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Companies reworking how teams are found, assessed and managed - and trying to make the process fairer as well as faster.

49 articles · Updated 21 September 2025

What counts as HR & Hiring

HR and hiring covers the companies reworking how teams are found, assessed, developed and kept. On this hub that splits four ways: assessment and hiring intelligence, specialist job boards and matching, remote staffing and outsourcing, and the culture, coaching and team-building work that starts once people are already employed.

One hub, four different businesses

Hiring gets the attention, but only about half of this hub is about hiring. The rest is what happens after someone starts: culture measurement, coaching, training and the long tail of team-building companies.

Everyone here is trying to replace the CV

The clearest pattern among the recruitment startups is a shared distrust of the traditional screen. Suited evaluates candidate potential with predictive analytics. Brokee skips the conversation and tests the actual daily skills of a systems engineer. CultureLab predicts whether someone will thrive, PsychometricTests.org brings psychometrics to both sides, and Braintrust AIR and Paletter automate the first round outright.

Several of them make a fairness argument alongside the efficiency one - Snapbrillia explicitly ties quality of hire to diversity outcomes.

Narrow job boards beat broad ones

The job boards profiled here all win by being small. Next Level Jobs EU lists only European engineering roles above a salary line. MoAIJobs lists only AI roles. Carejobs serves Swiss childcare centres, and Jargon automates veteran recruiting.

Staffing became a product

A distinct group sells the workforce rather than the software. Revelo handles sourcing, hiring and management of remote engineers for US companies. ClarkStaff and Virtudesk run the same play as outsourcing businesses with a technology layer on top.

Measuring culture instead of asserting it

The most interesting recent cluster tries to turn culture into data. Platypus measures it directly. Erudit infers burnout from email and chat signals, and Humantelligence works on the friction inside everyday communication. Vanguard Voices approaches the same problem as a movement rather than a product, campaigning for psychological safety at work.

HR and hiring startups we have profiled, by where they sit in the employee lifecycle
CompanyWhat it doesStage
Braintrust AIR Automates first-round interviews, paired with the Braintrust talent marketplace.Screening
Suited Independent evaluation of candidate potential using objective data and predictive analytics.Screening
Snapbrillia AI hiring platform aimed at improving both quality of hire and diversity outcomes.Screening
CultureLab Helps candidates and hiring managers judge whether someone will actually thrive at a company.Screening
Brokee Interactive tests for the day-to-day skills of system engineers across DevOps, cloud and SRE.Screening
Verensics Evaluates personnel risk across pre-employment screening, vetting and insider threat detection.Screening
Paletter Recruiter-trained AI running one-way video interviews for high-volume fast food hiring.Screening
Next Level Jobs EU Curated job board for software engineering roles paying over 100,000 euro across Europe.Job boards
MoAIJobs Job board dedicated to AI roles across machine learning, engineering, research and data science.Job boards
Carejobs Job search built specifically for early childcare specialists working in Swiss Kitas.Job boards
Jargon AI and machine learning software automating veteran recruiting and talent allocation.Job boards
Metaintro Generative AI that matches users to job opportunities worldwide.Job boards
Revelo End-to-end remote staffing letting US companies source, hire and manage full-time talent.Remote staffing
ClarkStaff Full-service business process outsourcing providing access to skilled professionals at lower rates.Remote staffing
Virtudesk Combines virtual talent with technology so businesses can scale operations without hiring locally.Remote staffing
Leena AI Autonomous conversational AI platform handling employee questions and requests inside enterprises.Employee experience
Erudit Reads signals in email and chat to measure burnout and wellbeing across a workforce.Employee experience
Humantelligence AI-driven platform improving email communication, meeting effectiveness and team collaboration.Employee experience
Platypus Culture operating system that measures workplace culture rather than describing it.Employee experience
The Coaching Centre Pairs an online platform with accredited coaches to widen access to leadership development.Coaching

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Frequently asked questions

What does the HR and Hiring hub cover?

The full employee lifecycle rather than recruitment alone. That includes assessment and screening tools, specialist job boards, remote staffing and outsourcing firms, employee experience software, and the coaching, culture and team-building businesses that operate after someone is hired.

What is the most common idea among the hiring startups?

Replacing the CV as the primary signal. Suited uses predictive analytics on objective data, Brokee tests the work itself, CultureLab assesses likely fit, PsychometricTests.org uses psychometrics and Braintrust AIR automates the first-round interview. Each is arguing that the traditional screen is both slow and a poor predictor.

Why are there so many niche job boards here?

Because narrow beats broad when the audience is specific. Next Level Jobs EU covers only high-paying European engineering roles, MoAIJobs only AI roles, Carejobs only Swiss childcare, and Jargon only veterans. The pitch in each case is curation rather than volume.

Is remote work still a big theme?

Yes, though the emphasis has shifted. The earlier profiles are about enabling remote work at all - All Remotely, coAmplifi, Recess and its office furniture. The later ones are about staffing operations that assume it, like Revelo, ClarkStaff and Virtudesk.

Do you cover team building and corporate training?

Yes, and it is a larger cluster than most people expect. Virtual team building from Bar None Games, Ryptic and Virtualteambuilding.com, applied improvisation from Boston Strategy Group, comedy from Treuer Laughs, and training platforms like Domain-U and Ringorang all sit here.