Crosschq

Crosschq operates a "Hiring Intelligence Platform" aimed at talent acquisition and HR teams. The product suite spans the hiring funnel: realistic job previews, AI resume matching, AI-led interview agents, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, Interview IQ interview intelligence, Crosschq 360 reference checks, candidate fraud detection, ID verification, recruiting metrics dashboards, Quality of Hire measurement and benchmarking, TalentWall pipeline management, and Quin, a natural-language assistant for querying hiring data.

The company's stated origin is the problem of mis-hires; its About page cites mis-hire rates exceeding 45% and states that 83% of talent acquisition leaders do not believe they have enough data to optimize hiring. Crosschq positions its platform as supplying data at each step of the hiring process to improve recruiting execution, new hire productivity and hiring experiences. Earlier positioning described the company as pioneering "Human Intelligence Hiring" and a "Talent Intelligence Cloud," gathering insights from job seekers and people who know them and converting them into predictive data used to match candidates and employers.

Third-party profiles estimate roughly 76 employees and about $10.6M in annual revenue, with disclosed venture funding variously reported at $40.6M and $57.5M across four rounds. Sources disagree on basic firmographics: the company is described as San Francisco-based in 2021 press and third-party revenue data, and as Danville, California-based in another profile; founding year is reported as 2018 by two sources and 2019 by another, while the About page dates the origin story to 2019.

Founding story

Reported as founded in 2018 by Mike Fitzsimmons (CEO) in FinSMEs and Growjo, and as founded in 2018 by Mike Fitzsimmons and Pete Goettner in a startup profile that separately lists a 2019 founding date. The company's own About page dates its story to 2019, when it set out to address mis-hires, later broadening from reference checking into a wider hiring data platform after observing that TA and HR teams lacked coordinated information.

Business model

Cloud-based SaaS sold to employers' talent acquisition and HR functions, layered onto existing applicant tracking systems through out-of-the-box integrations. One third-party profile cites pricing starting at $399 per month.

Software subscription revenue from platform modules (reference checks, AI interviews, assessments, fraud detection, ID verification, analytics and pipeline management); third-party estimate of annual revenue is $10.6M.

Traction

Third-party estimates of 76 employees (down 12% year over year) and $10.6M annual revenue. Customer case studies report outcomes such as Upwork staffing a new sales office in 90 days with 32% better diversity hiring and 55% lower new hire turnover, Headway improving offer acceptance rates 43%, and M3 and GumGum each reducing reference-check time by 95%. Review-site scores of 4.9, 4.8 and 4.7 are displayed on the website without attribution.

Latest developments

Current site content centers on AI interviewing, candidate fraud detection covering impersonation and deepfakes, ID verification powered by ID.me, a Quality of Hire benchmark index tied to a "Brilliant 500" list, a Quality of Hire research report and book, and event appearances at SAP HR Connect (August 15, Seattle) and Workday Rising (September 16-19, Las Vegas).