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Spott’s Sensible Idea Failed. Then the Bigger Bet Worked.
Three Belgian consultants set out to add a clever feature to old recruiting software. The old software refused to cooperate, so they replaced the whole thing - and found 500 agencies willing to follow.
hackajob Wants to Fix Hiring Before the CV Pile Gets Bigger
The tech recruitment marketplace is putting Archer, its AI hiring agent, in front of the application queue. Its wager: employers will pay for better introductions, not more CVs.
HiredScore Sold the Queue-Cutting Machine Workday Needed for $530 Million
Athena Karp spent 11 years turning overloaded applicant tracking systems into ranked, explainable to-do lists. Workday's $530 million purchase shows the prize was never another HR database - it was the intelligence layer that makes the database move.
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill is a London-based AI recruitment startup that replaces job boards and resume submissions with two conversational AI agents. Jack works for candidates - getting to know their skills and goals in a 10-minute conversation, scanning millions of jobs daily, and introducing them directly to hiring managers, all for free. Jill works for companies, learning what a team needs and surfacing well-matched people on a success-based fee. Founded in early 2025 by Omnipresent founder Matt Wilson and Kular.ai founder Saaras Mehan, the company raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum in October 2025.
QLU.ai
QLU.ai is a San Francisco-based AI platform built for executive search firms. It scans millions of profiles using live market signals to surface qualified leadership candidates in seconds instead of months, then automates outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, and text. Founded in 2020 by Fahad Jalal, QLU pairs a 10-billion-plus data-point database with natural-language search, automated market maps, and AI voice callers to help recruiters cut research cycles from weeks to minutes.
SupportFinity
SupportFinity is a San Francisco AI-native recruitment platform that replaces the tangle of separate sourcing, ATS, and assessment tools with one system. It searches a database of roughly 2.1-2.4 billion candidate profiles, auto-generates job descriptions, screens and assesses candidates with proprietary AI agents, benchmarks salaries across 180 countries, and offers a recruitment-as-a-service network of 2,000+ recruiters. The company says it cuts time-to-hire and cost by up to 90% and serves 700+ companies worldwide.
Sense
Sense is an AI-powered talent engagement platform that helps enterprises and staffing firms find, screen, schedule, and re-engage candidates through chatbots, SMS, voice AI, and a unified talent CRM. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 1,000+ companies including Dell, Sony, Coca-Cola and HCA Healthcare.