Sense is a talent engagement and recruiting automation platform that uses AI to remove friction from high-volume hiring and keep candidates engaged at every stage. The company addresses a persistent problem in recruiting: pipelines leak. Candidates apply and never hear back, qualified people sit forgotten in talent databases, and recruiters spend hours on repetitive outreach and scheduling. Sense automates these touchpoints with a unified platform that blends conversational AI, messaging, and intelligent matching so talent teams can move faster and deliver a far better candidate experience.
The platform's capabilities span the funnel. Conversational AI chatbots and voice AI agents handle prescreening, answer candidate questions, and qualify applicants around the clock. Two-way text messaging and automated nurture campaigns keep candidates warm and responsive, with much higher engagement than email. AI-driven job matching, including a Discover experience, personalizes the roles surfaced to each candidate, and talent database reactivation mines existing contacts to re-engage strong people who already raised their hand. Automated interview scheduling removes the back-and-forth that slows hiring.
Sense is widely adopted by staffing and recruiting firms as well as enterprise talent acquisition teams that hire at scale, where the efficiency gains from automation compound across thousands of candidates. By improving response rates, speed, and candidate experience simultaneously, Sense aims to lift both recruiter productivity and conversion.
Sense has raised roughly $90M in total from investors including SoftBank, GV (Google Ventures), Accel, Avataar Venture Partners, and Signia Venture Partners, including a $16M Series C led by Avataar. The platform competes in the talent engagement and recruiting automation category, differentiating on the breadth of its conversational and messaging-driven candidate engagement.