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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.
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.
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.
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.