{"id":101994,"title":"Asendia AI: clone your best recruiters into AI Agents","tagline":"AI agents, that source, screen and interview candidates at scale. ","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[Asendia AI](https://asendia.ai) clones your best recruiters into self learning AI agents that source, screen and help hire candidates 10x faster! And is used today by the top staffing companies in the US!\n\nSee Asendia AI in action: 🔗[ Talk to Asendia Founders](https://calendly.com/rihab-lajmi-asendia-ai/asendia-p26-investor-meetings-clone-1)\n\nSince joining YC:\\\n→ Top recruitment companies in the industry now running on [**Asendia AI**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/asendia-ai/)\\\n→ 4 major industry events sponsored\\\n→ hosted a webinar with 700 industry leaders\\\n→ Multiple dinners with customers and partners across the US\n\n\u003e Check out our Launch video [**Here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8-uV_ZP86I)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101994\u0026key=user_uploads/2066133/a2a5c535-9215-4802-b5b7-d147a459275c)\n\n## Problem\n\nStaffing agencies lose deals every day because recruiters don’t have enough hours to place candidates fast enough.\n\n* Recruiters spend 80% of their day on repetitive admin work: screening, outreach, scheduling, and follow-ups\n* That leaves only a few hours for the work that actually drives placements: relationships, judgment, and closing\n* Every candidate not submitted is a placement a faster agency wins\n\nIn staffing, speed is the margin.\n\n## Solution\n\nAsendia lets staffing agencies build their own AI recruiters.\n\nEach AI recruiter is cloned from how your best human recruiters actually work: their screening criteria, outreach style, prioritization logic, and escalation rules.\n\nYou configure how they operate:\n\n* Which channels they use: phone, SMS, WhatsApp, email\n* How they screen candidates\n* What qualifies a candidate\n* When they escalate to a human recruiter\n\nUnder the hood, [Asendia](https://asendia.ai) connects to your ATS and learns from every candidate record, client req, and placement history.\n\nYour AI recruiters don’t just search by keywords. They understand your database like a tenured recruiter, matching on context and surfacing 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.\n\nRecruiters stop spending eight hours on admin and start spending eight hours on the work that wins placements.\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 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 hardware product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101994\u0026key=user_uploads/2066133/80e164de-2ee1-41ad-adbc-e4d1f3a3d205)\n\n","slug":"QX4-asendia-ai-clone-your-best-recruiters-into-ai-agents","created_at":"2026-05-26T21:03:16.723Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T07:45:36.804Z","total_vote_count":27,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QX4-asendia-ai-clone-your-best-recruiters-into-ai-agents","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=101994\u0026key=user_uploads/2066133/80e164de-2ee1-41ad-adbc-e4d1f3a3d205","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"}}