
For more than two decades, the Hireology co-founder has argued that hiring should be a discipline rather than a hunch. The wager has carried him from a classroom business plan to a national recruiting platform - and into a new argument about what AI should leave to humans.
AI can polish a résumé in seconds, but it cannot make the underlying candidate better at the job. Criteria is betting that structured tests, interviews and a trail of 6 billion data points can tell employers what the application no longer does.

A childhood spent watching one person search for the right work became a decade-long attempt to make hiring less like instinct and more like a learning system.
Karat is a Seattle-based company that runs technical interviews on behalf of employers through its 'Interviewing Cloud' - a global network of trained Interview Engineers who conduct 24/7 live, structured technical interviews backed by enterprise infrastructure and hiring analytics. Used by enterprises like Roblox, American Express, Intuit, Pinterest and Wayfair, Karat lets engineering teams scale hiring capacity, reclaim engineer time, and make fairer, more consistent hiring decisions.