The hourly hiring app made applying easy. Its next bet is harder: turning a crowd of applicants into people who actually start work.

Applications arrive at machine speed. Humanly gives recruiting teams a way to answer at the same pace - then puts people back in charge when judgment matters.

A volunteer project in Buenos Aires exposed a quiet hiring failure: millions of capable people were being judged by paperwork built for someone else. Mateo Cavasotto’s answer began as a chat, survived four Y Combinator applications, and grew into enterprise software for frontline work.
Emi Labs builds AI-powered recruiting automation for high-volume, frontline hiring. Its autonomous AI agents attract, screen, schedule, and onboard hourly workers through channels like WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger, promising faster time-to-hire and a more human candidate experience. Founded in 2018 and backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Merus Capital, Emi counts large employers such as Walmart, OXXO, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Burger King, and Heineken among its customers and says roughly one in ten frontline hires in Mexico runs through its platform.