Asendia AI sits squarely in the most contested corner of agentic software — voice and workflow agents for recruiting — but with a sharper wedge than most. Instead of selling a generic AI sourcer, Asendia clones a staffing agency's top-performing recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates the way that specific firm would. The platform searches the customer's existing applicant tracking system contextually rather than via keyword matching, runs outreach across phone, SMS, and WhatsApp, conducts live voice screening interviews, scores candidates, and pushes structured results back into the ATS.
The operational claim is that clients fill roles up to 10x faster than via manual sourcing and screening, with screening costs dropping by around 90%. Because the voice agents work around the clock and do not drop candidates between interview slots, fill rate and time-to-submit improve on both sides of the funnel. The product is built for two buyers: staffing agencies that live and die on placement velocity, and in-house enterprise talent teams running high-volume requisitions where screening is the bottleneck.
Asendia AI is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 (P26) batch, co-founded by Rihab Lajmi (CEO) and Badis Zormati (CTO) — reportedly the first Tunisian founders accepted to YC, with Lajmi the first Tunisian woman. Before founding the company, Lajmi was a cloud engineer at Microsoft and Google. The team is small but traction is strong: Asendia crossed $500K in revenue within months of launch.