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Yello and the expensive art of keeping candidates waiting
A recruiter’s calendar can become a company’s hiring problem. Yello has built a business around the small delays that decide who gets hired - and who gives up.
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.
Humanly Wants to Interview Everyone Before Breakfast
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.
Paradox Put the Job Application in a Text Bubble
Olivia screens, schedules, nudges, and onboards while recruiters get their calendars back. For high-volume employers, Paradox turns hiring paperwork into a conversation - provided the humans keep the jobs and handoffs straight.
GoodTime Turned Calendar Tetris Into an AI Coworker - Now It Wants to Run the Hiring Handoff
Recruiting teams bought GoodTime to stop wrestling with calendars. A decade later, the company is betting that the humble scheduling problem is really a much larger prize: the operating system for everything between application and decision.
The Recruiting Software Fight Nobody Warned You About
Ashby bets on real-time analytics and native scheduling for fast-moving teams. Greenhouse leans on structured-interview workflow and a deep enterprise install base. Here is how the two actually differ.
Hirey AI
Hirey is an AI-first recruiting platform built around a chat-based hiring app and an AI agent named Rey that sources candidates, screens them, checks availability, and books interviews automatically. Founded in 2021 by Walter Wu and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Hirey focuses on high-volume, fast-turnover hiring in sales, caregiving, and healthcare staffing, where speed matters more than paperwork. The company says it has helped 500,000+ job seekers and is trusted by 10,000+ hiring companies, and it has raised roughly $14M through a Series A led in part by DST Global.
LANDED
LANDED is a New York- and San Francisco-based startup that builds generative-AI hiring software for high-volume, frontline employers - the restaurants, retailers, and hospitality chains that hire hourly workers by the thousands. Its platform automates the tedious parts of hiring - sourcing, resume reading, screening, text-message engagement, and interview scheduling - using proprietary AI models trained on data from more than two million hourly workers. Founded in 2019 by Vivian Wang and backed by Y Combinator, Javelin Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and others, LANDED serves 500+ brands including Five Guys, Cava, Panera, and Salt & Straw.
ModernLoop
ModernLoop is a San Mateo, California recruiting operations platform that automates interview scheduling and candidate communication for talent teams. Founded in 2020 by former Slack and Facebook product leaders Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo, it syncs with calendars, Slack, Zoom/Google Meet, and every major ATS to coordinate interviews, balance interviewer load, and run branded candidate portals. In 2025 the company expanded into AI with Taylor AI, an always-on AI recruiter that automates phone screens, FAQs, and zero-click scheduling for high-volume hiring.
Lydia Han
Lydia Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a recruiting operations platform she started in December 2020 to fix the chaos of coordinating hundreds of interviews. A product manager by training, she built Slack's calendar and Zoom integrations and set up Brex's interview process before founding the company through Y Combinator's W21 batch. ModernLoop has raised roughly $12.4M, including a $9M Series A led by Accel with the CEOs of Slack and Zoom writing checks, and powers hiring for companies like Ramp, Benchling, Chainalysis, and VSCO.
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.