Humanly

Humanly is an AI recruiting platform aimed at hourly, frontline and high-volume hiring. Its software uses conversational AI across chat, SMS, email, phone and video to engage applicants, screen and qualify them, schedule and conduct structured interviews, and route ranked shortlists with transcripts and reasoning to hiring teams. The product set comprises an AI Recruiter that engages, screens and schedules candidates around the clock; an AI Interviewer that runs structured video, voice and asynchronous interviews; a CRM for building talent pools and re-engaging past applicants via SMS and email; and an applicant tracking system for managing pipelines and hiring decisions in one place. Earlier product capabilities described by the company included automating top-of-funnel conversations, note-taking during virtual interviews, automated follow-up email, reference checks and analytics, plus bias-reduction features such as masking a candidate's name, gender and years of experience and analyzing differences in how interviewers treat different candidate groups.

As of 2026 the company reported engaging more than 250,000 candidates per month, conducting roughly 9,000 interviews per day and having run more than five million interviews cumulatively. It is expanding beyond employer-side tooling into a continuously refreshed database of pre-interviewed job seekers and a candidate-facing coaching product covering interview preparation, resume writing and salary negotiation. Management frames this as a shift from the roughly $14 billion recruiting software market toward the much larger market for placing people in jobs, positioning the offering as an alternative to staffing agencies.

Founding story

Prem Kumar, a former Microsoft and TINYpulse employee, helped launch Humanly in August 2018 with co-founders Andrew Gardner and Bryan Leptich, motivated by the view that high-volume hiring is inefficient, ineffective and biased and that hiring should center on quality conversations rather than resumes and cover letters. Kumar serves as CEO, Gardner as COO and Leptich as CTO. The company went through Y Combinator, listed in the Winter 2020 batch.

Business model

Humanly sells software to employers as its primary business, packaging an AI Recruiter, AI Interviewer, CRM and applicant tracking system into a single subscription platform that integrates with customers' existing ATS, job boards and HR systems. Alongside conventional software licensing, the company has introduced outcome-based pricing options including pay-per-candidate and pay-per-hire, and is building toward what management calls a 'service-as-software' model in which it delivers pre-vetted, ready-to-hire candidates rather than only tooling. A newer job seeker-facing coaching product gives the company a direct relationship with candidates in addition to its employer clients.

Revenue comes from employer subscriptions to its AI recruiting platform, supplemented by newer outcome-based pricing options such as pay-per-candidate and pay-per-hire in which customers pay for delivered hiring outcomes.

Traction

Humanly reports serving more than 1,000 high-volume hiring teams and over 120 named customers, engaging more than 250,000 candidates per month, conducting about 9,000 interviews per day and more than five million interviews to date. Customer-reported outcomes cited by the company include up to 8x faster time-to-hire, 20 or more recruiter hours saved per week, and average candidate experience scores of 4.8 out of 5, with case studies covering HomeTeam Pest Defense (752 screening hours saved weekly), a 160-location Domino's operator (92% reduction in Indeed spend), Mutual of Omaha (time-to-screen cut from five days to five hours), Cellular Sales, Reid Health, DK Security, Fleet Feet and NEPA Pizza. Revenue grew roughly 3.9 times over a seven-month period reported in 2026, after a reported sixfold increase in the year preceding September 2021.

Latest developments

In 2026 Humanly announced $25 million in Series B funding led by SEEK Investments, with new participation from MassMutual Catalyst Fund and follow-on from Drive Capital, Zeal Capital Partners and others including Converge, bringing reported total funding to $52 million. Alongside the raise the company launched a job seeker-facing AI coaching product, introduced pay-per-candidate and pay-per-hire pricing, and began building a database of pre-interviewed candidates through marketplace partnerships. It is also working with Microsoft on a neurodiversity hiring program in which candidates practice technical and behavioral interviews with an AI avatar coach. Reported revenue grew 3.9 times over a seven-month period and headcount stood at about 50.