The platform that quietly does the worst part of hiring for you - scheduling the interviews - and now runs an AI recruiter named Taylor while you sleep.
EXHIBIT A: The ModernLoop dashboard, mid-shift. Somewhere in this screenshot, a recruiting coordinator just got their afternoon back.
It is 4:47 on a Tuesday and a recruiting coordinator at a 600-person startup is not playing calendar Tetris. Six interview panels for next week have already been booked, balanced across time zones, matched to the right interviewers, and sent to candidates with video links and LinkedIn bios attached. Nobody clicked anything. That is the part worth pausing on.
ModernLoop is a recruiting operations platform. In plain terms: it is the software that handles the logistics of hiring so humans can do the human parts. Scheduling, panels, reminders, candidate portals, interviewer workload - the unglamorous machinery that, when it breaks, makes a great company look disorganized to the one person they are trying to impress. The candidate.
"When products work together seamlessly, and when technology can reduce the steps to get something done, people can achieve significantly more."
- Lydia Han, Co-founder & CEOHere is the uncomfortable truth the founders kept running into: the candidate experience - the thing every company swears it cares about - usually dies in the logistics. A brilliant engineer gets a clumsy email chain, three reschedules, a calendar invite with the wrong time zone, and a Zoom link that may or may not work. They draw the obvious conclusion about what it would be like to work there.
The pain was not abstract. While Lydia Han worked at Brex, her sister was a technical recruiter at the same company, drowning in coordination. The complaints came home to dinner. Recruiting coordinators were spending hours a day being human routers - copying availability between calendars, ATS, Slack, and Zoom - and burning out their best interviewers with lopsided back-to-backs.
"Help companies of all sizes deliver the best candidate experience, ever."
- The ModernLoop mission, in one sentenceIn December 2020, Han teamed up with Christopher Triolo. The bet was simple and a little contrarian: the interview-scheduling problem looked small, so most ambitious engineers ignored it. The founders thought small was exactly the point. Scheduling is where the candidate experience is won or lost, and nobody wanted to build the boring infrastructure to fix it properly.
Former product manager at Slack, where she built integrations for Zoom and Google Calendar - the exact plumbing ModernLoop would later depend on. Watched the recruiting pain up close at Brex.
Built Facebook's Charitable Donations tool, which moved over $5 billion in contributions. Knows what it takes to make consumer-grade software people actually trust.
Two of the people who bet on them: Slack's Stewart Butterfield and Zoom's Eric Yuan. The CEOs of the two tools ModernLoop plugs into wrote checks.
- Series A, August 2022ModernLoop syncs with email, calendars, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet and every major ATS - Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby. Then it does the work a coordinator would do, only faster and without the typos.
An algorithm finds slots across time zones, tells movable meetings apart from locked ones, and auto-sends invites with interviewer bios and video links.
Branded portals, availability tracking, and consistent email and Slack reminders so candidates always know what's next.
Tracks who interviews how often, spreads the load fairly, and recommends training so panels stay fresh - and people don't burn out.
As candidates move ATS stages, requests and communication fire automatically. No clicks. The coordinator becomes a supervisor, not a router.
Acceptance rates, interviewer load, and operations metrics - the data leaders need to actually manage the function.
An always-on, custom AI recruiter that runs phone screens, answers candidate FAQs instantly, and delivers fair, consistent assessments for high-volume hiring.
Skepticism is healthy, so here are the numbers a 20-person remote company put on the board. Brex, Ramp, Chainalysis, VSCO and Instacart run their interviews through it. The funding came from people who build the software it integrates with. And the growth, by the company's own account, has been steep.
Note: the "Total" bar is capped at the chart's height for readability - it represents the cumulative $12.4M, not a single round.
The tell is who invested. When the CEOs of the two products you integrate with put in their own money, it's a quiet kind of endorsement that a press release can't buy.
- On the ModernLoop cap tableIn the room
ModernLoop runs fully remote with regular in-person meetups, and it organizes itself around six stated values - customer obsession, measurable value, thorough documentation, clarity and simplicity, understanding the reasoning behind decisions, and continuous improvement through feedback. It reads less like a poster and more like a changelog for how to build software.
The benefits are the kind a small company offers when it wants to keep good people: unlimited PTO, home office stipends, healthcare, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. The through-line is the same one in the product - reduce the friction, and people do more with what's left.
The idea began at a family dinner, not a whiteboard. A recruiter sister's daily frustration became a thesis about how hiring should feel.
- The origin, for the recordAutomating the calendar was always step one. With Taylor AI, ModernLoop is reaching for the harder parts - phone screens, candidate questions, the first-touch conversations that high-volume teams can't staff fast enough. The wager is that the same companies who trusted it to book interviews will trust it to run more of the front of the funnel, consistently and without bias creeping in through tired human attention.
Whether an AI recruiter named Taylor becomes normal or stays novel is an open question, and a fair one to ask. But the direction is clear: take the repetitive coordination work off people's plates, stage by stage, and let the humans spend their time where judgment actually matters.
So return to that Tuesday afternoon. The coordinator who used to spend it wrestling calendars is doing something else now - talking to a candidate, fixing a broken loop, thinking. The interviews still got scheduled. They just stopped being the job.
The best infrastructure disappears. You only notice ModernLoop when it's gone - and suddenly someone's playing calendar Tetris again at 4:47 on a Tuesday.
- The closing argument