Who builds Qooqa - team, principles and case studies

We couldn't walk past it

One recruiter, 200 open roles, and just 24 hours in a day - there's no way to reply to everyone. So we're building an AI that seeks out candidates itself, reads every application closely, brings the person you actually need onto the team, and replies to all of them - even the ones who got a no.

The AI runs the dialogue and introduces itself to the candidate as an AI. The decision to present a candidate is made by a person.

Culture - how we think and work

Why we do this

You apply for a job - and hear nothing back. Not even a 'no', just silence. That's how hiring works almost everywhere, and everyone has come to accept it as normal.

“How can this even be considered normal?”

It isn't recruiter laziness. It's the system: no single person can handle 200 openings and thousands of applications. We couldn't walk past that broken process - so we built an AI that reviews every application and replies to everyone.

Today the Qooqa recruiter is part of a platform of AI agents for business, managed by your people.

The ship of misfits: why the best products are built by people who can't let go Exponential growth is assembled from each of us

How we work

We don't have a values slide. Instead we have essays we publish every week: about mistakes, doubts and rules. Here are four things you can check us against.

01
A decision about a person is approved by a person
The AI runs the dialogue and reveals itself to the candidate as an AI. A person approves every rejection and every offer. We read the dialogues by hand - every day.
“Hello, Olga!” - Olga doesn't exist
The essay where we unpacked this
02
Honest - even when it's uncomfortable
We publish our mistakes, not just our wins. An admission without a fix is useless, so next to every mistake there's a process that now catches it.
“Honestly: it's an ‘A/B test’ of two people, with no statistical significance”
The essay where we unpacked this
03
Boring beats heroic
A system that affects people's fates changes in small verifiable steps and rolls back in minutes. That's why we ship dozens of deploys a day and not a single heroic release.
“Dozens of deploys a day - and not a single feat”
The essay where we unpacked this
04
We're participants in the shift, not spectators
AI is changing hiring right now. We don't watch it from the sidelines - we're inside it, responsible for how this shift turns out.
“Exponential growth is assembled from each of us”
The essay where we unpacked this

This isn't a values page. It's what we publish every week.

Team culture

What came of it

Hundreds of companies trust us with the front line of hiring

Not everyone is ready to talk about hiring publicly - these are the clients who agreed to go on record. There's a written case study for each: open one and check for yourself.

Responsibility and data

AI in hiring is a matter of trust. How we hold it.

AI disclosure

The candidate always knows they're talking to an AI. The final decision rests with a person.

The essay where we unpacked this

Personal data

We process candidate data according to our privacy policy - available to read at any time.

Candidate rights

If you interviewed with Qooqa - you spoke with an AI, and a person made the decision. We've written up how it works and what rights you have.

Candidate rights in AI hiring

Adoption without a war

When AI takes over the routine, a human recruiter gets time back - and the resistance is sometimes stronger than you'd expect. We write about it honestly instead of hiding it.

The recruiter sabotages the AI. The director sees it

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