The AI hiring software map

Sourcing and talent intelligence

21 companies on the AI hiring software map. Updated Nov. 2, 2026.

Sourcing tools find people who have not applied. They search hundreds of millions of profiles with plain-language queries, rank the matches and write outreach. Talent intelligence tools add skills data and rediscover past candidates in a company's own database.

SeekOut and hireEZ each search more than 1 billion profiles. Gem, Juicebox and Findem sell AI agents for sourcing. Pearch AI sells candidate search as an API that other hiring software builds on.

Eightfold AI

"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.

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iMocha

"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.

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Juicebox

"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.

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Phenom

"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).

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SourceWhale

"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.

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Visage

"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.

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Beamery

"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.

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Findem

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).

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Gem

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."

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Gloat

"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.

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hireEZ

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.

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Pearch AI

"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.

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Pin

"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.

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SeekOut

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.

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Talentium

"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.

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Weekday

"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.

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Fuel50

"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.

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HeroHunt.ai

"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.

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HireQuotient

"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.

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Leoforce

"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.

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SourceGeek

"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.

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