Hiring is going through a crisis of trust. Both jobseekers and companies are making rational decisions inside a broken system. AI-generated resumes meet AI filters. In the weirdest examples, AI deepfakes meet AI interviewers.
We believe AI will enhance the hiring process for both companies and jobseekers - increasing trust, improving experience, and ultimately driving better outcomes. But only if we build it differently.
Stop the problem at source
Fewer jobs. Fewer recruiters. 4x more applications. This is the reality for TA teams right now.
Our instinct as an industry? Buy tools that help us sift through applications faster. And while that matters, we must demand more. Your sales and marketing team wouldn't keep investing in channels that don't deliver relevant leads. Yet in recruiting, we're stuck with a duopoly of platforms that profit from volume, not relevance and have no interest in changing.
AI enables us to solve the problem of relevancy before a candidate touches your ATS.
Meet Archer
Archer is our always-on recruiting agent that attracts net-new, high-fit candidates and qualifies them up front, so TA teams get more interviews from fewer applications.
Archer calibrates to your roles based on skills, behaviours, experience and job-fit. Archer builds a thorough, multi-dimensional picture of what you're actually hiring for, then proactively reaches out to candidates who wouldn't think to apply, qualifies them, and when there's a fit, makes an introduction directly in your existing workflow.
No new tabs to open. No change management required.
Back to trust
Archer is built on a different set of principles:
- First-party, consented data only. Archer works exclusively with candidates who have opted in.
- Fraud detection built in. Archer proactively screens out fraudulent candidates before they reach your funnel.
- Human decisions, AI assistance. Archer supports jobseekers and recruiters - Archer doesn't make decisions on their behalf.
- Explainable and improvable. Archer explains its reasoning and learns from human feedback over time.
- Enterprise-ready AI adoption. Archer’s early customers have an average of 15,000 employees. Archer absorbs the risk for the enterprise.
Archer's impact
In its first 90 days, Archer has:
- Generated 35,000 double opt-in introductions between jobseekers and employers
- Converted first stage to hire at 20:1 - 15x better than the industry average of 340:1
- Blocked 1,500 fraudulent candidates from entering hiring processes
- Expanded beyond tech, with 15% of introductions now coming from non-technical roles
- Crossed $1m ARR in 90 days, making Archer the fastest AI Recruiting agent to reach this milestone.
What's new today
Archer now works across all your roles - not just tech.
After a decade of focusing on technical hiring at hackajob, we're rolling out Archer to support every role you're hiring for. In fact, Archer’s already been doing it: more than 15% of Archer's work over the last month has been on non-technical roles and we expect this to be more than 50% before long.
A note on recruiting
After a decade of building hackajob, I'm more convinced than ever that recruiting is one of the most meaningful problems to work on. Getting the right person into the right role changes lives. It changes a company's trajectory. It's a problem worth fighting for.
Over the next decade, I believe Archer will help tens of millions of people find meaningful work. Help tens of thousands of companies hire the right people. Archer has the opportunity to have a bigger impact on hiring than any job board, agency, or individual ever has.
