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Built for Intelligent Hiring

Built by AI Engineers. Designed for Enterprise Hiring.

We’re a team of technologists and product engineers solving one of enterprise hiring’s hardest problems: identifying genuine capability at scale — without burning out your TA team or overloading your panels.

Helping hiring teams see real capability, not just resumes.

How We Think About Hiring

Capability First
Capability First
Context Matters
Context Matters
Clarity Over Guesswork
Clarity Over Guesswork

The Challenge

The Problem with Traditional Hiring

Enterprise hiring suffers from systemic issues that scale poorly:
Rehearsed Responses
Rehearsed Responses
Candidates game the system with coaching and memorised answers. Traditional interviews reward preparation over authentic problem-solving ability.
Interviewer Variance
Interviewer Variance
Assessment quality depends on who's conducting the interview. Unconscious bias, experience level, and time constraints create inconsistent evaluation standards.
Resume-Driven Bias
Resume-Driven Bias
Hiring decisions favor pedigree over actual capability. Strong resumes don't always correlate with job performance, yet they dominate screening processes.
Operational Inefficiencies
Operational Inefficiencies
Manual resume review and phone screening don’t scale to global hiring volumes. Recruiting teams spend 70% of their time on candidates who never pass Round 1 - while your best interviewers burn out on repetitive early-stage screens.
Our platform addresses each of these challenges through intelligent automation.
How We Solve It
Structured Dialogue, Not Scripts

Multi-agent AI conducts role-specific conversations that adapt based on responses— revealing problem-solving ability, not memorisation.

Parallel Analysis at Scale

Seven specialised AI agents analyse responses simultaneously across technical depth, reasoning quality, and behavioural patterns.

Built for Compliance & Scale

Platform designed for SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR compliance with data residency options. Deploy across global teams while maintaining audit trails and governance.

Domain-Aware Evaluation

Vertical LLMs trained on competency frameworks for specific roles—software engineers evaluated differently than account managers.

Transparent, Explainable Results

Every score includes reasoning breakdown. Hiring managers see what candidates know and how they think…not just a number.

Built on Deep Technical Expertise

Needles & Haystacks is developed by specialists in:

AI & Machine Learning
  • Multi-agent systems and LLM orchestration
  • Natural language understanding at scale
  • Vertical model training and fine-tuning
Enterprise Systems
  • Global deployment architecture
  • SOC 2 compliance and data governance
  • High-availability infrastructure design
Talent Science
  • Competency modelling and assessment design
  • Industrial/organisational psychology
  • Bias mitigation in AI-driven evaluation
The Idea Behind Needles & Haystacks

Finding exceptional talent in high-volume hiring isn’t about searching harder — it’s about making the signal unmistakable. 

Traditional hiring asks your best people to sift through hundreds of candidates to find three good ones. We built infrastructure that finds those needles autonomously — through structured evaluation, not just screening. The result: your panel only sees the top 5. With evidence. With context. With zero wasted time. 

Every Needle Campaign runs end to end — from role definition to a ranked DeepLens shortlist — so your hiring team spends time on decisions, not process.

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