NEW YORK, November 11, 2025 — Humanly, a leading HR tech company, today announced that its conversational AI platform is transforming enterprise talent acquisition by ensuring 100% of qualified candidates are engaged, dramatically reducing time-to-hire from an industry average of 44 days to as little as five days.
The company’s CEO and co-founder, Prem Kumar, states the technology directly addresses the industry’s largest inefficiency: the practice of ignoring the vast majority of applicants. “Without AI tools, companies engage with only 5 percent of people who apply,” Kumar explains. “Using our conversational AI technology, our goal is to allow all candidates to be explored, which gives you a higher chance of finding the right fit while reducing the time to hire.”
Streamlining Candidate Experience and Speed
Humanly’s solution leverages recent advancements in AI infrastructure and nearly two decades of recruiting experience to automate meaningful two-way conversations with candidates at scale. The platform can transition applicants from initial application to a video interview with AI in a matter of hours, rather than weeks.
The automated process includes:
- Initial chat agent check-in for fit.
- Automated phone screening.
- AI-led video interviews.
This acceleration prevents candidate dropout during lengthy waiting periods and frees up recruiters to focus on strategic activities, such as employer branding and high-value engagement.
Data-Driven Differentiation for Superior Results
A key differentiator for Humanly is its unified data approach. By operating across all candidate channels (email, SMS, chat, etc.), the platform consolidates information, building a stronger training model for its AI.
“If you’re using six or seven different AI tools, you’re splitting the information and not truly building the best experience,” says Kumar. “We have five years’ worth of training data from human interviews and automated conversations, enabling our technology to learn and adapt to the specific customer it serves.”
Humanly integrates seamlessly with major applicant-tracking systems, including SAP SuccessFactors, and serves both enterprise clients and small to medium-sized businesses. The company’s long-term vision includes building “the world’s largest database of interviewed job candidates who are ready to work.”
About Humanly
Humanly is an HR technology company dedicated to solving the inefficiencies of the modern hiring process. Leveraging proprietary conversational AI, the platform provides automated candidate screening, video interviews, career coaching, and resume feedback, transforming hiring from a resource-draining numbers game into a genuine human connection at scale. Humanly empowers recruiters to focus on strategic engagement by ensuring every qualified candidate receives a meaningful conversation.
Learn more about Humanly at www.humanly.io.
