San Francisco, California, United States
Candidates have AI-powered tools that let them customize resumes and apply to thousands of jobs a day, turning your ATS into a spam inbox. Meanwhile, hiring teams are being asked to do more with less—especially in talent acquisition. That’s why we built Braintrust AIR, the world’s first fully autonomous AI recruiter that compresses the hiring process from 6 weeks to just 24 hours. Instead of wasting time on manual screening and repetitive first-round interviews, Braintrust AIR automatically interviews, scores, and ranks candidates—so recruiters can focus only on the best talent, ready to hire. Fortune magazine called Braintrust AIR “the future of job interviews” Trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, Braintrust’s customers include Deloitte, Nike, NASA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies.
I founded Braintrust as the world’s first and only user-controlled talent platform. Unlike traditional talent marketplaces, Braintrust was built with a unique, decentralized business model that empowers talent to keep 100% of their earnings, enables organizations to build flexible, high-performing teams while making their budgets go 2-3x further, and aligns incentives between talent and hiring companies, creating a more transparent and efficient hiring ecosystem. For years, this model disrupted the talent economy, helping thousands of companies quickly access top-tier freelance talent without excessive recruiting fees. Then, everything changed. AI-powered job applications flooded the hiring market. Candidates were applying to thousands of roles per day, making it impossible for companies to sort through resumes and prioritize top talent. Hiring teams were overwhelmed, and traditional recruiting methods simply couldn’t keep up. That’s when Braintrust evolved. We built Braintrust AIR, the world’s first fully autonomous AI recruiter to take the manual work out of recruiting, enabling human recruiters to do more of the work they love. Braintrust AIR handles all of the heavy lifting, from developing the job description, reviewing resumes, stack ranking and prioritizing candidates, and conducting the first round interview for you. Braintrust AIR condenses days of scheduling back and forth and back to back 15 minute phone screens into mere minutes of unbiased review, comparison, and selection, enabling the hiring team to accelerate the interview process with the most qualified candidates. With AIR, you can interview 20 candidates in the time it used to take for just 1. The future of hiring is here. And it’s not about choosing between AI and human recruiters—it’s about using AI to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce bias, and hire top talent faster than ever before.
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Cambrian Asset Management is a blockchain-focused digital asset management company.
Building out Doctor On Demand, which delivers excellent medical care to people via video chat with a real, US-licenses physician.
DriverSide was acquired by AAP in August, 2011. I continued to run the product, engineering and data operations groups inside AAP until Oct of 2012 when I left the company.