It’s honestly strange how startups are so advanced in one part of their work and still so manual in another.
We’re using AI to write code, design products, automate workflows… things that used to take hours now happen in minutes.
But hiring?
Still feels stuck in another era.
Spreadsheets to track candidates.
Endless email threads.
Resume PDFs sitting in random folders.
Manual screening that depends more on time than clarity.
And it makes you wonder:
If we trust AI with actual production work, why is hiring still treated like admin work? Hiring is one of the most important parts of building a company. Yet in many places, it’s still not a system—it’s a process people “manage.”
Not because better tools don’t exist, but because most teams haven’t really rebuilt how hiring should work in today’s world.
We’ve optimised speed everywhere else, but hiring is still heavily dependent on manual effort and individual judgment.
And because of that, good candidates often get missed—not because they weren’t right, but because the system wasn’t designed to catch them properly.
Anyone else noticing this gap?
Feels like we’re in this weird phase where AI is doing high-level work…
but hiring is still buried under basic coordination tasks.
Maybe the real shift now isn’t just better hiring tools.
It’s actually rethinking hiring from the ground up.