Hiring in the United States remains competitive across sectors, with talent supply fragmented across geography, skill level, and industry specialization. Managers face a crowded applicant pool but struggle with quality filtering, time-to-hire, and the operational load of screening candidates across distributed locations. Salaries in USD remain a key differentiator for attracting talent, but so does clarity on role expectations and remote flexibility. Raffi operates as an agentic AI recruiter designed to handle the interview stage once qualified candidates apply to your job. The platform conducts technical and behavioral interviews in English, integrates with Workable for candidate management, and syncs with Google Calendar to schedule assessments automatically. Because Raffi works exclusively with candidates who submit applications—rather than sourcing passive talent or scanning the global landscape—hiring managers retain full control over their job posting placement and candidate pool. Compliance with U.S. employment law, tax classification, and offer workflows remains the responsibility of your HR and legal teams; Raffi focuses on scaling the interview function. If you're posting to boards like LinkedIn, Indeed, or industry-specific channels and want to reduce time spent on screening calls, Raffi fits directly into your existing hiring cadence. Start with your next open role.
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Raffi calls every applicant for a 10-15 min structured interview. Not just the top 5 résumés — every one. Result: nobody good slips through.
Conversational AI interview, rubric-anchored scoring, transcripts you can read. You get a top 3-5 shortlist while competitors are still scheduling first-rounds.
SaaS pricing from $199/mo. No 15-25% of first-year salary, no per-hire kickback. Cancel anytime.
The U.S. labor market shows persistent sectoral splits. Technology, healthcare, and skilled trades remain undersupplied relative to demand; finance and professional services face moderate competition for mid-to-senior talent. White-collar remote roles attract applicants nationwide, compressing geographic wage premiums in some markets. Blue-collar and trade hiring remains geographically concentrated and supply-constrained. Work authorization—H-1B, O-1, green card, or citizen status—remains a key friction point for international hires, extending time-to-offer by weeks. Managers in coastal tech hubs and mid-market metros report applicant volumes up but conversion rates flat, suggesting quality filtering remains the bottleneck. Immigration policy volatility continues to shape hiring strategy for teams with international pipelines.
U.S. hiring depends on work authorization clarity upfront; visa sponsorship candidacy must be established before offer. English fluency expectations are high for most roles, though regional variation exists. Salary negotiation is cultural norm; offer discussions typically reference market data from Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, or industry surveys in USD. Job boards dominate sourcing: LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor drive the majority of applications. Geographic distribution means time-zone spanning is routine. Non-compete agreements vary by state and carry legal weight in some jurisdictions but not others (e.g., California voids them). Offer-to-start timelines compress faster than many international markets—candidates often expect offers within 1-2 weeks of final interviews. Remote work has normalized, but company policy varies widely.
Federal law forbidding hiring discrimination on protected classes. Raffi's structured rubric and consistent interview questions are the cleanest defense — every applicant is scored the same way.
If you're hiring in NYC and using an automated employment decision tool, you need annual bias audits + 10 days notice to candidates. Raffi discloses AI use to every candidate and exports audit-ready transcripts.
Yes. Raffi operates in 30+ languages and supports candidate calls in any timezone via self-booking — there's no per-country integration. If you can post a role from United States, you can run Raffi from United States.
Raffi is calibrated against the major AI-in-hiring frameworks (EU AI Act + NYC Local Law 144) and discloses AI use to every candidate before the call. For United States-specific work permits and right-to-work checks, those happen outside Raffi — we screen, you verify eligibility before extending an offer.
Raffi itself does not sponsor or process visas. However, the platform integrates with your existing hiring workflow to help you interview qualified candidates who meet your work authorization requirements. You'll establish visa sponsorship eligibility as part of your job description and screening criteria before Raffi runs interviews. Your HR and legal teams manage compliance and offer details.
Raffi currently conducts interviews in English. If your role requires fluency in another language, you'll assess that skill during your own screening or after Raffi's technical interview. Many hiring managers use Raffi to filter on technical and behavioral fit, then run language-specific assessments separately.
Raffi does not generate offers, negotiate salary, or create employment contracts. The platform runs interviews and reports results back to Workable; your recruiting and HR teams own the offer workflow, salary decisions, and all employment documentation. Raffi sits in the interview stage only.
Agentic recruiting is recruiting done by an AI agent that takes action on your behalf — not a chatbot or résumé summarizer. Raffi calls every applicant for a structured 10-15 minute interview, scores them against your rubric, and hands you a ranked top 3-5. The work happens autonomously.
Most agencies charge 15-25% of first-year salary as a placement fee — a $90k hire runs $13-22k. Raffi is SaaS at $199-599/mo plus per-action credits, typically landing under $10k/year for a team hiring 12 people. Same shortlist quality, no placement contract.
About 25 minutes to onboard, post your first role, and have Raffi ready to interview applicants. No engineering work, no integration project. Connect your work email, paste a JD, you're live.
Free $25 starter credit. No credit card. Screening live by tonight.