
Agentic recruitment platform for staffing agencies
The global staffing industry is $600B+ and still runs on manual phone calls and gut feelings. We built an AI agent that screens, interviews, and scores candidates 24/7, live, in real time, at a fraction of the cost. Already running thousands of AI-powered screens for staffing agencies across the US and Europe. Clients place candidates within days of going live. We cut screening costs by 90%.
YC P25. Seed-stage. Years of runway. AI penetration in staffing is under 1%.
US staffing agencies spend $20B+ annually on manual screening alone. Globally, it's multiples of that. There's no dominant AI platform yet, no "Salesforce of AI recruitment." The closest comps: Bullhorn ($4B+ valuation), HireVue ($100M+ revenue), Veritone (acquired $170M), all legacy platforms bolting on AI. We're AI-native from day one.
Asendia has a realistic path to becoming a $1B+ platform. Early equity here is how careers get transformed.
You're not joining a GTM team. You're building it.
Bonus: Existing relationships within ATS and staffing vendor networks. Not required: A specific number of years. We care about what you've built, not your title history.
A $600B industry is being rebuilt by AI, right now, not in five years. We're at the exact inflection point where the technology works, the market is ready, and the incumbents are too slow. You'd be joining a YC-backed company with real customers, real revenue, years of runway, and a founding team that's been building together for nearly a decade.
There's no layer between you and impact. No politics, no waiting for roadmap approval, no "we'll revisit next quarter." You ship it, customers use it, and you see the result.
Come build the future of how people get hired!
Asendia AI is building the AI operating system for staffing agencies. Staffing is a $500B+ industry still running on manual phone screens, gut-feel candidate scoring, and recruiters drowning in repetitive calls. We're replacing that entire workflow with voice AI agents that screen, verify, and score candidates 24/7, then feed structured data directly back into the agency's ATS. Our AI agent "Sarah" conducts live phone interviews, detects fraud, evaluates candidate fit, and hands recruiters a scored shortlist instead of a pile of resumes. We're already live with staffing agencies across the US and Europe, running thousands of automated screens across healthcare, IT, and blue-collar verticals. What makes us different: We don't sell a chatbot. We sell a full agentic recruitment pipeline. Where we are: YC P25. Small team, real revenue, real customers, scaling fast, and building in San Francisco. What it's like here: We ship fast, talk to customers constantly, and make decisions in hours, not weeks. We exhibit at TechServe Alliance, Staffing World, Executive Forum, and Collaboration X. We're not building in a vacuum; we're in the field with our customers, shaping how this industry adopts AI.