Braintrust
Founded 2018 · 14 known investors
Braintrust is an AI infrastructure company that builds Braintrust AIR (AI voice-interview software for enterprise candidate screening with ATS integration), Braintrust Nexus (enterprise workflow automation), and a talent marketplace connecting organizations with over 2 million vetted professionals for IT, finance, design, and AI training work. It serves enterprise clients and AI labs, positioning itself between frontier AI development and human expertise.
Also known as Braintrust · usebraintrust.com
Founders & leadership
Braintrust was founded in 2018 by Adam Jackson and Gabe Luna-Ostaseski.
Investors · 14
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Braintrust (usebraintrust.com) markets three products under one platform aimed at enterprise hiring and operations. Its Talent Marketplace provides access to a network described as 2 million-plus vetted professionals across engineering, design, product, and operations in more than 100 countries, with AI-based candidate matching, transparent pricing, enterprise compliance and onboarding, and human data services for AI model training. AIR, its AI recruiter product, screens resumes, conducts automated structured interviews, and produces skills-based assessments with a criteria-level scoring framework, integrating with applicant tracking systems. Nexus provides custom AI agents that automate repetitive operational processes such as revenue operations, onboarding, and customer service, and is presented as working across a customer's existing tool stack.
Braintrust's own support documentation describes the company as a decentralized talent network connecting skilled technical freelancers with large brands, with a business model in which talent retains 100% of earnings and organizations assemble flexible teams on demand. That model is described as enabled by a blockchain token, BTRST, which appears in support articles covering platform wallets, token payments for one-on-one career help, withdrawals, and use of BTRST on Base and Coinbase.com.
The public sources reviewed contain no funding, valuation, headcount, or financial disclosures for this company. Several sources with similar names refer to a different company (Braintrust Data Inc., braintrust.dev, an AI observability and evaluation platform) and were excluded from this profile.
Business model
Braintrust sells to enterprises through a demo-and-pricing motion covering three product lines: a talent marketplace, AI interviewing software (AIR), and AI workflow automation (Nexus). Support documentation states that talent on the marketplace retains 100% of earnings and that organizations can assemble flexible skilled teams on demand at a fraction of the cost of traditional staffing firms, with the model described as limiting fee extraction and enabling community ownership via a blockchain token.
Not disclosed in detail in the available sources; the website advertises published pricing for enterprise customers and support documentation includes an article on how Braintrust makes money, without further detail in the retrieved text.
Traction
Website cites 2M+ vetted professionals, talent in 100+ countries, capacity for thousands of AI interviews per day in 16+ languages, and Nexus figures of 12K+ tasks per month. Claimed outcomes include 80% faster screening and, in an unattributed testimonial from a VP of Talent Acquisition at a Fortune 500 technology company, a 70% reduction in time-to-hire. Named brand relationships in support documentation include Nestlé, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, and Nike.
Latest developments
Current website presents a three-product structure (Talent Marketplace, AIR, Nexus) centered on AI-driven hiring and automation, alongside legacy support content describing the decentralized talent network and BTRST token.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Positions itself as an integrated ecosystem covering hiring, assessment, and operational automation, contrasting its marketplace model with traditional staffing firms and other marketplaces on cost and fee extraction.
Claims a combination of a large vetted talent network with AI screening and workflow automation in a single platform, transparent pricing, bias-reduced evaluation, and a model in which freelancers retain 100% of earnings supported by a blockchain token.
Technology
AI-based candidate matching for the marketplace; AIR performs AI resume screening, automated structured interviews, and skills-based assessment with per-criterion scoring (e.g., technical depth, stakeholder communication, leadership) on a 5-point scale, supporting 16+ languages and integrating with ATS systems; Nexus deploys custom AI agents that trigger, extract, validate, and route tasks such as invoice processing across connected systems. The marketplace model is described as enabled by a blockchain token (BTRST), usable on Base and Coinbase.com and held in a platform wallet.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales via booked demos (30-minute personalized sessions) and published pricing on the company website, with prospects self-selecting among AIR, Marketplace, and Nexus during booking.
Enterprises and large brands seeking to hire, screen, and manage talent, including named examples in support documentation such as Nestlé, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, and Nike. Buyer personas indicated on the site include talent acquisition leaders at large technology companies and operations teams seeking process automation.
Geography
Marketplace talent pool described as global, spanning more than 100 countries.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 4
by search overlap
Companies competing with Braintrust for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
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primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Braintrust do?
- Braintrust operates an AI-powered enterprise talent network combining a vetted marketplace, AI interviewing, and workflow automation.
- Who founded Braintrust?
- Braintrust was founded by Adam Jackson, Gabe Luna-Ostaseski in 2018.
- Who are Braintrust's investors?
- Braintrust's investors include ACME Capital, Ausum Ventures, Coatue Management, Coinbase Ventures, Danu Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, Homebrew, IDEO CoLab Ventures and 6 more.