WorkHack careers

A note from the founder, Akshat Tyagi

I started WorkHack about two years back when I first discovered the magic of generative AI via a friend who was an NLP researcher at Georgia Tech and had beta access to GPT3. The ability to generate novel coherent sentences was like magic to me. Post which, I built some random Discord bots and showed them to a few founders and companies.

Someone got excited and took a bet on me. We got our first customer in Assesshub— a recruitment assessment platform. Initially, we thought it would be a great idea to get AI to interview folks on your behalf but quickly realised hiring was a prediction problem and not a conversational one. But AssessHub was still using our product and onboarding very cool large customers we could have never imagined. We learnt they loved us because we were increasing the number of tests candidates by building good conversations.

In essence, we were good at getting people to do things because we were great at making small talk. Eg- *“Hey go do that test”* vs “*Hey, now that we’re friends, why don’t you do that test for me?”* But HRtech was a small industry and what our users paid us per conversation was not very high.

The best use case would instead be in marketing tech where you could create additional revenue for companies by persuading users to buy stuff or renew their subscriptions by the power of conversations alone.

TL;DR: WorkHack helps companies to build use cases, but doesn’t own up the outcomes. Instead, we provide guarantees for generative AI which help companies experiment and figure out their own use cases.