We started in 2012 as an underdog. The need for our software was forged in the fires of a small San Francisco based recruiting startup, which had just landed Google and Apple as customers. In that high-pressure environment, human charm, wit, and sweat were not enough. They needed an unfair advantage.
Our founders, Shon and Trevor met in 2011 - far away from San Francisco, on a hot night in Chandler, Arizona at a dusty hackerspace called Gangplank. Shon was looking to build the unfair advantage. Trevor was working on simulating central galactic dynamics. The pair hit it off and started building software to automate some of the steps in the crushingly deep workflow that recruiters were tasked with. They started with an idea to crawl the web for information to teach the machine. Within 6 months they had something interesting, a tool that would predict candidates for jobs, present them to a manager, and learn from the response. The feedback they received was exciting, even intoxicating, fueling the pair to keep going. HiringSolved was born.