Tezi is building an AI agent for hiring managers
Summary
AI agents are all the rage right now, and Tezi, an early-stage startup, is working on one to help HR teams find the perfect candidates for a job opening. The startup claims this bot will sift through resumes to find the ones that match the hiring criteria, find time on the recruiters calendar to set up an interview and send out the email to the candidate.Today the company announced a $9 million seed to help fuel its journey to generally available product.For now, they are rolling out the alpha product with a handful of design customers just this week, but thats the vision, according to CEO and co-founder Raghavendra Prabhu. He acknowledged that HR has been using automated resume screening for some time, but Tezi saw an opportunity with the new generation of large language models (LLMs ) to build a more sophisticated recruiting tool for HR.I think its the combination of reasoning and natural language that we felt gave us an option to build something very, very different from whats historically been done by software in this space, he said.His co-founder and COO, Jason James, says that existing tools dont go far enough in his view. And whats possible now is an end-to-end workflow, not just basic ranking.The founders acknowledged that at this stage, humans need to stay engaged in the process and the hope is that it will be fully automated as models improve. From their perspective, they are taking whatever inputs come from the hiring manager and assessing that against the resumes in an objective manner.