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We're a small founding team building something new in the global hiring market - an AI-native solution aimed at SMB and mid-market customers. The hiring industry today is stuck in an AI doom loop. Job seekers use AI to apply; companies use AI to filter. Applications have surged past 11,000 per minute on LinkedIn alone, and only 8% of candidates believe the systems screening them are fair. Recruiters are buried, candidates are frustrated, and the trust on both sides is at an all-time low. Most of the tools sold to fix this are doing the opposite - adding more noise, more automation, less judgment. We think the next generation of hiring software looks fundamentally different. Not a database with AI bolted on. Not another sourcing tool. Something built from the ground up for how hiring actually happens inside SMB and mid-market companies — where most of the world's hiring decisions are made, and where the existing category has historically underserved. Who we are: The founding team brings together deep operating experience across the layers this product touches: Our current team has experience in building and delivering HR solutions, scaling global systems in e-commerce and testing and one of us has taken products from $1M to $20M ARR in 18 months, with the latest LLMs as second nature. Between us, we've shipped at scale before. We're now starting over — quietly, deliberately — on a problem we've each lived from a different side. How we build We're staying small on purpose. Six to ten people for the next 24 months, with one clear objective: hitting our first ambitious revenue milestone, measured in millions. Where we are Currently in quiet build mode. Pre-seed. Early customer conversations underway. Founding team forming now. If you're a builder who wants a real seat at a real table — engineering, product, design, GTM — we'd love to talk. ? [email protected]

Making people genuinely better We are not here to do things for people. We build the infrastructure, tools, and verification systems that make professionals genuinely better — so the right talent and the right opportunities find each other with zero friction.

We are a leading HR and recruitment services provider offering end-to-end hiring solutions across PAN India. Specializing in connecting talent with opportunities, we cater to diverse industries, ensuring seamless workforce solutions for our clients. With a focus on quality, efficiency, and innovation, we empower businesses to achieve their staffing goals effectively.

At Astoria AI we believe that people have indispensable human need to realize their full potential. Our mission is to help people find highest point of contribution and help organizations to attract those people and build sustained practices of retaining motivated and most qualified talent.