# Seth Tilliss

> Seth Tilliss is a San Francisco product builder and software engineer who co-founded Reval, an AI-native recruiting firm that evolved from automated reference checks into a system for sourcing, screening, vetting, and scheduling candidates. After Reval worked with more than 100 enterprises and recruiting agencies, Metaview acquired the company in August 2026, and Tilliss joined Metaview to build its agentic recruiting product, fillmore.

- **Role:** Building product at Metaview
- **Organizations:** Metaview, Reval, C3 AI, GoodWorker360, Braze, Duke Sports Management Group
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Duke University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Reval, which worked with more than 100 enterprises and recruiting agencies before its acquisition by Metaview., Helped evolve Reval from an AI reference-check product into an agentic recruiting operation spanning sourcing, screening, vetting, and interview booking., Reported that Reval's internal operation onboarded 50 direct clients, handled 150 active requisitions, screened 30,000 candidates, booked hundreds of interviews, and made several dozen hires over a period in 2026.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Created Pop It!, an app for college students to meet for social activities, through the University of Michigan's Business and Entrepreneurship Institute.
- **2018** — Built WasteNoMore, an OCR receipt-scanning project aimed at reducing food waste, at HackDuke.
- **2018-2021** — Co-founded the Duke Sports Management Group while studying computer science at Duke University.
- **2019** — As a Braze intern, built an end-to-end automation for client technical-enablement onboarding and documented the project in a first-person essay.
- **2020-2021** — Co-founded GoodWorker360 as CTO; the restaurant software venture used data-driven insights to address revenue and labor costs.
- **2021-2023** — Worked at C3 AI as a solution engineer, helping organizations implement enterprise AI solutions.
- **2023** — Co-founded Reval with Aditya Gupta and launched a beta focused on autonomous, conversational reference checks.
- **2025** — Presented on AI-powered talent acquisition and modern reference checking at the HRO Today Talent Acquisition Strategy Summit.
- **2026** — Expanded Reval into an AI-native recruiting firm and rolled its internal agent system out to outside recruiters.
- **2026** — Joined Metaview after it acquired Reval on August 11 to accelerate development of fillmore.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Reval, which worked with more than 100 enterprises and recruiting agencies before its acquisition by Metaview.
- Helped evolve Reval from an AI reference-check product into an agentic recruiting operation spanning sourcing, screening, vetting, and interview booking.
- Reported that Reval's internal operation onboarded 50 direct clients, handled 150 active requisitions, screened 30,000 candidates, booked hundreds of interviews, and made several dozen hires over a period in 2026.
- Built a multi-system onboarding automation at Braze that was prepared for global rollout to onboarding managers.
- Co-founded Duke Sports Management Group as a student outlet for the business of sports.
- Spoke on AI-powered talent acquisition and modern reference checking at an HRO Today industry summit.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Metaview acquired Reval; Tilliss and co-founder Aditya Gupta joined Metaview to accelerate fillmore.
- **2026-06** — Tilliss said 25 recruiting firms were running on Reval shortly after the product began rolling out to recruiters.
- **2026-05** — Reval for Recruiters entered private beta after the company's internal agents had screened 30,000 candidates and booked hundreds of interviews.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sethtilliss.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethtilliss/

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Last updated: 2026-08-26