# BrightHire

> BrightHire is a paid, enterprise-focused interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes hiring conversations, creates structured AI notes, pushes evidence into applicant tracking systems, coaches interviewers, analyzes hiring patterns, and now offers asynchronous AI-led first-round screening. Founded in 2019 by Ben Sesser and Teddy Chestnut and acquired by Zoom for $98 million in December 2025, it is most compelling for busy talent teams that need consistent interviews and less admin, provided they are prepared to handle recording consent, privacy, governance, and human review with care.

- **Created by:** Ben Sesser and Teddy Chestnut
- **Launched:** 2019
- **Platforms:** web, zoom, microsoft-teams, google-meet, chrome-extension, mcp, rest-api
- **Pricing:** Paid, sales-led SaaS with custom quotes. BrightHire does not publish dollar prices. Interview Intelligence is offered in Recruiter, Teams and Enterprise tiers; BrightHire Screen can be bought alone or with the platform. No public free plan is advertised.
- **Key features:** Interview capture, AI interview notes, Structured planning, ATS scorecards, Interview insights

## Features

- **Interview capture** — Records and transcribes live video, phone and in-person interviews, with candidate consent and opt-out controls.
- **AI interview notes** — Creates customizable notes, summaries and candidate highlights tied back to the conversation.
- **Structured planning** — Uses AI assistance to draft job descriptions, interview plans, guides, questions and evaluation rubrics.
- **ATS scorecards** — Maps notes and interview feedback into connected ATS scorecards, with one-click completion in supported workflows.
- **Interview insights** — Tracks quality signals such as agenda setting, candidate talk ratio, on-time starts, questions asked and competency coverage.
- **Insights Explorer and MCP** — Lets authorized users query interview data in plain language inside BrightHire or through MCP-compatible tools such as ChatGPT and Claude.
- **BrightHire Screen** — Runs configurable asynchronous voice or video first-round interviews, generates follow-ups, and scores responses against employer-defined rubrics.
- **Candidate fraud detection** — Surfaces evidence-linked signals for impersonation, AI-assisted answers, deepfakes, manipulated identity, multiple devices, and network or location anomalies; humans review and decide.
- **Coaching and collaboration** — Supports clips, playlists, interviewer feedback, coaching reports, shared review and searchable institutional knowledge.
- **Integrations** — Connects with major ATS products, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, calendars, identity providers and recruiting tools.

## Achievements

- Raised $36 million across seed, Series A and Series B financing before acquisition.
- Acquired by Zoom for approximately $98 million in cash on December 1, 2025.
- Reported more than 4 million captured interviews across 3 million candidates in June 2026.
- Reported a study of 25,000+ candidates showing 27% fewer interviews per hire, 28% higher pipeline efficiency and 19% fewer candidate drop-offs for customers using BrightHire.
- Held a 4.7 out of 5 rating across 124 G2 reviews when checked in 2026.
- Named the 2022 HR Tech Awards Best Innovative or Emerging Tech Solution for Talent Acquisition by Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Made Candidate Fraud Detection available across packages, with evidence-linked signals in Screen and live interviews, role controls, API access and deeper Zoom-session signals.
- **2026-06** — Introduced plain-language Insights Explorer and BrightHire MCP access for querying permission-scoped interview data from compatible AI tools.
- **2025-12** — Zoom completed its all-cash acquisition of BrightHire for approximately $98 million; BrightHire continues as a standalone product and brand.
- **2025-11** — Launched BrightHire Screen, an always-on asynchronous AI interviewer for configurable first-round candidate screening.
- **2025-01** — During 2025, BrightHire added next-generation note templates, Ask Assistant, compensation and motivation insights, an interview coaching agent, Workday questionnaire mapping, a Teams app and Gem integration.

## Links

- Website: https://brighthire.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brighthire

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Last updated: 2026-09-05