Dex bills itself as an 'AI talent agent' focused on a lucrative slice of the hiring market: AI researchers, software developers and machine-learning and quantitative engineers. Job seekers hold a voice or text conversation with Dex's AI agent, which asks open-ended questions about their experience, motivations and ambitions, then surfaces roles from a curated set of openings, helps candidates research companies, benchmarks compensation and prepares them for interviews. Dex charges employers a success fee of 20-30% of a hired candidate's first-year salary, mirroring a traditional search firm. More than 15,000 engineers have signed up and over 50 technology companies, including Lovable, ElevenLabs, Synthesia and Granola, use the service. Dex raised a $5.3M seed round led by Notion Capital in 2026, bringing total funding to $8.4M.