The global staffing industry is over $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 over $20B annually on manual screening alone. Globally, it is multiples of that. There is 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 are AI-native from day one.
Asendia has a realistic path to becoming a $1B+ platform. Early equity here is how careers get transformed.
You are not filling a role. You are building the product.
- Real-time voice systems: AI phone interviews with sub-300ms latency using FastAPI, WebSockets, and LLM orchestration.
- Candidate scoring pipelines: Turning messy voice conversations into structured, reliable scores.
- ATS integrations: Two-way syncs with Applicant Tracking Systems that enterprise clients depend on.
- Recruiter dashboards: React/Next.js interfaces where staffing teams manage workflows, analytics, and reports.
- Agentic infrastructure: A framework where every client customizes their own AI screening workflows and voice personalities.
- Cloud & scale: Azure (Functions, AKS, Cosmos DB), CI/CD, monitoring. Taking us from hundreds to tens of thousands of concurrent sessions.
- You have shipped products end-to-end, solo or as the primary builder. Side projects, startups, open source, show us what you have built.
- You are strong across the stack: Python backend, React frontend, cloud infrastructure. You do not wait for anyone to finish a feature.
- You have product instinct. You talk to users, understand why something matters, and build accordingly.
- You are high-agency. When there is no documentation, no playbook, and a client deadline on Friday, you figure it out.
- You want ownership and equity, not just a paycheck. This is a founding role, not a senior eng seat.
Bonus: Experience with voice/speech systems, NLP, LLMs, or real-time streaming architectures.
Not required: A specific number of years. We care about what you have built, not how long you have been building
A $600B industry is being rebuilt by AI, right now, not in five years. We are at the exact inflection point where the technology works, the market is ready, and the incumbents are too slow. You would be joining a YC-backed company with real customers, real revenue, years of runway, and a founding team that has been building together for nearly a decade.
There is 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.