{"id":100085,"title":"Asendia AI — Clone Your Best Recruiter!","tagline":"Asendia AI builds AI recruiters for staffing agencies and enterprise companies. It clones their best recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates 10x faster.","body":"We are [Rihab Lajmi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rihab-l-085182164/) and [Badis Zormati,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/badis-zormati/) Co-founders of [Asendia AI.](https://asendia.ai/)\n\n---\n\nAsendia AI clones your best recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates 10x faster. When a healthcare staffing agency gets a job order for 20 ICU nurses, a human recruiter spends days searching their database, making phone calls, and screening candidates. Asendia does all of that automatically — it searches the agency's existing candidate database, reaches out via SMS, email, and phone, conducts screening interviews in multiple languages, and writes up structured notes directly in the ATS. The recruiter just reviews the top candidates and submits them.\\\n\\\nStaffing is different from regular hiring. It's a daily revenue operation. Agencies make money every time they place someone, and they're placing people constantly. That means Asendia isn't an occasional tool; it runs every day on every open job. Over time, we learn things no general-purpose AI tool would know: that ICU nurses in Dallas respond best to SMS on Sunday evenings, that locum tenens candidates need a different outreach cadence than perm roles, which candidate pools are exhausted. That operational memory compounds and makes it very hard for us to turn off.\n\nOur Launch Video: \u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdqUklre6o\u003e\n\n**The problem**\n\nStaffing agencies lose placements every day, not because they lack talent, but because their recruiters don't have enough hours to place candidates in time.\n\nThe average recruiter spends 80% of their day on manual redundant work. Screening, data entry, outreach, follow-ups, scheduling. The actual recruiting, the judgment, the relationships, the conversations that close, gets two hours a day if they're lucky. Every hour spent on admin is a candidate they didn't submit. Every candidate they didn't submit is a placement a faster agency took. In staffing, speed isn't a nice-to-have. It's the entire margin.\n\n**What we built**\n\nOn the Asendia platform, you build your own AI recruiters. Each one can be cloned from how your best human recruiters actually work, their screening criteria, their outreach style, their prioritization logic. You configure the workflows: which channels they use (phone, SMS, WhatsApp, email), how they screen, what qualifies a candidate, when they escalate to a human.\n\nUnder the hood, Asendia connects to your ATS and digests every candidate record, every client req, every placement history. Your AI recruiters don't search by keywords. They understand your database the way a tenured recruiter does, matching on real context, flagging candidates based on signals like contract end dates, availability shifts, and past behavior.\n\nEvery morning, your team gets a brief: who was sourced, who responded, who's qualified, and what needs attention. Your human recruiters stop spending eight hours on admin and start spending eight hours on the part that wins placements: judgment, relationships, and closing.\n\n**The team**\n\n**Rihab** is ex-Google and ex-Microsoft, where she led cloud and engineering initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. Won the World-Wide Mathematics Olympiad at the age of 16.\n\n**Badis** graduated with a Master’s degree in AI and Machine Learning from the Technical University of Munich and led AI projects at Infineon Technologies, a leading global semiconductor company. Worked closely with Fortune 500 to assist with AI-led transformations for a hardware product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=100085\u0026key=user_uploads/2066133/93ccf745-21fa-47bb-9ce1-11e65bde5e7e)\n\n#AI #Recruiting #B2B #artificial_intelligence #Hiring #Agents #Agentic","slug":"Q2H-asendia-ai-clone-your-best-recruiter","created_at":"2026-04-23T13:55:50.208Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T03:48:22.340Z","total_vote_count":28,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q2H-asendia-ai-clone-your-best-recruiter","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=100085\u0026key=user_uploads/2066133/93ccf745-21fa-47bb-9ce1-11e65bde5e7e","company":{"id":31528,"name":"Asendia AI","slug":"asendia-ai","url":"https://asendia.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e735fee67a48586d3de061beb544a8ab8d481fc6.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31528"}}