Case studies / Airbase · AI recruiting

An AI recruiter that interviews every applicant

Airbase is recruiting software with an AI recruiter called Sage at its centre. We designed and built it. Sage screens, interviews and ranks every applicant, so recruiters spend their time on the people worth meeting.

100%of applicants interviewed and scored
5+languages, by voice, video, text or email
Hoursto a ranked shortlist, not weeks

The problem

A recruiter can only read so many resumes and hold so many first-round calls in a week. When a role gets hundreds of applicants, most are never spoken to, good people are missed, and the ones who do get a call wait days for it.

Hiring more recruiters to keep up makes every hire cost more.

What we built

An AI recruiter that runs the pipeline
Set up a role and Sage takes it from there. It finds candidates, screens every application against your criteria and keeps things moving until a ranked shortlist is ready.
First-round interviews with no recruiter on the call
A voice agent interviews each candidate on the web or by phone. It asks your questions, follows up naturally and scores as it goes.
Rules written in plain English
Recruiters write rules the way they would say them, such as “advance anyone scoring 90 or more and email the rest”, and the system carries them out.
An assistant that does the task
Recruiters ask Sage to do things in the app and it does them, inside the permissions that person already has.
Past applicants, searched again
Everyone who has applied before is ranked against each new role, so the next hire may already be in the system.

How AI helps them scale

Every applicant gets an interview, whether ten apply or ten thousand
Recruiters start from a ranked shortlist instead of reading every resume
Candidates are interviewed when it suits them, in five or more languages
Every score comes with the evidence behind it, so a decision can be checked
It does not depend on one AI provider, so one outage cannot stop hiring

Recruiters only meet the best.

First-round screening no longer takes recruiter time. Running it costs far less too: infrastructure we built in place of costly services cut recording and document costs by about 90 to 99%.

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