Interview intelligence: recording, notes, summaries, scorecards." }, { "k": "integrity", "n": "Fraud and identity", "d": "Candidate fraud, identity, deepfake or cheating detection." }, { "k": "analytics", "n": "AI analytics", "d": "AI analytics or natural-language reporting on HR or hiring data." }, { "k": "skills", "n": "Skills and planning", "d": "Skills ontologies, internal mobility or workforce planning." }, { "k": "copilot", "n": "Assistant", "d": "A general AI assistant for recruiters, HR or employees." }, { "k": "agent", "n": "Named agents", "d": "A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own." }, { "k": "mcp", "n": "MCP and agent APIs", "d": "An MCP server, an agent API, or an app inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot." }, { "k": "interop", "n": "Runs inside others", "d": "The product runs inside another platform, such as Workday, LinkedIn, Indeed or Teams." }, { "k": "audit", "n": "Bias audit and governance", "d": "Bias audits, explainability or regulatory reporting for hiring AI." }, { "k": "candidate_ai", "n": "AI for candidates", "d": "AI the vendor sells or gives to job seekers." } ], "modes": { "assist": { "n": "Assistive", "d": "Drafts, ranks, summarizes or suggests when a person asks. The person does each step." }, "agent": { "n": "Agent", "d": "Completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as sourcing and messaging against a brief or holding a screening interview." }, "always_on": { "n": "Always-on", "d": "Runs continuously without a prompt, such as screening every new applicant overnight, rediscovering past candidates when a role opens, or watching for fraud." } }, "scale_tiers": { "1": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue", "2": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base", "3": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed", "4": "No disclosed scale" }, "companies": [ { "n": "ADP", "u": "https://www.adp.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "a global leader in HR and payroll solutions", "url": "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "skills" ], "ai": "ADP Assist, built on ADP's workforce data platform: persona-based agents for employees, managers, HR and payroll practitioners (payroll variance, tax registration, HR policy, analytics and talent-action agents).", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NASDAQ: ADP); 1.1 million clients, 42 million wage earners" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Recruiting Management offers background screening; strong on payroll and compliance for employers of every size; no AI hiring agent announced in the window." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-09-03-ADP-Unveils-AI-Features-Built-for-HRs-Biggest-Challenges-at-Innovation-Day-2025", "https://mediacenter.adp.com/2026-01-28-ADP-R-Accelerates-AI-Leadership-with-Launch-of-New-AI-Agents-Designed-to-Solve-Workforce-Challenges", "https://apps.adp.com/en/apps/141660/adp-recruiting-management" ] }, { "n": "Cornerstone", "u": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire and retain talent to bridge the workforce readiness gap with an AI-powered and skills-driven solution.", "url": "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/talentlink-recruitment/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Cornerstone Workforce AI combines the Cornerstone People Graph and Skills Engine with \"Readiness Agents\" for internal mobility, onboarding and workforce insights; TalentLink recruiting offers \"AI-driven search\" and chatbots.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Formerly public (NASDAQ: CSOD), taken private by Clearlake Capital in 2021; says it serves about 7,000 organizations and 135M users." }, "owner": "Clearlake Capital", "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/talentlink-recruitment/", "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/", "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/", "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/building-the-agentic-future-responsibly-cornerstone-unveils-cornerstone-workforce-planning-and-cornerstone-agent-ready/", "https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/company/news-room/press-releases/clearlake-capital-completes-acquisition-of-cornerstone-ondemand/" ] }, { "n": "Dayforce", "u": "https://www.dayforce.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Dayforce Agentic HCM Platform changes what AI can do", "url": "https://www.dayforce.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "skills" ], "ai": "Dayforce AI Agents (pay, time off, job description, content authoring, people analytics), Ask Dayforce and Dayforce Bots on the Agentic HCM Platform; Agentic Recruiting with Ribbon's AI interviewer is announced but not yet shipped.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Taken private by Thoma Bravo for about $12.3B (closed 2026-02-04)" }, "owner": "Thoma Bravo", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Agentic Recruiting is designed for frontline and high-volume hiring, but it is planned for 2027 rollout, so hourly is not set yet." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.dayforce.com/", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-new-dayforce-ai-agents-to-accelerate-how-work-gets-done", "https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-dayforce", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-to-acquire-ribbon-ai-inc-to-advance-agentic-recruiting", "https://betakit.com/?p=411302", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-agentic-talent-experiences-to-transform-how-organizations-hire-and-develop-talen", "https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-unveils-the-agentic-hcm-platform" ] }, { "n": "Deel", "u": "https://www.deel.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire, manage, pay, & equip anyone, anywhere.", "url": "https://www.deel.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Deel AI and the AI Workforce: a Hiring agent, Onboarding agent, Payroll AI, PTO agent and customer-built agents, with a Deel app in ChatGPT. Deel's ATS says \"AI runs criteria-based first-round screens\" and its AI Interview Assistant records, transcribes and summarizes interviews. Clarity adds deepfake detection and identity verification from sourcing onward.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "ARR over $1B in Q1 2025 (Globes); Deel says it passed $1.5B ARR (Dealroom, Aug 2026); 40,000+ customers on its site" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E, $300M, 2025-10-16 ($17.3B valuation)", "investors": "Ribbit Capital (lead), Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, General Catalyst, Green Bay Ventures", "src": "https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001523829" }, "price": { "note": "Published: hiring bundle (source, screen, onboard) starting at $14 per worker per month; EOR from $599 per employee per month" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for cross-border hiring and EOR compliance; Clarity identity and deepfake checks are relevant to fraud screening but not to US clearance or export-control hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.deel.com/", "https://www.deel.com/en-gb/solutions/hire/ats/", "https://www.deel.com/pricing/", "https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-launches-ai-workforce/", "https://www.deel.com/blog/big-deel-recap-2026/", "https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-acquires-clarity/", "https://dealroom.co/news/142736-deel-acquires-clarity-to-strengthen-identity-verification-surpasses-1-5b/", "https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001523829", "https://pulse2.com/deel-300-million-series-e-at-17-3-billion-valuation-raised-for-hr-and-payroll-platform/" ] }, { "n": "Gusto", "u": "https://gusto.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire, pay, and grow like a pro. Gusto handles payroll, HR, and more in a snap.", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910131608/https://gusto.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "Gusto Cofounder \"already knows your business, takes initiative on the work that matters\" and runs automations across payroll and connected tools via SMS, Slack or web. Gusto connects to ChatGPT, Claude and Slack to ask about payroll, prep payroll and generate reports, and offers six AI agents and a multi-client MCP for accountants.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Gusto says it passed $1B in trailing 12-month revenue (May 2026); 500,000+ small business customers" }, "price": { "note": "Published (archived pricing page): from $49/mo + $6/mo per person up to $180/mo + $22/mo per person" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Multi-location payroll for hourly staff and state compliance tools are post-hire; no hiring AI found." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910131608/https://gusto.com/", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://gusto.com/product/hr/applicant-tracking-system", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://gusto.com/product/pricing", "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/01/23/gusto-launches-payroll-inside-chatgpt/176791/", "https://digital-release.wgnradio.com/business/press-releases/cision/20260423SF41810/gusto-reaches-500000-customers-and-unveils-nearly-75-new-features-for-small-businesses", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/ai/gusto-surpasses-1-billion-revenue-milestone-fueled-by-ai-and-product-expansion", "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/06/02/gusto-introduces-an-ai-teammate-for-small-businesses/184399/", "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/06/16/gusto-rolls-out-suite-of-ai-agents-that-assist-accountants-on-business-development/185241/", "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/?p=192269", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusto,_Inc." ] }, { "n": "Infor HCM", "u": "https://www.infor.com/solutions/human-capital-management", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Human capital management (HCM) software", "url": "https://www.infor.com/solutions/human-capital-management" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "assessment", "matching" ], "ai": "Talent Science uses predictive analytics and behavioral assessments to match candidates and employees to roles. Infor Industry AI Agents include a Recruiting Agent that \"Manages requisitions, job postings, candidate workflows, and hiring approvals\", listed for healthcare; the agent suite is \"in limited availability\" and sold in Infor Velocity Suite, \"an all-inclusive AI package\".", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Koch Industries subsidiary; 60,000+ customers and 17,000+ employees (vendor)." }, "owner": "Koch Industries", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. Velocity Suite AI package is sold as a flat fee (price not published)." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Infor pitches its workforce management (scheduling, not hiring) to \"large, complex frontline workforces\" including manufacturing; no frontline hiring product found." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.infor.com/solutions/human-capital-management", "https://www.infor.com/solutions/human-capital-management/talent-management", "https://www.infor.com/platform/enterprise-ai/ai-agent-solutions", "https://www.infor.com/about", "https://www.infor.com/news", "https://www.infor.com/news/infor-unveils-built-for-industry-ai-agents-revolutionize-operational-workflows", "https://www.infor.com/news/infor-unveils-its-expanded-infor-industry-ai", "https://www.infor.com/news/infor-named-leader-2026-gartner-wfm-technology", "https://www.infor.com/blog/october-2025-genai-embedded-experiences" ] }, { "n": "Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM", "u": "https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM is a complete cloud solution that connects every human resource process", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "scheduling", "skills" ], "ai": "Oracle Career Coach (agentic candidate experience in Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting) plus Fusion Agentic Applications for HR such as Job Architect Agent, Role Guide Generation Agent, Intelligent Talent Profiles Agent and Grow Coach, all built with AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NYSE: ORCL)" }, "owner": "Oracle Corporation", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/", "https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/recruiting/", "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-helps-organizations-optimize-the-candidate-and-hiring-experience-with-agentic-ai-2025-10-15/", "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-adds-new-fusion-agentic-applications-and-ai-agents-to-help-improve-talent-management-2026-08-11/" ] }, { "n": "Paychex", "u": "https://www.paychex.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "an industry-leading human capital management (HCM) company", "url": "https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/announcing-wise-ai-for-agentic-workforce" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise) combines \"Agents\", \"Intelligence\", \"Assistants\" and \"Advisory\"; WISE Hire \"combines AI agents for digital candidate sourcing, recruiting, and hiring coaching\" with \"a patented candidate-matching technology\". WISE is also available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (Nasdaq: PAYX), about 840,000 customers. Bought Paycor HCM for about $4.1B enterprise value, closed 2025-04-14 (before the event window)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Request Pricing)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Sells Paychex Background Screening Services; WISE Hire keeps human-in-the-loop review of hiring decisions." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.paychex.com/", "https://paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-unveils-workforce-management-ai-solutions", "https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/announcing-wise-ai-for-agentic-workforce", "https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-wise-microsoft-365-teams", "https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paychex-wise-hire-ai-recruiting", "https://www.paychex.com/newsroom/news-releases/paycor-acquisition-complete" ] }, { "n": "Paycom", "u": "https://www.paycom.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "a leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software", "url": "https://www.paycom.com/about/press-room/paycom-unveils-iwant-command-driven-ai-engine-with-accurate-rapid-results/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot" ], "ai": "IWant, \"the industry's first command-driven AI engine in a single database\", gives \"instant access to accurate applicant and employee data\", can pull up an applicant's resume, and lets managers approve punch changes and time-off requests. It has an Executive Mode and is \"included for all users at no additional cost\".", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NYSE: PAYC). Q2 2026 prepared remarks guide 2026 total revenue to $2.197B to $2.212B." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. IWant is included at no additional cost." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Sells Enhanced Background Checks and E-Verify in its Talent Acquisition suite; the AI itself is data search, not screening." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.paycom.com/about/press-room/paycom-unveils-iwant-command-driven-ai-engine-with-accurate-rapid-results/", "https://www.paycom.com/software/iwant/", "https://paycom.com/our-solution/applicant-tracking/", "https://s201.q4cdn.com/761236765/files/doc_news/New-Study-Finds-Paycoms-IWant-Has-Delivered-Significant-ROI-2026.pdf", "https://s201.q4cdn.com/761236765/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/PAYC-Q2-2026-Earnings-Final.pdf", "https://www.kgou.org/business-and-economy/2025-10-01/paycom-lays-off-500-employees-will-replace-jobs-with-ai" ] }, { "n": "Paylocity", "u": "https://www.paylocity.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "a leading provider of HCM, Finance, and IT solutions", "url": "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-4-7-paylocity-acquires-grayscale-to-expand-ai-powered-recruiting-capabilities" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Paylocity Ignite AI is \"platform-wide AI with agents\": a Candidate Fit Agent, Resume Summary Agent and Answer & Insight Agent, plus Recruiting Optimizer's Candidate Engagement Agent (conversational AI over web and SMS that runs screening questions and helps schedule interviews) and Talent Rediscovery Agent.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NASDAQ: PCTY)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Grayscale and Recruiting Optimizer target \"high-volume, high-turnover workforces\"; the Candidate Fit Agent flags screening criteria that may not be compliant." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-4-7-paylocity-acquires-grayscale-to-expand-ai-powered-recruiting-capabilities", "https://finviz.com/news/370506/paylocity-launches-ignite-ai-redefining-industry-ai-leadership", "https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Paylocity+Launches+AI-Powered+Recruiting+Optimizer+to+Automate+Recruiting+Workflows+and+Speed+Hiring" ] }, { "n": "Rippling", "u": "https://www.rippling.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "Manage your entire workforce on one system", "url": "https://www.rippling.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "notes", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Rippling Recruiting has Application Review (AI screening against recruiter-defined criteria with bias checks), Interview Assistant (recording, transcripts, summaries), AI feedback summaries and AI job descriptions. Rippling AI is an assistant that answers on live business data and takes approved actions across HR, IT and finance, plus AI automations and shareable AI skills.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "TechCrunch (May 2025): $570M annualized revenue per The Information, 20,000+ customers, $1.85B raised, $16.8B valuation" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 1850, "last": "Series G, $450M, 2025-05-09 ($16.8B valuation)", "investors": "Sands Capital, GIC, Goldman Sachs Growth, Baillie Gifford (new); Elad Gil, Y Combinator (existing)", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/rippling-raises-450m-at-a-16-8b-valuation-reveals-yc-is-a-customer/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page is a custom quote form" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General ATS inside an HRIS; candidate texting and self-scheduling help volume hiring, but no hourly or clearance-specific hiring tools found." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.rippling.com/", "https://www.rippling.com/recruiting", "https://rippling.com/blog/meet-rippling-recruiting", "https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-rippling-ai", "https://www.rippling.com/ai", "https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-rippling-data-cloud", "https://www.rippling.com/press", "https://www.rippling.com/pricing", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/rippling-raises-450m-at-a-16-8b-valuation-reveals-yc-is-a-customer/" ] }, { "n": "SAP SuccessFactors", "u": "https://www.sap.com/products/hcm.html", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors combines a modern, AI-native recruiting platform with SAP's core HCM", "url": "https://news.sap.com/2026/06/sap-strategic-leader-2026-fosway-9-grid-talent-acquisition/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Joule copilot and Joule Agents across HR; SmartRecruiters' Winston, which SAP says will begin working alongside Joule later in 2026, with agentic interviewing and an agentic CRM.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public parent SAP SE (NYSE: SAP); SuccessFactors has over 10,000 customers; SmartRecruiters serves more than 4,000 organizations" }, "owner": "SAP SE", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "SAP cites SmartRecruiters' depth in high-volume recruiting (JYSK processes 50,000 applications a month); new SuccessFactors Workforce Scheduling targets manufacturing shift planning." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://news.sap.com/2025/08/sap-to-acquire-smartrecruiters/", "https://news.sap.com/2025/09/sap-completes-smartrecruiters-acquisition/", "https://news.sap.com/?p=237189", "https://news.sap.com/2026/06/sap-strategic-leader-2026-fosway-9-grid-talent-acquisition/", "https://www.cio.com/article/4068172/sap-sets-timeline-to-replace-successfactors-recruiting-module-with-smartrecruiters.html" ] }, { "n": "UKG", "u": "https://www.ukg.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "the AI-first Workforce Operating Platform for HR, payroll, and workforce management", "url": "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" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "scheduling" ], "ai": "UKG Bryte AI agents (payroll, onboarding, Policy Q&A Assistant, Frontline Assist, Conversational Reporting), Bryte Voice, and Rapid Hire's AI- and mobile-first conversational hiring, plus AI job recommendations, profile summaries and bulk apply for high-volume recruiting.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Privately held; UKG says tens of thousands of organizations use it to plan frontline staffing" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for frontline and hourly work; Rapid Hire claims time-to-hire of a few days and 90% of repetitive hiring tasks automated." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "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", "https://www.gflalliance.org/news/2025/11/07/member-news/ukg-showcases-the-future-of-frontline-work-powered-by-agentic-applications/", "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" ] }, { "n": "Workday", "u": "https://www.workday.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Enterprise AI Platform for HR, Finance, and IT", "url": "https://www.workday.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Talent Acquisition Agent (autopilot, early access October 2026) builds pipelines, drafts outreach and surfaces HiredScore grades; the Paradox candidate experience agent handles screening and self-scheduling; Sana orchestrates Workday agents, which are governed in the Agent System of Record.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public company (NASDAQ: WDAY); paid about $1.1B for Sana alone" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. Paradox agent sold as an add-on to new and existing customers." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Strong for frontline hiring through Paradox (scheduling, screening, onboarding for high-volume roles); the Mobley v. Workday AI screening lawsuit is a live risk for buyers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workday.com/", "https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/ai-recruiting.html", "https://blog.workday.com/en-us/talent-acquisition-agent.html", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-10-13-Workday-Launches-Autopilot-Agents-That-Get-Real-Work-Done-Across-HR,-Finance,-and-IT", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-21-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Paradox,-the-AI-Company-Redefining-the-Frontline-Candidate-Experience", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-10-01-Workday-Completes-Acquisition-of-Paradox", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-09-16-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Sana", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-14-Workday-Acquires-Flowise,-Bringing-Powerful-AI-Agent-Builder-Capabilities-to-the-Workday-Platform", "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", "https://www.reworked.co/digital-workplace/workday-finalizes-sana-acquisition-to-build-front-door-for-work/", "https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/discrimination-lawsuit-over-workdays-ai-hiring-tools-can-proceed-as-class-action-6-things", "https://www.hrdive.com/news/workday-ai-bias-lawsuit-class-collective-action/748518/", "https://ppc.land/workday-faces-bigger-discrimination-lawsuit/", "https://gpa.net/blogs/americas/us-judge-denies-workday-s-application-to-dismiss-hiring-bias-allegations", "https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/workday-cfo-1-1-billion-sana-deal-aligns-ma-strategy" ] }, { "n": "BambooHR", "u": "https://www.bamboohr.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "BambooHR is a People Intelligence Platform that helps small and mid-sized businesses bring clarity to their workforce", "url": "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-launches-bamboo-ai" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "Bamboo AI is \"an embedded system of AI agents and intelligence\" that generates reports, builds shift schedules, checks payroll, answers benefits questions and drafts recognition messages. Ask BambooHR is the employee and HR assistant. The BambooHR MCP and Claude connector carry the same data and permissions into Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "more than 30,000 customers in over 190 countries (BambooHR boilerplate, Jul 2026)" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Core plan at $10 USD per employee per month (asterisked; quote form for other plans)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "New Time & Attendance with shift scheduling (Jun 2026) serves hourly teams after hire; no hourly-specific hiring AI found." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.bamboohr.com/", "https://www.bamboohr.com/platform/ai", "https://www.bamboohr.com/hr-software/applicant-tracking", "https://www.bamboohr.com/pricing", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/query-index.json", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-ai-platform", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/connect-2025-showcase", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-launches-bamboo-ai", "https://www.bamboohr.com/about-bamboohr/press-release/bamboohr-announces-claude-connector-built-on-bamboohr-mcp" ] }, { "n": "Darwinbox", "u": "https://darwinbox.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Native HCM for Global Enterprises", "url": "https://darwinbox.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Darwinbox Sense for Recruitment does AI sourcing, screening and fit scoring \"with explainable reasoning\", plus candidate-facing AI for \"status updates, scheduling, FAQ handling, and pre-screening.\" Super Agent, \"an AI teammate\" for every employee, draws on \"30+ HR agents\" and an MCP server; Cortex (August 2026) adds a Context Graph, a Signal Layer and the Cortex Agent Platform.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "More than 1,400 enterprises and 4.5 million employees on the platform (vendor, August 2026); backed by KKR, Partners Group, Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures. Revenue not disclosed." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "$140M investment co-led by Partners Group and KKR, 2025-03-26", "investors": "Partners Group, KKR, Gravity Holdings; earlier TCV, Microsoft, Salesforce Ventures, Peak XV, Lightspeed, Endiya Partners", "src": "https://www.hrdive.com/press-release/20250325-darwinbox-raises-140-million-investment-co-led-by-partners-group-and-kkr-t-1/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor blog lists \"Native support for bulk, evergreen, campus, lateral, and high-volume hiring\" but no hourly, plant or technical hiring product." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://darwinbox.com/", "https://darwinbox.com/en-us/products/recruitment", "https://darwinbox.com/blog/10-best-ai-recruiting-platforms-software", "https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/", "https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/darwinbox-launches-cortex-ai-native-hcm-platform", "https://newsroom.darwinbox.com/press-release/darwinbox-expands-microsoft-partnership-frontier-tuning", "https://www.hrdive.com/press-release/20250915-darwinbox-launches-super-agent-an-ai-teammate-for-every-employee-that-gets-1/", "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/hr-technology/darwinbox-named-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-suites-49744", "https://www.hrdive.com/press-release/20250325-darwinbox-raises-140-million-investment-co-led-by-partners-group-and-kkr-t-1/" ] }, { "n": "Employment Hero", "u": "https://employmenthero.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in", "url": "https://employmenthero.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "The AI Recruitment Agent is a \"24/7 recruitment partner that sources candidates, conducts first-round interviews\": it drafts the job ad and rubric, scores and ranks applicants, runs AI screening calls and AI video interviews, and since June 2026 has an AI Notetaker for Meet and Teams interviews. SmartMatch ranks applicants and shows live candidate shortlists; Hero AI is the employee and manager assistant, with a Payroll Agent and HR Agent.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series F, AUD 263M, 2023-10-23 (total over AUD 650M; USD not stated)", "investors": "TCV (Series F lead), SEEK Growth Fund", "src": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/series-f-raises-263-million/" }, "price": { "note": "Published (NZ page): standalone hiring Free plan with candidate scoring and 50 one-off AI video interviews; Pro tiers $199 (50 AI interviews) to $959 (300 AI interviews); Recruitment Agent included in the HR Engage plan ($13). Currency and billing period as printed on the NZ page." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor hiring pages do not mention hourly, trades, manufacturing or technical hiring; SMB focus in Australia, NZ, UK and Asia. Rostering exists but is not a hiring tool." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://employmenthero.com/", "https://employmenthero.com/about-us/", "https://employmenthero.com/products/recruitment-agent/", "https://employmenthero.com/nz/hiring-software-nz/", "https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/", "https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/", "https://employmenthero.com/blog/new-ats-recruitment-features/", "https://employmenthero.com/blog/at-a300m-arr-ai-powered-employment-hero-enters-next-phase-as-seek-growth-fund-launches-stake-sale", "https://employmenthero.com/blog/series-f-raises-263-million/", "https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/ai-is-the-shortcut-from-vacant-role-to-hired" ] }, { "n": "HiBob", "u": "https://www.hibob.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "HiBob is the people platform for the modern world of work.", "url": "https://www.hibob.com/press/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "skills" ], "ai": "Bob AI and Bob Companion, which \"orchestrates a network of specialized AI agents\" (Hiring, Performance, Skills, Payroll and others). The Hiring Agent \"creates job descriptions and supports evaluation processes and interviews.\" The ATS lists AI-powered CV matching, AI-generated evaluation scorecards and an AI email composer. Galileo-powered agents (with The Josh Bersin Company) launched in September 2026.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "5,500+ customers (Salesforce quote in HiBob release, Sep 2026); about $3.2B valuation per Bloomberg via Reworked" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Strategic round, $166M, 2026-09-01 (about $3.2B valuation)", "investors": "Salesforce (lead), Farallon Capital", "src": "https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/salesforce-leads-166m-investment-in-hibob/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page is a demo request form" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hibob.com/", "https://www.hibob.com/press/", "https://www.hibob.com/platform/talent/hiring/", "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/", "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/mcp/", "https://www.hibob.com/news/", "https://www.hibob.com/news/salesforce-hibob-166m-investment/", "https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-brings-people-intelligence-into-slackbot-to-turn-workforce-insights-into-business-action/", "https://www.hibob.com/news/hibob-and-the-josh-bersin-company-launch-galileopowered-workforce-intelligence-in-bob/", "https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/salesforce-leads-166m-investment-in-hibob/", "https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/hibob-embeds-bersins-galileo-ai-into-bob-hr-platform/", "https://www.hibob.com/pricing/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiBob" ] }, { "n": "isolved", "u": "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "isolvedĀ®, a Workforce Capital Management (WCM) company that helps organizations recruit, retain and elevate their workforce", "url": "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agent-for-payroll" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "mcp" ], "ai": "Attract & Hire Small Business offers \"automated candidate scoring and ranking.\" The Guardian agent analyzes every payroll run and prepares corrections for human sign-off; five more agents (The Advisor, The Signal, The Orchestrator, The Watchdog, The Helper) arrive in phases across 2026 and 2027. The isolved Connector for Claude is generally available.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "More than 200,000 employers and 9 million US employees (vendor). Revenue and funding not disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Restaurant package targets \"tipped and hourly employees\" for payroll and retention, not hiring; no plant or technical hiring product." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/claude-ai-agents-built-for-hr-outcomes", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agent-for-payroll", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/ai-agents-org-chart", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/isolved-chosen-pilot-indeed-ai-talent-scout", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/isolved-expands-hiring-innovation", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/lighthouse-tech-award-finalist-talent-intelligence", "https://www.isolvedhcm.com/media-center/press-releases/isolved-launches-tailored-restaurant-solutions" ] }, { "n": "Personio", "u": "https://www.personio.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-powered platform connecting Core HR, Talent, Payroll and Employee Finance - built for growing organisations.", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot" ], "ai": "Personio AI Assistant (generally available to all employees since October 2025) answers HR questions; AI-powered summaries in Performance and Development. aurio's AI candidate search and application ranking are being integrated into Personio Recruiting, with \"initial customer launches related to the aurio integration later this year\" (April 2026).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "16,000 customers covering 1.5M+ employees; first profitable quarter announced April 2026" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E second close, $200M, 2022-06-22 ($8.5B valuation; Series E total $470M)", "investors": "Greenoaks (lead)", "src": "https://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-raises-200m-second-series-e/" }, "price": { "note": "not verified; personio.com blocked by a bot checkpoint during research" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Personio lists Manufacturers among its solutions, but no hourly-specific hiring AI found." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/", "https://web.archive.org/web/20260617100017/https://www.personio.com/product/recruiting/", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-profitability-acquisition-aurio/", "https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/hug-2025-feature-updates/", "https://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://www.personio.com/about-personio/press/personio-raises-200m-second-series-e/", "https://www.rrhhdigital.com/secciones/tecnologia-e-innovacion/793485/personio-alcanza-la-rentabilidad-y-acelera-su-estrategia-de-ia-con-la-adquisicion-de-aurio/", "https://www.ypog.law/en/press/ypog-advises-personio-on-acquisition-of-recruiting-ai-startup-aurio", "https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/personio-raises-200m-in-second-series-e-to-drive-expansion-and-further-its-vision-for-hr-software/" ] }, { "n": "Remote", "u": "https://remote.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "hcm", "cat_src": { "quote": "The financial operating system for the global workforce", "url": "https://remote.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "matching", "mcp", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Recruit's AI Matches: \"Post a role and AI will instantly surface the best-fit candidates for your vacancy\"; AI Sourcing searches 800M+ profiles. Remote MCP \"gives any AI agent a live, secure connection to Remote's payroll, contracts, compliance data, and org structure\"; AI-native Surveys analyze employee feedback.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it passed $300M ARR and became cash-flow positive, serving tens of thousands of companies (14 May 2026). Last valued near $3B in 2022." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 495, "last": "Series C, $300M, 2022-04-05", "investors": "SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (lead), Accel, Sequoia, Index Ventures, General Catalyst", "src": "https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/remote-secures-300-million-series-c-financing-to-power-global-employment/" }, "price": { "note": "Recruit pricing not published; sales-led (Book a demo)." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for cross-border hiring and employment compliance; vendor pages make no hourly, technical or clearance hiring claims." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://remote.com/", "https://remote.com/en-au/global-hr/recruit", "https://remote.com/blog/product/remote-launches-recruit-talent-sourcing-made-simple-through-ai", "https://remote.com/blog/product/remote-revolutionizes-hiring-with-ai-that-finds-the-best-global-talent", "https://remote.com/blog/remote-introduces-new-ai-native-surveys-to-transform-employee-feedback-into-real-time-workforce-insights", "https://remote.com/blog/remotes-modern-payroll-platform-surpasses-300-growth-fueling-ambitious-next-chapter-as-the-leading-global-employment-infrastructure", "https://remote.com/blog/monthly-updates/new-features-feb-2026", "https://support.remote.com/hc/en-us/articles/46712088162701-What-is-Remote-MCP", "https://pulse2.com/remote-buys-atlas/", "https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/remote-secures-300-million-series-c-financing-to-power-global-employment/", "https://saastr.com/saastr-ai-app-of-the-week-remote-the-300m-payroll-platform-your-ai-agent-can-run" ] }, { "n": "iCIMS", "u": "https://www.icims.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Go beyond AI features with an intelligent hiring platform powered by billions of hiring interactions", "url": "https://www.icims.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "copilot", "integrity", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Coalesce AI is \"the unified intelligence layer embedded across the entire ICIMS platform\": intelligent search and match, digital assistants, autonomous agents and ICIMS Frontline AI. Named agents are the AI Sourcing Agent, the Hiring Agent for Microsoft Teams (October 2026) and an Interview Scheduling Agent due by end of 2026; the Fall 2026 release adds fraud detection.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Revenue $400M (2022) per Wikipedia; homepage claims more than 4,400 companies in 200 countries, including a quarter of the Fortune 500." }, "owner": "Vista Equity Partners", "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Frontline AI targets high-volume frontline roles with 24/7 chat across SMS, WhatsApp and web." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.icims.com/", "https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/icimsagents/", "https://www.roi-nj.com/2025/09/12/tech/icims-acquires-apli-strengthening-ai-market-leadership/", "https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/icims-acquires-ai-company-apli-accelerating-its-market-leading-ai-innovation-and-enabling-a-single-talent-acquisition-platform-for-complex-enterprise-and-high-volume-hiring/", "https://brandonhall.com/icims-acquires-apli-to-expand-frontline-hiring-capabilities-at-hr-tech-2025/", "https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/fallrelease2025/", "https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/brand/", "https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/springrelease2026/", "https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/intelligenthiringplatform/", "https://www.icims.com/talent-cloud-recruiting/innovations/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICIMS" ] }, { "n": "Access Vincere Evo", "u": "https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/products/vincere/", "w": "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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Access Vincere Evo is a powerful AI-first recruitment software trusted by 22,000+ recruiters worldwide", "url": "https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/products/vincere/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "job_ads", "matching", "notes", "outreach" ], "ai": "AI runs on Access Evo, The Access Group's shared AI layer: Access Evo Powered Candidate Scoring (beta, 1 to 5 stars with highlights, gaps and suggested interview questions), the Evo Content OptimAIser for emails and candidate briefs, the AI Generator for job descriptions and ads, Evo Meeting Assistant summaries and AI forecasting in Intelligence. Access also describes \"automation agents\" for matching and workflow orchestration.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Public-company-scale parent (The Access Group); vendor says 22,000+ recruiters use it; acquired by Access in January 2022." }, "owner": "The Access Group", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/products/vincere/", "https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/company/news/the-access-group-acquires-vincere/", "https://investor.citizensbank.com/about-us/newsroom/latest-news/2022/2022-01-07.aspx", "https://help.vincere.io/en/articles/11645312-smarter-hiring-with-vincere-your-ai-powered-recruitment-toolkit", "https://intercom.help/vincere-help-centre/en/collections/19736008", "https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764107-vincere-platform-updates-v25-1-3-29th-march-25", "https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764149-vincere-platform-updates-v25-3-1-3rd-july-25", "https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764318-vincere-platform-updates-april-26", "https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764344-vincere-platform-updates-june-26", "https://help-accessvincere.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/16764186-timetemp-intelligence-updates-september-25" ] }, { "n": "Ashby", "u": "https://www.ashbyhq.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "What an ATS should be. The all-in-one recruiting platform that evolves at the speed of AI.", "url": "https://www.ashbyhq.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "copilot", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI-Assisted Application Review checks resumes against job criteria; AI Notetaker records, transcribes and summarizes interviews; Ashby Assistant and Custom Agents (beta) act on recruiting data, also in Slack; Scheduling Agents are in preview and the AI Interviewer (from Talent Llama) is in private beta. An Ashby MCP Server in open beta lets ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor work with Ashby data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Ashby says customers grew from 2,400 to over 4,400 in the year to May 2026 and revenue grew over 100%; $50M Series D in July 2025." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series D, $50M, 2025-07", "investors": "Alkeon Capital (lead), Lachy Groom (co-lead), F-Prime, Elad Gil, Gaingels", "src": "https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/07/23/ai-hiring-platform-ashby-secures-50-million-to-streamline-recruitment-465454/" }, "price": { "note": "Published: All-In-One Foundations $400/month up to 100 employees; Plus and Enterprise priced by size and usage. AI credits included per plan power application review, fraud detection and talent rediscovery; AI Notetaker is a paid add-on." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ashbyhq.com/", "https://www.ashbyhq.com/pricing", "https://ashbyhq.com/product-updates", "https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/product/ai-assisted-application-review", "https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/ai-notetaker", "https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/introducing-fraudulent-candidate-detection-and-management-to-help-you-focus-on-legitimate-candidates", "https://ashbyhq.com/blog/culture/ashby-one-2026-keynote", "https://ashbyhq.com/blog/culture/talent-llama", "https://www.ashbyhq.com/product-updates/mcp", "https://digital-release.wowktv.com/business/press-releases/cision/20260507SF53835/ashby-expands-its-ai-native-ats-with-agents-assistant-and-mcp-support", "https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/07/23/ai-hiring-platform-ashby-secures-50-million-to-streamline-recruitment-465454/", "https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/ashby-raises-50-million-in-series-d/" ] }, { "n": "Avature", "u": "https://www.avature.net/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "an AI-powered platform for strategic recruiting and talent management", "url": "https://www.avature.net/press-release/bwt-alpine-formula-one-team-avature-partnership/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "copilot", "integrity", "matching", "skills" ], "ai": "Avature AI is \"platform-native and contextually aware by design\", with a \"models-as-a-service architecture\", semantic matching, user-assisted copilots and \"workflow-embedded agents\". In 2026 it said it \"is introducing a new generation of AI agents\" plus \"an agent builder enabling enterprises to create and deploy their own AI agents\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Private. Says it is used by 110 Fortune 500 companies in more than 164 countries; AppsRunTheWorld lists 650+ customers." }, "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.avature.net/", "https://avature.ai/", "https://www.avature.net/press-releases/", "https://www.avature.net/news/", "https://www.avature.net/press-release/bwt-alpine-formula-one-team-avature-partnership/", "https://www.avature.net/press-release/avature-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-recruiting-suites/", "https://www.avature.net/blogs/avatureupfront-us-2025-key-highlights-and-insights/", "https://www.avature.net/blogs/avatureupfront-apac-2026-key-highlights-and-insights/", "https://www.avature.net/blogs/what-will-it-take-to-build-the-future-of-hr-key-takeaways-from-avature-upfront-eu-2026/", "https://www.appsruntheworld.com/hcm-top-500-software-vendors/avature/" ] }, { "n": "Breezy HR", "u": "https://breezy.hr/", "w": "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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Big-Company AI Recruiting Minus the Big-Company Contract", "url": "https://marketing.breezy.hr/p/breezy-intelligence" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "notes" ], "ai": "Breezy Intelligence: Applicant Insights (\"gives every candidate a 0-10 score with a written explanation\"), Resume Audit (\"Flags resumes built by bots or online generators\"), Interview Analysis (beta) and the Breezy MCP Server (beta).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc, a listed company at the time, in April 2019; current parent not re-verified for 2026." }, "owner": "Learning Technologies Group", "price": { "note": "Published (read 2026-10-12 via Yardstick): Bootstrap free; Startup $157, Growth $273, Business $439 a month billed annually; Custom Pro quoted. Breezy Intelligence credits from $30 per 100,000 on any plan; about 500 credits to score one candidate." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://marketing.breezy.hr/p/breezy-intelligence", "https://help.breezy.hr/en/articles/16527814-what-s-new-in-breezy", "https://yardstick.team/breezy-pricing", "https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/performance-management/learning-technologies-group-acquires-breezy-hr/" ] }, { "n": "Bullhorn", "u": "https://www.bullhorn.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI recruitment ATS & CRM powering 10,000+ staffing agencies", "url": "https://www.bullhorn.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Amplify Digital Workers carry named skills (Enrich, Match, Screen, Outreach, Present, Prospect, Transcribe, Verify, Audit, Extract) that recruiters deploy inside Bullhorn workflows; Screen can \"Run interviews by chat or voice and deliver candidate summaries.\" Amplify Chat is a staffing-specific LLM, \"AI that speaks staffing,\" that can start screens or update records.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says more than 10,000 customers, 1,400 employees, 14 countries; private and PE-backed; revenue not disclosed on pages opened." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Private equity recapitalisation with Stone Point Capital as lead investor, announced 2020-09-09, amount not disclosed", "investors": "Stone Point Capital, Insight Partners, Genstar Capital", "src": "https://www.bullhorn.com/uk/?p=64064" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Amplify page links to a demo and gives no figures)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for staffing agencies, including light industrial and healthcare staffing firms, but no vendor page opened shows a high-volume hourly, technical or compliance feature set." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.bullhorn.com/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/amplify/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-launches-amplify/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-unveils-amplify-digital-workers-at-engage-2026/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-acquires-targetrecruit/", "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/", "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/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-promotes-four-executives-to-drive-ai-innovation-accelerate-global-growth/", "https://www.bullhorn.com/uk/?p=64064", "https://www.bullhorn.com/uk/?p=72049" ] }, { "n": "Ceipal", "u": "https://www.ceipal.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Ceipal Applicant Tracking Software", "url": "https://www.ceipal.com/ceipal-ats" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Ceipal markets agentic AI it calls Ora, with agents it lists as live: Search & Match Agent, Recruiter Assistant (voice interviews, smart matching, instant screening, job optimization), Candidate Submission Match Score, Emailing Agent, HR Agent for timesheets, vendor and job-publishing compliance agents and an Ask Anything agent for plain-English questions on pipeline and billing data. Ceipal says Ora works \"end-to-end across your ATS, VMS, and Workforce Management on one data layer\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says over 2,500 clients and more than 200,000 recruiters and hiring managers; press kit says over 500 employees. Funding totals appear only on third-party trackers and conflict." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo and Get Started only)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": true, "note": "Built for IT and healthcare staffing; AI talent discovery searches Google and GitHub, and the healthcare ATS has a credentialing and compliance module that tracks licenses and certifications. Not built for hourly plant hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ceipal.com/", "https://www.ceipal.com/agents", "https://www.ceipal.com/ceipal-ats", "https://www.ceipal.com/press-kit", "https://ceipal.com/resources/news/media-coverage", "https://www.ceipal.com/resources/ceipal-announces-healthcare-enhacements", "https://www.ceipal.com/resources/ceipal-connect-ceipal-product-demo-ai", "https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-july-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management", "https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-august-2026-updates-for-ats-healthcare-ats-vms-and-workforce-management", "https://www.ceipal.com/resources/whats-new-in-ceipal-latest-release-ats-healthcare-vms-workforce", "https://ceipal.com/?p=20967" ] }, { "n": "Cezanne Recruitment", "u": "https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/recruitment/", "w": "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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Recruitment Software & ATS", "url": "https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/recruitment/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching" ], "ai": "AI CV scoring compares each CV with the job description and gives a numerical score with a one-line summary and strengths and gaps; AI blind scoring removes personal details from CVs before hiring managers review them. The product page also lists \"pre-built ChatGPT prompt tools\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Cezanne (HR and payroll software, backed by NorthEdge since 2023); no separate customer count published." }, "owner": "Cezanne", "price": { "note": "not published; quote by headcount range; no upfront, implementation or long-term contract fees" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/recruitment/", "https://cezannehr.com/news/occupop-is-now-cezanne-recruitment/", "https://cezannehr.com/news/cezanne-makes-first-major-acquisition-with-dublin-based-recruitment-tech-leaders-occupop/", "https://cezannehr.com/hr-blog/2025/12/the-cezanne-2025-wrap-up-a-look-back-at-our-biggest-year-yet/", "https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-january-2026-release-notes", "https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-april/may-2026-release-notes", "https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-june-july-2026-release-notes" ] }, { "n": "ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany)", "u": "https://www.clearcompany.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "ClearCo empowers HR and business leaders to act with clarity and confidence by unifying the entire talent lifecycle", "url": "https://www.clearcompany.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "ClearCo's Agent Platform is \"a suite of AI agents purpose-built for the talent lifecycle\": the Req Agent, a Sourcing Agent that \"activates AI prescreening with a single instruction\", an Interview Agent, and Agent Studio for custom agents, reported as built on an open MCP architecture. Earlier tools include AI Notetaker, AI Sourcing Engine and AI Talent Match.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Private. Homepage cites 3,000 clients, 1.8M employees supported and 85M applications processed." }, "price": { "note": "Not published; demo-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Sells background checks inside the platform, but no vendor page shows it is built for regulated or clearance hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.clearcompany.com/", "https://www.clearcompany.com/support", "https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/clearco-releases-ai-agent-platform", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/ai/clearco-launches-ai-agent-platform-for-end-to-end-talent-automation", "https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/2025-inc-5000-10th-consecutive-year", "https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/celebrating-awards-and-bold-new-leadership", "https://clearcompany.com/resources/blog/celebrates-9-straight-years-inc-5000-20-years-in-business-2024" ] }, { "n": "Crelate", "u": "https://www.crelate.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Crelate unifies sourcing, Recruiting CRM, and applicant tracking with agentic AI", "url": "https://www.crelate.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Discover Agent searches \"over a billion candidate profiles\" outside the firm's database through conversation, and Insights Agent refreshes records and proactively suggests \"Ideas\"; both feed an Agents Dashboard. Co-Pilot suggests next steps and search terms, and the MCP server lets AI assistants query Crelate records with each action logged.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 1,500+ recruiting teams and 25,000+ professionals since 2012; small venture funding per CB Insights." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 11.56, "last": "Series B, $5.01M (date not printed; CB Insights says about five years ago)", "investors": "Five Elms Capital, Alliance of Angels", "src": "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/crelate" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Essentials $85 per user per month (annual), Business $119 per user per month; Business Plus and Platform are custom. Discover Agent is on every plan with monthly AI Credits; MCP server on Business Plus for select clients." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Agency, executive search and staffing focus; no hourly, technical or compliance evidence on vendor pages." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.crelate.com/", "https://www.crelate.com/ai/discover", "https://www.crelate.com/pricing", "https://www.crelate.com/roadmap", "https://www.crelate.com/blog", "https://www.crelate.com/?p=36658", "https://www.crelate.com/blog/crelate-launches-insights-agent-living-platform", "https://www.crelate.com/blog/crelate-october-2026-release-ai-agents", "https://help.crelate.com/en/articles/16069109-what-s-new-august-2026-release", "https://help.crelate.com/en/articles/11697857-crelate-s-ai-discover-agent-webinar", "https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News/Crelate-debuts-Co-Pilot-AI-to-enhance-staffing-and-recruiting-with-recruiter-intelligence-166023.aspx", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/crelate" ] }, { "n": "Greenhouse", "u": "https://www.greenhouse.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Sourcing, interviewing and ATS solutions in one place, where thousands of employers and millions of job seekers come together", "url": "https://www.greenhouse.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach" ], "ai": "Real Talent ranks applicants in a tiered inbox and flags spam, fraud and misrepresentation, with CLEAR1 selfie identity checks inside MyGreenhouse. Voice AI gives every applicant a structured first interview; Greenhouse Notetaker, an Analytics Chart Agent, Job Kickoff and Candidate Insights agents, Greenhouse MCP and a Greenhouse in Claude plugin round it out.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Private. Homepage says \"Trusted by 7,500+ companies and millions of job seekers worldwide\"; releases name Anthropic, HubSpot and the NFL as customers." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Investment from TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, 2021-01, terms not disclosed", "investors": "TPG Growth, The Rise Fund", "src": "https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2021/2021-01-29-greenhouse-nets-major-investment-from-tpg-growth-the-rise-fund" }, "price": { "note": "Not published; Core, Plus and Pro plans with \"custom pricing based on your hiring needs\"." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Identity and fraud checks (Real Talent, CLEAR1) help any hiring, but nothing is built for hourly, technical or clearance hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.greenhouse.com/", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom", "https://www.greenhouse.com/pricing", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-unveils-new-ai-driven-products-at-unleash-to-streamline-hiring-in-saturated-job-market", "https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/greenhouse-real-talent-launches-to-fix-overwhelming-candidate-pipelines-while-combatting-fraud-and-spam-in-hiring/", "https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification", "https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/greenhouse-unveils-new-tool-makes-job-search-feel-more-like-dating-app", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-reinforces-commitment-to-australian-customers-with-real-talent-launch-and-new-seek-integrations", "https://www.greenhouse.com/de/newsroom/greenhouse-has-entered-into-a-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-ezra-ai-labs", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-completes-acquisition-of-ezra-ai-labs-bringing-conversational-ai-to-the-hiring-process", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-mcp-giving-hiring-teams-a-governed-way-to-connect-ai-tools-to-greenhouse", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-new-ai-capabilities-built-to-strengthen-structured-hiring-not-shortcut-it", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-launches-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-break-ais-hiring-doom-loop", "https://www.greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-brings-the-orchestrated-hiring-ecosystem-to-anthropics-claude", "https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2021/2021-01-29-greenhouse-nets-major-investment-from-tpg-growth-the-rise-fund" ] }, { "n": "Hireology", "u": "https://hireology.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Tailored ATS software solutions", "url": "https://www.hireology.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "AI Hiring Intelligence: AI Match scores applicants \"against job-specific attributes\" with evidence, AI Candidate Summary lists strengths, gaps and interview questions, and AI Interview runs a structured first screen with rubric scoring and transcripts. AI Interview is a paid add-on for Perform customers; AI Sourcing is marked \"Beta coming soon.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "May 2025 release says more than 10,000 businesses use Hireology; about $62M in venture and debt funding per CB Insights." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 62.39, "last": "Loan, $3.5M (CB Insights shows no exact date)", "investors": "Bain Capital Ventures, Baird Capital, Blue Cloud Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank", "src": "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hireology" }, "price": { "note": "not published; Core and Perform packages by demo, add-ons quoted. AI Match and AI Candidate Summary are in Perform; AI Interview is a Perform add-on." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Packages page says AI Interview is built for high-volume frontline roles such as technicians, CNAs, caregivers, drivers and hourly retail and hospitality staff; background screening add-on is powered by Accurate Background." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://hireology.com/", "https://hireology.com/ai", "https://hireology.com/packages", "https://hireology.com/blog", "https://www.hireology.com/blog/introducing-hireologys-integrations-marketplace-more-control-more-visibility-more-flexibility", "https://www.hireology.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-interview-a-real-conversation", "https://www.hireology.com/blog/ai-has-changed-how-people-apply-hiring-needs-to-catch-up", "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/data-driven-hiring-made-simple-meet-hireologys-new-insights-feature/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hireology", "https://www.hireology.com/ai", "https://hireology.com/blog/" ] }, { "n": "JazzHR", "u": "https://www.jazzhr.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Best ATS for Small Businesses", "url": "https://www.jazzhr.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "matching" ], "ai": "Talent Fit, \"AI-Powered Candidate Matching\" in the Plus and Pro plans, ranks applicants against the job description with explanations. Employ says \"every AI capability in JazzHR is built with IBM watsonx.governance\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Parent Employ Inc. says more than 23,000 customers across JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite (Employ releases, 2025)." }, "owner": "Employ Inc.", "price": { "note": "Published: Hero $1,000 a year, Plus $3,480 a year, Pro $5,508 a year, billed annually. AI-Powered Candidate Matching is in Plus and Pro only." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jazzhr.com/", "https://www.jazzhr.com/customer/plus", "https://www.jazzhr.com/pricing/", "https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/ai-for-rapid-recruiting", "https://www.employinc.com/?p=2969", "https://www.employinc.com/?p=4619", "https://www.employinc.com/ai-screening-companion/", "https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/indianapolis-based-startup-pillar-acquired-by-fellow-hr-tech-company" ] }, { "n": "JobAdder", "u": "https://jobadder.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The intelligent recruitment platform that puts people first", "url": "https://jobadder.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "matching", "rediscovery" ], "ai": "Adder Intelligence: Smart Summary \"automatically generates concise overviews of a candidate's fit for a role\" and explains its recommendation; Smart Sync scans unstructured data and recommends record updates; AI also ranks applicants against job requirements and suggests new skills from documents. JobAdder says AI gives \"suggestions and recommendations, not decisions.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Part of the SEEK Group (ASX: SEK) since 2017; vendor says 4,000+ agencies and in-house teams and 27,000+ recruiters." }, "owner": "SEEK Group", "price": { "note": "not published; four Recruiter plans (Lite, Essential, Pro, Business) on request pricing. Adder Intelligence is in Essential and above; Roi-AI automation is in Pro or as an add-on." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Agency and in-house ATS; no hourly, technical or compliance evidence." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://jobadder.com/", "https://jobadder.com/company/about-us", "https://jobadder.com/pricing", "https://jobadder.com/resources/platform-updates", "https://jobadder.com/resources/news-feed", "https://jobadder.com/blog/what-ai-in-recruitment-actually-looks-like-today/", "https://itbrief.com.au/story/jobadder-unveils-ai-tool-to-streamline-hiring-uncover-talent", "https://itbrief.com.au/story/jobadder-unveils-ai-driven-recruitment-plans-to-ease-workloads" ] }, { "n": "JobScore", "u": "https://www.jobscore.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Simplify your hiring", "url": "https://www.jobscore.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "An AI Integration Beta, \"powered by paid third-party AI platforms\" and on by default, generates job descriptions, scoring criteria, similar job titles and interview questions, summarises candidate activity and refines text. Candidate scores themselves stay rules-based on the employer's own criteria.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 1,000+ active employers and 15M+ job applications; launched in 2006; no funding disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "Plans Start, Scale and Enterprise; a LITE plan with 2 open jobs is $69/mo; other plan prices did not render on the pricing page" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jobscore.com/", "https://www.jobscore.com/about/", "https://www.jobscore.com/pricing/", "https://www.jobscore.com/blog/", "https://www.jobscore.com/blog/ai-integration-beta/", "https://www.jobscore.com/blog/candidate-scoring-re-launch/", "https://www.jobscore.com/blog/similar-job-titles-in-candidate-scores/" ] }, { "n": "Jobvite", "u": "https://www.jobvite.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Customizable Hiring Software", "url": "https://www.jobvite.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "\"AI-Powered Candidate Matching\" to \"identify top-fit candidates automatically with clear explanations\", plus the \"AI Companion for consistent, streamlined interviews\", built by Employ with IBM watsonx.governance.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Employ Inc., which says its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite suite is \"trusted by more than 23,000 customers\"." }, "owner": "Employ Inc.", "price": { "note": "Not published; modular pricing: core ATS plus add-ons such as Onboarding, AI Companion and recruitment marketing." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Homepage pitches high-volume hourly and frontline recruiting, where \"AI surface[s] the best-fit applicants\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jobvite.com/", "https://www.employinc.com/", "https://employinc.com/news_item_type/press-release", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item_type/press-release/page/2", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-unveils-bold-ai-companion-strategy-responsibly-built-for-recruiters-designed-for-impact/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/smarter-hiring-starts-here-employs-new-ai-release-prioritizes-recruiter-efficiency-and-human-connection/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/responsible-ai-that-delivers-employ-sets-new-standard-for-trustworthy-transparent-hiring/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-and-id-me-partner-to-prevent-ai-driven-candidate-fraud/" ] }, { "n": "Lever", "u": "https://www.lever.co/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Every stage of hiring has its own hurdles. Lever clears them", "url": "https://www.lever.co/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "notes", "rediscovery" ], "ai": "Talent Fit, \"Lever's new AI-powered matching engine\", ranks candidates; the AI Interview Companion and AI Screening Companion are built with IBM watsonx.governance. Lever adds AI ROI insights, a Talent Fit Dashboard and fraud signals.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Employ Inc., which says its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite suite is \"trusted by more than 23,000 customers\"." }, "owner": "Employ Inc.", "price": { "note": "Not published; \"Lever offers customized pricing based on your company size, hiring volume, feature needs\"." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.lever.co/", "https://www.lever.co/levers-ai-innovations-are-here/", "https://www.lever.co/blog/the-next-wave-of-ai-how-lever-and-linkedin-are-leading-the-way-with-connected-ai-capabilities", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/smarter-hiring-starts-here-employs-new-ai-release-prioritizes-recruiter-efficiency-and-human-connection/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/responsible-ai-that-delivers-employ-sets-new-standard-for-trustworthy-transparent-hiring/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-introduces-ai-screening-companion-to-help-recruiters-identify-best-fit-talent-faster-fairer-and-with-greater-transparency/", "https://www.employinc.com/news_item/employ-and-vonq-partner-to-bring-responsible-ai-candidate-screening-directly-into-the-hiring-workflow/", "https://k1.com/lever-joins-employ-to-accelerate-growth/" ] }, { "n": "Loxo", "u": "https://loxo.co/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Talent Intelligence Platform now comes with an agentic workforce.", "url": "https://loxo.co/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "The Loxo Agent Workforce includes a Job Intake Agent, Write JD + Skill DNA Agent, Longlist Agent, Shortlist Agent and data agents, run one at a time or in \"Full Agentic Mode\"; the Agent Impact Center logs work done, hours saved and credits used. Loxo AI Chat and the Loxo MCP let customers \"plug the frontier AI models of their choice into their private Loxo data,\" and an AI Notetaker writes interview summaries into candidate records.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Release boilerplate says more than 13,200 executive search, RPO, recruitment and staffing teams use Loxo; $115M growth transaction led by Tritium Partners (2025-02-20)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth investment led by Tritium Partners in a $115M transaction, 2025-02-20", "investors": "Tritium Partners", "src": "https://www.tritiumpartners.com/news-article/talent-intelligence-innovator-loxo-secures-growth-investment-led-by-tritium-partners-in-a-115m-transaction-to-accelerate-ai-and-product-development" }, "price": { "note": "Core from $149 per user per month billed annually (AI search and MCP); Professional (agent workforce, AI Chat, 2,500 credits per seat per month) by demo; Enterprise custom." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for direct hire and executive search firms; no hourly, technical or compliance evidence." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://loxo.co/", "https://www.loxo.co/ai-agents", "https://www.loxo.co/pricing", "https://loxo.co/product-updates", "https://www.loxo.co/nextgenloxo", "https://www.loxo.co/product-updates/next-generation-loxo-launch-a-letter-from-loxos-ceo", "https://www.loxo.co/product-updates/introducing-loxos-natural-language-search", "https://www.loxo.co/product-updates/reclaim-your-interviews-announcing-loxos-new-ai-notetaker", "https://staffinghub.com/?p=14875", "https://www.usdailyledger.com/article/933101612-loxo-unveils-next-generation-loxo-the-talent-intelligence-platform-now-comes-with-an-agentic-workforce", "https://hrtechedge.com/hr/loxo-turns-its-recruiting-platform-into-an-ai-agent-workforce/", "https://www.tritiumpartners.com/news-article/talent-intelligence-innovator-loxo-secures-growth-investment-led-by-tritium-partners-in-a-115m-transaction-to-accelerate-ai-and-product-development", "https://techrseries.com/?p=171097", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/loxo-2", "https://loxo.co/product-updates/next-generation-loxo-launch-a-letter-from-loxos-ceo", "https://www.loxo.co/product-updates", "https://www.loxo.co/blog/reclaim-your-interviews-announcing-loxos-new-ai-notetaker", "https://www.loxo.co/products/loxo-mcp", "https://techintelpro.com/news/enterprise-tech/enterprise-solutions/loxo-launches-ai-powered-natural-language-search-for-recruiters", "https://chrofirst.com/recruitment-and-talent-acquisition/loxo-launches-next-generation-platform-powered-by-agentic-ai-workforce/", "https://www.buildingthetalentmachine.com/p/announcing-next-generation-loxo" ] }, { "n": "Manatal", "u": "https://www.manatal.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Transform the way you recruit with AI.", "url": "https://www.manatal.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI Recommendation Engine, AI Advanced Search, candidate enrichment, AI Copilot, AI Interviewer (which Manatal calls its first agentic feature, now in beta), AI Notetaker (beta) and an MCP server that \"connects live ATS data with AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "10,000+ active recruiting teams and 900,000+ recruitment processes (vendor homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "Published per user per month: Professional $15, Enterprise $35, Enterprise Plus $55 billed annually ($19, $39, $59 monthly); Custom on demand. AI Interviewer is a priced-on-request add-on; ChatGPT, Claude and LLM integration is in Enterprise Plus." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General ATS; vendor pitches the AI Interviewer for high-volume screening but shows no hourly or frontline focus." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.manatal.com/", "https://www.manatal.com/pricing", "https://www.manatal.com/blog/manatal-2025-wrapped", "https://www.manatal.com/blog/manatal-ai-interviewer", "https://www.manatal.com/blog/manatal-ai-notetaker", "https://pricingsaas.com/companies/manatal/diffs/2025Q4" ] }, { "n": "Oorwin", "u": "https://oorwin.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "All-In-One ATS, HRMS and CRM in one Intelligent Platform", "url": "https://oorwin.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "chat", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach" ], "ai": "Oorwin brands its AI as Oorwin Ira (\"Powered by Oorwin Ira\"), which the MCP post calls \"Oorwin's own matching intelligence\", plus Generative AI for emails and job descriptions and Talent AI for matching. The native MCP connector lets recruiters search candidates, jobs, requisitions, submissions and accounts from Claude or ChatGPT, limited to their own permissions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 1,000+ customers (older about page: 800 customers, 15,000 users); no funding disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "not published; plans by team size and usage, custom enterprise quotes, free trial and a free plan for startups" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://oorwin.ai/", "https://oorwin.ai/solutions", "https://oorwin.ai/products/", "https://oorwin.ai/blog/", "https://oorwin.ai/?p=14487", "https://oorwin.ai/?p=13922", "https://oorwin.ai/?p=14045", "https://oorwin.com/about-us.html", "https://hunted.space/product/oorwin/launches/oorwin-2" ] }, { "n": "Recruit CRM", "u": "https://recruitcrm.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI recruitment CRM & ATS built for Recruitment Agencies", "url": "https://recruitcrm.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Agents under the ARC label (Resume Formatting, Candidate Submission, Candidate Pitching, Custom Field Parser; Screening \"Coming soon\") plus AI Sourcing & Matching, AI Outreach Sequencing, call transcripts and notes, a job description generator and GPT-based AI Assist. Recruit CRM MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity permission-based access to recruitment data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor release says \"Trusted by 2,500+ firms\" in 100+ countries; no funding disclosed." }, "price": { "note": "Published monthly: Pro $95, Business $135, Enterprise $215 per user per month; annual billing saves up to 17%. AI sourcing, resume formatting and analytics use pooled credits." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Agency and contract staffing focus; no hourly, technical or compliance evidence." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://recruitcrm.io/", "https://recruitcrm.io/llms.txt", "https://recruitcrm.io/ai/ai-features/", "https://recruitcrm.io/pricing/", "https://techrseries.com/recruitment-and-on-boarding/recruit-crm-introduces-new-ai-features-to-boost-recruitment-productivity/", "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/923006859?promo=4400", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/robotics-and-automation/recruit-crm-launches-ai-first-contract-staffing-platform", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/recruit-crm" ] }, { "n": "Recruitee", "u": "https://recruitee.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The customizable hiring software that helps you hire smarter and faster", "url": "https://recruitee.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "rediscovery" ], "ai": "Branded Tellent Intelligence: Screening Assistant (\"review inbound applications against clear, hiring team-defined criteria\"), Matching Assistant, AI Smart Fill, AI Evaluation Insights and AI Writer. Tellent Agent (closed beta from July 2026) is one agent with hiring and analytics capabilities that read live product data through Tellent's internal MCP layer. It surfaces and recommends, and can draft emails, pin notes and manage tasks, each only after user approval.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Tellent group serves 7,000+ organizations and has 240+ employees (Tellent press release, July 2026); Recruitee claims 7,000+ companies and 180,000+ daily users." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth backing from Providence Strategic Growth for the 2021 merger with Sympa (amount not disclosed)", "investors": "Providence Strategic Growth; seed from Robert Pijselman and Luc Brandts (2015)", "src": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitee" }, "owner": "Tellent", "price": { "note": "Not published; plans Start, Advance and Optimize, priced by plan, employee count and billing period. Screening Assistant gives 100 credits a month on Start and Advance and full use on Optimize; Matching Assistant gives 3 searches a month on Start and 65 on Optimize." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Parent Tellent bought FunnelBridge for WhatsApp hiring of deskless and high-volume talent, but no hourly-hiring evidence found on Recruitee's own pages." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://recruitee.com/", "https://recruitee.com/ai-recruitment-automation", "https://recruitee.com/ai-statement", "https://recruitee.com/pricing", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitee", "https://tellent.com/hubfs/Communiqu%C3%A9-Tellent-AgentIA-VF.pdf", "https://itdaily.com/news/software/tellent-hr-agent/", "https://tellent.com/blog/tellent-agent", "https://tellent.com/tellent-brand-united", "https://intercom.help/tellent-help-center/en/articles/10368103-tellent-roadmap-2025", "https://tellent.com/blog/funnelbridge-acquisition" ] }, { "n": "Recruiterflow", "u": "https://recruiterflow.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-native intelligence. Enterprise-grade depth.", "url": "https://recruiterflow.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AIRA is a suite of agents: AIRA Source (search across \"850M+ candidates on the web\"), AIRA Matchmaker (ranks the firm's database \"by semantic fit\"), AIRA Search, Ask AIRA, Outreach, Submission, Scorecard and Summarisation agents, AIRA Notetaker, Job Change Alerts and data-upkeep agents. A read-only MCP connector lets Claude query a firm's Recruiterflow data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 2,100+ search firms use it; no institutional funding disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "Platform Plan USD $149 per user per month; AIRA Plan (all AIRA agents, not metered) custom pricing (vendor blog, 2026-10-19)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://recruiterflow.com/", "https://recruiterflow.com/ai", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/ai-agents-in-recruiterflow-a-complete-guide-to-every-aira-agent/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/ai-agents-in-recruiterflow/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/recruiterflow-product-update-june24-2/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/recruiterflow-product-update-jul25/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/recruiterflow-product-update-may25/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/whats-included-in-every-recruiterflow-plan-and-what-costs-extra/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/category/product-updates/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/recuiting-crm-data-hygiene/", "https://help.recruiterflow.com/en/articles/15518332-connecting-recruiterflow-to-claude-via-mcp", "https://help.recruiterflow.com/en/collections/10348645-rf-gpt-ai-and-other-copilots", "https://cxotoday.com/media-coverage/recruiterflow-launches-advanced-ai-modules-to-automate-hiring-and-boost-recruiter-productivity/", "https://recruiterflow.com/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/24461" ] }, { "n": "SmartRecruiters", "u": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Powered Hiring Platform That Delivers Results", "url": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "copilot", "matching" ], "ai": "Winston, which the vendor calls an \"agentic AI companion\", spans Winston Chat (candidate conversations), Winston Match (multi-model scoring on relevance, fit and inferred potential, shown on a four-star scale with explanations), Winston Screen (job-specific questions ranked automatically), Winston Interview (\"an agentic interviewer, available on-demand\") and Winston Companion (a recruiter and hiring-manager agent in Slack, Teams, SMS and WhatsApp). Inside SAP, Winston works alongside SAP's Joule copilot.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Subsidiary of public SAP SE since 2025-09-11; more than 4,000 customer organizations including Amazon, Visa and McDonald's (SAP release)." }, "owner": "SAP", "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led. The June 2025 relaunch introduced \"modular packaging\" for corporate, high-volume or hybrid hiring and \"outcome-aligned pricing\"." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor sells a high-volume hiring package and cites McDonald's and Domino's; Winston Chat targets mobile application completion. No vendor evidence found for technical assessments or clearance checks." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/", "https://smartrecruiters.com/news/smartrecruiters-unveils-ai-powered-platform-that-ends-the-ats-era/", "https://news.sap.com/2025/08/sap-to-acquire-smartrecruiters/", "https://news.sap.com/2025/09/sap-completes-smartrecruiters-acquisition/", "https://news.sap.com/2026/06/sap-strategic-leader-2026-fosway-9-grid-talent-acquisition/", "https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026/03/06/sap-launches-smartrecruiters-hiring-platform-integration-into-successfactors", "https://techrseries.com/talent-acquisition/smartrecruiters-introduces-the-future-of-hiring-from-ai-agents-to-autonomous-talent-acquisition/", "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/fr/resources/article/ia-plus-utile-pour-les-recruteurs-comme-pour-les-candidats/" ] }, { "n": "Spark Hire", "u": "https://www.comeet.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Finally, an ATS that hiring managers love to use", "url": "https://www.comeet.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Spark Hire AI in Recruit reviews and prioritizes resumes, drafts job descriptions, interview questions and scorecards, searches and rediscovers candidates, summarizes evaluations and suggests follow-up messages; AI Video Review scores one-way video interviews and feeds the ATS; an AI Notetaker is an add-on; MCP access for ChatGPT and Claude is in beta.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Part of Spark Hire, which reported 7,000+ customers; Comeet had nearly 800 customers at the 2023 merger." }, "owner": "Spark Hire (backed by private equity firm Boathouse Capital)", "price": { "note": "Published, billed annually: Recruit Pro from $335/month (up to 200 employees), Recruit Growth from $499/month (up to 500), Enterprise custom." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.comeet.com/", "https://www.sparkhire.com/applicant-tracking-system/", "https://sparkhire.com/news/spark-hire-and-comeet-merger", "https://www.sparkhire.com/news/", "https://www.sparkhire.com/news/ai-video-review/", "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog", "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog/your-ai-tools-connected-to-recruit-via-mcp", "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog/automate-follow-ups-with-spark-hire-ai", "https://www.sparkhire.com/", "https://www.sparkhire.com/ai", "https://www.sparkhire.com/pricing/", "https://www.sparkhire.com/about/", "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog/prioritize-candidates-with-role-aligned-ai-ratings-and-takeaways", "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog/ai-notetaker-enhancements" ] }, { "n": "Workable", "u": "https://www.workable.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The agent recruits. You manage talent.", "url": "https://www.workable.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Workable Agent, \"an AI recruiting agent built directly into its ATS\", plus four named agents (Job Brief, Sourcing, Screening, Engagement) billed on AI credits, Workable Assistant (an AI \"HR coworker\" launched December 2024) and an MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants to Workable data under existing user permissions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "35,000+ teams worldwide (vendor homepage); about $84M in disclosed venture funding across seed to Series C (Wikipedia)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 84, "last": "Series C, $50M, 2018-11", "investors": "Zouk Capital (Series C lead), Balderton Capital (Series B lead), 83North (Series A lead)", "src": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workable_(software)" }, "price": { "note": "Recruiting plan prices not shown on the homepage; 15-day free trial. Agents are a paid add-on: every plan gets 3,000 free AI credits, then 1 credit per screened candidate, 2 per sourced candidate, 10 per completed chat; extra credits cost $0.095 to $0.12 each. MCP server included at no extra cost." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General SMB ATS. Vendor says Workable Agent is designed to comply with the EU AI Act, a design claim, not a certification." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workable.com/", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-3-13-workable-launches-agentic-ai-for-hiring-with-new-workable-agent", "https://resources.workable.com/backstage-at-workable/the-agent-recruits-you-manage-talent-the-workable-agents-are-here/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workable_(software)", "https://resources.workable.com/backstage-at-workable/workable-assistant" ] }, { "n": "Zoho Recruit", "u": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Say hello to your AI-powered, automation-friendly and all-things-recruitment tool - Zoho Recruit.", "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "assessment", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Zia, on Zoho's native Zia LLM, powers Zia Matches (candidate and job matches with match justification), Profile Summaries, AI-generated assessments, an auto-triggered Screening Bot, and Interview Insights transcripts and summaries for one-way and live video interviews. Zoho's AI roadmap lists \"AI agents\" and a scheduling bot as coming soon, and Ask Zia and record summaries as in development.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Zoho Corporation, private and profitable with 18,000+ employees and 130M+ users; Zoho Recruit claims over 800,000 recruiters. Revenue not disclosed on pages opened." }, "owner": "Zoho Corporation", "price": { "note": "Free plan plus Standard and Enterprise; the pricing page did not render per-recruiter prices when opened. AI Candidate Matching is listed under Enterprise; Zoho says its 2025 agentic features carry no extra cost on paid plans." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General ATS for corporate HR and staffing; a Nursys nurse-licence check is in beta, but there is no hourly, technical or broader compliance evidence." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/", "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/pricing.html", "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html", "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/ai-feature-roadmap.html", "https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html", "https://prezohoweb.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html", "https://smallbiztrends.com/zoho-recruit-brings-agentic-ai-tools-to-streamline-hiring-and-collaboration/", "https://blog.zoho.com/recruit/ai-powered-hiring-mobile-app.html", "https://www.zoho.com/aboutus.html", "https://blog.zoho.com/recruit/year-in-review-2025-zoho-recruit.html", "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", "https://zstatic.zohostatic.com/news/zoho-rolls-out-free-agentic-tools-to-help-businesses-overcome-ai-adoption-hurdles.html" ] }, { "n": "Dover", "u": "https://www.dover.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire faster with an AI-powered ATS", "url": "https://www.dover.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes" ], "ai": "AI Applicant Scoring ranks applicants against per-job criteria using OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini (bring your own key) or free Gemini, Mistral and Nvidia models up to 2,000 scores a month; an AI notetaker writes interview notes and synopses; the Dover MCP connects the ATS to Claude, ChatGPT and Codex.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$20M Series A (2021) led by Tiger Global; Dover says 600+ companies hire with Dover." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $20M, 2021-07-19", "investors": "Tiger Global (lead), Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, Y Combinator", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/19/dover-raises-20m-to-bring-the-concept-of-orchestration-to-recruitment" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Free ATS $0; Premium ATS $199/month adds AI applicant scoring and the AI notetaker; recruiter marketplace billed hourly, retainer or pay-per-hire." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.dover.com/", "https://dover.com/ai", "https://www.dover.com/blog", "https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-october-2025", "https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-february-2026", "https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-april-2026", "https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-july-2026", "https://www.dover.com/blog/product-update-august-2026", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/19/dover-raises-20m-to-bring-the-concept-of-orchestration-to-recruitment" ] }, { "n": "Jobylon", "u": "https://www.jobylon.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Enterprise hiring, without the complexity. An ATS that works the way your organization does, across brands, markets, and teams.", "url": "https://www.jobylon.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "Jobylon AI (Co-Pilot) drafts job ads and job skills from company settings and suggests screening questions; smart skills-matching scores each applicant on skill fit and suggests database candidates for new jobs. Jobylon says it uses Anthropic models such as Claude and that the LLM is not trained on customer data.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Private equity backing from Verdane (2024); 60,000+ users in 80+ countries; customers include KPMG, Koenigsegg, Scandic Hotels." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth investment from Verdane, amount undisclosed, 2024-05-28", "investors": "Verdane", "src": "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/jobylon-acquires-trustcruit" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jobylon.com/", "https://www.jobylon.com/solutions/ai-recruiting", "https://support.jobylon.com/en/articles/218391-jobylon-co-pilot", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/tag/ai", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/author/jobylon", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/author/jobylon/page/2", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/author/jobylon/page/3", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/2025-product-year-in-review", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/talent-crm-is-live", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/agency-portal", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/how-byggmax-built-a-fair-scalable-recruitment-process-with-jobylon-and-tengai", "https://www.jobylon.com/blog/jobylon-acquires-trustcruit", "https://news.cision.com/jobylon-ab/r/jobylon-accelerates-international-growth-and-product-innovation-with-strategic-leadership-appointmen,c4150531" ] }, { "n": "Kula", "u": "https://www.kula.ai/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The only AI-Native ATS, built by recruiters, for modern hiring", "url": "https://www.kula.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach" ], "ai": "Kula AI does resume scoring and summaries, one-click personalized outreach, AI job description drafting (\"Ask AI\"), an AI notetaker with auto-filled scorecards, and conversational analytics; a hosted Kula MCP connector gives Claude 52 tools under the user's permissions. AI Agents are \"Coming soon.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional seed funding ($12M seed, 2022, Sequoia and Square Peg); no customer count published." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 15, "last": "Seed, $12M, 2022-08-31", "investors": "Sequoia, Square Peg (seed); Venture Highway, Together Fund (existing investors)", "src": "https://kula.ai/blog/seed-funding" }, "price": { "note": "Partly published: priced by headcount; one tier shown at $5,120/year billed annually; 101+ employees custom pricing." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.kula.ai/", "https://www.kula.ai/pricing", "https://kula.ai/blog/seed-funding", "https://www.kula.ai/category/company-news", "https://www.kula.ai/category/product-updates", "https://www.kula.ai/category/ai-in-recruiting", "https://www.kula.ai/blog/what-an-ai-native-ats-really-looks-like", "https://www.kula.ai/blog/kula-ai-announcement", "https://www.kula.ai/product-webinar-may14", "https://developers.kula.ai/docs/mcp", "https://www.together.fund/portfolio/kula" ] }, { "n": "Pinpoint", "u": "https://www.pinpointhq.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "The ATS built for multi-stream hiring", "url": "https://www.pinpointhq.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI Hiring Copilot, \"an agentic AI assistant built into every part of the platform,\" searches candidates, writes job content, remembers preferences and runs in Microsoft Teams; AI Match Score grades applicants out of 10 against approved criteria; AI Notetaker summarizes interviews by scorecard question; AI Candidate Companion answers candidate questions; the Pinpoint MCP (V2, June 2026) lets AI clients act in Pinpoint.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional investor (Expedition Growth Capital) listed by CB Insights; no customer count published; customers recruit in 160+ countries." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Undisclosed round", "investors": "Expedition Growth Capital", "src": "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pinpoint-8" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (request pricing)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor pitches multi-stream hiring from desk-based to deskless roles with AI prioritization for high-volume hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.pinpointhq.com/", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/about", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/insights/", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/insights/g2-fall-2026", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/april-2026-product-spotlight", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/may-2026-product-spotlight", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/june-2026-product-spotlight", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/july-2026-product-spotlight", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/product-releases/october-2026-product-spotlight", "https://www.pinpointhq.com/features/mcp", "https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/14321647-march-2026-new-features-ai-hiring-copilot-the-pinpoint-mcp-and-increased-visibility-for-users", "https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/14789109-april-2026-new-features-multi-signer-documents-ai-notetaker-for-interviews", "https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/15231825-may-2026-new-features-ai-candidate-match-scores-hiring-copilot-memories-billing-management-and-more", "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", "https://help.pinpoint.support/en/articles/16911152-september-2026-release-easy-apply-connect-quality-of-hire-surveys-onboarding-fields-more", "https://www.cronofy.com/case-studies/pinpoint-interview-scheduling-ai-notetaking", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pinpoint-8" ] }, { "n": "Screenloop", "u": "https://www.screenloop.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Automate the Mundane, Amplify the Human.", "url": "https://www.screenloop.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "notes" ], "ai": "AI Notetaker that captures interview notes and auto-fills scorecards.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$7M seed round (date not confirmed)" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 7, "last": "Seed, $7M (vendor blog post dated 2023-06-20)", "investors": null, "src": "https://screenloop.com/blog/screenloop-raises-7m-for-its-hiring-intelligence-platform" }, "price": { "note": "not published; full platform included with the ATS" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.screenloop.com/", "https://screenloop.com/blog/screenloop-raises-7m-for-its-hiring-intelligence-platform" ] }, { "n": "Spott", "u": "https://spott.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-native ATS & CRM for Recruiting firms", "url": "https://spott.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Ask AI answers questions on any candidate, contact or meeting transcript; Spott suggests follow-up tasks after each call; Call Intelligence takes notes and summaries; AI handles search and matching, text-to-filters and data enrichment. Its MCP server gives Claude and ChatGPT read and write access to the recruiting database.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional funding disclosed: $3.2M seed (March 2025) and $21M Series A (September 2026), $24.2M total." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 24.2, "last": "Series A, $21M, 2026-09-22", "investors": "Balderton Capital (lead), Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, Fortino", "src": "https://tech.eu/2026/09/22/spott-secures-21m-series-a-to-expand-its-ai-platform-for-recruitment-agencies/" }, "price": { "note": "published per-user monthly plans (Core, Pro, Enterprise), billed annually, in USD, EUR, AUD or GBP; exact figures were ambiguous in the page text" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://spott.io/", "https://spott.io/pricing", "https://spott.io/resources", "https://spott.io/resources/spott-raises-3-2m-to-launch-first-ai-native-platform-for-recruitment-firms", "https://spott.io/resources/spott-update-april-2026", "https://spott.io/resources/spott-updates-february-2026", "https://tech.eu/2026/09/22/spott-secures-21m-series-a-to-expand-its-ai-platform-for-recruitment-agencies/", "https://onrec.com/news/product-company-news/spott-raises-21m-series-a-to-build-the-global-ai-native-operating-system", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mj9-spott-ai-agents-for-recruiting-firms", "https://www.hunted.space/dashboard/spott-3/launches/spott-4" ] }, { "n": "Teamtailor", "u": "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "For hiring people.", "url": "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "rediscovery" ], "ai": "Teamtailor Co-pilot, powered by OpenAI models, handles screening against recruiter criteria, candidate rediscovery, CV summaries, job-ad drafting, Ask Co-pilot chat over candidate data, AI-built analytics charts and Smart action, a stage trigger where \"AI handles it for every candidate who lands in the stage.\" The homepage now calls this \"Teamtailor AI\".", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "About EUR 16M raised across three rounds, led by Sprints Capital (tech.eu); vendor does not publish a customer count on its homepage." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "EUR 10M, 2022-06-30", "investors": "Sprints Capital (led the 2020 and 2022 rounds)", "src": "https://funding.tech.eu/companies/3BC4EDFB-543E-4AB8-AC70-0DC414A8C85C" }, "price": { "note": "Not published; quote-based. Pricing page lists Teamtailor AI as \"Included\" with \"Unlimited usage\"; MCP is a separate add-on." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/pricing/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/teamtailor-co-pilot/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/ask-co-pilot/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/build-custom-reports-using-ai/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/agent-ready-career-sites", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/connect-your-ai-assistant-to-teamtailor-with-mcp/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/co-pilot-now-detects-hidden-instructions-in-resumes/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/smart-action-just-tell-ai-what-to-do/", "https://www.teamtailor.com/en/productnews/product-updates-2025", "https://funding.tech.eu/companies/3BC4EDFB-543E-4AB8-AC70-0DC414A8C85C" ] }, { "n": "Leonar", "u": "https://www.leonar.app/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ats", "cat_src": { "quote": "Modern ATS & CRM for recruiting agencies", "url": "https://www.leonar.app/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "\"Autonomous AI agents for recruiting agencies\": a live Sourcing Agent that finds, ranks and shortlists candidates daily and learns from accept or reject decisions; an MCP server and REST API for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vendor claims 400+ agencies and search firms; no funding disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Professional $149 per user per month excl. tax ($1,788 per year upfront); AI Agency Programme tailored from 5 users; Sourcing Agent custom quote; 7-day free trial." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.leonar.app/", "https://www.leonar.app/features/ai-agents/", "https://www.leonar.app/blog/", "https://www.leonar.app/blog/connect-ai-agents-recruiting-stack-mcp-api/", "https://www.leonar.app/blog/ai-sourcing-with-claude-and-leonar/", "https://lespepitestech.com/startup-de-la-french-tech/leonar" ] }, { "n": "Indeed", "u": "https://www.indeed.com/hire", "w": "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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "Simplifying how you find, engage, and hire the right talent on the world's #1 job site.", "url": "https://www.indeed.com/employers/talentscout" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Talent Scout, \"an intelligent, conversational agent\" for employers that suggests matching candidates and drafts outreach; Sourcing Assistant inside Smart Sourcing; Smart Screening with the Smart Fit Score; and an Indeed app in ChatGPT for job seekers.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Subsidiary of Recruit Holdings (public). Indeed cites 685M job seeker profiles and 3.5M+ employers." }, "owner": "Recruit Holdings", "price": { "note": "Pay-per-use sponsored jobs and subscriptions (Smart Sourcing, Indeed Connect); Talent Scout candidate lists need a Premium Sponsored Jobs or Smart Sourcing subscription. Talent Scout prices not published." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.indeed.com/about", "https://www.indeed.com/employers/talentscout", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases?co=US", "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", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeeds-ai-powered-sourcing-assistant-helps-employers-hire-over-30-faster?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/introducing-indeeds-smart-fit-score?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/an-early-look-at-indeed-connect-our-new-subscription-designed-to-streamline-hiring?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-launches-app-in-chatgpt?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-deploys-salesforces-agentforce-to-power-smarter-hiring?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-futureworks-2026-recap?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/protecting-trust-in-hiring-ai-how-indeed-detects-and-defends-against-resume-manipulation?co=US", "https://www.indeed.com/news/releases/indeed-employer-branding-suite-brand-score?co=US", "https://www.hrdive.com/news/layoffs-glassdoor-indeed-ai-integration/752876/", "https://reworked.co/employee-experience/glassdoor-folds-into-indeed/" ] }, { "n": "LinkedIn Talent Solutions", "u": "https://business.linkedin.com/hire", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire top talent with our recruiting platform and agentic AI", "url": "https://business.linkedin.com/hire/recruiter" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Hiring Assistant, which LinkedIn calls its first AI agent for recruiters, plus AI-Assisted Search, AI-Assisted Follow-Ups and AI-powered Applicant Targeting in Recruiter. Hiring Assistant 2 (September 2026) adds reasoning, memory and talent-pool management, and Hiring Pro jobs can be drafted from inside Claude.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Owned by Microsoft (public). LinkedIn says over 20,000 companies use its agentic hiring solutions and its network has more than 1 billion members; Reworked reports its AI-powered Talent Solutions products reached a $450 million annualized run rate." }, "owner": "Microsoft", "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led. Recruiter pricing varies by company size and seats, and Hiring Assistant is a paid add-on. Hiring Assistant 2 updates reach existing English customers free from November 2026." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://business.linkedin.com/hire/recruiter", "https://about.linkedin.com/", "https://news.linkedin.com/2025/hiring-assistant-globally-available", "https://news.linkedin.com/2026/hiring-assistant-2", "https://news.linkedin.com/2026/making-it-easier-for-small-businesses-to-hire-on-linkedin", "https://tcommunity.linkedin.com/product-updates/2026-linkedin-hiring-release-2275", "https://business.linkedin.com/hire/product-update/wave1-2026", "https://business.linkedin.com/hire/product-update/archival/product-update-q2-2026", "https://reworked.co/employee-experience/glassdoor-folds-into-indeed/", "https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/09/03/linkedin-s-first-agent-hiring-assistant-expands-availability-globally-after-first-year" ] }, { "n": "ZipRecruiter", "u": "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "a leading online employment marketplace that actively connects people to their next great opportunity", "url": "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-New-AI-Feature-to-Automate-Recruiter-Outreach/default.aspx" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "CEO Ian Siegel: \"We are leveraging AI to strengthen our active matchmaking.\" Smart Outreach \"uses AI to turn a job description into a personalized message series sent to candidates.\" Job seekers can search ZipRecruiter inside ChatGPT and Claude.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public (NYSE: ZIP); full-year 2025 revenue of $449.0 million." }, "price": { "note": "Not published on pages opened; ZipRecruiter employer site was blocked to automated fetch." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-New-AI-Feature-to-Automate-Recruiter-Outreach/default.aspx", "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Expands-AI-Powered-Job-Search-with-Claude-Integration/default.aspx", "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Launches-ChatGPT-App-for-AI-Powered-Job-Discovery/default.aspx", "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Announces-First-Quarter-2026-Results/default.aspx", "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Announces-Second-Quarter-2026-Results/default.aspx", "https://ziprecruiter-investors.com/news/news-details/2026/ZipRecruiter-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results/default.aspx", "https://techintelpro.com/HR/Talent-Acquisition/ziprecruiter-launches-smart-outreach-ai-for-recruiters" ] }, { "n": "ClearanceJobs", "u": "https://about.clearancejobs.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "Find security-cleared talent, fast.", "url": "https://about.clearancejobs.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching", "sourcing" ], "ai": "IntelliSearch \"uses machine learning to make your searches fast and simple\"; DHI says the AgileATS integration delivers \"AI-powered features, including automated job postings, streamlined applicant workflows\", and an AgileATS demo cites \"enhanced AI-driven relevancy scoring\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Brand of NYSE-listed DHI Group (DHX). 1,741 recruitment package customers and Q1 2026 revenue of $14.0M (DHI Q1 2026 call); 2,048,687 registered candidates and 1,805 hiring companies (vendor page, 2026-10-01)." }, "owner": "DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led ('Request Demo')" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": true, "note": "Built for security-clearance hiring by government contractors and federal agencies; fits cleared defense and aerospace manufacturing roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://about.clearancejobs.com/", "https://about.clearancejobs.com/employers/learn-more/whats-new", "https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/08/06/dhi-group-inc-acquires-agileats-to-expand-clearancejobs-market-leadership-in-govtech-recruiting/", "https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/10/07/inside-clearancejobs-vision-for-the-future-of-cleared-recruiting/", "https://www.carahsoft.com/resources/27449-agile-ats-demo", "https://www.builtincolorado.com/articles/dhi-group-acquires-point-solutions-group-20260302", "https://s25.q4cdn.com/382286487/files/doc_financials/2026/q1/DHI-Group-Inc-DHX-Q1-2026-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf" ] }, { "n": "Dice", "u": "https://www.dice.com/hiring", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "Find and hire qualified AI and tech talent, faster", "url": "https://www.dice.com/hiring" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "candidate_ai", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "sourcing" ], "ai": "\"Dice puts AI to work so you can focus on hiring, not searching.\" Named AI: AI Job Description Generator, AI Boolean Enhancer, automated talent alerts, AI Applicant Score (ranks applicants on skills, experience, education, industry and field of study) and a skills model of more than 100,000 tech skills; an MCP server serves candidates in ChatGPT and Claude.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Brand of NYSE-listed DHI Group (DHX). 3,832 Dice recruitment package customers and Q1 2026 Dice revenue of $15.7M; 2026 Dice revenue guided at $62M to $64M (DHI Q1 2026 earnings call, 2026-05-05)." }, "owner": "DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX)", "price": { "note": "not published on the employer page (links to pricing packages); DHI added self-service monthly subscriptions in late 2025 per its Q1 2026 call" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor sells only tech hiring ('AI and tech talent'); fits engineer and technician-software roles, not plant floor hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.dice.com/hiring", "https://dice.com/hiring/whats-new", "https://www.placera.se/pressmeddelanden/dhi-group-dice-unveils-new-employer-experience-with-ai-powered-tools-and-streamlined-workflows-20250923", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-16-tech-professionals-find-relevant-roles-faster-with-dices-llm-connector", "https://s25.q4cdn.com/382286487/files/doc_financials/2026/q1/DHI-Group-Inc-DHX-Q1-2026-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf" ] }, { "n": "Handshake", "u": "https://joinhandshake.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "The career network for the AI economy", "url": "https://joinhandshake.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "candidate_ai", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Hiring Intelligence powers the Source tab (\"generate hiring criteria and surface qualified candidates for your open roles\"), Automated Outreach (\"send personalized outreach to qualified candidates on your behalf\", with pre-drafted replies the employer reviews) and applicant review with \"AI-generated relevance and fit signals\".", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor: 25M job seekers, 1M+ employers, 1,600+ university partners, trusted by 97% of the Fortune 500. Handshake AI: 188k+ fellows." }, "price": { "note": "Basic is free; Pro and Enterprise prices not published (contact sales)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Early-career and graduate hiring (4M+ PhD and master's holders); useful for engineering graduate pipelines, not plant floor hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://joinhandshake.com/employers/", "https://joinhandshake.com/ai/", "https://updates.joinhandshake.com/", "https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/ann_jrMABQTCwNxzO", "https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/handshake-employer-product-updates-august-28-2026", "https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/handshake-employer-product-updates-september-28-2026", "https://updates.joinhandshake.com/announcements/handshake-employer-product-updates-october-23-2026", "https://advisingblog.ece.uw.edu/2025/06/25/handshake-model-validation-expert-move-fellowship-posted-6-25", "https://www.framer.com/community/gallery/handshake-enterprise/" ] }, { "n": "Wellfound", "u": "https://wellfound.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "platform", "cat_src": { "quote": "Wellfound Reach is an AI-powered recruiting tool built on the Wellfound platform.", "url": "https://help.wellfound.com/article/1215-what-is-wellfound-reach" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Reach sourcing agents that \"run continuously,\" an \"Ask Wellfound\" coach, AI market mapping of target companies, a Reach MCP for Claude and Codex, and an AI video interview candidates record once for all jobs.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "27,000+ companies hiring, 100K+ hires and 10M+ opted-in candidates per its overview page." }, "price": { "note": "Published: Jobs $0; Reach $135 per seat per month; Autopilot $500 per month per role plus 10% on hire." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for startup hiring; no hourly, technical or compliance focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://wellfound.com/recruit/overview", "https://wellfound.com/recruit/all-features/autopilot", "https://help.wellfound.com/article/1215-what-is-wellfound-reach", "https://wellfound.com/blog/company-updates", "https://wellfound.com/blog/wellfound-reach-mcp-ai-assistant", "https://wellfound.com/blog/wellfound-reach-market-mapping-company-lists", "https://www.mux.com/blog/wellfound", "https://wellfound.com/about", "https://reach.wellfound.com/", "https://wellfound.com/recruit/pricing" ] }, { "n": "Eightfold AI", "u": "https://eightfold.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Talent intelligence, human-led.", "url": "https://eightfold.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Talent Agents: AI Interviewer (with 360 Interview for functional, coding and language rounds in one conversation), Recruiter Agent, Candidate Agent, AI Interview Companion, plus Match Scores from its talent intelligence model and TalentForge for custom agentic apps.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Raised more than $410M including a $220M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (June 2021); says a third of its customers are Fortune 500 companies." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 410, "last": "Series E, $220M, 2021-06", "investors": "SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (lead), General Catalyst, Capital One Ventures, Foundation Capital, IVP, Lightspeed", "src": "https://www.unleash.ai/ai-talent-platform-eightfold-raises-220m-series-e" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Recruiter Agent is built for always-on high-volume hiring and 360 Interview includes coding evaluation; faces an FCRA class action over hidden applicant scores." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://eightfold.ai/", "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-ai-interviewer-to-deliver-faster-and-more-equitable-hiring/", "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-launches-recruiter-agent-built-for-hyper-personalized-always-on-high-volume-hiring/", "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ushers-in-the-golden-age-of-hr-software-with-launch-of-talentforge/", "https://eightfold.ai/company/press/press-releases/eightfold-ai-grows-talent-agents-to-2-0/", "https://www.unleash.ai/ai-talent-platform-eightfold-raises-220m-series-e" ] }, { "n": "iMocha", "u": "https://www.imocha.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Context Layer for Skills & Work Intelligence", "url": "https://www.imocha.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "skills" ], "ai": "\"Skills AI agents\" that form a closed loop; AI-driven Skills Inference; conversational AI interviews; an AI-Readiness Index; AI-validated, proficiency-rated skills pushed into Workday Skills Cloud.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "300+ enterprises (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Role-specific coding and technical assessments; a manufacturing case study for skills intelligence." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.imocha.io/", "https://www.imocha.io/newsroom", "https://www.imocha.io/press-releases/imocha-skills-intelligence-on-workday-marketplace" ] }, { "n": "Juicebox", "u": "https://juicebox.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Juicebox enables talent teams to identify the best-fit candidates fast and engage them at scale.", "url": "https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-raises-80m-series-b" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Juicebox Search (PeopleGPT) turns plain-language requests into ranked candidate pools; Juicebox Agents source, rank and engage candidates 24/7 after conversational calibration, with human sign-off on outreach copy; Talent Insights gives market analytics.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "5,000+ customers (YC profile and Series B post); $116M raised; $850M valuation at Series B" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 116, "last": "Series B, $80M, 2026-03-10", "investors": "DST Global (lead), Sequoia Capital, Coatue, NFDG, Y Combinator, Verified Capital, Committed Capital", "src": "https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-raises-80m-series-b" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Free $0; Starter $99 and Growth $179 per seat per month billed yearly ($119 and $199 also shown, apparently monthly); Business custom, annual only; Juicebox Agents add-on $199 per agent per month." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General sourcing for hard-to-find talent; demo agents skew to software roles. No hourly or clearance features." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://juicebox.ai/", "https://juicebox.ai/pricing", "https://juicebox.ai/blog/categories/announcements", "https://juicebox.ai/blog/series-a", "https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-secures-36m-to-scale-ai-recruiting-agents-for-enterprise-and-startups-juicebox-ai", "https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-raises-80m-series-b", "https://juicebox.ai/blog/juicebox-acquires-fetcher-assets", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/juicebox-raises-30m-from-sequoia-to-revolutionize-hiring-with-llm-powered-search/", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/talent-acquisition/juicebox-launches-ai-agents-for-continuous-talent-sourcing", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/juicebox" ] }, { "n": "Phenom", "u": "https://www.phenom.com/", "w": "\"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).", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "humanity's first intelligent system that intertwines people, roles, workflows, and agents", "url": "https://www.phenom.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "chat", "copilot", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Agents including the Voice Screening Agent, Fraud Detection Agent, Career Coach Agent and Sourcing Agent, plus an AI Interviewer, orchestrated by WorkOps; the Phoebe chat assistant.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Raised a $100M Series D in April 2021 at a reported $1.3B to $1.4B valuation; seven or more acquisitions; says 50,000 recruiters, talent marketers and hiring managers use it." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series D, $100M, 2021-04", "investors": null, "src": "https://technical.ly/2021/04/14/phenom-mahe-bayireddi-public-valuation/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Voice screening is pitched at high-volume hiring (Elara Caring uses it for about 17,000 home health aides); site lists Manufacturing among industries served." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.phenom.com/", "https://www.phenom.com/about", "https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-conversational-voice-screening-agent-hiring", "https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-acquires-included-ai-agentic-analytics", "https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-acquires-plum-ai", "https://www.phenom.com/press-release/phenom-servicenow-ai-hiring-agents", "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/phenom-workops-moves-enterprises-multi-133000464.html", "https://nucleusresearch.com/research/single/iamphenom-2026-announcements/", "https://technical.ly/entrepreneurship/phenom-plum-acquisition-philadelphia-money-moves/", "https://technical.ly/2021/04/14/phenom-mahe-bayireddi-public-valuation/" ] }, { "n": "SourceWhale", "u": "https://sourcewhale.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI recruitment platform built on context", "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Ask, Assist and Agent layers: the SourceWhale Agent handles multi-step work, the Inbox Agent drafts email replies, Notetaker records and summarizes meetings, and an MCP connects AI tools to SourceWhale data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Trusted by thousands of recruitment agencies\" with named customers such as Impellam Group, Harnham and Morson (homepage). No funding round found." }, "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Agency tool; no hourly, technical or compliance focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://sourcewhale.com/", "https://sourcewhale.com/sourcewhale-projects-the-ai-recruitment-crm-and-ats-that-drives-revenue-per-recruiter/", "https://sourcewhale.com/the-notes-write-themselves-literally/", "https://sourcewhale.com/the-admin-stops-here/", "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/discover-the-new-sourcewhale-the-recruitment-productivity-platform/", "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/sourcewhale-launches-mcp-to-bring-recruitment-context-into-ai-tools/" ] }, { "n": "Visage", "u": "https://www.visage.jobs/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Sourcing Work Completed. Candidates in Your ATS.", "url": "https://www.visage.jobs/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Rolebot's patented AI sourcing builds shortlists of interview-ready candidates in as little as 10 minutes, the vendor says, with automated outreach from real, authenticated inboxes.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Enterprise clients named in the merger release (Siemens, Ford, ASML); release says new funding was secured, amount not disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "not published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.visage.jobs/", "https://www.visage.jobs/pricing", "https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/visage-and-rolebot-merge-to-deliver-the-markets-most-scalable-and-intelligent-ai-recruiting-platform/" ] }, { "n": "Beamery", "u": "https://beamery.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI Platform For Workforce Transformation", "url": "https://beamery.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "matching", "outreach", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Ray, an \"agentic AI consultant\" embedded across the platform, drawing on Task Intelligence, Skills Intelligence and Talent Market Insights; AI sourcing and matching in the Talent CRM.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised about $228M through a $50M Series D in December 2022 at a reported $1B valuation; headcount about 200 in 2026 per Wikipedia." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 228, "last": "Series D, $50M, 2022-12", "investors": "Teachers' Ventures Growth (Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan) led; Accenture Ventures earlier", "src": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamery" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://beamery.com/", "https://beamery.com/resources/news", "https://beamery.com/resources/news/beamery-launches-first-to-market-task-intelligence-for-workforce-transformation", "https://beamery.com/resources/talent-data-ai/ray-preview-workforce-intelligence-suite", "https://beamery.com/resources/news/beamery-announces-linkedin-crm-connect", "https://beamery.com/resources/news/49-of-c-suite-executives-struggle-with-choosing-the-right-tasks-to-automate-new-beamery-research-finds", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamery" ] }, { "n": "Findem", "u": "https://www.findem.ai/", "w": "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).", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "People Intelligence platform", "url": "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-readyslate-interview-ready-candidates" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "rediscovery", "skills", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Findem Studio agents (prebuilt, customer-built, or run in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini via Findem MCP); ReadySlate recruiting agents; Intelligent Job Post agents; Glider AI skills tests, AI interviews and Authenticity Suite Pro fraud checks.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$51M Series C (Oct 2025) brings total funding to $105M; customers include FedEx, Intuit, RingCentral, Emirates." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 105, "last": "Series C, $51M (equity plus J.P. Morgan growth financing), 2025-10-21", "investors": "SLW (Silver Lake Waterman), Wing Ventures, Harmony Capital, Four Rivers Group", "src": "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-series-c-funding" }, "price": { "note": "Not published; sales-led. ReadySlate Enterprise charges only for candidates unlocked; Intelligent Job Posts are outcome-priced." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Knowledge-worker and executive focus; veteran sourcing via RecruitMilitary; identity checks are fraud tools, not clearance checks." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.findem.ai/", "https://www.findem.ai/news", "https://www.findem.ai/about-us", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-introduces-next-gen-talent-crm-to-help-talent-teams-go-from-reactive-to-ready", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-series-c-funding", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-acquires-getro-and-launches-the-first-intelligent-job-post", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-to-acquire-glider-ai-to-deliver-hire-ready-candidates", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-studio-people-intelligence-platform", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-authenticity-suite-pro-candidate-fraud-detection", "https://www.findem.ai/news/findem-launches-readyslate-interview-ready-candidates" ] }, { "n": "Gem", "u": "https://www.gem.com/", "w": "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.\"", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform", "url": "https://www.gem.com/blog/gem-ats-incredible-momentum-11x-growth-and-whats-next" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Named agents: AI Sourcing Agent (with AI Rediscovery, AI Talent Insights and Ideal Profiles), AI Application Review Agent and AI Fraud Detection Agent. GeMCP connects Gem recruiting data to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised $148M from ICONIQ, Sapphire, Meritech, Greylock, Accel and Y Combinator; says 1,200+ TA teams use it; reports 10x AI revenue growth in the year to March 2026." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 148, "last": "$100M round, 2021-09-28 (TechCrunch headline linked from the Y Combinator directory)", "investors": "ICONIQ, Sapphire, Meritech, Greylock, Accel, Y Combinator", "src": "https://www.gem.com/about" }, "price": { "note": "Startup Program (1 to 10 FTE) published at about $130 per month billed yearly; other plans custom, based on FTE count." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for corporate and tech recruiting teams; no hourly or clearance features on its own pages. Fraud agent helps remote technical roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.gem.com/", "https://www.gem.com/about", "https://www.gem.com/pricing", "https://www.gem.com/blog/category/company-news", "https://www.gem.com/blog/gem-ats-incredible-momentum-11x-growth-and-whats-next", "https://www.gem.com/blog/updates-to-gems-ai-agents-ai-rediscovery-ai-talent-insights-and-more", "https://www.gem.com/blog/gem-ai-10x-growth-and-whats-next", "https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-ai-fraud-detection-agent", "https://www.gem.com/blog/introducing-gem-mcp", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gem" ] }, { "n": "Gloat", "u": "https://gloat.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agentic HR. Pre-built. Enterprise-ready. Live on your HCM in weeks.", "url": "https://gloat.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Gloat Agentic HR with prebuilt agents for workforce redeployment, career development, internal talent sourcing, succession and reskilling, built on the Loomra Workforce Context Engine; a Copilot agent in the Microsoft Agent Store; Galileo-powered agents with The Josh Bersin Company.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised a $57M Series C and a $90M Series D (June 2022, led by Generation Investment Management); customers include Mastercard, MetLife, Novartis and Seagate." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series D, $90M, 2022-06", "investors": "Generation Investment Management (lead)", "src": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloat_(company)" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Internal mobility and redeployment, not external hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://gloat.com/", "https://gloat.com/newsroom/", "https://gloat.com/newsrooms/gloat-unveils-the-exponential-workforce-to-bridge-the-ai-productivity-gap/", "https://gloat.com/newsrooms/gloat-and-the-josh-bersin-company-partner-to-bring-galileoinside-gloat-ai-agents-for-enterprise-hr/", "https://gloat.com/newsrooms/mosaic-and-workforce-graph-enhancements/", "https://joshbersin.com/2026/03/gloat-enters-the-crowded-war-for-ai-agents-in-hr/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloat_(company)" ] }, { "n": "hireEZ", "u": "https://hireez.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "the agent-native talent acquisition platform", "url": "https://www.webull.com/news/15423731699852288" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "EZ Agent and agent-led workflows that learn from each team's corrections; Applicant Match screening with ResumeSense, which flags hidden text, prompt injections and AI-manipulated resumes.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Raised $26M led by Conductive Ventures in 2022 (as Hiretual); cites 200k+ users; total funding not disclosed on its pages." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "$26M round led by Conductive Ventures, 2022-02-02 (as Hiretual)", "investors": "Conductive Ventures", "src": "https://hireez.com/newsroom/hiretual-raises-26m-funding-make-outbound-recruiting-easy/" }, "price": { "note": "Solo recruiters from $494 per month with a 7-day free trial; enterprise pricing configured to the stack it replaces." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General outbound sourcing; Talroo partnership adds active job seekers for high-volume roles, but the core product is not built for hourly hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://hireez.com/newsroom/", "https://hireez.com/newsroom/hireez-launches-resumesense/", "https://hireez.com/newsroom/hireez-unveils-agentic-ai/", "https://hireez.com/blog/hireez-nexxt-talroo-partnership/", "https://www.webull.com/news/15423731699852288", "https://hireez.com/pricing/", "https://hireez.com/about-us/", "https://hireez.com/newsroom/hiretual-raises-26m-funding-make-outbound-recruiting-easy/" ] }, { "n": "Pearch AI", "u": "https://pearch.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "World's leading candidate sourcing API", "url": "https://pearch.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "mcp", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Semantic people search that returns ranked candidates with \"First results in 10 seconds\", exposed through an API and an MCP integration for AI agents.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Formula VC investment of $300K across two funds (reported 2026-09-01); vendor claims 150+ integrating platforms" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Additional Formula VC funding, bringing Formula VC's total stake to $300K, 2026-09-01", "investors": "Formula VC", "src": "https://the-tech.kz/armyanskij-startap-pearch-ai-privlek-300-000-investiczij-ot-formula-vc/" }, "price": { "note": "Credit-based; starter credit packs, volume pricing, free trial on request for some unfunded startups" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://pearch.ai/", "https://the-tech.kz/armyanskij-startap-pearch-ai-privlek-300-000-investiczij-ot-formula-vc/" ] }, { "n": "Pin", "u": "https://www.pin.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI Recruiting Platform That Fills Your Pipeline While You Sleep.", "url": "https://www.pin.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI ranks candidates against the job, writes each outreach step, and Autopilot handles replies, answers candidate questions from a Knowledge Base and books interviews; an MCP server lets recruiters drive Pin from Claude or ChatGPT.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$3M seed led by Expa (Dec 2024); vendor says 2,000+ recruiting teams and 10,000+ users" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 3, "last": "Seed, $3M, 2024-12-14", "investors": "Expa Ventures (lead)", "src": "https://pulse2.com/pin-ai-based-recruitment-platform-company-raises-3-million-seed/" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Free $0 (1 job, 1 AI agent); Solo $100 per user per month and Professional $135 per user per month (struck from $179), both billed annually; Enterprise custom." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "General-purpose; no hourly, technical-assessment or compliance features shown on vendor pages." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.pin.com/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/autopilot/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/march-2026-product-updates/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/february-2026-product-updates/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/talent-preview/", "https://www.pin.com/blog/pin-linkedin-update/", "https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/pincom-launches-ai-recruiting-crm-pipeline-automation-2026", "https://pulse2.com/pin-ai-based-recruitment-platform-company-raises-3-million-seed/" ] }, { "n": "SeekOut", "u": "https://www.seekout.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders", "url": "https://seekout.com/news/seekout-appoints-bala-vishwanath-as-chief-marketing-officer" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Agentic sourcing and AI Recommendations in SeekOut Sourcing (Recruit); Sam (Applicant Evaluation and AI Screening) with an AI recruiter agent that runs rubric-based async screens; SeekOut MCP for Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Amazon Quick; SeekOut AI Coworker in early access; SeekOut Spot agentic recruiting service.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 189, "last": "Series C, $115M (date not printed on vendor page)", "investors": "Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group", "src": "https://www.seekout.com/about-us/" }, "price": { "note": "Self-serve SeekOut Sourcing Core published at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month billed annually; enterprise plans sales-led." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": true, "note": "Sources 40M+ GitHub developers and security-cleared candidates for defense and government; Sam screening covers technical and blue-collar roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.seekout.com/about-us/", "https://www.seekout.com/pricing/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/category/product-company-news/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-workspaces-faster-hiring/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/introducing-seekout-sam/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-mcp/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/agentic-ai-recruiting-leveled-up-with-seekout/", "https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-names-co-founder-john-tippett-president/", "https://seekout.com/news/seekout-appoints-bala-vishwanath-as-chief-marketing-officer", "https://www.madrona.com/congratulating-anoop-gupta-and-welcoming-sean-thompson-as-seekouts-next-ceo/" ] }, { "n": "Talentium", "u": "https://www.talentium.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Find who's actually right for the role.", "url": "https://www.talentium.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI search and AI matching that explain each match with evidence and gaps, plus MCP connectors for Claude and ChatGPT.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "EUR 3.5M pre-seed led by EQT Ventures (Dec 2024); published self-serve pricing" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Pre-seed, EUR 3.5M, 2024-12-05", "investors": "EQT Ventures (lead)", "src": "https://siliconcanals.com/hiring-platform-talentium-bags-e3-5m/" }, "price": { "note": "Free plan; Starter EUR 119 per user per month; Growth EUR 279 per user per month, billed annually" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.talentium.io/", "https://www.talentium.io/journal", "https://www.talentium.io/journal/talentium-launches-ai-powered-recruitment-solution-on-google-cloud-marketplace", "https://siliconcanals.com/hiring-platform-talentium-bags-e3-5m/" ] }, { "n": "Weekday", "u": "https://www.weekday.works/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weekday" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An \"AI sourcing agent\" plus AI-drafted emails and follow-ups, \"AI enabled smart filters\" for subscribers and a free AI Resume Screener.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$2.2M seed led by Venture Highway (Aug 2023); YC W21; team of 38" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 2.2, "last": "Seed, $2.2M, 2023-08-25", "investors": "Venture Highway (lead), angels", "src": "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-investment/weekday-secures-22m-seed-funding-38830" }, "price": { "note": "Published: contingency 15% of annual salary, free if no hire, 60-day replacement; marketplace subscription custom for 10k to 150k credits." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Focus on software engineering and product roles (backend, frontend, tech lead pages); not built for hourly or plant hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.weekday.works/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weekday", "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-investment/weekday-secures-22m-seed-funding-38830" ] }, { "n": "Fuel50", "u": "https://fuel50.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Fuel50 brings Skills Intelligence and Talent Marketplace together in one enterprise Talent Intelligence Platform", "url": "https://fuel50.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Agentic Hub with the Career Advisor Agent (in Microsoft Teams) and Leader Coach Agent; Task Intelligence for AI work redesign; an MCP server and prompt library.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No disclosed revenue or funding found; customers include Bank of Ireland, Electronic Arts, TE Connectivity and Roche; being acquired by NYSE-listed Phoenix Education Partners." }, "owner": "Phoenix Education Partners (definitive agreement 2026-09-17; close not confirmed)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Internal mobility and skills, not external hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://fuel50.com/", "https://fuel50.com/press/", "https://fuel50.com/press/phoenix-education-partners-to-acquire-fuel50-advancing-the-future-of-workforce-transformation", "https://fuel50.com/press/fuel50-launches-task-intelligence-to-drive-responsible-work-redesign-in-the-age-of-ai", "https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/fuel50-launches-career-advisor-agent-bring-trusted-ai-career-guidance-flow", "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/947997314/fuel50-launches-leader-coach-agent-to-build-organizational-capability-for-the-age-of-ai" ] }, { "n": "HeroHunt.ai", "u": "https://www.herohunt.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiter recruits for you on complete autopilot", "url": "https://www.herohunt.ai/uwi" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI Recruiter runs searches across a 1-billion-profile index, AI-screens each candidate against the role and sends AI-written outreach and follow-ups; HeroHunt also sells a People Search API.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vendor says it helps \"tens of thousands of recruiters\"; no funding disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "Published: from $99 per month (Starter: 2,000 AI-screened profiles and 500 emails per month); Pro 5,000 profiles and 1,000 emails; Team 25,000 profiles and 4,000 emails; 8-day free trial, card required." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Aimed at tech hiring; searches GitHub and Stack Overflow." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.herohunt.ai/uwi", "https://www.herohunt.ai/plans", "https://www.herohunt.ai/about", "https://www.herohunt.ai/blog/seekout-pricing-2026-plans-credits-and-alternatives/" ] }, { "n": "HireQuotient", "u": "https://www.hirequotient.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "autonomous AI sourcing", "url": "https://www.hirequotient.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "EasySource sourcing agent; an AI Voice Agent that calls many candidates at once; an AI Hiring Manager that runs multi-round interviews; an Onboarding Agent that collects I-9 and tax forms.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Named customers (Alliance Building Services, Arc Health, W3 Insurance); vendor claims 8,000+ closed roles; no funding verified" }, "price": { "note": "not published; free two-week trial for Paylocity customers" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Sells to frontline and licensed-role employers including manufacturing; licence checks at source, I-9 collection, SOC 2 Type II and action replay audit trails on the vendor page." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.hirequotient.com/", "https://www.everythingstartups.com/news/hirequotient-s-easysource-elevated-to-featured-listing-on-paylocity-marketplace-within-a-month-of-launching", "https://hackernoon.com/hirequotient-extends-ai-recruiting-capabilities-to-paylocity-customers-in-frontline-industries" ] }, { "n": "Leoforce", "u": "https://leoforce.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agents that transform your job advertising and candidate engagement", "url": "https://leoforce.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "job_ads", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI agents named Source, Capture, Convert, Rediscovery and Signal (a sales agent for staffing firms). The app login still runs on app.goarya.com.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "\"Over 200\" people per its company page; no customer count or funding on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "Not published; custom, outcome-based pricing, no per-seat price." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Capture is pitched as \"AI candidate screening built for high-volume hiring\" but does not mention hourly roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://leoforce.com/", "https://leoforce.com/our-company/", "https://leoforce.com/products/capture/", "https://leoforce.com/pricing/", "https://leoforce.com/news-and-events/", "https://leoforce.com/news/leoforce-achieves-iso-iec-42001-certification-for-responsible-ai/", "https://leoforce.com/the-recruiting-volume-trap-and-how-career-town-escaped-it/", "https://leoforce.com/?p=18107" ] }, { "n": "SourceGeek", "u": "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "talent_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "SourceGeek is the AI assistant for recruiters.", "url": "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "The SourceGeek AI Agent (sourcing across LinkedIn data and GitHub), an in-app AI Assistant that \"executes complex interface actions through simple natural language,\" an MCP server, and connectors for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "Published: Starter EUR 99 and Team EUR 179 per seat per month billed yearly; Enterprise custom; 14-day free trial." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "The AI Agent sources developers on GitHub, reading languages, projects and activity." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/pricing", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/sourcegeek-announces-official-mcp-server-integration", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/the-end-of-the-interface-meet-our-sourcegeek-ai-assistant", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/github-sourcing-without-the-legwork", "https://www.sourcegeek.com/en/news/recruiting-from-claude" ] }, { "n": "Alfa AI", "u": "https://www.welovealfa.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Agents built for exceptional recruiters", "url": "https://www.welovealfa.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "job_ads", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI recruiter agent sources and contacts candidates; Lisa, an AI avatar interviewer, runs audio or video interviews day or night and returns an evidence-backed score.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "GBP 1M seed led by Sake Bosch (Aug 2026), after a pre-seed led by Fuel Ventures" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, GBP 1M, 2026-08-05", "investors": "Sake Bosch (lead), FirstDegree, Golden Egg Check, Black Green Capital; pre-seed led by Fuel Ventures", "src": "https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/former-dragons-den-star-joins-alfa-ai-following-1m-investment/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; demo-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.welovealfa.com/", "https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/former-dragons-den-star-joins-alfa-ai-following-1m-investment/", "https://fuel.ventures/alfa-raises-to-build-their-ai-recruiter-agent" ] }, { "n": "Carefam", "u": "https://www.carefam.com/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire Clinicians with AI Built for Healthcare", "url": "https://www.carefam.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Conversational AI agents built for healthcare HR. They handle outreach, credential screening, interview scheduling and onboarding, and route high-stakes decisions to people. CEO: \"Carefam acts as an always-on operational layer.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$10.5M round led by Pitango HealthTech in 2026 after a $4M round led by Emerge in 2023; deployed at hundreds of healthcare organizations" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 14.5, "last": "$10.5M round, 2026-03-12", "investors": "Pitango HealthTech (lead); earlier round led by Emerge", "src": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1hd004eq11g" }, "price": { "note": "Free for clinicians; employer pricing not published (book a demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Hires CNAs, HHAs, LPNs and RNs, full-time, part-time and per diem; AI auto-credentials candidates before they reach the employer." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.carefam.com/", "https://www.carefam.com/product-updates", "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1hd004eq11g", "https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/03/skilled-nursing-dealbook-carefam-raises-14-5m-for-ai-powered-staffing-sage-raises-65m-to-expand-ai-assisted-care/", "https://techfundingnews.com/14-5m-for-carefam-ai-agents-to-fix-healthcare-hiring-bottleneck/" ] }, { "n": "Carv", "u": "https://www.carv.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Build, deploy & manage recruitment agents at scale", "url": "https://www.carv.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "rediscovery", "scheduling" ], "ai": "An Agentic Platform of named recruiting agents (Screening, Scheduling, Rediscovery, Onboarding, Compliance and others) set up in an AI Console, plus a voice AI agent that runs phone pre-screens.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$10M seed (2024); customers include ManpowerGroup, DHL, Carrefour, G4S, Jumbo." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 10, "last": "Seed, $10M, 2024-06-04", "investors": "Global Founders Capital, angels", "src": "https://www.carv.com/press" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for volume hiring in logistics, retail and staffing; voice phone screens fit shift roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.carv.com/", "https://www.carv.com/press", "https://www.carv.com/use-cases/voice-ai", "https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-acquires-recrubo", "https://www.carv.com/press-release/carv-selected-as-strategic-partner-by-manpowergroup-talent-solutions-to-power-global-ai-transformation-of-recruitment-operations", "https://www.carv.com/press-release/jumbo-carv-introduce-ai-powered-hiring-enables-same-day-recruitment" ] }, { "n": "Clera", "u": "https://www.getclera.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "the first AI talent agent", "url": "https://www.getclera.com/companies" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "matching" ], "ai": "An AI talent agent that holds an intake conversation with each candidate, matches them to roles, waits when nothing fits, and writes each intro to the hiring manager with context on fit.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$3M pre-seed led by 1984 Ventures; founders cite more than $1M annualized revenue and 85,000+ candidates represented (Munich Startup, 2026-05-21)" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 3, "last": "Pre-seed, $3M, 2026-04", "investors": "1984 Ventures (lead), Deel Ventures, angels", "src": "https://www.getclera.com/llms.txt" }, "price": { "note": "Free for candidates; employers pay a fee when they hire (rate not published on the site)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.getclera.com/", "https://www.getclera.com/companies", "https://www.munich-startup.de/en/news/with-spezi-grit-and-ai-clera-raises-3-million-dollars" ] }, { "n": "Contrario", "u": "https://www.contrario.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Contrario is an AI recruiting and hiring platform on a mission to help companies build generational teams.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/contrario" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Vertical AI agents that support its human recruiters. In the vendor's words, \"Agents work on their behalf continuously in the background between meetings\" on sourcing, scheduling and follow-ups.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$2.3M seed led by Nexus Venture Partners; vendor says it crossed $6M annualized revenue and serves 200+ companies" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 2.3, "last": "Seed, $2.3M, 2026-06-03", "investors": "Nexus Venture Partners (lead), Inventum Ventures, Goodwater Capital", "src": "https://dealroom.co/news/133122-contrario-raises-2-3m-for-ai-recruiting-platform-already-at-6m-annualise/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Example roles on the homepage are startup engineering and design roles; no hourly or compliance focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.contrario.ai/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/contrario", "https://www.contrario.ai/blogs/announcement/better-recruiting-built-on-contrario", "https://dealroom.co/news/133122-contrario-raises-2-3m-for-ai-recruiting-platform-already-at-6m-annualise/" ] }, { "n": "Dex", "u": "https://meetdex.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "The talent agent for senior software engineers", "url": "https://meetdex.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "matching", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI talent agent built on models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI interviews candidates by voice or text; a proprietary matching engine pairs them with roles (Fortune). \"Dex finds and qualifies the fit\" using \"candidate intent and real conversation, not just CV keywords.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$8.4M disclosed funding; about $1.8M annualized revenue run rate and 50+ client companies (Fortune, Apr 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 8.4, "last": "Seed, $5.3M, 2026-04-28 (after a $3.1M pre-seed in 2025)", "investors": "Notion Capital (lead), a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures, angels from OpenAI", "src": "https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/exclusive-dex-ai-powered-recruiting-startup-raises-seed-round-notion-capital/" }, "price": { "note": "Charges employers 20% to 30% of a hired candidate's salary (Fortune); no price on the vendor site." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "\"Built for technical hiring\": senior software, platform, AI/ML, data and quant engineers. Software focus, not manufacturing engineering." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://meetdex.ai/", "https://meetdex.ai/for-companies", "https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/exclusive-dex-ai-powered-recruiting-startup-raises-seed-round-notion-capital/", "https://tech.eu/2026/04/29/dex-lands-53m-to-grow-its-ai-driven-talent-matching-platform" ] }, { "n": "GoPerfect", "u": "https://www.goperfect.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "One AI recruiter to build and nurture your talent audience, source candidates, reach out, call, and screen.", "url": "https://www.goperfect.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "job_ads", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Named agents include Deep Search, Autopilot sourcing, Autopilot outreach, AI calling, AI interview, and Brands, Pools and Campaigns agents, plus a Claude connector. TechCrunch reported in Feb 2025 that it built its own models on a proprietary vector dataset rather than third-party LLMs.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$23M seed reported by TechCrunch (2025-02-25); about 200 business customers including Fiverr, eToro, McCann and Coralogix per that article." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 23, "last": "Seed, $23M, 2025-02-25", "investors": "Hanaco Ventures, Joule Ventures and Young Sohn (SAFE note); Target Global, RTP Global and Pitango (earlier equity tranche)", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/perfect-taps-23m-to-fix-the-flaws-in-recruitment-with-ai" }, "price": { "note": "Published: $300 per open position per month, unlimited seats." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Industry pages exist for construction, logistics and retail, but no vendor evidence of an hourly, technical or compliance focus." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.goperfect.com/", "https://www.goperfect.com/pricing", "https://www.goperfect.com/blog", "https://www.goperfect.com/perfect-labs", "https://www.goperfect.com/perfect-labs/what-ai-screening-catches", "https://www.goperfect.com/offers/partnership-entree-capital", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/perfect-taps-23m-to-fix-the-flaws-in-recruitment-with-ai", "https://pulse2.com/perfect-23-million-seed-raised-for-addressing-recruitment-bottlenecks/", "https://qdrant.tech/blog/case-study-go-perfect/", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/goperfect" ] }, { "n": "HireBound", "u": "https://hirebound.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Agents That Actually Recruit For You", "url": "https://hirebound.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "June, an engagement agent, holds multilingual conversations over calls, SMS, email and WhatsApp; screening, evaluation and recommendation agents score candidates and rank the shortlist.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$2M seed led by Kalaari Capital (Feb 2026); company claims 3M+ candidate conversations and 200+ organisations" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 2, "last": "Seed, $2M, 2026-02-24", "investors": "Kalaari Capital (lead), Antler, Infinyte Club, CareerNet", "src": "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-and-investment/hirebound-raises-dollar2-million-to-automate-hiring-with-ai-48548" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://hirebound.io/", "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-and-investment/hirebound-raises-dollar2-million-to-automate-hiring-with-ai-48548", "https://www.indianstartuptimes.com/interviews/recruiting-reinvented-hirebounds-ai-agents-close-roles-autonomously/", "https://kalaari.com/insights-from-the-fronlines/why-we-invested-in-hirebound", "https://www.antler.co/blog/investing-in-hirebound-making-hr-more-human-with-the-help-of-ai" ] }, { "n": "Hunar.AI", "u": "https://www.hunar.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI HRs for Frontline Workforce Management", "url": "https://www.hunar.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Hunar Voice and Hunar Connect: conversational voice and WhatsApp agents named Screening Agent, Hiring Agent, Onboarding Agent, Re-Hiring Agent and Survey Agent.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Rs 40 crore Series A led by Blume Ventures; Rs 65 crore raised in total (HRKatha); clients include Swiggy, Zepto and Starbucks" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, Rs 40 crore (about $4.2M per Inc42), 2026-10-19", "investors": "Blume Ventures (lead), Hyderabad Angels Fund, Together Fund, Seedstars, AVNM Ventures", "src": "https://inc42.com/buzz/hunar-raises-ā‚¹40-cr-to-scale-agentic-ai-for-frontline-hiring/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; Hunar Voice is self-serve, Hunar Connect is for large teams" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Built for frontline hiring (retail across 570+ stores, quick commerce); vendor says every hire is verified before Day 1 with a full audit trail." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hunar.ai/", "https://inc42.com/buzz/hunar-raises-ā‚¹40-cr-to-scale-agentic-ai-for-frontline-hiring/", "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/ai-and-emerging-tech/hunarai-raises-rs-40-cr-in-series-a-to-scale-its-platform-for-frontline-workforce-management-52859", "https://www.hrkatha.com/funding/hunar-ai-secures-rs-40-crore-to-transform-frontline-workforce-management/", "https://elevenlabs.io/blog/hunar", "https://hunar.ai/" ] }, { "n": "Jack & Jill", "u": "https://jackandjill.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Jill is the AI agent for hiring", "url": "https://jackandjill.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "job_ads", "matching", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Two named agents: Jack, a voice agent that interviews candidates and coaches them, and Jill, an agent that takes the hiring brief and makes direct introductions. \"When Jack and Jill agree there's a match, they introduce the candidate and company directly, skipping the application altogether.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$60M in disclosed funding; vendor says 380,000 people talk to Jack and over 5,000 companies hire with Jill (Sep 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 60, "last": "Series A, $40M, 2026-09-15", "investors": "Air Street Capital (Series A lead), Creandum (seed lead), Madrona", "src": "https://jackandjill.ai/blog/series-a" }, "price": { "note": "Meet Jill free (20 intro requests a month); Hire Jill from $199 per active role per month (US, billed annually); Scale Jill on request. Jack is free for candidates." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Aimed at startups (\"Trusted by 2,000+ startups, from Seed to Series C\"); many examples are engineering hires but it is not built only for technical roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://jackandjill.ai/", "https://jackandjill.ai/jill", "https://jackandjill.ai/pricing", "https://jackandjill.ai/blog", "https://jackandjill.ai/blog/series-a", "https://jackandjill.ai/about-us", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/" ] }, { "n": "Jooba", "u": "https://www.jooba.com/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "the AI-native recruiting firm that runs your entire top-of-funnel", "url": "https://www.jooba.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "\"Custom AI Sourcing Agents\" calibrated to each role, plus \"Human-in-the-Loop Quality Assurance\" by talent engineers, per the launch release.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$4M seed from a16z speedrun, Scribble Ventures and Genius Ventures" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 4, "last": "Seed, $4M, 2026-10-20", "investors": "a16z speedrun, Scribble Ventures, Genius Ventures", "src": "https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=363059" }, "price": { "note": "Flat monthly fee per role for unlimited hires; no dollar amounts published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Hires across engineering, GTM, product and design for startups; no hourly or compliance focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jooba.com/", "https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=363059", "https://thenextweb.com/news/jooba-emerges-with-4m-to-build-ai-native-recruiting-firm", "https://techfundingnews.com/pitch-deck-ai-recruiting-startup-jooba-raises-4m-seed-from-a16z-speedrun-scribble-ventures-and-genius-ventures/" ] }, { "n": "Metaview", "u": "https://www.metaview.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Metaview is the Agentic Recruiting Platform built for radically efficient hiring, end to end.", "url": "https://www.metaview.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI Notes captures and structures interviews into notes and scorecards; agents cover sourcing, application review and screening, and fillmore is an \"autonomous recruiting coworker\" that sources, writes outreach, follows up and books screening calls.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$110M raised in total after a $60M Series C (Sept 2026); says more than 7,000 companies use it" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 110, "last": "Series C, $60M, 2026-09-30", "investors": "Insight Partners (lead), GV, Plural, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US", "src": "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/metaview-raises-60m-series-c-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting/" }, "price": { "note": "Sourcing plans published: Free, Pro $100 and Max $300 per user per month; full Agentic Recruiting Platform is custom-priced Enterprise" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.metaview.ai/", "https://www.metaview.ai/pricing", "https://www.metaview.ai/resources/blog/metaview-raised-an-additional-60m-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting", "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/metaview-raises-60m-series-c-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting/", "https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/25/ai-hiring-startup-metaview-raises-35m-automate-recruiters-admin-work/", "https://www.unleash.ai/hr-technology/news/google-ventures-leads-35-million-series-b-funding-in-metaview" ] }, { "n": "Pluto", "u": "https://talentpluto.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Resumes made careers readable. LinkedIn made them filterable. Pluto makes them searchable.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/talentpluto" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI voice agent that \"learns your story in 10 minutes and makes you discoverable to the right people and AI agents,\" plus agent-led matching and warm intros.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Y Combinator Summer 2026; YC launch post cites 18K+ professionals and 100+ companies including Mercor, Rho and Warp." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch, amount not disclosed", "investors": "Y Combinator", "src": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/talentpluto" }, "price": { "note": "Free for professionals; company pricing not published." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://talentpluto.com/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/talentpluto", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RTP-pluto-ai-voice-agent-that-helps-professionals-get-discovered", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/pluto-11", "https://chatgate.ai/post/pluto" ] }, { "n": "Serra", "u": "https://serra.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "The trades job board that lands you your first hire in under two weeks.", "url": "https://serra.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI recruiting agent that delivers \"Instant Matches\" within hours, explains why each candidate fits, reads resumes in under a second each, sends outreach after approval and books interviews.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "YC S23 company, team of 8; vendor claims 200+ hires including 100+ at EquipmentShare and 130K+ tradespeople on the platform; round sizes not on opened pages" }, "price": { "note": "Published: from $10k per month for a set of roles, unlimited hires from those roles, no placement, per-hire or per-seat fees." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Strong fit for plant and field trades: listings show hourly pay ($19 to $45 per hour) and profiles show PLC, controls technician, hydraulics and CDL credentials." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://serra.io/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/serra", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFb-serra-your-24-7-ai-recruiter", "https://dataconomy.com/tools/serra/" ] }, { "n": "Torre", "u": "https://torre.ai/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Emma, Torre's AI talent agent, engages candidates on her own", "url": "https://torre.ai/emmaforcompanies" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Emma, an AI talent agent that engages, screens, tests and ranks candidates over WhatsApp, web and app. Torre 2.0 added a new matching and ranking model plus an API and MCP.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "over $22M raised, including over $11M from the founder; 2K+ companies and 1M+ candidates (vendor)" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 22, "last": "Community investment campaign, minimum $1,000, reported 2026-09-25 (amount not disclosed)", "investors": "Alexander Torrenegra (founder, $11M+) and 50+ other investors", "src": "https://invest.torre.ai/" }, "price": { "note": "Posting jobs is \"always free\"; headhunting and managed tiers not priced on pages opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Full-time, freelance and internship roles, remote and local; no hourly or compliance focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://torre.ai/emmaforcompanies", "https://torre.ai/headhunting", "https://invest.torre.ai/", "https://torrenegra.com/", "https://torrenegra.com/p/mtw34afm2qnm", "https://torrenegra.com/p/mu36c4ozxwam", "https://www.latamrepublic.com/torre-ai-expands-its-global-workforce-platform-with-a-new-investment-campaign/" ] }, { "n": "Lantern AI", "u": "https://lantern.md/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "agentic recruiting platform for enterprise", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lantern-ai" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Agents built on a \"World People Model\" of the talent market and a \"Company Hiring Model\" that learns each customer's criteria, feedback and decisions. A separate product, \"OpenRouter for people,\" gives AI agents such as Codex one connection to people-data, research and outreach tools.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "YC Fall 2026; team of 4; CEO reported crossing $1M ARR (via ARR Club); no funding disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (book a demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Points buyers to a Trust Center for security controls; no hourly or technical focus stated." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://lantern.md/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lantern-ai", "https://fondo.com/blog/start-thomas-chan-junstin-tang", "https://www.arr.club/signal/lantern-ai-crossed-1m-arr-agents-launch", "https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/lantern-ai" ] }, { "n": "NauWork", "u": "https://www.nauwork.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Meet your AI recruiting team.", "url": "https://www.nauwork.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI recruiters on the NauMatch platform \"search, match, and screen candidates from a large talent pool\"; Arm describes Calibration AI, Qualification AI and Engagement AI agents.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or revenue disclosed; customer logos include Intel, SiFive, Airbus and Enfabrica." }, "price": { "note": "Contingent (success fee per hire), retained, or embedded recruiters; no prices published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Employer page is titled \"AI Recruiting for Tech and Engineering Teams\"; semiconductor design hiring, not fab operators." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.nauwork.com/", "https://www.nauwork.com/employers", "https://www.nauwork.com/about", "https://www.arm.com/partners/catalog/nauwork", "https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/announcements/posts/arm-and-nauwork-partner-to-scale-agentic-ai-hiring-for-the-semiconductor-industry" ] }, { "n": "Noon", "u": "https://www.noon.ai/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Noon is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources, screens, and reaches out to qualified candidates", "url": "https://www.noon.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Unlimited AI recruiting agents on one plan, a sourcing agent you can chat with to \"tighten or loosen a search,\" a campaign agent for outreach, and a remote MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count disclosed on pages opened. Not the AI design startup called Noon that raised $44M in 2026." }, "price": { "note": "Not published; quote-based single plan per team, with a 10x ROI guarantee on annual plans." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Candidate overlays show GitHub links, but no vendor claim of a technical focus." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.noon.ai/", "https://www.noon.ai/about", "https://www.noon.ai/product", "https://www.noon.ai/pricing", "https://www.noon.ai/changelog", "https://www.noon.ai/docs/mcp" ] }, { "n": "Perfectly", "u": "https://www.perfectly.so/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Perfectly is the first AI-native Recruiting OS.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/perfectly" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Paul, an AI recruiting agent that does \"weeks worth of sourcing and outreach at an expert-level\" and learns from team feedback with \"infinite memory.\" Parker is a separate job-seeker agent on iMessage and WhatsApp.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "YC W26; team of 4; no funding amount on pages opened" }, "price": { "note": "Launch YC page: \"We only get paid when we fill your role.\" Homepage: priced by number of searches at \"about half of what you'd pay a traditional sourcer.\" No dollar figures." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor: \"We typically fill hard-to-fill engineering roles in 2-4 weeks.\"" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.perfectly.so/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/perfectly", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PEe-hire-with-perfectly-your-ai-recruiting-agency", "https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/perfectly", "https://yespress.io/perfectly-yc-w26" ] }, { "n": "Prism", "u": "https://tryprism.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Prism is an AI-native recruiting agency. We use software and agents to find companies better people faster.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tryprism" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Software and agents that search beyond agency databases and active job seekers. The vendor reports a PeopleSearchBench score of 89.6 against a 68.2 baseline (self-reported).", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "YC Spring 2026; team of 3; no funding amount on pages opened" }, "price": { "note": "US$500 per month while recruiting, plus 15% of first-year base salary on a signed offer" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://tryprism.com/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tryprism", "https://hunted.space/product/prism-26" ] }, { "n": "Standout", "u": "https://standout.work/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "agentic", "cat_src": { "quote": "Standout gives every talent and company an autonomous agent that represents them", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/standout" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "assessment", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An autonomous agent for each company and each candidate. The candidate CLI assesses how people think, build and debug to make a verified profile; the company agent writes intros and runs pipeline follow-up.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "YC Spring 2026; vendor says it represents 10,000+ builders and has matched with 60+ startups; no funding amount on pages opened" }, "price": { "note": "Success-only: \"companies pay only on hire\"; \"No retainer, no exclusivity.\" Free for talent." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Targets startup builders, mostly founding and senior engineers, plus design, product and GTM hires; the CLI assesses how candidates build and debug." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://standout.work/", "https://standout.work/company", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/standout", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qfi-standout-a-talent-agent-for-builders", "https://ycwatcher.info/en/companies/standout" ] }, { "n": "Paraform", "u": "https://paraform.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "marketplace", "cat_src": { "quote": "Expert recruiters and custom agents find, vet, and hire the right candidates for critical roles, 3x faster.", "url": "https://paraform.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Paraform Hiring Intelligence is \"the data layer that powers every agent across our platform,\" built from past hiring outcomes. Its agents \"quickly understand your hiring goals and provide a shortlist of vetted candidates.\" Recruiter-side agents surface roles and handle follow-ups.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Vendor says it crossed $100M in annualized revenue (2026-07-16) and has helped 1,000+ companies hire." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 65, "last": "Series B, about $40M (total rose from $25M to $65M; amount not stated), 2026-03-18", "investors": "Scale Venture Partners (Series B lead), Felicis (Series A lead), A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, BOND", "src": "https://paraform.com/blog/series-b" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Get a demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for high-paid critical roles (engineering, GTM, finance, legal); vendor says Palantir hired more than 50 engineers through it. Not built for hourly hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://paraform.com/", "https://paraform.com/about", "https://paraform.com/blog", "https://paraform.com/blog/series-b", "https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-a-announcement", "https://paraform.com/blog/hiring-intelligence", "https://paraform.com/blog/100m-annualized-revenue", "https://paraform.com/blog/candidate-first", "https://pulse2.com/paraform-65-million-raised-for-agentic-hiring-platform-expanding-ai-driven-recruiting/" ] }, { "n": "Ethos", "u": "https://agent.askethos.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "marketplace", "cat_src": { "quote": "Human intelligence, on-demand", "url": "https://agent.askethos.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "matching", "sourcing" ], "ai": "A voice AI agent that \"conducts a structured interview, asks follow-up questions based on what the expert says,\" plus AI that reads papers, GitHub repositories and other work to match experts to client needs.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$22.75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz; about $30M raised in total" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 30, "last": "Series A, $22.75M, 2026-05-06", "investors": "Andreessen Horowitz (lead), General Catalyst, XTX, Evantic", "src": "https://tech.eu/2026/05/06/ai-consulting-startup-co-founded-by-deepmind-scientist-lands-22-75m-series-a/" }, "price": { "note": "Per-project fee of \"30 percent or more\" (reported by StartupFortune); not published by the vendor" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Network spans professionals and trades such as electricians and plumbers, but it is not built for volume hiring." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://agent.askethos.com/", "https://tech.eu/2026/05/06/ai-consulting-startup-co-founded-by-deepmind-scientist-lands-22-75m-series-a/", "https://thenextweb.com/news/ethos-22-75m-series-a-a16z-ai-expert-matching", "https://startupfortune.com/ethos-raises-2275m-from-a16z-to-rebuild-expert-networks-around-voice-onboarding/" ] }, { "n": "Fika Jobs", "u": "https://fikajobs.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "marketplace", "cat_src": { "quote": "Standout. From the crowd.", "url": "https://fikajobs.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI agent (powered by Google Gemini models, per TechCrunch) runs video interviews with candidates and turns them into short clip profiles.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$4M pre-seed led by Luminar Ventures (Jun 2026); 50+ companies in 2025 testing" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 4, "last": "Pre-seed, $4M, 2026-06-23", "investors": "Luminar Ventures (lead), Alliance VC, Sebastian Knutsson, Riccardo Zacconi", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/fika-jobs-raises-4m-to-build-a-video-first-hiring-platform-where-ai-agents-interview-candidates/" }, "price": { "note": "Free for candidates; employers pay a success fee (10% of first-year salary per TechCrunch)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://fikajobs.ai/", "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/fika-jobs-raises-4m-to-build-a-video-first-hiring-platform-where-ai-agents-interview-candidates/" ] }, { "n": "Fonzi", "u": "https://fonzi.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "marketplace", "cat_src": { "quote": "Join the premier marketplace for hiring AI engineering talent", "url": "https://recruiting.fonzi.ai" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "An AI interviewer holds a short conversation with each applicant before recruiter review; Cook'd adds graph-based technical screening and AI-written job descriptions.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding round verified; two acquisitions (BKB Talent, Cook'd); Built In lists 26 employees" }, "price": { "note": "Free for candidates; 18% of base salary per hire (Business Insider, 2025-08-24)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Engineers only; no plant or hourly roles." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://fonzi.ai/", "https://fonzi.ai/blog/fonzi-cookd-acquisition", "https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hiring-process-broken-software-engineers-152521767.html", "https://builtin.com/company/fonzi-ai" ] }, { "n": "Braintrust AIR", "u": "https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-ai-recruiter/ai-hiring-tool", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI interview software for enterprise screening.", "url": "https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-ai-recruiter/ai-hiring-tool" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "integrity", "matching" ], "ai": "AIR (launched April 2024) runs two-way voice interviews with adaptive follow-ups, scores answers against role rubrics and ranks candidates; it adds resume match scoring, semantic candidate search and fraud and identity signals.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Braintrust reported about 2,500 client companies on its platform (Fortune, 2024); vendor counts 367,842 AIR interviews completed." }, "price": { "note": "volume-based; \"no public per-interview sticker price\"; scoped pilots" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Voice screening at thousands of interviews per day; manufacturing is one listed industry, but the AIR page does not target hourly hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.usebraintrust.com/", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-ai-recruiter/ai-hiring-tool", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/now-interviewing-in-10-languages", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/independent-ai-bias-compliance-audit", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/recruiting-ops-automation-with-air-and-nexus", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/pricing", "https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/29/braintrust-coatue-tiger-blockchain-ai-hiring-recruiting", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/air", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/llms.txt", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/air-release-notes", "https://www.usebraintrust.com/press", "https://www.yc.edu/v6/news/2025/11/hire.html" ] }, { "n": "HireVue", "u": "https://www.hirevue.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI hiring technology to reveal proven skills and capabilities", "url": "https://www.hirevue.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "AI Interviewer conducts \"dynamic, two-way voice interviews with every applicant 24/7\" scored against rubrics validated by I-O psychology research. Other AI: the Talent Engagement agent (conversational matching on the career site), Interview Insights (AI transcripts and summaries) and Assessment Builder (AI analyzes job descriptions to build assessments).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Over 1,150 customers including more than 60% of the Fortune 100; 80 million video interviews and 180 million assessments hosted (vendor, June 2026). Revenue not disclosed." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor markets an 'Hourly + High Volume' solution and calls itself 'hourly hiring software for high-volume employers'; fits plant and frontline volume hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hirevue.com/", "https://www.hirevue.com/about", "https://www.hirevue.com/ai-interviewer", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-ai-interviewer", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-acquires-hireguide-technology-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-hiring", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-assessment-builder-to-scale-validated-skills-hiring-across-enterprises", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-joins-workday-ai-agent-partner-network-accelerating-the-shift-to-skills-based-hiring", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-announces-interview-insights-expanding-its-innovation-in-skill-validation", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-momentum-accelerates-as-employers-emphasize-skills-based-hiring", "https://www.hirevue.com/press-release/hirevue-launches-talent-engagement-agent-to-solve-the-hiring-speed-vs-quality-trade-off" ] }, { "n": "InCruiter", "u": "https://incruiter.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Interview and Interview as a Service Platform", "url": "https://incruiter.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "job_ads", "matching", "scheduling" ], "ai": "IncBot uses conversational AI for asynchronous interviews with dynamic follow-ups; IncScreen is a conversational AI phone recruiter; continuous deepfake, face impersonation and AI voice detection in interviews.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Claims 600+ clients and 4,500+ expert interviewers; no equity round found" }, "price": { "note": "not published; pay-per-use with a free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Coding assessments, pair programming and expert technical interviewers; strong on interview fraud detection." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://incruiter.com/", "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", "https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/incruiter-launches-ai-driven-hiring-workflow-automation-platform/2969246/" ] }, { "n": "Jobma", "u": "https://www.jobma.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Intelligent, Human-first Hiring System", "url": "https://www.jobma.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "matching", "scheduling" ], "ai": "\"AI Interviewer (Agentic AI)\" automates initial screening with role-specific questions and evaluation; an Interview Agent sets up live and AI interviews; AI resume scoring with explanations; ID verification inside the interview flow.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Established vendor since 2012 with a named enterprise customer base in 40 countries; no funding disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "not published; plans tailored to hiring volume" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Says it is built for high-volume hiring; sells coding assessments across multiple programming languages; background checks only via partners such as AccuSourceHR." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jobma.com/", "https://www.jobma.com/about-us", "https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news", "https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-announces-new-product-updates-for-enhanced-hiring-visibility-speed-and-security", "https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-and-accusourcehr-partner-to-bring-candidate-screening-and-verification-into-one-seamless-hiring-workflow", "https://www.jobma.com/press-and-news/jobma-unveils-new-brand-identity-to-advance-human-centered-ai-interviewing", "https://www.jobma.com/blog/jobma-2025-year-in-review/" ] }, { "n": "Paradox", "u": "https://www.paradox.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Meet the AI assistant for all things hiring.", "url": "https://www.paradox.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "chat", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Olivia, the conversational AI assistant, handles applications, screening questions, interview self-scheduling and onboarding by text and chat. Workday sells it as a candidate experience agent; AI Video Studio generates job preview videos and Immersive Q&A answers candidate questions in video.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Workday (public). Paradox claims more than 189 million AI-assisted candidate conversations; customers include 7-Eleven, Chipotle, Ace Hardware, Valvoline." }, "owner": "Workday", "price": { "note": "not published; sold through Workday or Paradox, sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for high-volume frontline hiring; Workday's release names manufacturing among target industries." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.paradox.ai/", "https://www.paradox.ai/news", "https://www.paradox.ai/news/paradoxs-new-immersive-job-preview-named-2025-top-hr-product-of-the-year-by-hr-executive", "https://en-sg.newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-21-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Paradox,-the-AI-Company-Redefining-the-Frontline-Candidate-Experience", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-10-01-Workday-Completes-Acquisition-of-Paradox", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-01-08-Paradox-Conversational-Applicant-Tracking-System-ATS-Now-Available-Through-Workday,-Helping-Organizations-Hire-Frontline-Workers-Faster", "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/123456-password-exposed-chats-for-64-million-mcdonalds-job-chatbot-applications", "https://www.paradox.ai/contact" ] }, { "n": "Tengai", "u": "https://tengai.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Automatic Shortlists. Faster Candidate Screening.", "url": "https://tengai.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment" ], "ai": "An AI avatar runs the structured screening dialogue; Tengai says ranking against competency requirements is mechanical, not done by AI. Tengai 4.0 (Sep 2026) adds auto-generated questions from a requirements profile, a modular interview builder, logged mid-process changes and automatic translation into four Nordic and English languages.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Disclosed customer base (SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax, Swedish municipalities); 20,291 Swedish AI interviews Jan 2025 to Sep 2026" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Lists warehouse and logistics, hospitality and retail and volume hiring use cases, but says it suits specialist roles too." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://tengai.io/", "https://tengai.io/news/", "https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening", "https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours", "https://tengai.io/blog/byggmax-ran-automated-screening-interviews" ] }, { "n": "VidCruiter", "u": "https://vidcruiter.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiting Software", "url": "https://vidcruiter.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity", "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "AI Interview Scoring applies one client-approved rubric to every answer and gives a rationale; the vendor says \"Biometric signals such as facial features and speech patterns are never analyzed.\" AI Interview Notes, AI Fraud Detection, and an AI Interviewer marked coming soon.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says over 150,000 recruiters use it (homepage); May 2026 release says more than 125,000 hiring professionals." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Homepage pitches 'AI Recruiting Software for High-Volume Hiring' with hourly and manufacturing industry pages; audit trails on every interview." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://vidcruiter.com/", "https://vidcruiter.com/interview/ai-interview-notes/", "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" ] }, { "n": "Willo", "u": "https://www.willo.video/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Screen at scale. Shortlist with confidence.", "url": "https://www.willo.video/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "Willo Intelligence (\"AI-assisted insights, human-led decisions\") gives transcripts, summaries, benchmarks and role-specific insights; Willo Insights assesses applicants against a role-specific blueprint.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 5,000+ hiring teams and over 11 million candidates assessed; ARR doubled last year, North America over 60% of revenue (June 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "undated; vendor says Mimecast founder Peter Bauer has invested more than $6m", "investors": "Peter Bauer", "src": "https://www.willo.video/blog/world-first-ai-technology-will-help-employers-find-right-candidates-faster-amid-surge-in-high-volume-ai-generated-applications" }, "price": { "note": "Willo Lite pay as you go and Willo Enterprise; prices not published on homepage" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Lists frontline and high-volume hiring use cases; Willo Verified adds identity and right-to-work checks." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.willo.video/", "https://www.willo.video/news", "https://www.willo.video/blog/world-first-ai-technology-will-help-employers-find-right-candidates-faster-amid-surge-in-high-volume-ai-generated-applications", "https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/hiring-trends-report-2026-study-finds-ai-pushing-employers-away-from-traditional" ] }, { "n": "Alex", "u": "https://www.alex.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Interview everyone. Hire the best.", "url": "https://www.alex.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "integrity", "matching", "notes", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An autonomous AI interviewer plus named modules: AI Interviews, Verify (fraud scoring), Proctor (real-time interview monitoring), Identity (ID to selfie match), Coordinator (scheduling), Resume Screens and Talent Match. The vendor calls itself an agentic platform with \"over 20 autonomous workflows\".", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$20M raised (Series A led by Peak XV); claims 1,000,000 candidates interviewed; named to CB Insights AI 100 2026" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 20, "last": "Series A, $17M, 2025-09-29", "investors": "Peak XV Partners (Series A lead), 1984 Ventures (seed lead), Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures", "src": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alex-secures-20m-revolutionize-ai-190000937.html" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo and ROI calculator)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Markets a Manufacturing & Logistics page: \"Frontline hiring at production speed\"; frontline is one of several segments, not the only one." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.alex.com/", "https://www.alex.com/blog", "https://www.alex.com/newsroom", "https://www.alex.com/blog/bias-audit", "https://www.alex.com/blog/greenhouse", "https://www.alex.com/blog/partnership-announcement-alex-x-bullhorn", "https://www.alex.com/blog/announcement-alex-x-avionte", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/ai-recruiter-alex-raises-17m-to-automate-initial-job-interviews/", "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alex-secures-20m-revolutionize-ai-190000937.html", "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" ] }, { "n": "Classet", "u": "https://www.classet.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI phone interviews for high-volume hiring.", "url": "https://www.classet.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Joy, the AI phone interviewer, follows the employer's script and sends follow-up texts and email; Fast-track checks each call against work criteria and cites the candidate's words; AI Insights aggregates answers across the applicant pool.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "CB Insights lists $7.16M raised over 4 rounds; investors include SV Angel and Starting Line" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 7.16, "last": "Convertible note, $1.2M, 2025-06-09 (CB Insights)", "investors": "Starting Line, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Weekend Fund, Wayfinder Ventures", "src": "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/classet/financials" }, "price": { "note": "Hiring Hub $249/month billed annually or $349 monthly, including 50 completed interviews; ATS Sync from $1,995/month; 20 free interviews to start" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for high-volume hourly and blue-collar hiring; names skilled trades, manufacturing and logistics." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.classet.ai/", "https://www.classet.ai/about", "https://www.classet.ai/blog", "https://www.classet.ai/blog/3-new-ways-joy-helps-you-hire-faster-and-smarter-in-2025", "https://docs.classet.ai/changelog", "https://docs.classet.ai/changelog/added-improved-fixed-classet-platform-release-16-june-2026", "https://docs.classet.ai/changelog/added-improved-release-21-oct-2026.md", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/classet/financials", "https://www.classet.ai/blog/joy-hire-faster-smarter" ] }, { "n": "ConverzAI", "u": "https://www.converzai.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Staffing recruits faster with ConverzAI", "url": "https://www.converzai.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "The Virtual Recruiter, described as an agentic AI platform that leads interviews autonomously and runs voice, text and email conversations with candidates, with real-time dashboards.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$16M Series A (Menlo Ventures, Feb 2025); named staffing customers" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $16M, 2025-02-11", "investors": "Menlo Ventures (lead), Left Lane Capital, Foundation Capital, Afore Capital", "src": "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/converzai-secures-16m-series-a-to-transform-recruitment-with-ai-powered-virtual-recruiters/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Staffing-agency tool; buyers fill commercial and IT roles for clients." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.converzai.com/", "https://www.converzai.com/blog/", "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/converzai-secures-16m-series-a-to-transform-recruitment-with-ai-powered-virtual-recruiters/" ] }, { "n": "HeyMilo", "u": "https://www.heymilo.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI Recruiter for teams swamped by applications", "url": "https://www.heymilo.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "integrity", "matching", "notes", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Configurable hiring agents for sourcing, screening, AI voice and video interviews, skill assessments, scheduling and cheat detection; 2026 launches added AI Scenario Assessment, Candidate Recommendations and a Notetaker.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$6M total raised (Category Ventures led latest round, June 2026); claims 1.4M+ candidates screened" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 6, "last": "Round led by Category Ventures, 2026-06-17 (total raised $6M; new-money amount not stated)", "investors": "Category Ventures, Canaan Partners, Alumni Ventures, ERA", "src": "https://www.vcnewsdaily.com/HeyMilo/venture-capital-funding/jcgfcgztcn" }, "price": { "note": "not published; demo-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "High-volume focus; sample roles include warehouse associate and CDL driver; sells to franchises and BPOs." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.heymilo.ai/", "https://www.vcnewsdaily.com/HeyMilo/venture-capital-funding/jcgfcgztcn", "https://raising.fi/news/heymilo-ai-undisclosed-june-2026", "https://pulse2.com/heymilo-ai-raises-6-million-to-expand-agentic-recruiting-platform-and-launch-new-ai-hiring-agents/" ] }, { "n": "Hirevoice", "u": "https://www.hirevoice.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "The voice AI recruiter for hiring at scale, in minutes instead of weeks, without losing quality.", "url": "https://www.hirevoice.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "integrity", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Voice AI interviewer that follows up on vague answers, flags inconsistencies and writes reports with scores, reasoning and verbatim quotes; plus live fraud and cheating detection and ID and work-permit verification.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "EUR 900,000 round led by Draper B1 (May 2026); customer logos on site" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Round, EUR 0.9M, 2026-05-05 (stage not stated)", "investors": "Draper B1 (lead), 4FoundersCapital", "src": "https://capital-riesgo.es/en/articles/hirevoice-closes-a-900-000-round-led-by-draper-b1-to-transform-the-job-interview-with-artificial-intelligence/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.hirevoice.com/", "https://capital-riesgo.es/en/articles/hirevoice-closes-a-900-000-round-led-by-draper-b1-to-transform-the-job-interview-with-artificial-intelligence/" ] }, { "n": "Humanly", "u": "https://www.humanly.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiting Platform for High-Volume Hiring", "url": "https://www.humanly.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "notes", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "AI Recruiter (chat and SMS screening and scheduling), AI Interviewer (video avatar and phone screens, built on more than 4 million interview interactions) and AI Notetaker; Qualifi adds automated voice screening.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$52M raised to date; more than 120 customers including Microsoft, Domino's, MGM Resorts; about 9,000 interviews per day (GeekWire, April 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 52, "last": "Series B, $25M, 2026-04-08", "investors": "SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, Zeal Capital Partners, Converge", "src": "https://www.geekwire.com/2026/humanly-raises-25m-to-put-ai-to-work-for-job-seekers-not-just-the-companies-hiring-them/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (ROI questionnaire and demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for hourly and frontline hiring and lists manufacturing among its industries." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.humanly.io/", "https://www.geekwire.com/2026/humanly-raises-25m-to-put-ai-to-work-for-job-seekers-not-just-the-companies-hiring-them/", "https://theaiinsider.tech/?p=34492", "https://www.geekwire.com/2025/meet-your-ai-interviewer-seattle-startup-humanly-unveils-video-bot-that-grills-job-applicants/", "https://hypepotamus.com/startup-news/humanly-acquires-sprockets-qualifi-hourwork-ai-hiring-platform/", "https://www.humanly.io/blog/humanly-expands-to-create-an-end-to-end-conversational-ai-hiring-platform", "https://staffinghub.com/press-releases/humanly-launches-updated-conversational-ai-platform-to-accelerate-high-volume-enterprise-hiring/", "https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ai-powered-hiring-startup-humanly-acquires-anthill-to-boost-employee-engagement/", "https://www.geekwire.com/2026/humanly-acquires-careerarc-to-connect-recruitment-marketing-with-ai-hiring/", "https://www.trysignalbase.com/news/funding/humanly-closes-250m-series" ] }, { "n": "Interviewer.AI", "u": "https://interviewer.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "The World's Most Advanced AI Interview Platform", "url": "https://interviewer.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "integrity", "matching" ], "ai": "AI Video Interviews with explainable scoring, an AI Interviewer (Avatar) for two-way voice interviews with adaptive follow-ups, AI resume screening and fraud checks.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Seed stage, Entrepreneur First portfolio company; vendor claims 850+ companies." }, "price": { "note": "Essential $199/mo (50 interview credits), Professional $399/mo (120 credits, avatar interviews), Enterprise custom; 14-day free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor lists walk-in and high-volume screening as a use case for the avatar." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://interviewer.ai/", "https://interviewer.ai/ai-interviewer/", "https://interviewer.ai/pricing/", "https://interviewer.ai/blog/", "https://portfolio.joinef.com/companies/interviewer-ai-2" ] }, { "n": "LizzyAI", "u": "https://www.lizzy-ai.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiting. Hire Smarter. Faster.", "url": "https://www.lizzy-ai.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "chat", "matching", "notes", "scheduling" ], "ai": "A conversational AI interviewer (\"Lizzy\") runs structured, role-specific interviews and produces scorecards and ranked recommendations for recruiter review. Press coverage of the seed round says \"The platform uses conversational AI to conduct role-specific interviews.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$5M seed led by NEA (Dec 2025); customer logos include Engel & Volkers, CoachHub, Enpal" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 5, "last": "Seed, $5M, 2025-12", "investors": "NEA (lead), Speedinvest, Zero Prime Ventures", "src": "https://pulse2.com/lizzyai-5-million-seed-funding/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request); free lizzyAI Copilot" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor names High-Volume Hiring and frontline hiring in Retail & Hospitality and Manufacturing & Logistics as use cases." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.lizzy-ai.com/", "https://pulse2.com/lizzyai-5-million-seed-funding/" ] }, { "n": "Maki", "u": "https://www.makipeople.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Shiro runs skills screening across 300+ skills; Mochi runs voice screening 24/7 in 45+ languages.", "url": "https://www.makipeople.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "integrity", "matching", "notes", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Five named agents: Shiro (skills screener), Mochi (voice interviewer), Ken (deep assessment), Kumi (interview scheduling and \"data insights\") and Tomo (interview co-pilot). Shiro and Mochi have independent bias audits under NYC Local Law 144, the vendor says.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$28.6M Series A disclosed; customers named include H&M, BNP Paribas, PwC, Deloitte, Nespresso and Capgemini." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $28.6M, 2025-01", "investors": "Blossom Capital (lead), DST Global, Frst, GFC, Picus Capital", "src": "https://pulse2.com/maki-conversational-ai-agent-company-raises-28-6-million-series-a" }, "price": { "note": "Usage-based, credit pricing per AI agent (\"Pay only for what you use, candidate interactions, not licenses\"); quote only." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Frontline page: \"Maki runs voice screening, skills checks, and scheduling 24/7, so every shift is staffed.\" Ken covers \"technical assessments.\" Audit logs and AI-law documentation, but not background or clearance checks." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.makipeople.com/", "https://www.makipeople.com/pricing", "https://www.makipeople.com/use-cases/frontline", "https://www.makipeople.com/agents/tomo", "https://www.makipeople.com/blog", "https://www.makipeople.com/blog/end-to-end-hiring-tomo-interview-co-pilot", "https://www.makipeople.com/blog/maki-first-ai-hiring-vendors", "https://www.makipeople.com/science-news", "https://www.makipeople.com/company/contact", "https://pulse2.com/maki-conversational-ai-agent-company-raises-28-6-million-series-a", "https://tools.prnewswire.com/en-us/live/20823/release/20260401EN23211", "https://elevenlabs.io/blog/maki-people", "https://techcrunch.com/?p=2947426", "https://siliconcanals.com/maki-people-raises-27-8m/", "https://www.makipeople.com/blog/maki-and-recruitics-bring-ai-voice-screening-to-the-pre-apply-experience" ] }, { "n": "Peoplebox.ai", "u": "https://www.peoplebox.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hiring used to need a team. Now it needs Nova.", "url": "https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Nova, launched on YC as \"the world's most human-like AI interviewer\", screens resumes, rediscovers ATS candidates and runs first-round phone, video, chat or text interviews; the 2025 YC launch also cites live coding rounds.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Y Combinator (Summer 2022); claims 600+ customer companies; 75 employees per YC" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Y Combinator, Summer 2022 batch (amount not disclosed)", "investors": "Y Combinator", "src": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/peoplebox" }, "price": { "note": "not published; resume screening priced separately" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Now pitched for high-volume hiring with text-to-apply and demo roles such as barista and logistics driver; the 2025 YC launch also cited live coding interviews." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/peoplebox", "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer" ] }, { "n": "Ribbon", "u": "https://www.ribbon.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI interviews for frontline hiring", "url": "https://www.ribbon.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "analytics", "integrity", "matching", "mcp", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "The \"RibbonAI Interviewer\" runs adaptive voice interviews and scores them against custom rubrics; integrity monitoring flags off-screen activity and unusual answers. Ribbon ships MCP servers for Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS and Bullhorn for use with Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "US$8.2M seed (Radical Ventures, 2025); Dayforce says hundreds of customers and over one million interviews; acquisition by Dayforce agreed 2026-10-23, not yet closed" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, US$8.2M, 2025-04-01", "investors": "Radical Ventures (lead), Social Leverage, Cadenza Ventures, GD1", "src": "https://thelogic.co/briefing/ribbon-raises-us8-2m-seed-round-for-ai-hiring-tools/" }, "owner": "Dayforce (agreement signed 2026-10-23, pending close)", "price": { "note": "not published; homepage offers a 7-day free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for frontline hiring; lists warehousing and manufacturing among target industries." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ribbon.ai/", "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog", "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-mcp-workday", "https://www.ribbon.ai/blog/ribbon-bamboohr-integration", "https://thelogic.co/briefing/ribbon-raises-us8-2m-seed-round-for-ai-hiring-tools/", "https://betakit.com/?p=411302" ] }, { "n": "Ringtime", "u": "https://www.ringtime.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Find, screen & book workers. Even on Sundays.", "url": "https://www.ringtime.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Named agents: a screening agent, a sourcing agent and a database reactivation agent that run phone and WhatsApp conversations in 22 languages and write results back to the ATS.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "EUR 1.8M seed led by Volta Ventures (March 2026); 100,000+ candidates reached (vendor)" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, EUR 1.8M, 2026-03-19", "investors": "Volta Ventures (lead), Syndicate One, JK Invest, New School VC, Allusion", "src": "https://tech.eu/2026/03/19/ringtime-secures-eur18m-to-improve-blue-collar-hiring-processes/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; homepage ROI example shows about EUR 10 per screened candidate (illustrative)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for blue-collar and shift workers, including operators and technical installation roles; screens availability, certificates and licences." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ringtime.ai/", "https://tech.eu/2026/03/19/ringtime-secures-eur18m-to-improve-blue-collar-hiring-processes/", "https://blog.hrflow.ai/hrtech-fundraising-of-the-month-march-2026/" ] }, { "n": "Sapia.ai", "u": "https://sapia.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Pioneering AI Interviews since 2018", "url": "https://sapia.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "assessment", "chat", "copilot", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "skills" ], "ai": "AI Chat Interview scored by Sapia.ai's own models, trained on over 3 billion words of candidate text, plus Job Analysis Studio (JAS) to build interviews, Tia (\"Talent Intelligence Agent\") for plain-language questions over interview data, and Phai, an AI career coach that runs on Anthropic's Claude.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A led by Macquarie Capital and Woolworths Group's W23 (2022); vendor says over 10 million candidates assessed across 77 countries; named customers include Holland & Barrett, David Jones, Spark NZ, Regis Aged Care." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $17M (currency not stated in release; trade press reports A$17M), 2022-11-22", "investors": "Macquarie Capital, W23 (Woolworths Group)", "src": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sapiaai-raises-17-million-series-a-funding-round-led-by-macquarie-capital--w23---part-of-the-woolworths-group-301684953.html" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Request Demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for frontline and volume hiring; mobile chat interview suits shift and plant roles. ISO/IEC 42001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified, but no clearance or I-9 features." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://sapia.ai/", "https://sapia.ai/about-sapia-ai-recruitment-software/sapia-press-releases/", "https://sapia.ai/about-sapia-ai-recruitment-software/", "https://sapia.ai/resources/blog/love-jection-a-free-ai-career-coach-for-every-candidate-who-doesnt-get-the-job/", "https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/sapiaai-expands-tia-to-let-hiring-teams-ask-what-resumes-never-show-302859382.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pageup-and-sapiaai-embed-intelligent-ai-interviewing-directly-into-enterprise-hiring-workflows-302860717.html", "https://www.onrec.com/news/launch/sapiaai-launches-%E2%80%9Cask-sapiaai%E2%80%9D-to-bring-transparency-to-ai-driven-hiring", "https://www.onrec.com/news/launch/sapiaai-launches-phai-an-ai-career-coach-helping-people-find-their-place-in-a-changing", "https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/du-partners-with-sapia.ai-to-advance-ai-powered-recruitment-1391271", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sapiaai-raises-17-million-series-a-funding-round-led-by-macquarie-capital--w23---part-of-the-woolworths-group-301684953.html" ] }, { "n": "Tenzo AI", "u": "https://www.tenzo.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI Interviewer Candidates Love", "url": "https://www.tenzo.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "copilot", "integrity", "matching", "notes", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Morgan, the AI interviewer (\"autopilot\"), plus scheduling agents, fraud detection, resume review and rediscovery; the Recruiter Note Taker (\"copilot\") suggests follow-up questions and writes structured notes during live recruiter calls.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Job listing names investors Abstract, WIN and a16z; no amount disclosed" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "not disclosed", "investors": "Abstract, WIN, a16z, founders of Yahoo, Verkada and Hebbia (per a Tenzo job listing)", "src": "https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-engineer/9900877" }, "price": { "note": "not published; quote scoped to hiring volume" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Names no hourly or frontline segment on the pages opened; a job listing says it targets the RPO market first." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.tenzo.ai/", "https://www.tenzo.ai/blog", "https://www.tenzo.ai/blog/tenzo-ai-launches-recruiter-note-taker-to-bring-ai-copilot-support-to-recruiter-conversations", "https://www.tenzo.ai/pricing", "https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-engineer/9900877" ] }, { "n": "Upwage", "u": "https://www.upwage.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI interviews designed for fairer hiring, better performance, & lower turnover", "url": "https://www.upwage.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "matching" ], "ai": "Named agents: AI Interviewer (24/7, any language, EEOC guidelines built in), AI Analyst (scores skills, behaviors and competencies) and AI Builder (creates custom interviewers and analysts per role).", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$9.24M seed (2023) per CB Insights; named customers Gopuff, REI" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 9.24, "last": "Seed, $9.24M, 2023-07-18 (CB Insights)", "investors": "AlleyCorp, BBG Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Maveron, j4.ventures", "src": "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/upwage/financials" }, "price": { "note": "not published; ROI consultation" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Pitches lower turnover \"in critical frontline roles\"; customers include Gopuff and REI." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.upwage.com/", "https://www.upwage.com/about", "https://www.upwage.com/blog", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/upwage/financials", "https://www.trysignalbase.com/news/funding/upwage-raises-92m-seed-funding" ] }, { "n": "VARIETAS", "u": "https://ai-interview.online/", "w": "\"AI Interviewer\" (AIé¢ęŽ„å®˜) 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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "AIé¢ęŽ„å®˜ | å€™č£œč€…ćØꎔē”Øę‹…å½“č€…ć®ćƒćƒ†ćƒ³ć‚·ćƒ£ćƒ«ć‚’å¼•ćć ć™", "url": "https://ai-interview.online/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "matching" ], "ai": "AIé¢ęŽ„å®˜ (AI Interviewer) conducts first-round screening interviews and evaluates candidates; it is one of several AI agents in the TA Team recruitment platform.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "JPY 600M Series A (Mar 2025, ALL STAR SAAS FUND and Global Brain); large Japanese enterprise customers; 33,467 candidate survey responses in Q1 2026" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, JPY 600M, 2025-03-11", "investors": "ALL STAR SAAS FUND, Global Brain", "src": "https://thebridge.jp/2025/03/kirin-and-lawson-also-adopt-ai-interviewer-varietas-raised-600m-yen-from-allstarsaasfund-and-globalbrains" }, "price": { "note": "not published; initial fee plus per-interviewee usage charge (per The Bridge)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built mainly for new-graduate hiring in Japan." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://ai-interview.online/", "https://thebridge.jp/2025/03/kirin-and-lawson-also-adopt-ai-interviewer-varietas-raised-600m-yen-from-allstarsaasfund-and-globalbrains", "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000056.000079152.html", "https://www.zaikei.co.jp/releases/3450803/", "https://resemom.jp/release/prtimes/20261013/219263.html" ] }, { "n": "Fabric", "u": "https://www.fabrichq.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Fabric's AI agents help recruiters source and interview the best candidates.", "url": "https://www.fabrichq.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "outreach", "rediscovery", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI interviewer runs conversational Round 1 interviews, with live coding for engineers, and scores them; cheating detection uses \"twenty-plus answer signals\" to flag invisible AI assistants such as Cluely and saves flagged moments to the interview report. AI sourcing and ATS sourcing agents find, refresh and re-engage candidates.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vendor says \"Trusted by 5,000+ recruiters\" and names enterprise customers Meesho, CRED, Kearney and MakeMyTrip; only a $110K angel round disclosed (October 2025)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 0.11, "last": "Angel, $110K, 2025-10-15", "investors": "founders and operators, not named", "src": "https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/fabric-raises-110k-angel-round-to-automate-first-round-interviews" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Free (200 credits), Starter $199/month, Growth $399/month, Scale $499/month, Enterprise custom; AI interviews cost 5 credits per minute." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Vendor pages sell live coding and technical-depth AI interviews for engineers, plus cheating detection; no hourly or plant-floor product." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.fabrichq.ai/", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/about", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/pricing", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/fabric-raises-110k-angel-round-to-automate-first-round-interviews", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/state-of-ai-interview-cheating-in-2026-insights-from-19-368-interviews", "https://www.fabrichq.ai/blogs/how-fabric-caught-cluely-full-report-included", "https://www.socialtalent.com/blog/latest-news/fabric-cheating-data-argues-against-automated-interview" ] }, { "n": "Hyring", "u": "https://hyring.com/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Your AI-native hiring platform", "url": "https://hyring.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "copilot", "integrity", "matching" ], "ai": "AI Video Interviewer, AI Phone Screener, AI Resume Screener and AI Coding Interviewer, plus Hyring Meet, a live-interview AI copilot.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Self-reported \"Trusted by 5,000+ HR teams\"; no funding disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Free $0/mo, Pro $79/mo, Business $239/mo, Enterprise custom; interview credits sold in packs; 7% success fee for agency service" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Sells an AI Coding Interviewer for technical roles; lists Manufacturing and Semiconductors among its use cases." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://hyring.com/", "https://hyring.com/for-employers", "https://ca.trustpilot.com/review/hyring.com", "https://webmail.hunted.space/product/ai-interviewer-by-hyring/launches/ai-phone-screener-by-hyring" ] }, { "n": "Pete & Gabi", "u": "https://www.petegabi.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Conversational AI Agents for Sales and Recruiting", "url": "https://www.petegabi.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Rebecca, the AI recruiter, conducts adaptive voice screening interviews, produces a match score, audio recording and PDF summary, and runs live coding assessments.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or revenue disclosed; backed by Peterson Technology Partners (about 350 employees); names customers such as Hy Cite and BAS HealthCare" }, "owner": "Peterson Technology Partners", "price": { "note": "not published; no lock-in contracts and a free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Rebecca is 'purpose-built for high-volume talent acquisition teams' facing seasonal surges in retail, logistics and delivery." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.petegabi.com/", "https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/us-staffing-firm-ptp-introduces-rebecca-ai-in-india-to-solve-hiring-challenges/" ] }, { "n": "Talently.ai", "u": "https://interview.talently.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Talently.ai: Your Al Interviewer", "url": "https://interview.talently.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview" ], "ai": "An AI interviewer that runs live conversational interviews and gives real-time evaluations.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "no disclosed funding or customer count" }, "price": { "note": "not published on homepage; demo or trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://interview.talently.ai/" ] }, { "n": "Truffle", "u": "https://www.hiretruffle.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "ai_interview", "cat_src": { "quote": "Screening applicants sucks. So we fixed it.", "url": "https://www.hiretruffle.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "matching" ], "ai": "AI Match scores rank applicants against role criteria with linked evidence; AI scores one-way interview answers, summarizes candidates and drafts interview questions and rubrics from the job description.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count disclosed; customer logos on site" }, "price": { "note": "Published: Starter $49/mo, Core $119, Team $239, Scale $599; 7-day free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Aimed at small teams doing high-volume hiring; vendor pages do not say hourly." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.hiretruffle.com/", "https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works", "https://hiretruffle.com/blog/why-we-built-truffle" ] }, { "n": "BrightHire", "u": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI built for exceptional hiring", "url": "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads", "notes" ], "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.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "owned by Zoom (public) since December 2025" }, "owner": "Zoom", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.zoom.com/en/products/brighthire/", "https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-acquires-brighthire/", "https://brighthire.com/?p=13594" ] }, { "n": "Pillar (AI Interview Companion by Employ)", "u": "https://www.employinc.com/ai-interview-companion/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Great Teams Start with Great Interviews", "url": "https://www.employinc.com/ai-interview-companion/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "notes" ], "ai": "AI generates interview guides from job descriptions, transcribes and summarizes interviews with key takeaways and flagged gaps, suggests skills-based questions live, and surfaces coachable moments for interviewers.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "owned by Employ Inc. (parent of Lever, Jobvite and JazzHR) since March 2025" }, "owner": "Employ Inc.", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.employinc.com/ai-interview-companion/", "https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/indianapolis-based-startup-pillar-acquired-by-fellow-hr-tech-company" ] }, { "n": "GoodTime", "u": "https://goodtime.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Smarter scheduling. Sharper decisions. Better experiences.", "url": "https://goodtime.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "matching", "notes", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Cori, \"GoodTime's AI hiring coordination agent that automates and orchestrates the entire interview process\"; Orchestra, launched in 2025 as \"a digital workforce of proactive, autonomous agents\"; plus an AI Notetaker and AI insights.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "venture-backed ($5M round led by Bullpen Capital, 2018); names Red Hat, HubSpot, Databricks, Canva and HelloFresh as customers" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "$5M round led by Bullpen Capital, 2018-10-03 (TechCrunch)", "investors": "Bullpen Capital, GSV Accelerate, Array.vc; earlier $2M seed from Walden Ventures and Big Basin Capital", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/goodtime-raises-5-million-to-bring-artificial-intelligence-into-the-interview-process" }, "price": { "note": "priced on annual candidate volume, not seats; amounts not published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Lists Manufacturing and Logistics & Trucking among its industries and has a high-volume hiring use case; scheduling for complex enterprise loops." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://goodtime.io/", "https://support.goodtime.io/articles/6999434431-overview-agent", "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/814716257/goodtime-launches-orchestra-a-digital-workforce-of-ai-agents-built-to-transform-hiring", "https://goodtime.io/blog/product-updates/goodtime-product-updates-whats-new-from-june-2025/", "https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/goodtime-raises-5-million-to-bring-artificial-intelligence-into-the-interview-process" ] }, { "n": "ModernLoop", "u": "https://modernloop.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Efficiently transform your candidate experience.", "url": "https://modernloop.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "scheduling" ], "ai": "AI Interview Scheduling and Taylor AI, an always-on AI recruiter agent that interviews candidates and learns from assessment feedback.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$9M Series A led by Accel (2022), $12.3M raised" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 12.3, "last": "Series A, $9M, 2022-08-23", "investors": "Accel", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/23/modernloop-aims-to-automate-the-process-of-scheduling-job-candidate-interviews/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Taylor AI is pitched for warehouse pickers, packers and driver shifts, retail and food service; scheduling side serves tech-company loops." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://modernloop.com/", "https://modernloop.com/ai-recruiter", "https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/23/modernloop-aims-to-automate-the-process-of-scheduling-job-candidate-interviews/" ] }, { "n": "Cronofy", "u": "https://www.cronofy.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "See, schedule and transcribe every HR conversation", "url": "https://cronofy.com/solutions/hr-tech" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "notes", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Transcription and AI summaries of interviews booked through partner platforms, plus a white-labelled notetaker.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "no scale disclosed on opened pages" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://cronofy.com/solutions/hr-tech" ] }, { "n": "HireLogic", "u": "https://www.hirelogic.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "interview_intel", "cat_src": { "quote": "Get AI-Powered Insights by Listening to any Interview", "url": "https://www.hirelogic.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "analytics", "copilot", "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "Instant interview insights and summaries, an Interview Chatbot over past interviews, Intake Call Analysis, Smart Resume Analysis, and Automated AI Interviews run by \"an AI interview agent\".", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "$4M seed from individual investors (2022); customer logos only" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, $4M, 2022", "investors": "individual investors including Edward Zander", "src": "https://dallasinnovates.com/?p=220150" }, "price": { "note": "not published; free sign-up and demo" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.hirelogic.com/", "https://dallasinnovates.com/?p=220150" ] }, { "n": "Alva Labs", "u": "https://www.alvalabs.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "One system for hiring, run by an agent trained on the science.", "url": "https://www.alvalabs.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "assessment", "job_ads", "matching", "notes" ], "ai": "An agent that drafts role criteria, an assessment plan and a job ad from an intake call; suggested interview scores from transcripts; Agentic Psychometrics interpretation.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"650+ hiring teams\" (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.alvalabs.io/", "https://www.alvalabs.io/webinar/webinar-the-launch-of-the-alva-ai-hiring-system" ] }, { "n": "Aon Assessment", "u": "https://www.aon.com/en/capabilities/talent-and-rewards/pre-hire-talent-assessment", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Pre-Hire Talent Assessment", "url": "https://www.aon.com/en/capabilities/talent-and-rewards/pre-hire-talent-assessment" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment" ], "ai": "\"AI-augmented assessments\"; AI and intelligent automation through a collaboration with impress.ai.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "30M+ assessments deployed each year; public parent Aon plc." }, "owner": "Aon plc", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Volume and seasonal hiring solutions; coding assessments for tech talent." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.aon.com/en/capabilities/talent-and-rewards/pre-hire-talent-assessment" ] }, { "n": "Coderbyte", "u": "https://coderbyte.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Evaluate any skill quickly, accurately, and affordably", "url": "https://coderbyte.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "AI screening that scores each resume against criteria generated from the job description and can \"Automate and scale phone screens with grading and feedback\"; interviews with agent mode on frontier models; AI detection among its cheating checks.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Trusted by 3,000+ startups, enterprises, & staffing platforms\" (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Coding and technical skills tests; also spreadsheets and reasoning." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://coderbyte.com/" ] }, { "n": "CoderPad", "u": "https://coderpad.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Every role is technical now. Hire like it.", "url": "https://coderpad.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity", "matching" ], "ai": "AI Assist Edit Mode and Plan Mode let candidates write and plan code with AI in Screen and Interview; Qualify's AI video reviewer scores responses against a rubric; integrity controls flag copied code and concurrent sessions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Over 4,000 customers worldwide\" (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Coding interviews and assessments for engineers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://coderpad.io/", "https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/2026-product-recap/" ] }, { "n": "Codility", "u": "https://www.codility.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI can write code now. Hire the engineers who can build", "url": "https://www.codility.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity", "skills" ], "ai": "Claude Code and an AI Copilot run inside Screen, Interview and Skills Intelligence, with AI activity saved to the report; interviewers can steer the coding agent to \"slip in a bug\"; AI task recommendations from a job description; an Integrity Risk report.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Codility powers over 20,000 engineering teams\" (homepage); customers listed include GitHub, SpaceX, Tesla, SAP." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Engineering assessments; Tesla and SpaceX logos suggest use by hardware manufacturers for software roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.codility.com/", "https://www.codility.com/lab/", "https://www.codility.com/lab/product-updates/", "https://www.codility.com/blog/codility-debuts-assessment-of-ai-assisted-engineering-skills/" ] }, { "n": "Criteria", "u": "https://www.criteriacorp.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "People are more than their resumes.", "url": "https://www.criteriacorp.com/about-us" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "notes" ], "ai": "Interview Intelligence scores video interviews \"based solely on the transcripts\"; AI Proctoring; an AI Interview Agent for early-stage interviews across voice, text and video; Real-Time Video Interviewing with AI note capture and scoring help.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"More than 4,000 customers across 60 countries\"; 80M+ tests administered (June 2026 release)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Majority growth investment, Sumeru Equity Partners, 2019", "investors": "Sumeru Equity Partners; Level Equity (2015 Series A, $8M)", "src": "https://www.criteriacorp.com/about-us" }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Cognitive aptitude tests are often used for plant and technician roles, but no mechanical or hourly product was seen on the pages opened." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.criteriacorp.com/about-us", "https://www.criteriacorp.com/press-releases/2025/criteria-launches-interview-intelligence-the-first-ai-powered-interview-scoring", "https://www.criteriacorp.com/press-releases/2026/criteria-corp-expands-talent-signal-platform-predictive-interviewing-the-ai-era" ] }, { "n": "Equip", "u": "https://equip.co/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hiring is hard. Yours won't be.", "url": "https://equip.co/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "One-way and conversational AI interviews; automated CV review and ranking; AI Proctoring that produces a Trust Score; phone-based auxiliary-device proctoring.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Helping 1000+ companies hire the right talent\" (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "Published: AI interviews $1 to $3 per candidate; assessments $1 per test per candidate" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Coding tests and tech hiring case studies." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://equip.co/" ] }, { "n": "eSkill", "u": "https://www.eskill.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Comprehensive tests for hiring", "url": "https://www.eskill.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "Linea Build and Linea Search, \"an AI-powered intelligence layer\" running on Anthropic Claude models; Linea Sample scores simulated customer interactions; AI-powered proctoring.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Trusted by over a thousand organizations\"; 19M+ candidates tested over 22 years (Aug 2026 release)." }, "owner": "Scaleworks", "price": { "note": "subscription options listed; not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Lists Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction and Utilities as industries and shows an Assembly Technician test; contact-center simulations for volume hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.eskill.com/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eskill-launches-linea-the-ai-powered-intelligence-layer-for-role-relevant-pre-hire-testing-302860203.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eskill-launches-linea-sample-a-work-simulation-that-helps-employers-identify-qualified-customer-facing-candidates-faster-302918876.html" ] }, { "n": "HackerEarth", "u": "https://www.hackerearth.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "OnScreen, an AI interview tool for technical hiring", "url": "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hackerearth-launches-ai-interview-tool-for-technical-hiring" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "OnScreen AI interviewer with avatars, identity verification and proctoring; earlier AI Screener and Helix AI interview coach.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "150M+ assessments completed; 10M+ developer community (IT Brief, 2026-04-15)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Coding and technical interviews across 40 programming languages." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hackerearth-launches-ai-interview-tool-for-technical-hiring" ] }, { "n": "HackerRank", "u": "https://www.hackerrank.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire for the agentic era", "url": "https://www.hackerrank.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "mcp", "notes" ], "ai": "Chakra, an agentic AI interviewer that runs a single combined screen on a real code repository and scores the candidate; an AI-assisted IDE with Guarded and Unguarded modes; AI-powered Proctor Mode; Scorecard Assist summaries; a read-only MCP server in limited availability.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "More than 3,000 business customers and 30M+ developer community (TechCrunch, 2026-10-05); 2,500+ customers in July 2025 release." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass; AI features sold as an AI Add-on" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Built for software engineers; relevant to manufacturing only for software, controls or data roles." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hackerrank.com/", "https://www.hackerrank.com/blog/hackerranks-ai-day-2025-product-launch-recap/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/empowering-future-ready-teams-hackerranks-ai-driven-solutions-modernize-tech-talent-strategies-302500667.html", "https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8474307750-october-2025-release-notes", "https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8142080826-july-2026-release-notes", "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/", "https://aiweekly.co/alerts/hackerrank-takes-chakra-ai-interviewer-ga-after-500000-beta-interviews-with" ] }, { "n": "Harver", "u": "https://harver.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "The better, faster way to hire and retain hourly talent", "url": "https://harver.com/solutions/use-case/hourly-hiring/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "chat", "matching" ], "ai": "Automated screening ranks candidates on assessment results; AI PREVAIL, \"the first purpose-built AI aptitude and adaptability assessment module\"; Harver CHAT for applicants.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "1,500+ clients and 300+ employees combined with Symphony Talent; assessments applied to 65M+ candidates (Sept 2026 release)." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Dedicated hourly hiring product: six-minute assessments, multi-location apply, store managers hire within 24 hours." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://harver.com/newsroom/press-releases/", "https://harver.com/press/harver-acquires-symphony-talent/", "https://harver.com/press/harver-appoints-new-ceo-strengthens-executive-team-to-help-customers-shape-the-future-of-hiring/", "https://harver.com/solutions/use-case/hourly-hiring/", "https://techrseries.com/hiring/harver-launches-ai-prevail-the-first-purpose-built-ai-readiness-assessment-for-talent-acquisition-and-employee-development/" ] }, { "n": "Mercer | Mettl", "u": "https://mettl.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Identify, measure and develop future-ready capabilities with scientifically validated assessments and AI-enabled insights", "url": "https://mettl.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "AI-assisted coding assessments, AI-assisted speech evaluation, an \"AI-powered secured exam browser\" and AI and human proctoring; an AI Agility Assessment.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Trusted by 6,000+ organizations and 700+ educational institutions in over 100 countries\"; public parent Marsh McLennan." }, "owner": "Mercer (Marsh McLennan)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Technical hiring and coding assessments; campus hiring at volume." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://mettl.com/" ] }, { "n": "SHL", "u": "https://www.shl.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Everyone has AI. Not everyone is ready.", "url": "https://www.shl.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "skills" ], "ai": "AI Readiness measurement built on a four-factor model; Smart Interview tools that generate competency and question recommendations from a job description (launched Feb 2025, outside window).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"Providing People Answers to Over 10,000 Businesses Worldwide\"; 45M assessments a year (homepage)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Volume hiring solutions for retail, contact center and BPO; coding and technical skills simulations. No mechanical tests seen." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.shl.com/", "https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/press-releases/", "https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/press-releases/new-research-from-shl-reveals-a-major-ai-trust-gap-in-the-workforce/", "https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/press-releases/the-skills-youre-trying-to-hire-for-might-already-be-on-your-payroll/", "https://www.shl.com/about/news-and-events/in-the-news/new-shl-assessment-identifies-skills-for-ai-ready-workforce/" ] }, { "n": "CodeSignal", "u": "https://codesignal.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agentic skills validation & development", "url": "https://codesignal.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment" ], "ai": "Interviewer Agents (the AI Interviewer) that \"autonomously conduct role-specific interviews\" by web or live phone; Cosmo, \"CodeSignal's AI assistant and co-pilot,\" inside coding assessments; AI Literacy Assessments with embedded AI tools.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series C $50M led by Index Ventures (2021), nearly $90M raised since inception; named enterprise customers but no customer count." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 90, "last": "Series C, $50M, 2021-09-16", "investors": "Index Ventures (lead), Menlo Ventures, Headline, A Capital", "src": "https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/16/data-driven-technical-recruitment-platform-codesignal-raises-50m/" }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Technical assessments for engineers; FedRAMP Marketplace listing (authorization in progress) may matter to defense-adjacent manufacturers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://codesignal.com/", "https://codesignal.com/newsroom/", "https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-ai-assisted-coding-assessments-and-interviews-redefining-technical-hiring-in-the-ai-era", "https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-interviewer-agents-agentic-interviewers-that-scale-with-your-hiring-plans/", "https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignal-launches-multilingual-ai-phone-interviews-to-scale-skills-based-screening/", "https://codesignal.com/newsroom/press-releases/codesignals-ai-literacy-assessments-measure-effectiveness-of-ai-skills-across-the-workforce/", "https://codesignal.com/codesignal-listed-on-fedramp-marketplace/", "https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/16/data-driven-technical-recruitment-platform-codesignal-raises-50m/" ] }, { "n": "Glider AI", "u": "https://glider.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Skills Validation Platform", "url": "https://www.findem.ai/news/glider-ai-findem-partnership" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "outreach" ], "ai": "Agentic AI Interviews (two-way, adaptive first-round screens), AI-scored skills assessments, AI proctoring and ID Verify with facial recognition and liveness detection.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Being acquired by Findem (VC-backed); named enterprise customers Intuit, FedEx, Emirates." }, "owner": "Findem (definitive agreement announced 2026-03-19; closing not confirmed)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "ID Verify and proctoring help with candidate fraud; trade press says federal contractors use it, not confirmed on a vendor page." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://findem.ai/news/findem-to-acquire-glider-ai-to-deliver-hire-ready-candidates", "https://www.findem.ai/news/glider-ai-findem-partnership", "https://idtechwire.com/glider-ai-launches-id-verify-to-tackle-hiring-fraud-with-biometric-tech/", "https://glider.ai/" ] }, { "n": "Karat", "u": "https://karat.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution", "url": "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment" ], "ai": "NextGen interviews give candidates \"an integrated AI assistant\" while human Interview Engineers evaluate; Karat does not market an autonomous AI interviewer on the pages opened.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series C $110M at $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global (Oct 2021); dataset of 600,000+ interviews." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $110M, 2021-10", "investors": "Tiger Global Management (lead)", "src": "https://www.thedailyupside.com/tech-interviewing-startup-karat-hits-1-1b-unicorn-valuation" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led managed service" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Software engineering interviews only." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/", "https://karat.com/blog/category/news-events", "https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/", "https://www.thedailyupside.com/tech-interviewing-startup-karat-hits-1-1b-unicorn-valuation" ] }, { "n": "TestGorilla", "u": "https://www.testgorilla.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "The proof-first AI recruiting platform", "url": "https://www.testgorilla.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "ai_interview", "assessment", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI interviews that \"Automate your screening interviews\"; AI video interview assessments built on its AI Fluency Framework; conversational AI simulation tests; AI candidate matching in Gorilla Sourcing.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$70M Series A co-led by Atomico and Balderton (June 2022)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $70M, 2022-06-13", "investors": "Atomico, Balderton Capital (co-leads)", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/testgorilla-scores-70m-for-skills-tests-aiming-to-replace-the-recruitment-resume-dump" }, "price": { "note": "published pricing page exists; tiers not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.testgorilla.com/", "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/testgorilla-unveils-ai-fluency-tests-to-reshape-hiring", "https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/testgorilla-scores-70m-for-skills-tests-aiming-to-replace-the-recruitment-resume-dump" ] }, { "n": "Bryq", "u": "https://www.bryq.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hire better. Hire faster.", "url": "https://www.bryq.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity", "mcp" ], "ai": "AI Fluency Assessment simulation; AI-powered candidate insights; Bryq MCP add-on; anti-cheating add-on.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding opened." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.bryq.com/", "https://news.bryq.com/product-updates/ai-fluency-now-live" ] }, { "n": "Canditech", "u": "https://www.canditech.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Skill Assessment Platform for the AI-age", "url": "https://canditech.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "chat", "integrity" ], "ai": "AI Assessment Builder, AI Auto-Scoring, AI Proficiency Tests and embedded AI tools inside assessments.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "no disclosed funding; customer logos only" }, "price": { "note": "tiers (Team, Pro) not priced on homepage; free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Tests technical skills through job simulations; lists mass hiring as a use case." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://canditech.io/", "https://www.canditech.io/blog/", "https://www.canditech.io/blog/ai-auto-scoring-skill-assessments/" ] }, { "n": "Hogan Assessments", "u": "https://www.hoganassessments.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "the global leader in personality assessment and talent insights", "url": "https://www.hoganassessments.com/news-events/updates/hogan-assessments-acquires-convogo-to-advance-talent-insights-with-ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "copilot" ], "ai": "Convogo drafts interpretations of Hogan results for practitioners, \"preserving their judgment and control over the final interpretation.\"", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count opened." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sold through certified practitioners" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hoganassessments.com/news-events/updates/hogan-assessments-acquires-convogo-to-advance-talent-insights-with-ai/" ] }, { "n": "Vervoe", "u": "https://vervoe.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "an AI-powered skills validation platform", "url": "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260831ae35849/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "scheduling" ], "ai": "AI Assessment Builder; ML grading and ranking of assessment responses; chat and voice screening of applicants; Intelligent Interview Scheduling that carries assessment results to interviewers.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding opened in this pass." }, "price": { "note": "not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260831ae35849/" ] }, { "n": "Woven", "u": "https://www.woventeams.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "assessment", "cat_src": { "quote": "Woven is a human-powered technical assessment that simulates real engineering work and AI-proofs your hiring process", "url": "https://www.woventeams.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "assessment", "integrity" ], "ai": "AI-Enabled Technical Assessments (beta) in which candidates use tools such as Copilot or Cursor and human graders score the value they add over a strong model's one-shot output; scoring and proctoring are human, not AI.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No scale disclosed; owned by Andela (150,000+ professionals in its marketplace)." }, "owner": "Andela", "price": { "note": "published pricing page exists; not verified in this pass" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": true, "compliance": false, "note": "Senior software engineer assessments." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.woventeams.com/", "https://techcabal.com/2026/01/22/andela-acquires-woven/", "https://nairametrics.com/2026/01/23/andela-acquires-woven-to-strengthen-ai-native-engineering-assessments/" ] }, { "n": "Appcast", "u": "https://www.appcast.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Industry-Leading Recruitment Marketing Technology", "url": "https://www.appcast.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "job_ads" ], "ai": "Programmatic bidding optimizes job-ad spend across publishers. Appcast Career Sites (July 2026) are built with \"SEO and GEO-ready architecture\" so jobs surface in ChatGPT and Gemini; the vendor does not name an AI agent.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Subsidiary of The Stepstone Group; boilerplate cites more than 1,000 clients; benchmark draws on nearly 1,200 employers." }, "owner": "The Stepstone Group", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Homepage names E&J Gallo Winery and Challenger Motor Freight as customers; its benchmark data covers frontline roles. No manufacturing-specific product." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.appcast.io/", "https://www.appcast.io/news/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appcast-launches-appcastengage-a-smarter-connected-layer-to-drive-hiring-efficiency-302544352.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appcast-releases-10th-annual-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-with-new-candidate-disposition-and-global-hiring-data-302688064.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appcast-expands-its-recruitment-marketing-platform-with-career-sites-built-for-the-ai-era-302818446.html", "https://the-decoder.com/openai-turns-chatgpt-into-a-career-platform-with-job-search-and-cv-editor/" ] }, { "n": "Broadbean by Veritone", "u": "https://www.veritone.com/solutions/hire/", "w": "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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Programmatic Recruitment Software Powered by AI", "url": "https://pandologic.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "chat", "job_ads" ], "ai": "PandoLogic's proprietary \"AI-based algorithms\" set programmatic ad placement and bids; Conversational AI chats with candidates 24/7 for screening and apply. No named agent.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Public parent Veritone (Nasdaq: VERI); PandoLogic site claims 125K+ employers served; Veritone says over 70% of leading agencies use Veritone Hire." }, "owner": "Veritone", "price": { "note": "not published; Job Acceleration is pay-for-performance" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Case studies are a Domino's franchise and staffing firms; Broadbean suite includes OFCCP compliance software. No manufacturing customer named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.veritone.com/solutions/hire/", "https://www.veritone.com/", "https://pandologic.com/", "https://www.veritone.com/newsroom/press-releases/broadbean-and-uk-dwp/", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/talent-acquisition/veritone-launches-job-acceleration-for-urgent-hiring-needs", "https://www.boardroomalpha.com/sec/veri-8-k-2026-05-12-0001628280-26-033862/veriearningsreleaseq12026e.htm" ] }, { "n": "Datapeople", "u": "https://datapeople.io/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Centralize your job descriptions. Standardize your voice. Publish job ads that perform.", "url": "https://datapeople.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "job_ads" ], "ai": "First Draft Writing AI drafts job descriptions and ads; Guidance and Compliance AI flags language and compliance issues; Datapeople Insights reports on job-post outcomes, trained on over 100 million jobs.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Owned by Payscale; logos include Rockwell Automation, Westinghouse, Conagra, Levi's, Experian." }, "owner": "Payscale", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Homepage logos include Rockwell Automation, Westinghouse and Conagra; useful for job-post quality and pay transparency, not volume hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://datapeople.io/", "https://datapeople.io/blog/", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-acquires-datapeople" ] }, { "n": "Joveo", "u": "https://www.joveo.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Purpose-Built AI Agents for Every Stage of Recruiting", "url": "https://www.joveo.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "job_ads", "mcp", "outreach", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Named products include AI Job Advertising, AI Career Sites, AI Chatbot, AI Interviewer, AI Scheduling, AI Talent CRM, AI Talent Campaigns, the Ask Joveo analytics agent and MOJO AI. AI Interviewer runs screening interviews by web, phone or WhatsApp and writes scores to the ATS.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it is \"Powering millions of jobs every day\"; homepage logos include Uber, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell, Wells Fargo, Randstad and Adecco. Private; funding not verified." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Homepage lists Manufacturing among industries and shows Honeywell's logo; AI Interviewer is pitched at record applicant volumes, which suits plant and warehouse roles, but no manufacturing case study is named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.joveo.com/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-industrys-first-autonomous-ai-agents-for-recruitment-marketing-at-unleash-america-2025/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-launches-first-ever-ai-led-career-site-builder/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-reimagines-recruitment-analytics-launches-ai-agent-for-talent-intelligence/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-launches-ai-interviewer/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-scheduling/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-ai-talent-campaigns/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-introduces-job-discovery-for-employers-in-chatgpt/", "https://www.joveo.com/press/joveo-to-unveil-the-first-agentic-recruiting-platform-at-recfest-2026/" ] }, { "n": "Radancy", "u": "https://www.radancy.com/en/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Human-Guided AI. Automated Efficiency. Proven Hiring Outcomes.", "url": "https://www.radancy.com/en/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "job_ads", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Talent Acquisition Cloud uses \"context-aware AI agents\", natural language job search and Agentic AI Orchestration; myInterview candidate agents screen, schedule, assess and onboard by text, voice or video; analytics agents explore data and recommend actions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage: \"Trusted by 675+ Global Employers\"; logos include Dell, Sony, UPS, Sanofi." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Industry pages cover healthcare, retail and technology only; logos include CCEP and Dell but no manufacturing use case is described." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.radancy.com/en/", "https://www.radancy.com/en/newsroom/", "https://www.radancy.com/press-coverage", "https://www.radancy.com/press-coverage/radancy-announces-the-next-evolution-of-its-ai-platform-redefining-how-the-world-hires-with-agentic-ai/", "https://www.radancy.com/press-coverage/radancy-extends-ai-platform-powering-faster-smarter-more-cost-efficient-hiring-at-scale/" ] }, { "n": "Recruitics", "u": "https://www.recruitics.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Everything before the hire, working as one.", "url": "https://www.recruitics.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "integrity", "job_ads", "mcp" ], "ai": "Predict explains changes in candidate engagement and hiring outcomes across channels, including LLMs. AdaptiveApply embeds partner AI voice interviews (Maki People) and identity verification (ID.me); OJCP gives AI agents a structured way to read jobs and apply.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Boilerplate cites more than 400 enterprise customers in over 100 countries; homepage names Walmart, Chipotle, DoorDash, Labcorp." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Lists Manufacturing as an industry solution and names logistics among customer industries; named customers are retail, healthcare and delivery." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.recruitics.com/", "https://www.recruitics.com/ai-recruitment", "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/843603677/recruitics-announces-acquisition-of-change-state-llc-to-expand-talent-solutions-platform", "https://www.einpresswire.com/article/930040230?promo=4400", "https://techrseries.com/hiring/recruitics-announces-brand-refresh-and-addition-of-three-senior-executives-for-the-ai-era-of-hiring/" ] }, { "n": "Symphony Talent", "u": "https://www.symphonytalent.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Full-funnel TA technology meets bold brand storytelling", "url": "https://www.symphonytalent.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "outreach" ], "ai": "Tala, \"our AI-powered TA assistant\", powers Career Finder (conversational job discovery on career sites), the GenAI Email Builder in SFX CRM, Interview Genius in SFX On-Demand Interviewing and Explain This Chart in SFX Insights.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Combined Harver and Symphony Talent cite more than 1,500 clients and 300+ employees; backed by Rubicon Technology Partners." }, "owner": "Harver", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Customer logos include Molson Coors, Unilever, GSK and BP; Career Finder was built with healthcare, retail and financial services clients." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.symphonytalent.com/", "https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/symphony-talent-introduces-tala-and-genai-email-builder-advancing-talent-acquisition-team-efficiency/", "https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/symphony-talent-introduces-career-finder/", "https://www.symphonytalent.com/blog/harver-acquires-symphony-talent/" ] }, { "n": "Talroo", "u": "https://www.talroo.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Smarter job ads built for frontline hiring results.", "url": "https://www.talroo.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "chat", "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "Apply Intelligence is the AI layer behind its ads; SmartQualify is a conversational AI screen that sets job expectations before apply; generative AI matches resumes to job descriptions; SmartTitles optimizes job titles.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor cites 1,000+ customers and 60+ million worker profiles; logos include FedEx, UPS, Target, Penske." }, "price": { "note": "Pay-for-performance: campaigns are optimized to a target cost per application; rates not published" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Has a manufacturing hiring page naming machinist and mechanic roles and positions itself for frontline and skilled trades hiring; no manufacturing customer named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.talroo.com/", "https://www.talroo.com/newsroom", "https://www.talroo.com/industry/manufacturing" ] }, { "n": "VONQ (EQO)", "u": "https://www.vonq.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "a unified Talent Attraction Platform", "url": "https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/eqo-agentic-talent-attraction-platform/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "job_ads" ], "ai": "Six EQO agents: Write, Distribute, Attract, Screen, Interview and Score. CPA+ (2025) ran a six-minute AI screening interview and scored candidates on 15 skill dimensions.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Boilerplate cites more than 350 enterprise and staffing customers, 85+ ATS and HCM partners and 5,000+ job boards." }, "price": { "note": "CPA+ sold at a fixed price per pre-screened shortlist; EQO pricing not published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Customer logos include DHL and Cosun; no manufacturing-specific use case named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.vonq.com/", "https://www.vonq.com/category/press-releases", "https://www.vonq.com/press-releases/eqo-agentic-talent-attraction-platform/", "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/" ] }, { "n": "Textio", "u": "https://textio.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Attract. Interview. Hire. Develop. It's all on Textio.", "url": "https://textio.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 0, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "job_ads", "notes" ], "ai": "Textio AI scores and rewrites job posts and recruiting messages. Lavalier aligns interview questions to job requirements, auto-generates structured interview guides, guides interviewers in real time and summarizes interview evidence.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Venture backed (Scale Venture Partners and Cowboy Ventures partners sit on the board); named customers include Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, Spotify, T-Mobile, Micron." }, "price": { "note": "Lavalier is \"free to start\" with paid tiers; Textio Recruiting not published" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Micron appears in homepage customer logos; nothing manufacturing-specific." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://textio.com/", "https://textio.com/newsroom", "https://www.01net.it/textio-launches-lavalier-to-raise-the-hiring-bar-with-interview-intelligence/", "https://markets.chroniclejournal.com/thepilotnews/article/bizwire-2026-1-13-textio-announces-ceo-transition" ] }, { "n": "Wonderkind", "u": "https://www.wonderkind.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "job_ads", "cat_src": { "quote": "Turn hiring intent into interview-ready talent.", "url": "https://www.wonderkind.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "job_ads" ], "ai": "The site names Attract, Qualify and Deliver agents and a Campaign Agent in Wonderkind Next that builds social job campaigns.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vendor cites \"70+ leaders in the people industry\"; no funding verified." }, "price": { "note": "Deliver priced per qualified candidate (CPQC); Attract and Qualify credit-based" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Blog targets logistics hiring at the application stage; no manufacturing customer named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.wonderkind.com/", "https://www.wonderkind.com/blog", "https://www.wonderkind.com/blog/interview-ready-candidates-in-your-ats-not-a-promise-a-product" ] }, { "n": "Apploi", "u": "https://apploi.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "The smarter, faster platform to hire & schedule your healthcare team.", "url": "https://apploi.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "job_ads" ], "ai": "The site carries a \"Powered by Apploi AI\" badge and the CEO says it is \"now launching intelligent and AI tools\", but no AI feature is named.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 9,000+ healthcare facilities; owned by Viventium (LLR Partners)" }, "owner": "Viventium", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Healthcare only; credential and license verification; no manufacturing use." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://apploi.com/", "https://apploi.com/press/inc-5000-2025/", "https://techrseries.com/hcm-and-hris/viventium-acquires-apploi-to-create-a-leading-nationally-scaled-healthcare-exclusive-human-capital-management-platform/" ] }, { "n": "FactoryFix", "u": "https://www.factoryfix.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 Recruiting Platform for Skilled Trades and Manufacturing", "url": "https://www.factoryfix.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "job_ads", "matching", "outreach", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "An AI recruiter (Copilot) that sources passive candidates, optimizes job posts for visibility and screens applicants in adaptive conversations, with optional interview scheduling. Fall 2025 release notes add guided screening topics, scoring that learns from recruiter feedback, company-wide AI permissions and per-job labor market reports.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Customer logos on vendor site include Toyota, Goodyear, Eaton, Timken, Parker, Ocean Spray and CITGO; funding not verified" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Manufacturing-native: built for machinists, maintenance technicians, welders and production roles; homepage logos include Toyota, Goodyear, Eaton and Timken, and Hanon Systems gives a quote." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.factoryfix.com/", "https://factoryfix.com/blog/factoryfix-product-release-notes-fall-2025", "https://factoryfix.com/blog/personalizing-your-ai-recruiting-partner-factoryfix-announces-copilot-customization", "https://factoryfix.com/blog/the-2026-state-of-industrial-hiring-report-is-here" ] }, { "n": "Emi", "u": "https://www.emilabs.ai/", "w": "\"1 de cada 10 contrataciones operativas en MĆ©xico 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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agentes AI que atraen, prefiltran, coordinan, contratan y retienen talento operativo.", "url": "https://www.emilabs.ai/es" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "integrity", "matching", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Generative conversational AI agents on WhatsApp, Messenger and SMS for screening, scheduling, document collection and validation (RENAPO, SAT, NSS); retention agents Agente Diagnostico (in production) and Agente Escucha (early access).", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$11M Series A (2022); says +3,000,000 candidate conversations and +1,000 hires per day; customers include Walmart, OXXO, Home Depot, Heineken Mexico, Danone, Nemak (Series A reported but not verified from an opened page)" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Strongest manufacturing evidence in this set: homepage logos include Nemak (automotive castings), Heineken Mexico, Danone, Coca-Cola FEMSA and Arca Continental; warehouse roles (Almacenista) shown; Mexico-focused." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.emilabs.ai/", "https://www.emilabs.ai/es/retention", "https://www.emilabs.ai/es/blog", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emi-labs" ] }, { "n": "Fountain", "u": "https://www.fountain.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 agent that runs your frontline operations", "url": "https://www.fountain.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Frontline OS with Fountain Copilot (reasoning powered in part by Anthropic's Claude models) and named agents Anna (AI Recruiter), Emma (AI 24/7 Support, now voice), Sam (AI Satisfaction) and Cue, which Fountain calls \"Frontline Superintelligence\" that builds workflows, sources and screens, fills shift gaps and reports.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Says 500+ frontline employers, 91M+ applicants and 14M+ hires in 75+ countries; $185M raised to Oct 2022; Niche Player in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Acquisition Suites" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 185, "last": "Series C, $100M, 2022-10-28", "investors": "B Capital Group (lead), SoftBank, Mirae Asset, DCM, Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital", "src": "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-investment/fountain-lands-100-million-in-series-c-funding-led-by-b-capital-group-35850" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Has a manufacturing industry page (\"High volume hiring for manufacturers\") claiming 2-day hires and certification screening, but names no manufacturing customer; I-9 onboarding and an I-9/W-4 voice help agent fit plant and warehouse shift hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.fountain.com/", "https://www.fountain.com/newsroom", "https://www.fountain.com/industry/manufacturing", "https://fountain.com/about", "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/", "https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-unveils-agentic-first-frontline-operating-system-with-12-product-suite-at-hr-tech-2025", "https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-launches-cue-to-run-frontline-hiring-and-workforce-operations", "https://www.fountain.com/news/fountain-named-a-niche-player-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-talent-acquisition-suites", "https://www.fountain.com/news/the-service-companies-chooses-fountain-for-hiring-across-35-states-with-24-7-screening", "https://www.fountain.com/news/shoe-station-group-cuts-time-to-hire-6-days-fountain", "https://fountain.launchnotes.io/", "https://www.peoplematters.in/news/funding-investment/fountain-lands-100-million-in-series-c-funding-led-by-b-capital-group-35850" ] }, { "n": "Harri", "u": "https://harri.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI workforce OS built to run hospitality.", "url": "https://harri.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "copilot", "job_ads", "matching", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Carri conversational screening and AI screening calls that interview and rank applicants; AI-matched talent pools; Harri Agentic AI accessed through Salli, a digital assistant for scheduling, coverage and compliance (generally available October 2025).", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Says 70,000+ locations, 800 corporate clients and 35M employee profiles; customers include McDonald's, Wendy's, KFC, Taco Bell, Shake Shack" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth equity, $43M, 2023-10-18", "investors": "Atalaya Capital Management (lead), Golub Growth", "src": "https://www.thecaterer.com/news/harri-raises-43m-growth-equity-capital" }, "price": { "note": "not published on pages opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Hospitality and retail only; no manufacturing or warehouse use case on its pages." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://harri.ai/", "https://harri.ai/hire/", "https://harri.ai/newsroom/", "https://www.restaurantdive.com/press-release/20250912-harri-launches-open-beta-of-agentic-ai-the-hospitality-first-intelligence-1/", "https://harri.ai/newsroom/meet-salli-your-ai-hospitality-ops-partner-now-generally-available/", "https://harri.ai/newsroom/harri-partner-with-job-matching-platform-candid-hospitality/", "https://www.fsrmagazine.com/forward/node/238253" ] }, { "n": "Laborup", "u": "https://www.laborup.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI workforce agents ... Agents work 24/7 to find, engage, qualify, and move skilled people into critical roles faster.", "url": "https://www.laborup.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "AI workforce agents that work 24/7 to find, engage and qualify skilled workers, built on a voice-first AI system that interviews, verifies and routes industrial workers.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$7.7M seed led by NVP (2025); about 20 named industrial customers" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 7.7, "last": "Seed, $7.7M, 2025-08-28", "investors": "NVP (lead), Torch Capital, Threshold Ventures, Westbound, Daybreak, Heartland, Market Square Ventures", "src": "https://getcoai.com/news/laborup-raises-7-7m-to-solve-us-manufacturing-worker-shortage-with-ai/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Built only for industrial and manufacturing hiring; names Nucor, Timken, Kennametal, Oshkosh, MAHLE, Smith & Wesson, Colortech and Bush's Beans as customers." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.laborup.com/", "https://getcoai.com/news/laborup-raises-7-7m-to-solve-us-manufacturing-worker-shortage-with-ai/", "https://haslam.utk.edu/news/ut-alums-ai-hiring-platform-raises-7-7m-in-capital-investments/" ] }, { "n": "Sense", "u": "https://www.sensehq.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Agents Fuel Your Autonomous Hiring Engine", "url": "https://www.sensehq.com/ai-agents" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "chat", "matching", "outreach", "rediscovery", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Sense AI Agents: FAQ Agent, Sourcing Agent, Score and Match Agent, AI Interviewer (chat and voice), Voice Agent and Candidate Engagement Agent; also an AI Receptionist for staffing firms.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$90M raised by Dec 2021 at a reported $500M valuation (TechCrunch); says it is trusted by over 1,000 organizations including Hormel, Insight Global, Kelly, Dell Technologies and Nissan, and works with 5 of the 10 largest staffing firms." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 90, "last": "Series D, $50M, 2021-12-05", "investors": "SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (lead)", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/05/hr-tech-startup-sense-valued-at-500-million-in-softbank-vision-fund-2-led-funding" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Has a Manufacturing and Warehousing page for production line workers, forklift operators and maintenance techs, with text-to-apply, SMS and WhatsApp outreach and no-show reminders; Hormel is a named customer." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.sensehq.com/", "https://www.sensehq.com/ai-agents", "https://www.sensehq.com/media", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/05/hr-tech-startup-sense-valued-at-500-million-in-softbank-vision-fund-2-led-funding" ] }, { "n": "Skillit", "u": "https://www.skillit.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "construction's first AI hiring platform", "url": "https://www.skillit.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "matching", "outreach", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Vendor describes an AI hiring platform and an \"AI infrastructure layer for craft hiring\" for sourcing, screening and coordinating craft workers; it names no specific AI agent.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Strategic equity from WND Ventures (DPR) and Suffolk Technologies in 2026; adopters include DPR, Suffolk, Swinerton and Mortenson" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Strategic equity from WND Ventures and Suffolk Technologies, amount undisclosed, 2026-06-22", "investors": "WND Ventures, Suffolk Technologies", "src": "https://www.constructionbusinessowner.com/skillit-announces-strategic-partnership-with-dpr-construction-suffolk-technologies/" }, "price": { "note": "Craft Hire free to get started; Enterprise sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Construction craft labor, not plant operations; relevant to manufacturers building plants (semiconductor fabs, battery plants, advanced manufacturing projects)." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.skillit.com/", "https://www.constructionbusinessowner.com/skillit-announces-strategic-partnership-with-dpr-construction-suffolk-technologies/" ] }, { "n": "Workstream", "u": "https://www.workstream.us/", "w": "\"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).", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-native operating platform that runs your hourly team.", "url": "https://www.workstream.us/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "analytics", "chat", "copilot", "scheduling" ], "ai": "Five single-job AI agents: Voice AI (answers applicants, screens and sends reminder calls), Video AI (recorded interview answers), Payroll AI, Compliance (missed breaks, minimum wage, expiring I-9s) and AskAI (plain-English questions and weekly reports).", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$108M Series B (2021 and 2022 closes); says thousands of multi-location businesses and 46 of the top 50 restaurant brands" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B extension, $60M (Series B total $108M), 2022-09-29", "investors": "BOND and Coatue (first close), GGV Capital (extension)", "src": "https://www.unleash.ai/talent-acquisition/news/workstream-closes-108-million-series-b" }, "price": { "note": "not published on pages opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Built for restaurant and retail hourly teams; no manufacturing or warehouse customers or pages found." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workstream.us/", "https://www.workstream.us/newsroom", "https://www.workstream.us/investor-updates/q2-2025", "https://www.workstream.us/blog", "https://www.unleash.ai/talent-acquisition/news/workstream-closes-108-million-series-b" ] }, { "n": "Blucor", "u": "https://www.blucor.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Recruiter for Blue-Collar and High-Volume Hourly Hiring", "url": "https://www.blucor.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "interop", "job_ads", "matching", "notes", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Hope is a \"Full-time AI recruiter for lean HR teams\" that conducts AI phone interviews, produces candidate evaluation reports and transcripts, schedules interviews and writes candidate details to the ATS. 2026 releases added screening criteria and questions generated from a job description and separate scoring of knowledge, skills and behavior.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding disclosed on the vendor site. One named customer (Twin City Fan); the about page cites 80 customer sites." }, "price": { "note": "not published; priced by hiring volume, workflow and scope after a demo" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Headline targets blue-collar and high-volume hourly hiring; role examples include welders, forklift operators and maintenance technicians, and the named customer is a fan manufacturer." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.blucor.ai/", "https://www.blucor.ai/about", "https://www.blucor.ai/release-notes", "https://blancai.beehiiv.com/p/how-ai-recruiting-features-solve-manufacturing-s-hiring-challenges", "https://blancai.beehiiv.com/p/ai-roi-a-78-cost-per-hire-reduction-for-manufacturers" ] }, { "n": "Talkpush", "u": "https://www.talkpush.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "Hiring at scale that feels like a conversation", "url": "https://www.talkpush.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "chat", "matching", "mcp", "scheduling", "sourcing" ], "ai": "Conversational AI and Chatbot Hub, voice AI recruiter (Sam, introduced January 2024), TalkScore AI voice interviews, Best Match ranking, an agentic hiring team called Crew, and the Talkpush MCP server.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Seed-funded (500 Startups, Seedcamp); customers include Accenture, McDonald's, Concentrix, 7-Eleven, TaskUs; 180k+ hires in 2021" }, "price": { "note": "not published on pages opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "High-volume BPO, retail and logistics hiring; manufacturing not listed and no manufacturers named." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.talkpush.com/", "https://www.talkpush.com/whats-new", "https://www.talkpush.com/about-us", "https://www.talkpush.com/crew", "https://help.talkpush.com/en/articles/15284736-getting-started-with-talkpush-mcp" ] }, { "n": "Team Engine", "u": "https://www.teamengine.io/", "w": "\"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.\"", "cat": "frontline", "cat_src": { "quote": "Recruiting Software for Field Teams", "url": "https://www.teamengine.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 2, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "chat", "job_ads", "matching" ], "ai": "AI job title validation and job description suggestions, AI smart follow-ups that text and WhatsApp applicants about interest, pay and relocation, LLM translation of messages, AI survey analysis, and an AI Onboarding Assistant that the CEO calls \"our first real application of agentic AI.\"", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vendor says it is trusted by over 200 landscaping companies; no funding or revenue disclosed." }, "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; demo-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Built for deskless, blue-collar field crews with a manufacturing edition; onboarding collects I-9s and W-4s and starts Checkr background and MVR checks." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.teamengine.io/", "https://www.teamengine.io/about-us", "https://www.teamengine.io/features/ai-in-hr", "https://www.teamengine.io/industries/manufacturing", "https://www.teamengine.io/industries/plumbing-hvac", "https://www.teamengine.io/blog", "https://www.teamengine.io/blog/summer-2025-product-update", "https://www.teamengine.io/blog/spring-2025-product-update", "https://www.teamengine.io/blog/onboarding" ] }, { "n": "Qualtrics EmployeeXM", "u": "https://www.qualtrics.com/employee-experience/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "simulate flight-risk scenarios and model the business impact of attrition before it happens", "url": "https://www.qualtrics.com/employee-experience/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics" ], "ai": "AI 'automatically analyzes thousands of comments to surface trending themes'; conversational feedback asks AI follow-up questions in surveys; Retention Analytics uses 'predictive models' to 'identify attrition risk'; managers get AI action plans 'tailored to their team's unique feedback'.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Qualtrics 'serves over 19,000 clients' and closed a $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta in May 2026 (CMSWire)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.qualtrics.com/employee-experience/", "https://www.qualtrics.com/news/new-ex-capabilities-x4-2026/", "https://cxm.world/customer-experience/qualtrics-x4-experience-agents-synthetic-panels-and-ai-analytics-land-across-all-three-suites/", "https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/qualtrics-unveils-xm-data-ai-platform-for-2027/" ] }, { "n": "15Five", "u": "https://www.15five.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-powered performance management platform built for business impact", "url": "https://www.15five.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "Amaya is 'a powerful new Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) AI agent built directly into the 15Five platform' that summarizes patterns and compares teams. Kona is an AI coach that joins meetings, AI Assisted Reviews compile 'roughly 80% of the first draft', and 15Five MCP is 'a secure connection between 15Five and the AI your team works with every day'.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 'Trusted by over 3K customers' and 'Serving 250K employees'." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $52M, 2022-07-21", "investors": "Quad Partners (lead)", "src": "https://www.builtinsf.com/articles/15five-raises-52m-hr-tech-hiring" }, "price": { "note": "per user per month by plan (Engage, Perform, Total Platform); figures not checked, pricing page could not be opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.15five.com/", "https://www.15five.com/winter-2026-product-release", "https://www.15five.com/blog/15five-launches-kona-the-ai-powered-manager-effectiveness-coach", "https://aijourn.com/hr-leaders-meet-amaya-your-new-thought-partner/", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-9-15five-launches-new-ai-capabilities-that-facilitate-a-continuous-performance-management-feedback-loop", "https://www.builtinsf.com/articles/15five-raises-52m-hr-tech-hiring" ] }, { "n": "Culture Amp", "u": "https://www.cultureamp.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Tie HR priorities back to business outcomes with powerful analytics and data stories.", "url": "https://www.cultureamp.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "AI Coach runs across Engage and Perform: it 'cuts survey analysis time from days to minutes, instantly surfacing the top 3-5 actions' and offers 'guided, confidential AI-powered role play'. Culture Amp's MCP server lets leaders query its insights, built on '1.6 billion organizational data points', from ChatGPT and Claude.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 'Trusted by 6,000+ companies'; $1.5B valuation at its 2021 Series F (TechCrunch)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series F, $100M, 2021-07-29", "investors": "Sequoia Capital China, TDM Growth Partners (leads); Salesforce Ventures", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/employee-engagement-platform-culture-amp-raises-100m-at-a-1-5b-valuation" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.cultureamp.com/", "https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/introducing-ai-coach", "https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/ai-coach-new-leadership-era", "https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/culture-intelligence-in-daily-tools", "https://www.cultureamp.com/company/announcements/culture-amp-acquires-orgnostic", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/employee-engagement-platform-culture-amp-raises-100m-at-a-1-5b-valuation" ] }, { "n": "Lattice", "u": "https://lattice.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "High-performing teams are built here", "url": "https://lattice.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "The Lattice AI Agent, built on OpenAI models, answers employee questions from company policies, summarizes 1:1 meetings and coaches managers. Lattice MCP (early access) brings 'the performance record' into Claude, ChatGPT, Glean and Slack, and AI Leverage Insights 'connects AI usage to performance outcomes'.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it 'serves nearly 5,000 customers worldwide' (June 2026); $3B valuation at its 2022 Series F." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series F, $175M, 2022-01-31", "investors": "Thrive Capital, Elad Gil, Tiger Global, Dragoneer", "src": "https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2022/2022-01-31-lattice-triples-valuation-to-3-billion-with-series-f-round" }, "price": { "note": "not checked: the pricing page could not be opened (fetch rate-limited)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://lattice.com/", "https://lattice.com/blog/lattice-ai-agent-meet-your-new-partner-in-hr", "https://lattice.com/blog/press-release-lattice-debuts-ai-agent-for-hr-as-hris-customer-growth-surges-250", "https://lattice.com/blog/lattice-launches-workforce-intelligence-for-ai-era-connecting-people-strategy-to-business-outcomes", "https://lattice.com/product-updates/fall-winter-2026", "https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2022/2022-01-31-lattice-triples-valuation-to-3-billion-with-series-f-round" ] }, { "n": "Leapsome", "u": "https://www.leapsome.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Board-ready answers from a prompt", "url": "https://www.leapsome.com/product/leapsome-ai-agents" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "Five agents: Development Coach, Culture Advisor, Data Analyst, PeopleOps Partner and HR Helpdesk. The Data Analyst agent says 'Ask a question, get an analysis with every source cited', an AI Workflow Builder drafts automations from a prompt, and MCP connectivity imports and exports people data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 2,000+ companies use it; $60M Series A from Insight Partners in 2022." }, "price": { "note": "not checked; no prices seen on the pages opened" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.leapsome.com/", "https://www.leapsome.com/product/leapsome-ai-agents", "https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/leapsome-unveils-ai-hr-platform-with-new-ats/", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/ai/leapsome-launches-ai-platform-with-deepest-people-data-foundation", "https://techintelpro.com/news/hr/ai/leapsome-launches-six-months-to-agentic-hr-program", "https://tech.eu/2022/03/24/berlins-leapsome-welcomes-60-million-in-first-ever-funding-round/" ] }, { "n": "Lightcast", "u": "https://lightcast.io/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Build your labor market strategy with better data.", "url": "https://lightcast.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Skills Agent \"identifies, recommends, and justifies skills for job profiles based on real-time labor market data\" inside Talent Transform. ASK is \"a conversational AI experience in the Lightcast Analyst platform\", and the Lightcast MCP server \"makes that same trusted data available directly to AI assistants.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Data covers 165 countries; KKR-owned since it bought Emsi in 2021 and merged it with Burning Glass; four acquisitions in 2025 (Rhetorik, Stratigens, Skill Collective, Simply)." }, "owner": "KKR", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Labor-supply data only; publishes skilled-trades research (135 trade occupations) useful for manufacturing workforce planning, not a hiring tool." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://lightcast.io/", "https://lightcast.io/pressroom", "https://lightcast.io/history", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-announces-ask-and-mcp", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/skills-agent-press-release-2025-08-12", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-expands-its-work-intelligence-capabilities", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-rhetorik-to-expand-global-people-company-and-labor-market-inte", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-skill-collective-to-advance-skill-based-transformation-for-glo", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-acquires-simply", "https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/lightcast-extends-global-data-footprint-by-300percent" ] }, { "n": "Nakisa", "u": "https://nakisa.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Driven Enterprise Solutions for HR, Finance, and Real Estate", "url": "https://nakisa.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Nakisa Decision Intelligence is an agentic AI platform (\"all Nakisa products will be powered by NDI\") with Nakisa AI agents for org design and headcount planning. \"Nakisa MCP lets any MCP-compatible AI agent connect to Nakisa applications and take real action.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "20+ years serving Fortune 1000 clients; AI Advisory Council includes AbbVie, BP, Engie, Standard Bank." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. Nakisa MCP is included at no additional cost." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://nakisa.com/", "https://nakisa.com/news/", "https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-launches-agentic-decision-intelligence-platform/", "https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-mcp-supported-across-full-product-suite/", "https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-brings-decision-intelligence-to-databricks-customers/", "https://nakisa.com/news/nakisa-recognized-star-performer-everest-peak-matrix-workforce-planning-people-analytics-2026/", "https://www.nakisa.com/products/nakisa-workforce-planning/", "https://nakisa.com/blog/nakisa-workforce-planning-org-design-org-chart-software-2025-r1-new-features", "https://nakisa.com/blog/nakisa-workforce-planning-org-design-org-chart-software-2025-r2-product-release/" ] }, { "n": "Orgvue", "u": "https://www.orgvue.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Orgvue accelerates AI-powered workforce design with innovative WebMCP interface", "url": "http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orgvue-accelerates-ai-powered-workforce-design-with-innovative-webmcp-interface-302899071.html" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Henshaw AI: Henshaw Roles groups similar positions into roles, role clusters and job families, and Henshaw Assistant answers plain-language questions about org data. WebMCP \"connects a customer's agent of choice to an already-open Orgvue Workspace browser tab,\" with human review before any data changes.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Close to 200 global enterprise customers plus 50+ consulting firms, c. 250 staff; majority owned by Main Capital Partners since September 2026." }, "owner": "Main Capital Partners", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.prnewswire.com/news/orgvue/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orgvue-unveils-henshaw-suite-of-ai-platform-capabilities-302630472.html", "http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orgvue-accelerates-ai-powered-workforce-design-with-innovative-webmcp-interface-302899071.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/main-capital-partners-enters-the-uk-market-with-acquisition-of-orgvue-302871857.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/92-of-organizations-have-invested-in-ai-but-78-say-projects-have-either-stalled-or-failed-302769202.html" ] }, { "n": "Pave", "u": "https://www.pave.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI compensation platform", "url": "https://www.pave.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "The Pave Agent (launched as the Pave Comp Agent) \"sits directly inside PaveOS with full access to each organization's structured compensation data\"; it \"can now reason across a company's full compensation context\" and is \"reachable from the AI tools you're already using, starting with Claude.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"9,000+ integrated Pave clients\"; Series C of $100M led by Index Ventures in 2022 at a reported $1.6B valuation." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $100M, 2022-06-28", "investors": "Index Ventures", "src": "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-801347226.html" }, "price": { "note": "not published on pages opened; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.pave.com/", "https://hrdive.com/press-release/20260502-pave-launches-its-comp-agent-to-reinvent-compensation-management-with-agent", "https://techintelpro.com/news/pave-expands-ai-compensation-agent-to-reason-across-full-compensation-system-of-record", "https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/pave-agent-mcp", "https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/pave-agent-can-build-the-deliverable", "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-801347226.html" ] }, { "n": "Payscale", "u": "https://www.payscale.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Confident pay decisions. Real business impact.", "url": "https://www.payscale.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "job_ads" ], "ai": "Smart Reporting lets users \"use natural language chat to request reports\", \"powered by AI that has been trained on decades of compensation expertise\"; Smart Price's \"agentic AI walks users through four simple steps\" of job pricing on its Payscale Verse dataset.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "\"16K+ customers worldwide\" and $2.3T in salaries managed through its data (homepage); majority-owned by Francisco Partners." }, "owner": "Francisco Partners", "price": { "note": "not published on homepage; Pricing & Plans page, sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Pay benchmarking and compliant pay-range postings apply to hourly and salaried roles alike; no evidence of a manufacturing-specific product." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.payscale.com/", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-acquires-datapeople", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-smart-price-and-compass", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-intelligence-cloud-announcement", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/smart-reporting-launch", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-jobnav-recruiter", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-launches-ascent", "https://www.payscale.com/press-releases/payscale-transforms-paycycle", "https://www.franciscopartners.com/investments/payscale" ] }, { "n": "Peoplelogic", "u": "https://peoplelogic.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Run goals, 1:1s and reviews for your whole company from $3,000 a year.", "url": "https://peoplelogic.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot" ], "ai": "Impact includes 'AI-suggested talking points based on recent goals and feedback' for 1:1s and AI first drafts for development goals and reviews; the pricing page says 'AI drafting, summaries and insights are in the base price'.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says 'Trusted by 1200+ organizations'; no funding disclosed. A small vendor despite the tier." }, "price": { "note": "published: $3,000/yr up to 100 people; $3,588/yr for 101 to 500, setup and training included" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://peoplelogic.ai/", "https://peoplelogic.ai/blog/your-first-ai-peopleops-team", "https://peoplelogic.ai/blog/why-we-built-nova-ai-agents-for-people-ops-are-the-future", "https://peoplelogic.ai/blog" ] }, { "n": "Perceptyx", "u": "https://www.perceptyx.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-Powered Employee Experience Platform That Drives Action And Builds Capability", "url": "https://www.perceptyx.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "Its September 2025 agent suite includes the Employee Activation Agent (AI coaching and nudges), the Conversational Listening Agent and the Narrative Analysis Agent. Perceptyx Anywhere adds MCP connectivity, an Evaluate check of AI interpretation against I-O psychologist judgment, and 'Org-specific models' that 'surface attrition and disengagement signals'.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it is 'trusted by more than 30% of the Fortune 100' (Sept 2025 release)." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.perceptyx.com/", "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/perceptyx-debuts-ai-agent-suite-and-reimagined-platform-to-transform-employee-experience/", "https://blog.perceptyx.com/perceptyx-acquires-learning-platform-lyceum-ai", "https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/perceptyx-anywhere-links-employee-data-to-enterprise-ai/" ] }, { "n": "Syndio", "u": "https://synd.io/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Every pay decision, guided by humans, powered by AI.", "url": "https://synd.io/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot" ], "ai": "Syndi is \"Syndio's proprietary AI\" that \"delivers AI-guided pay recommendations embedded where teams work\" (Microsoft Teams, Slack, ATS); the Syndio editor's note says it is now the AI layer for the whole platform. In June 2026 it bought agentic AI company Embrace.ai to speed its agentic roadmap.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage says Syndio governs over $1 trillion in pay for 350+ global enterprises, including 30+ of the Fortune 100; Syndi is trained on more than 10 million employee pay records." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $50M, 2021-09-28", "investors": "not named in the cited article; Series B of $17.1M in January 2021", "src": "https://frontiervc.com/news/2021/9/28/seattle-based-syndio-raises-50m-on-heels-of-funding-round-just-months-ago" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Pay equity checks on new-hire offers apply to any workforce; nothing specific to hourly or technical hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://synd.io/", "https://synd.io/press-release/syndio-launches-syndi/", "https://synd.io/?p=39804", "https://www.01net.it/syndio-acquires-embrace-ai/", "https://frontiervc.com/news/2026/6/24/syndio-bets-on-agentic-ai-with-first-acquisition-in-seattle-pay-equity-startups-history", "https://frontiervc.com/news/2021/9/28/seattle-based-syndio-raises-50m-on-heels-of-funding-round-just-months-ago" ] }, { "n": "TalentNeuron", "u": "https://www.talentneuron.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Plan for the workforce you need, not just the one you have.", "url": "https://www.talentneuron.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "skills" ], "ai": "Synapse, \"the AI assistant behind every labor market question\", shows its analysis plan and \"routes your question to the domain-expert agents built to answer it\" for hiring, compensation, locations and competitors. It launched in March 2026 as Synappy. TalentNeuron also models task automation potential by role.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Private equity owned (Leeds Equity Partners, acquired from Gartner in February 2023); says over 60% of the Fortune 100 use it." }, "owner": "Leeds Equity Partners", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Location and talent supply analysis can inform plant siting and hiring plans." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.talentneuron.com/", "https://www.talentneuron.com/about/newsroom", "https://talentneuron.com/blog/introducing-synappy-the-ai-assistant-for-workforce-intelligence", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-launches-synappy-bringing-conversational-ai-to-workforce-intelligence-302717307.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-expands-workforce-planning-solution-with-the-launch-of-organizational-design-302736920.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talentneuron-appoints-david-wilkins-as-chief-executive-officer-302774347.html", "https://pulse2.com/talentneuron-appoints-david-wilkins-as-chief-executive-officer/", "https://www.talentneuron.com/llms.txt", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/roland-berger-selects-talentneuron-to-deliver-workforce-intelligence-for-clients-navigating-the-future-of-work-302562446.html" ] }, { "n": "TechWolf", "u": "https://www.techwolf.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "The data layer for the AI era of work", "url": "https://www.techwolf.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "skills" ], "ai": "Purpose-built models \"automatically infer proficiency levels and skill clusters from actual system activity\" and \"deconstruct roles into tasks to precisely model AI impact\"; the Job Architecture Redesign Agent went GA in July 2026 as part of its \"Summer '26 launch.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Customers include HSBC (250k+ employees mapped), Ericsson, GSK, AMD, MetLife, PayPal and Booking.com; $42.75M Series B in 2024; SAP agreed to acquire it in October 2026." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B, $42.75M, 2024-06", "investors": "Felix Capital (lead), SAP, ServiceNow, Workday, Notion Capital, Fortino Capital", "src": "https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/techwolf-secures-42-75-million-in-series-b/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Customers include industrial firms (Atlas Copco, Garrett Motion); useful for skills and workforce planning, not hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.techwolf.ai/", "https://www.techwolf.ai/product/overview", "https://www.techwolf.ai/resources/blog/why-we-built-the-workforce-intelligence-index", "https://www.techwolf.ai/resources/blog/the-vision-for-a-skill-first-world-introducing-the-techwolf-skill-intelligence-index", "https://techwolf.ai/resources/blog/introducing-the-techwolf-agent-with-a-first-focus-to-transform-how-enterprises-create-and-maintain-their-job-architecture", "https://www.reworked.co/learning-development/sap-acquires-techwolf-to-add-live-skills-data-to-successfactors/", "https://itwire.com/guest-articles/company-news/sap-to-acquire-techwolf-giving-enterprises-evidence-based-view-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai", "https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/techwolf-secures-42-75-million-in-series-b/", "https://www.techwolf.ai/company", "https://www.techwolf.ai/press", "https://www.techwolf.ai/press/sap-to-acquire-techwolf", "https://www.techwolf.ai/press/techwolf-advances-its-mission-to-power-workforce-transformation", "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", "https://www.techwolf.ai/press/techwolf-and-wtw-partner-to-turn-skills-and-workforce-data-into-ai-driven-business-impact" ] }, { "n": "Visier", "u": "https://www.visier.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Workforce context and governance for Enterprise AI", "url": "https://www.visier.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Vee, the \"Workforce Insights Agent,\" answers workforce questions and now offers Vee Diagnostics in early access: statistical driver analysis that flags confidence levels. Talent Agents, Agent Builder and the Visier MCP sit on the Workforce Context Engine, and Org Design uses \"GenAI narrating the impact\" of proposed changes.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says it is trusted by 85,000+ complex organizations; US$1B valuation at its 2021 Series E (BetaKit). Revenue not disclosed." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 219.5, "last": "Series E, $125M, 2021-06-29", "investors": "Goldman Sachs Asset Management (sole source of the Series E)", "src": "https://betakit.com/workforce-analytics-startup-visier-secures-154-million-cad-from-goldman-sachs" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. Visier MCP is bundled with the Vee agent in Visier Enterprise at no additional license cost." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.visier.com/", "https://www.visier.com/company/newsroom", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-debuts-talent-agents/", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-launches-vee-diagnostics-capabilities-at-hrtech-2026/", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/press-releases/visier-showcases-expanded-workforce-context-engine/", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-launches-mcp-for-ai-agents/", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-expands-strategic-workforce-planning-suite-with-ai-powered-org-design/", "https://www.visier.com/company/news/visier-ends-transformational-year/", "https://betakit.com/workforce-analytics-startup-visier-secures-154-million-cad-from-goldman-sachs" ] }, { "n": "ChartHop", "u": "https://www.charthop.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "People analytics, workforce planning & HCM", "url": "https://www.charthop.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Ask ChartHop is a conversational assistant across all five modules, governed by Access Guard permissions. ChartHop AI Pro adds Agentic Actions (\"these agents perform complex tasks autonomously\"), custom agents and Model Context Protocol support.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Andreessen Horowitz led its seed, Series A and $35M Series B; homepage says \"Hundreds of companies\" use it (Airbnb, Mitsubishi, Sweetgreen named)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B, $35M, 2021-06-09", "investors": "Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Elad Gil, Cowboy Ventures, SemperVirens", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/09/charthop-raises-35m-for-its-internal-org-chart-and-people-analytics-platform/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. AI Pro is a premium tier." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.charthop.com/", "https://www.charthop.com/press", "https://www.charthop.com/resource/announcing-ask-charthop-ai-now-available-across-all-five-modules", "https://www.charthop.com/resource/charthop-ai-adp-marketplace", "https://www.charthop.com/resource/charthop-product-updates-october-2026", "https://markets.financialcontent.com/observerreporter/article/bizwire-2026-3-24-charthop-launches-ai-pro", "https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/charthop-ai-powered-people-operations-130000901.html", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-charthop-ai-connecting-people-and-business-intelligence-302401840.html", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/09/charthop-raises-35m-for-its-internal-org-chart-and-people-analytics-platform/" ] }, { "n": "Crunchr", "u": "https://www.crunchr.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "brings together trusted data, organisational context, and AI for every decision-maker", "url": "https://www.crunchr.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "copilot" ], "ai": "Ask Crunchr answers plain-language questions such as \"Why did voluntary turnover spike in Manufacturing last quarter?\" with the metrics it used. An Explainer puts a plain-language summary beside every chart, and Story Insights lists \"AI-generated findings ranked by urgency.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional round led by Oxx in 2022 (amount undisclosed), with Randstad and Nationale-Nederlanden as strategic investors; used in 70+ countries; offices in Amsterdam and Boston." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Undisclosed round led by Oxx, 2022-02-01", "investors": "Oxx (lead), Randstad, Nationale-Nederlanden", "src": "https://oxx.vc/post/oxx-invests-in-enterprise-people-analytics-platform-crunchr" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.crunchr.com/", "https://www.crunchr.com/about-us/", "https://oxx.vc/post/oxx-invests-in-enterprise-people-analytics-platform-crunchr" ] }, { "n": "Draup", "u": "https://draup.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Draup is an enterprise agentic AI company built on proprietary global labor and market data.", "url": "https://draup.com/ai-information" }, "ph": { "source": 1, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "Curie is \"the agentic AI interface to Draup Talent Intelligence\" and Etter is an \"AI workforce transformation platform\"; Draup's \"entire sales, talent, and market intelligence graph is now available through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "USD 20 million Series A led by HKW (March 2022); \"Trusted by 5 of the Fortune 10\" with named customers Microsoft, PepsiCo, PayPal, Pfizer." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $20M, 2022-03", "investors": "HKW", "src": "https://draup.com/ai-information" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://draup.com/", "https://draup.com/ai-information", "https://draup.com/press", "https://techrseries.com/artificial-intelligence/draup-launches-curie-the-agentic-ai-built-for-enterprise-hr-teams/", "https://draup.com/talent/blogs/draup-data-now-available-via-mcp", "https://www.reworked.co/the-wire/draup-joins-the-mcp-ecosystem-delivering-live-talent-intelligence-to-llms-and-copilots/", "https://techrseries.com/talent-management/draup-brings-talent-and-market-intelligence-to-databricks-marketplace/", "https://techrseries.com/interviews/hrtech-interview-vijay-swaminathan-co-founder-ceo-at-draup/", "https://www.rtinsights.com/real-time-analytics-news-for-the-week-ending-december-13/" ] }, { "n": "Functionly", "u": "https://www.functionly.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Chart the course to your future org", "url": "https://www.functionly.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "skills" ], "ai": "OrgPilot AI, an \"Advisor and Agent for AI workforce design,\" plus \"AI-assisted recommendations\" that suggest responsibilities and functions for an org chart.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "A$3.6M (US$2.7M) seed led by Black Nova Venture Capital in 2021, AU$5.9M raised to then; logos include Datadog, DLA Piper, Six Flags." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, A$3.6M (US$2.7M), 2021-09-22", "investors": "Black Nova Venture Capital (lead), AfterWork Ventures, Investible, Rampersand", "src": "https://www.functionly.com/orginometry/functionly-raises-3.6m-in-funding-to-disrupt-the-organisational-design-industry" }, "price": { "note": "published per-seat plans (Starter, Advanced, Enterprise) at functionly.com/pricing; 22-day free trial" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.functionly.com/", "https://www.functionly.com/features", "https://www.functionly.com/pricing", "https://www.functionly.com/media", "https://www.functionly.com/orginometry/functionly-raises-3.6m-in-funding-to-disrupt-the-organisational-design-industry" ] }, { "n": "One Model", "u": "https://www.onemodel.co/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "the governed data platform global enterprises trust to understand their workforce", "url": "https://www.webull.com/news/15700937553806336" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot", "mcp" ], "ai": "One AI is the embedded machine learning engine. One AI Assistant is \"a conversational interface for exploring workforce questions\"; MCP services connect One Model-governed data to Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini; AI Impact \"analyzes AI activity at the prompt level to show what employees are using AI for.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$41M round led by Riverwood Capital in 2023; named clients include Colgate-Palmolive, Squarespace, Robinhood, Airtable." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 44.8, "last": "Growth round, $41M, 2023-08-07", "investors": "Riverwood Capital (lead)", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/07/one-model-lands-41m-to-bring-data-science-powered-insights-to-hr/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.webull.com/news/15700937553806336", "https://techedgeai.com/?p=40038", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/one-model-wins-two-2025-hr-tech-awards", "https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/07/one-model-lands-41m-to-bring-data-science-powered-insights-to-hr/", "https://www.onemodel.co/press-releases", "https://www.onemodel.co/news/record-2025-momentum-as-chros-call-out-a-productivity-data-blind-spot", "https://www.onemodel.co/news/one-model-launches-ai-impact-extending-its-governed-data-platform-to-measure-ai-effectiveness" ] }, { "n": "Revelio Labs", "u": "https://www.reveliolabs.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Understand the workforce", "url": "https://www.reveliolabs.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "analytics", "mcp", "skills" ], "ai": "\"AI Chat lets users explore Revelio Labs data using natural language\" in the Revelio Terminal, and MCP lets organizations \"connect AI tools and agents, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, directly to the Revelio Terminal.\"", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A of $15M in 2022, $19M raised in total (TechCrunch); data on 30M+ companies." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 19, "last": "Series A, $15M, 2022-10-06", "investors": "Elephant Partners, Alumni Ventures, BDMI, K20 Ventures, Techstars, Barclays", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/06/revelio-labs-raises-cash-to-scrape-the-public-web-for-hr-insights" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (RPLS is free)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.reveliolabs.com/", "https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/", "https://aijourn.com/?p=560437", "https://www.reveliolabs.com/blog/revelio-terminal-workforce-data", "https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/ai-and-work/introduction-the-revelio-ai-labor-market-tracker", "https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/macro/one-year-of-revelio-public-labor-statistics-a-retrospective", "https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/revelio-labs-acquires-salary-board-to-expand-global-compensation-analytics-835268029.html", "https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/06/revelio-labs-raises-cash-to-scrape-the-public-web-for-hr-insights" ] }, { "n": "Aura", "u": "https://www.getaura.ai/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Power every business decision with AuraSM, our AI platform that collects, analyzes, and visualizes workforce data in minutes", "url": "https://www.bain.com/consulting-services/organization/aura/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "mcp" ], "ai": "Bain describes a multi-agent AI system that gathers and analyzes workforce data, with autonomous agents that run scheduled benchmarking and due diligence; the Claude + Aura connector is \"built on Anthropic's secure MCP protocol.\"", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or revenue disclosed on pages opened; Bain & Company spin-out with Bain still presenting it as a Bain offering." }, "owner": "Bain & Company", "price": { "note": "Self-serve plan at $100/month via Claude (September 2025 blog); otherwise not published." }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.bain.com/consulting-services/organization/aura/", "https://blog.getaura.ai/aura-launches-official-claude-mcp-connector", "https://blog.getaura.ai/conversational-workforce-intelligence", "https://blog.getaura.ai/new-aura-organizational-decision-intelligence", "https://blog.getaura.ai/" ] }, { "n": "SplashBI", "u": "https://splashbi.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "analytics", "cat_src": { "quote": "Workforce Intelligence brings headcount, turnover, pay, time, and performance data together", "url": "https://splashbi.com/solutions/workforce-intelligence" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "analytics", "copilot" ], "ai": "SplashAI \"combines retrieval, generation, anomaly detection, and summarization, all in one agentic engine\", with \"intelligent platform agents like the Text2SQL Agent\"; Tahoe v6.1 added an Analytics Co-Pilot and conversational insights on dashboard visuals.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding disclosed; named a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's People Analytics Platforms PEAK Matrix 2026." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (site says no per-seat license fees)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Absence and compliance alerts could help shift-based plants watch attendance, but it has no hiring features." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://splashbi.com/splashhr/", "https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-launches-tahoe-v6-transforms-enterprise-reporting-with-unified-analytics-and-ai/", "https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-unveils-splashai-a-role-aware-ai-assistant-for-hcm-and-finance-decision-making/", "https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-launches-tahoe-v61-with-new-ai-and-omnichannel-features/", "https://splashbi.com/press-release/splashbi-recognized-as-a-star-performer-in-everest-groups-peak-matrix-assessment-2026/" ] }, { "n": "Checkr", "u": "https://checkr.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions.", "url": "https://checkr.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Checkr AI underpins background checks and identity checks, built on an AI People Data Graph; the Fraud Detection Suite adds resume fraud detection, image comparison, deepfake detection, biometric IDV with liveness, device signals and location correlation.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "2025 gross revenue above $800M and more than 120,000 customers (Jan 2026); 140,000 customers (Oct 2026)" }, "price": { "note": "pricing page published at checkr.com/pricing" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Sells criminal, DOT and drug background checks and identity verification for regulated hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://checkr.com/", "https://checkr.com/blog/building-the-future-of-trust-at-checkr", "https://checkr.com/resources/articles/checkr-identity-verification", "https://checkr.com/resources/articles/checkr-launches-profiles", "https://www.webull.com/news/15712756793607168", "https://checkr.com/blog/hiring-hoax-2026-ai-fraud-outpacing-detection", "https://www.mobileidworld.com/checkr-brings-mobile-native-identity-verification-to-workforce-screening/" ] }, { "n": "CLEAR", "u": "https://identity.clearme.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "CLEAR1, the identity platform for businesses", "url": "https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "CLEAR1 matches a candidate's selfie to a government ID and checks biometric, ID and device signals.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "public company (NYSE: YOU)" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sold through the Greenhouse integration and direct sales" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Selfie-to-ID check inside Greenhouse; useful only if a plant hires through Greenhouse." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://identity.clearme.com/post/clear-x-greenhouse-verify-the-candidate-behind-the-application", "https://greenhouse.com/newsroom/greenhouse-and-clear-announce-partnership-to-enable-candidate-verification", "https://www.clearme.com/" ] }, { "n": "First Advantage", "u": "https://fadv.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Know Every Hire. HIRE FASTER. TRUST MORE.", "url": "https://fadv.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Identity Solutions \"deliver near real-time identity verification powered by advanced AI and global data intelligence\", per a March 2026 release. The ID.me product adds what the October 2026 release calls \"AI-driven, fraud detection technology\" inside the background screening report.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Public (NASDAQ: FA). Raised 2026 revenue guidance to $1.67B to $1.71B (Q2 2026 release, 2026-08-06). Over 80,000 customers including about two-thirds of the Fortune 100; more than 200 million screens a year." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Background checks, Form I-9/E-Verify and identity checks; staffing page offers \"High-volume candidate screening to support large hiring needs\"." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://fadv.com/", "https://fadv.com/staffing-agency/", "https://fadv.com/press-release/first-advantage-named-overall-digital-identity-solution-provider-of-the-year-in-2026-fintech-breakthrough-awards-program/", "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FA/first-advantage-reports-second-quarter-2026-wr01fmfa8q1q.html", "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FA/first-advantage-and-id-me-announce-fcra-compliant-identity-fraud-i61bqapqh3dn.html", "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FA/first-advantage-releases-2026-global-trends-report-priorities-and-jl7neamqui4k.html", "https://idtechwire.com/first-advantage-and-id-me-launch-fcra-compliant-identity-fraud-check-for-hiring/" ] }, { "n": "HireRight", "u": "https://www.hireright.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Say yes to the right talent with accurate and compliance-focused background screening.", "url": "https://www.hireright.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "chat", "integrity" ], "ai": "Global ID \"digitally verifies your candidates' identity document is authentic using the latest advanced AI-driven Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology\" with liveness and face match fulfilled by partner Yoti. HireRightBot, launched April 2025, is an \"AI-powered chatbot\" for candidates.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Taken private in June 2024 by General Atlantic and Stone Point Capital at about $1.7 billion enterprise value. 55,000+ customers, about 50% of the Fortune 100, 3,100+ employees, about 85 million people screened in 2025 (company AI Info page)." }, "owner": "General Atlantic and Stone Point Capital", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Background checks plus a web-based Form I-9 and E-Verify service, including a Virtual I-9 option." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hireright.com/", "https://www.hireright.com/company/ai-info", "https://www.hireright.com/services/global-id-check", "https://www.hireright.com/services/u-s-employment-eligibility-verification-form-i-9-and-e-verify", "https://support.hireright.com/en-CA/announcements/hireright-is-excited-to-announce-the-launch-of-hirerightbot", "https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/hireright-announces-completion-acquisition-by-general-atlantic-stone-point-capital", "https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/hireright-acquires-bgc-brasil-expanding-services-in-latin-americas-largest", "https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/identity-fraud-and-candidate-discrepancies-remain-key-concerns-for-employers", "https://www.hireright.com/company/newsroom/hireright-releases-2026-global-benchmark-report", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2026-6-30-hireright-releases-2026-global-benchmark-report", "https://www.financialcontent.com/article/bizwire-2025-6-5-hireright-releases-2025-global-benchmark-report" ] }, { "n": "Accurate Background", "u": "https://www.accurate.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Simplify your most complex screening and hiring needs", "url": "https://www.accurate.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "integrity" ], "ai": "\"The Accurate experience is now powered by AccurateAlly, our self-service support tool enabled by our proprietary AI engine\", which Accurate calls \"an intelligence agent\". Identity Verification matches a government-issued ID to a real-time selfie.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Private, Apax Partners investment (2020). 16,000+ customers and 2,200+ employees per company facts page; revenue not disclosed." }, "owner": "Apax Partners", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Form I-9 and E-Verify; retail page says \"We specialize in high-volume screening hires and offer mobile kiosk screening\"; has a manufacturing page." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.accurate.com/", "https://www.accurate.com/about-us/company-facts/", "https://www.accurate.com/solutions/accurateally/", "https://www.accurate.com/employment-screening/form-i-9-e-verify/", "https://www.accurate.com/solutions/retail/", "https://www.apax.com/partnerships/accurate-background/", "https://www.accurate.com/about-us/news/", "https://www.accurate.com/about-us/news/accurates-identity-verification-helps-employers-combat-rising-candidate-fraud/", "https://www.accurate.com/about-us/news/accurate-launches-accuratewatch-new-continuous-monitoring-platform-to-help-employers-manage-workforce-risk-after-hiring/", "https://www.accurate.com/about-us/news/todd-stuck-appointment/" ] }, { "n": "Pindrop", "u": "https://www.pindrop.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Catch a fake job candidate before they're hired", "url": "https://www.pindrop.com/use-cases/catch-fake-job-candidates" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Pindrop Pulse for Meetings analyzes live meeting audio and video for synthetic voices and face swaps, authenticates enrolled speakers by voice, and \"compares the voice across interviews, so you know if the candidate changed.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Long-running voice security vendor; $100M debt financing from Hercules Capital in July 2024; Pulse listed in Zoom, Webex and Teams marketplaces" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Debt financing, $100M, 2024-07-17", "investors": "Hercules Capital", "src": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2024/pindrop-raises-100-million-in-battle-against-deepfake-calls/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "Checks remote video interviews only; little use for in-person plant hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.pindrop.com/use-cases/catch-fake-job-candidates", "https://www.pindrop.com/solution/meeting-security/", "https://www.pindrop.com/pulse", "https://www.pindrop.com/product-updates", "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-available-across-conferencing-platforms/", "https://www.pindrop.com/article/pindrop-pulse-app-zoom-meetings-defend-ai-deepfakes/", "https://www.pindrop.com/article/why-your-hiring-process-now-cybersecurity-vulnerability/", "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2024/pindrop-raises-100-million-in-battle-against-deepfake-calls/" ] }, { "n": "Proof", "u": "https://www.proof.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Stop candidate fraud with identity verification", "url": "https://www.proof.com/b2b/candidate-fraud" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "ID plus liveness in one check, risk signals that flag synthetic identities at application, and a fraud model the vendor says filters \"bots, deepfakes, and impersonators.\"", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Series D of $130M in 2021; vendor cites 4M+ identity transactions online" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E, $9.1M at a $1.05B valuation, 2025-10", "investors": "Not disclosed", "src": "https://sacra.com/c/notarize/" }, "price": { "note": "$4 per candidate for identity verification; risk signals and ATS integration via sales" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Vendor lists \"Identity audit records\" and a tamper-proof audit trail per verification, at NIST IAL2." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.proof.com/", "https://www.proof.com/b2b/candidate-fraud", "https://www.proof.com/use-cases/candidate-fraud-protection", "https://www.proof.com/blog/how-to-catch-candidate-fraud-without-changing-your-lever-workflow", "https://www.proof.com/blog/how-to-catch-candidate-fraud-without-changing-your-greenhouse-workflow", "https://sacra.com/c/notarize/" ] }, { "n": "Certn", "u": "https://certn.co/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "The World's Easiest Background Checks", "url": "https://certn.co/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Certn says \"Through AI and automation, we've created the world's easiest online background checks.\" Its Social Media Check \"uses machine learning to identify possible risk indicators\", and OneID is a biometric selfie-to-ID check.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Venture-backed (B Capital-led Series B in 2022, BDC $30M in 2025); says it is trusted by 20,000+ teams." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "BDC financing, $30M, 2025-02-18", "investors": "Business Development Bank of Canada; earlier backers named by Certn: Export Development Canada, B Capital Group, Telstra Ventures, Inovia Capital, Tribe Capital", "src": "https://certn.co/press-releases/business-development-bank-of-canada-invests-30m-in-certns-vision-for-the-future/" }, "price": { "note": "Published self-serve prices in CAD, e.g. OneID identity check $4.99, Basic Canadian Criminal Record Check $24.99, Social Media Check $59.99; enterprise pricing on request." }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Background checks; industry pages pitch \"Fast checks built for high volume, high turnover hiring\" and a manufacturing page." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://certn.co/", "https://certn.co/about-certn/", "https://certn.co/pricing/", "https://certn.co/identity-verification/", "https://certn.co/manufacturing/", "https://certn.co/press-releases/business-development-bank-of-canada-invests-30m-in-certns-vision-for-the-future/", "https://certn.co/press-releases/certn-secures-43m-in-funding/", "https://certn.co/blog/replatforming-is-a-terrible-idea-until-it-isnt/", "https://certn.co/press-releases/certn-diatf-gamma-certification-enhanced-dbs/", "https://certn.co/press-releases/certn-partners-with-global-ats-provider-pageup/", "https://certn.co/press-releases/certn-adds-top-tech-talent-to-lead-in-an-era-of-ai-fraud/" ] }, { "n": "GetReal Security", "u": "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Secure Your Hiring Process Against Candidate Fraud", "url": "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/solutions/candidate-fraud-detection" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "GetReal Protect combines deepfake detection, impersonation detection and continuous identity verification on live voice and video calls, alerting when a face stops matching an enrolled identity or audio shifts to synthetic speech.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A of $17.5M led by Forgepoint Capital, March 2025" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, $17.5M, 2025-03-27", "investors": "Forgepoint Capital (lead), Ballistic Ventures, Evolution Equity, K2 Access Fund, In-Q-Tel, Cisco Investments, Capital One Ventures", "src": "https://www.securityweek.com/getreal-security-raises-17-5-million-to-tackle-gen-ai-threats/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Vendor claims \"defensible forensic evidence that stands up to legal and regulatory scrutiny\" and pitches reduced exposure from hiring people from sanctioned nations." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/solutions/candidate-fraud-detection", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/solutions/expose-fake-job-candidates", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/solutions/chro-talent-acquisition", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/hiring-processes-are-under-attack", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/deepfake-readiness-benchmark-report", "https://www.getrealsecurity.com/resources/getreal-security-launches-first-trust-and-authenticity-platform-that-combines-real-time-continuous-identity-verification-and-deepfake-detection", "https://pulse2.com/getreal-security-trust-and-authenticity-platform-launches-with-continuous-identity-verification-and-deepfake-detection/", "https://www.securityweek.com/getreal-security-raises-17-5-million-to-tackle-gen-ai-threats/" ] }, { "n": "Persona", "u": "https://withpersona.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Persona's candidate verification solution is designed for recruiting teams and built for security.", "url": "https://marketing.withpersona.com/blog/introducing-candidate-verification-solution-by-persona" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 1, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Selfie-to-ID matching, liveness detection and device and behavioural signals to catch deepfakes, synthetic identities and proxy interviewees, with reverification before interviews.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$200M Series D at a $2B valuation (April 2025)" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series D, $200M, 2025-04-30", "investors": "Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital (co-leads)", "src": "https://fintech.global/2025/04/30/identity-verification-firm-persona-hits-2bn-valuation-following-200m-funding-round/" }, "price": { "note": "not published for hiring; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "ID and selfie checks could confirm identity for plant hires before onboarding." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://marketing.withpersona.com/blog/introducing-candidate-verification-solution-by-persona", "https://venturebeat.com/ai/75-million-deepfakes-blocked-persona-leads-the-corporate-fight-against-hiring-fraud", "https://fintech.global/2025/04/30/identity-verification-firm-persona-hits-2bn-valuation-following-200m-funding-round/" ] }, { "n": "Reality Defender", "u": "https://www.realitydefender.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation", "url": "https://www.realitydefender.com/solutions/hiring-workforce-protection" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "An ensemble of deepfake detection models scores live meeting audio and video (RealMeeting) and uploaded files (RealAPI, RealScan) as \"Authentic\" or \"Manipulated\" with confidence scores. A public developer API and SDK has a free tier.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A expanded to $33M in October 2024 (Illuminate Financial lead); strategic investors include Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, Accenture, BNY and Samsung Next" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A expanded to $33M total, 2024-10-22; later undisclosed strategic investments from BNY, Samsung Next and Fusion Fund, 2025-04-03", "investors": "Illuminate Financial (lead), DCVC, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, Accenture, Jefferies Family Office, Y Combinator", "src": "https://dcvc.com/press-releases/reality-defender-expands-series-a-to-33-million-to-enhance-ai-detection-capabilities" }, "price": { "note": "Developer API free tier of 50 detections a month; enterprise products sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.realitydefender.com/solutions/hiring-workforce-protection", "https://www.realitydefender.com/product/realmeeting", "https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/inside-our-live-demo-catching-deepfake-job-candidates-on-zoom", "https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-launches-free-access-to-deepfake-detection-api", "https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/bny-samsung-next-and-fusion-fund-invest-in-reality-defender", "https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-named-gartner-deepfake-detection-company-to-beat", "https://dcvc.com/press-releases/reality-defender-expands-series-a-to-33-million-to-enhance-ai-detection-capabilities", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reality-defender" ] }, { "n": "Socure", "u": "https://socure.com/", "w": "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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Socure Launches Workforce Verification to Stop Fake Applicants Before They Infiltrate the Workforce", "url": "https://socure.com/blog/workforce-verification-to-stop-fake-applicants" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "integrity" ], "ai": "Identity Graph risk scoring, Predictive DocV document and biometric checks with liveness, and RiskOS workflows with optional AI agents for web reviews, criminal screening and resume reviews.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "large venture-backed identity company; funding totals not verified on an opened page in this pass" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E extension, $156M at a $5.2B valuation, 2026-08-27", "investors": "Summit Partners (lead)", "src": "https://siliconvalleyinvestclub.com/2026/08/28/socure-raises-156-million-at-a-5-2-billion-valuation/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Identity checks at application suit large applicant pools; sold by API, so it needs ATS integration work." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://socure.com/blog/workforce-verification-to-stop-fake-applicants", "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/17/socure-workforce-verification/", "https://www.mobileidworld.com/checkr-brings-mobile-native-identity-verification-to-workforce-screening/" ] }, { "n": "Strider", "u": "https://striderintel.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Detect falsified credentials and profile discrepancies to verify candidates for sensitive or remote roles.", "url": "https://striderintel.com/insider-threat/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "People Search lets teams \"evaluate employees and candidates for undisclosed nation-state ties using AI-driven identity and affiliation analysis\", delivered through the Strider Strategic Intelligence Platform, and connects to an ATS by API to screen candidates before interviews. Falsified Resume Screening checks emails, phone numbers and employment histories for fraud indicators.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$110 million in venture funding through a $55 million Series C (September 2024); offices in Salt Lake City, Washington, London and Tokyo; up to $85 million five-year Air Force agreement (October 2026)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 110, "last": "Series C, $55M, 2024-09-16", "investors": "Pelion Venture Partners (lead), AXA Venture Partners, Valor Equity Partners, DataTribe, Cyfr Capital", "src": "https://www.utahbusiness.com/press-releases/2024/09/16/strider-technologies-55-million-series-c/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Vendor sells screening of candidates for sensitive roles for hidden nation-state ties and falsified resumes; relevant to export-controlled or defense manufacturing hiring, not volume hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://striderintel.com/", "https://striderintel.com/insider-threat/", "https://striderintel.com/?p=12535", "https://striderintel.com/falsified-resume-demo/", "https://striderintel.com/newsroom/", "https://striderintel.com/newsroom/strider-launches-fraudulent-resume-screening-to-protect-companies-from-nation-state-and-insider-threats/", "https://striderintel.com/newsroom/strider-technologies-secures-five-year-pentagon-contract/", "https://www.utahbusiness.com/press-releases/2024/09/16/strider-technologies-55-million-series-c/" ] }, { "n": "Talview", "u": "https://www.talview.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Security partner for high-stakes testing and hiring platforms", "url": "https://www.talview.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "ai_interview", "assessment", "integrity", "notes" ], "ai": "Ivy, the agentic AI Interviewer, runs conversational interviews with a human-like avatar and produces AI summaries and competency scores; Alvy is an agentic AI proctor that verifies identity and flags cheating.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional funding: $15M Series B in 2021 led by Eileses Capital; enterprise customers such as PwC and HCLTech named on site." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series B, $15M, 2021-07-30", "investors": "Eileses Capital (lead), Storm Ventures, Inventus Capital, Emergent Ventures", "src": "https://inc42.com/flash-feed/hr-tech-platform-talview-raises-15-mn-series-b-funding-led-by-eileses-capital/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Identity checks, proctoring and exportable audit trails suit regulated and clearance-sensitive hiring; lists government regulated programs and defense; no hourly focus." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.talview.com/", "https://www.talview.com/blog", "https://docs.talview.com/releasenotes/q4-2025/release-notes-oct-2025", "https://yespress.io/talview", "https://inc42.com/flash-feed/hr-tech-platform-talview-raises-15-mn-series-b-funding-led-by-eileses-capital/", "https://www.talview.com/en/ivy-ai-interviewer", "https://docs.talview.com/releasenotes/q3-2026/july-2026-release-updates", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talview-secures-patent-for-alvy--the-first-agentic-ai-proctoring-built-to-outsmart-cluely-style-cheating-302526535.html", "https://www.talview.com/en/deepfake-interviews-detection", "https://www.talview.com/articles/ai-hiring-integrity-platform-interview-security" ] }, { "n": "Tofu", "u": "https://www.hiretofu.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Candidate fraud detection for hiring & security teams.", "url": "https://www.hiretofu.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 1, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "integrity", "matching" ], "ai": "Fraud Agents label fraudulent applicants in the ATS and add verification notes; deepfake detection analyzes live interviews for synthetic audio, face swaps and overlays; custom screening agents rank applicants per job.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$5M seed led by Slow Ventures (December 2025); JumpCloud Ventures investment (February 2026); customer logos include Samsara, Circle and Nextdoor" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Seed, $5M, 2025-12", "investors": "Slow Ventures (lead); JumpCloud Ventures (2026-02)", "src": "https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fundraising/jumpcloud-unveils-venture-unit/?format=md" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Homepage pitches OFAC sanctions risk from hiring state-sponsored actors; SOC 2 badge. Evidence is positioning, not a certification." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.hiretofu.com/", "https://app.gem.com/blog/introducing-gems-fraud-detection-agent-stop-fraud-before-it-wastes", "https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fundraising/jumpcloud-unveils-venture-unit/?format=md", "https://jumpcloud.com/press/jumpcloud-launches-venture-arm-to-fuel-it-and-security-innovation", "https://www.forbesargentina.com/negocios/analizan-redes-sociales-evitar-fraudes-entrevistas-laborales-levantaron-us-5-millones-n86622" ] }, { "n": "GCheck", "u": "https://gcheck.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Better Teams Start With Better Background Checks", "url": "https://gcheck.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 1, "interview": 0, "hire": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Deepfake Fraud Detection \"analyze[s] video and audio signals to identify synthetic manipulation during live or recorded interviews\" using detection models. Verified Entry runs a liveness selfie and ID scan with forensics and barcode checks before any search is ordered.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No revenue, customer count or funding disclosed on pages opened." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": true, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "FCRA-compliant checks and I-9/E-Verify management; retail page covers \"high volumes of store, warehouse, and distribution roles\" across seasonal and part-time hiring." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://gcheck.com/", "https://gcheck.com/identity/verified-entry/", "https://gcheck.com/identity/deepfake-fraud-detection/", "https://gcheck.com/compliance-automation/i-9-e-verify-management/", "https://gcheck.com/industries/retail/", "https://gcheck.com/blog/gcheck-debuts-credential-wallet-for-verified-entry-identity-verification-to-fight-hiring-fraud/", "https://gcheck.com/blog/93-percent-of-candidates-lie-to-get-hired-2026-gcheck-report/", "https://gcheck.com/blog/gcheck-launches-facis-level-3-healthcare-background-checks-and-oig-exclusion-screening-verisys/", "https://idtechwire.com/gcheck-adds-reusable-worker-credential-wallet-to-verified-entry/" ] }, { "n": "Hire ID", "u": "https://hireid.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Trust Layer for Modern Hiring", "url": "https://hireid.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Real-time interview fraud detection on facial, voice, behavioral and AI-assistance signals; deepfake detection on facial geometry, micro-expressions and liveness that the vendor says scores \"accuracy above 96 percent on independent benchmarks.\"", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding disclosed; vendor claims 500K+ verified candidates" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Candidate Intake screens identity and work-authorization documents; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 badges." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://hireid.ai/", "https://hireid.ai/hire_id_profile", "https://idtechwire.com/hire-id-launches-verified-professional-identity-platform-to-counter-hiring-fraud/", "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" ] }, { "n": "Polyguard", "u": "https://polyguard.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Fake candidates never make it into your pipeline.", "url": "https://polyguard.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 2, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity" ], "ai": "Real-time identity verification with PG-Presence (a check that a real person is holding the device), government ID with facial recognition, geofencing and phone checks, applied to applications and live interviews.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count disclosed; SOC 2 Type II" }, "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page links to sales" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "\"Every check is logged for audit and compliance reporting\"; signed, timestamped, \"litigation-ready\" affidavits per verification." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://polyguard.ai/", "https://polyguard.ai/solutions/prescreen", "https://polyguard.ai/solutions/remote-interviews", "https://www.biometricupdate.com/companies/polyguard", "https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/polyguard-introduces-presence-detection-with-pg-presence-release" ] }, { "n": "Sherlock AI", "u": "https://www.sherlock.sh/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "trust", "cat_src": { "quote": "Fraud Intelligence for Video Interviews", "url": "https://www.sherlock.sh/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 2, "hire": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "integrity", "notes" ], "ai": "A multimodal classifier combines device activity, audio and candidate behavior to flag AI-assisted answers, deepfakes and proxy candidates during live interviews, plus AI notetaking and an \"AI Fluency Observation\" score.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding, customers or headcount disclosed" }, "price": { "note": "Pay as you go: $20 free credits, top-ups from $50 (about 5 to 10 interviews per $50); enterprise volume pricing" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.sherlock.sh/", "https://www.sherlock.sh/blog" ] }, { "n": "Credo AI", "u": "https://www.credo.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "compliance", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Governance, Built for the Agentic Era", "url": "https://www.credo.ai/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "audit" ], "ai": "GAIA (Govern AI Assistant), generally available since May 2026, drafts intake answers, suggests risk scenarios and matching controls. Agent Governor is in research preview and a public MCP server was announced for preview.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$41.3M raised in total after a $21M round in 2024. Customer logos include Mastercard, Booz Allen and Northrop; launch partners include Microsoft, IBM, Databricks and McKinsey." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 41.3, "last": "$21M round, 2024-07-30", "investors": "CrimsoNox Capital, Mozilla Ventures, FPV Ventures; existing Sands Capital, Decibel VC, Booz Allen Hamilton, AI Fund", "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/30/credo-ai-raises-21m-help-enterprises-deploy-ai-safely-responsibly-compliant-way/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Request demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.credo.ai/", "https://www.credo.ai/company/media", "https://www.credo.ai/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-govern-ai-assistant-gaia-credo-ais-ai-governance-agent", "https://www.credo.ai/blog/credo-ai-launches-the-largest-partner-program-operationalizing-ai-governance-for-enterprises", "https://www.gov.uk/ai-assurance-techniques/credo-ai-policy-packs-human-resources-startup-compliance-with-nyc-ll-144", "https://pulse2.com/credo-ai-ai-based-governance-company-closes-21-million" ] }, { "n": "Holistic AI", "u": "https://www.holisticai.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "compliance", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Governance that Accelerates Transformation", "url": "https://www.holisticai.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "audit" ], "ai": "The Holistic AI Governance Platform runs \"40+ tests for bias, hallucination, privacy and robustness\" and adds Guardian Agents: Sentinel Agents that monitor autonomous agents and Operative Agents that block, pause or redirect non-compliant actions. A Global Agent assistant shipped in October 2026.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional funding disclosed (Mozilla Ventures, 2024, amount not disclosed). Named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms. Enterprise logos include Unilever, UKG and Siemens." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Mozilla Ventures investment, amount not disclosed, 2024-03-18", "investors": "Mozilla Ventures", "src": "https://mozilla.vc/mozilla-ventures-invests-in-leading-ai-governance-platform-holistic-ai/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Book a demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.holisticai.com/", "https://www.holisticai.com/blog", "https://www.holisticai.com/news", "https://holisticai.com/nyc-bias-audit", "https://www.holisticai.com/blog/holistic-ai-recognized-gartner-magic-quadrant-ai-governance-platforms", "https://www.holisticai.com/about", "https://www.gov.uk/ai-assurance-techniques/holistic-ai-nyc-bias-audits", "https://mozilla.vc/mozilla-ventures-invests-in-leading-ai-governance-platform-holistic-ai/" ] }, { "n": "Warden AI", "u": "https://www.warden-ai.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "compliance", "cat_src": { "quote": "Safeguarding AI Transformation in HR", "url": "https://www.warden-ai.com/" }, "ph": { "source": 0, "screen": 0, "interview": 0, "hire": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "audit" ], "ai": "An AI auditing and assurance platform with Monitor (ongoing auditing), Comply (regulatory mapping), Validate (tests on consented, proprietary datasets) and Defend (legal-grade evidence), plus the Warden Assured standard and a timestamped Audit Trail. In September 2026 it added Warden Watch, a free public tracker of employment AI regulation and litigation.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional funding disclosed (Playfair plus Onfido founders, July 2025, amount not disclosed). Warden says it has run 150+ AI bias audits. Named clients include Greenhouse, Beamery, Sense, Findem and PageUp." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Undisclosed round, 2025-07 (led by Onfido founders, with Playfair)", "investors": "Founders of Onfido; Playfair", "src": "https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-warden-ai-secures-funding-meet-demand-ai-audits" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (Book Demo)" }, "fit": { "hourly": false, "technical": false, "compliance": true, "note": "Not a hiring tool. It audits the AI in hiring tools and keeps a timestamped audit trail, which helps a regulated employer document its AI hiring decisions." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.warden-ai.com/", "https://www.warden-ai.com/blog", "https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/warden-ai-launches-the-warden-watch-the-first-public-tracker-for-employment-ai-regulation-and-litigation", "https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/warden-ai-partners-with-stakkd-to-help-enterprises-spot-trustworthy-ai", "https://www.warden-ai.com/resources/bias-audits-hiring", "https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-warden-ai-secures-funding-meet-demand-ai-audits", "https://smb.state-journal.com/article/Doubling-Down-on-AI-Transparency-PageUp-Completes-Warden-AI-Certification-Ahead-of-New-Regulations/6a2fbfe945b635ab6be4e095", "https://findem.ai/blog/findem-ai-bias-audit-warden-ai", "https://www.greenhouse.com/bias-audit-statement" ] } ] }