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Tezi Hired an AI Recruiter - Then Headway Hired Tezi
Max could source, screen, email and schedule while the humans did the persuading. It was a sharp idea with a short shelf life: Headway acquired Tezi's team in March 2026, and the recruiting product shut down weeks later.
SquarePeg
SquarePeg is an AI-native recruiting platform that acts as an intelligence layer on top of a company's existing applicant tracking system. It enriches, evaluates, and scores candidates - explaining every match - so lean recruiting teams can screen unlimited applicants, rediscover past candidates, source passively from 500M+ profiles, and filter out fraudulent applications without swapping out their tools. Founded by Claire McTaggart, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in early 2025 to build candidate-evaluation software for the modern recruiter.