We rebuilt the screening layer.

Hiring is broken between job posting and offer — the part where 200 applicants become a shortlist of 5. Recruiters drown in CVs. Candidates wait three weeks for a first call. Good hires get lost in the noise. We built Raffi so the screening layer scales without screening fatigue.

What we believe.

Every applicant deserves a real interview. Not a 30-second resume skim. Not a "we'll be in touch." A real conversation, in their language, on their schedule. We built Raffi so giving every applicant a 10–15 minute interview is logistically possible — even when you get 500 applicants per role.

Hiring decisions should be evidence-based, not memory-based. Recall bias is real. By the 10th candidate you can't remember the 3rd. Raffi gives you full transcripts, rubric-anchored scores, and side-by-side comparison — so when you decide, you decide on what was actually said, not what you think you remember.

AI transparency is non-negotiable. Every Raffi call opens with the candidate being told they're talking to AI. We A/B tested transparency vs. ambiguity. Transparency wins — candidates are more relaxed and more honest when they know what's on the other end of the line.

You should never pay a placement fee. Raffi is SaaS. You pay your plan, you pay for the actions Raffi takes (calls, reveals, invites). When you hire, you don't pay an extra dime. The placement-fee model exists because recruiters have leverage at the moment of offer — we removed that leverage by being on the screening side, not the candidate-ownership side.

What we don't do.

We don't replace your recruiter. We don't make the final hire decision. We don't do live technical interviews — that's better suited to a take-home or a second-round human. Raffi is the layer between "200 applicants" and "5 great candidates to meet" — not the layer above or below that.

Built by hiring nerds.

Raffi is built by a team that's hired hundreds of people across sales, engineering, design, and operations — and been on the other side of as many interviews. We know which questions surface signal, which steps slow the funnel, and which excuses kill good hires. The product reflects all of that.