Ali Afridi

AI tools to turbo-charge hiring

Candidate Identification & Outbound

Identify prospective candidates and run large-scale personalized outreach

  • Pin.com – Source candidates, send outreach, schedule interviews, and screen ATS resumes—all with your digital recruiting assistant.
  • Juicebox – Find, verify, and email perfect-fit candidates in one prompt. Search 800M+ profiles across 60+ sources and hire faster with AI.
  • Tezi – Proactively sources, screens, and schedules interviews. Unlimited capacity for a fraction of the cost.
  • Popp – Popp is an award-winning AI recruitment platform that’s transforming how the world’s largest staffing firms operate.
  • Clado – Search 800M+ profiles with AI. Find anyone by skills, experience, education, and more. The most powerful people search engine.
  • Brix – Brix sources, research, screens, messages, and follow-ups — so you can focus on what only a top recruiter can do.
  • Talentium – Your end-to-end AI-hiring platform. Find your A-players, fill critical roles, and scale with ease. Every step from sourcing to hire, reimagined.

AI-Native ATS

Weed through candidates that have applied to identify the best fits

  • Gem – Gem brings together your ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics — plus 800+ million profiles to source from — with AI built into every workflow.
  • Spott – Spott is the AI-native ATS and CRM built for recruitment and staffing firms to manage candidates, automate workflows, and close placements faster.
  • Kula – All-in-one ATS featuring everything from sourcing to scheduling and analytics is made under one roof.
  • Ashby – All-in-one recruiting software consolidates your ATS, Analytics, Scheduling, and CRM.
  • Screenloop – AI-native ATS for in-house talent acquisition teams at start-ups, SMEs, and growing companies.

Screening & Interviewing

Run automated screens or leverage tools to help you analyze specific skills

  • Lizzy AI – Lizzy AI automates candidate interviews with structured, unbiased AI conversations.
  • Ribbon – Ribbon’s AI recruiter screens, interviews, and delivers instant insights. Pricing starts at $499/month.
  • Alex.com – Alex is the AI recruiter that puts sourcing, screening, and scheduling on autopilot.
  • HeyMilo – HeyMilo's AI-powered interviewer streamlines high-volume recruiting, offering data-driven insights and unbiased candidate evaluations.
  • HireGuide – Automates AI interview plans, notes, scorecards, and talent insights. Free for SMBs.
  • Kiku – Help companies source, screen and shortlist the best-fit candidates for frontline roles. Has an AI agent that engages candidates 24/7 through voice and chat, in +100 languages.
  • meritfirst – Developing objective tests that measure what actually matters: raw intelligence, problem-solving ability, and the capacity to adapt & execute.
  • Tofu – Automate resume reviews. Rank candidates instantly and hire smarter.
  • Upwage – AI interviews designed for fairer hiring, better performance, & lower turnover.
  • Humanly – Helps teams source, engage, screen, schedule, and interview candidates, automating high-volume hiring end to end.
  • Classet – Instantly interview candidates by phone, auto-score responses, and qualify talent at scale. Built for high-volume hiring in healthcare, retail, light industrial, and more.

Full-Service Vendors

AI-enabled staffing providers that leverages a range of AI solutions themselves to run searches more effectively, faster, and/or cheaper

  • Paraform – Paraform connects world class teams with elite recruiters for faster, smarter, hiring.
  • Elly – Elly automates recruiting with AI-powered sourcing, candidate screening, interview notetaking, and scheduling.
  • Jack & Jill – Jack helps candidates find the perfect job and Jill helps companies find the perfect candidate.
  • Superposition – AI-powered recruiter that helps you find the best talent for your startup.
  • Wellfound – AI automation with humans in the loop for candidate sourcing and recruiting. Starting at a base rate monthly rate per open role and lower contingency fee than most.
  • Rockstar – Automate personalized outbound to fill up your candidate pipeline. Starting at $1,250/month/role.

Some Other Adjacent Players:

  • Copilots – there seem to be several notetakers / ambient listeners (ex. HireLogic). I personally find less leverage in vertically-specific solutions in this bucket (over tools like Granola / Fireflies / Notion) and so I haven't broken these out above.
  • Verticalized Players – many exist like Skillit, BuildForce, Ablemkr, LaborUp, AchillesHR, amongst dozens of others if you're looking to hire up in a specific industry or for a specific role.