The Hiring Problem in India and Beyond
The hiring process in India and around the world is broken. Recruiters spend about 70% of their time screening resumes, but only 10% of candidates make it to an interview. This means that many potential candidates are being overlooked due to a lack of time and resources to assess them fairly. On the other hand, candidates often send in applications and receive no response, leading to a cycle of frustration and inefficiency for both recruiters and job seekers.
The Birth of Hyring
This inefficiency led Adithyan RK, a self-taught entrepreneur, and his co-founder Surya N, an AI engineer, to create Hyring. Hyring is an AI-powered interviewer that conducts real-time video interviews, screens candidates, detects fraud, and provides deep candidate insights for just $1 per interview. The goal of Hyring is to fix the first round of hiring, which is often the most time-consuming and biased part of the process.
How Hyring Works
Hyring is not just another recruitment tool. It is an intelligent, adaptable, and conversational AI agent that can handle the first round of hiring with speed, accuracy, and fairness. The AI conducts live video interviews, adapts in real-time, and analyzes candidate responses across verbal and non-verbal parameters. It also detects fraud through a multi-layered system and produces a detailed report at the end of each session, scoring candidates on communication, confidence, problem-solving skills, domain expertise, and overall integrity.
What Makes Hyring Different?
Unlike other platforms that rely on static questions or resume parsing, Hyring is a two-way conversational AI that conducts live video interviews. The AI is designed to detect fraud and provide personalized feedback to candidates. Hyring’s approach is not just employer-centric, but also candidate-centric, providing automated feedback reports after the interview, detailing their strengths and areas for improvement.
Supporting Notable Companies
Hyring’s client base spans startups, mid-sized tech firms, recruitment agencies, and enterprise HR teams across India, Dubai, and the U.S. The startup has conducted over 40,000 interviews and onboarded 500+ companies in just a few months since its launch. This growth is powered by product-market fit, user-friendly design, and organic referrals.
Future Plans
Hyring is working on vertical-specific AI agents tailored for functions like sales, tech, and customer support. It is also developing multilingual capabilities to support markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The startup is entirely bootstrapped, fueled by revenue and customer adoption, but is actively talking with strategic investors to support its growth.
Business Model
Hyring employs a tiered Saas subscription model, offering pricing tailored for startups, agencies, and enterprises. Plans range from Starter to Enterprise, and customers can also purchase pay-per-use interview credits for flexibility. The startup is projecting $4 million in revenue by the end of 2025, driven by high-volume use cases, mid-market annual contracts, and a strong repeat usage rate.
Conclusion
Hyring is revolutionizing the hiring process by making it faster, fairer, and more efficient. With its AI-powered interviewer and personalized feedback, Hyring is changing the way recruiters and job seekers interact. As Adithyan says, "We believe hiring won’t start with a resume anymore—it’ll start with a conversation." Hyring aims to be the infrastructure layer powering the next billion jobs, and with its innovative approach and rapid growth, it is well on its way to achieving this goal.
