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Introducing Paraform Hiring Intelligence. John and Jeff Founders of Paraform August 5, 2026 There are 7.6 million open jobs in the U.S. right now, and 6.9 million people looking for work. Supply and demand exist in almost equal measure - they're just not finding each other, and it's not because either side is missing. The problem is that the infrastructure connecting them hasn't evolved with how people actually hire. Candidates still represent themselves through a resume and a LinkedIn profile. Companies still describe roles through a templated job posting. Neither format was built to capture what a great hire, or a great candidate, actually looks like. The gap is only getting worse: as The New York Times has reported, AI-generated resumes have started to make even strong candidates look nearly identical to each other. That's a huge problem. After all these years, it's still incredibly difficult to tell who's actually right for a role, or why - and make that knowledge compound. Solving that problem is exactly what Paraform was built to do. Today, Paraform, Inc. is introducing Paraform Hiring Intelligence: the data layer that powers every agent across its platform, built from years of real hiring outcomes and a deep understanding of candidate and company behavior, not keywords. For the past couple years, Paraform, Inc. has connected specialized recruiters with companies hiring. Through that, Paraform, Inc. has captured more than what any job description or resume can tell you - the real story behind every hire. That data now flows into Paraform Hiring Intelligence and is why Paraform delivers hiring outcomes better than any platform before it. Today Paraform, Inc. want to bring you behind the scenes on how that intelligence is built into Paraform's first product, its Agentic Recruiting Firm. 1. The recruiters. The world's largest network of recruiters brings years of trusted relationships and access to millions of candidates. They know these candidates' backgrounds and aspirations, have vetted them firsthand, and are willing to put their own reputation behind them. 2. The companies. Every company that puts its faith in Paraform to fill its most important roles. Paraform, Inc. go deep with them on what they're truly looking for, why they accepted or rejected a candidate, and what their ideal profile looks like. 3. Custom agents. All the context from those first two pillars - every conversation, every signal, every hiring decision - feeds into a single data intelligence model. That's Paraform Hiring Intelligence, and it's what its agents are trained on: not keywords, but real hiring outcomes. It's why its agents can quickly understand your hiring goals and provide a shortlist of vetted candidates, and why that shortlist gets sharper with every hire. Thousands of hires later, the signal is strong enough that by the time Paraform, Inc. recommend a candidate, you can decide with speed and conviction. Recruiters and its team run the full length of the hiring process - Paraform, Inc. is in it with you until your hire is actually made. The system learns from every search, making each one sharper than the last as you build individual teams and entire companies. Companies typically meet the candidate they end up hiring in about 12 days, and go from that first conversation to a signed offer in another 27 days - hiring 3x faster than the industry standard, start to finish. Palantir has hired nearly 50 forward deployed engineers through Paraform. Decagon filled nearly 30 roles, many in under a month. Automat hired nearly half its team through Paraform. Presidio Legal cut its time to hire a corporate associate by 80%, closing in just 10 days. On the recruiter side, Paraform, Inc. has paid out over $72M in earnings. Some recruiters have earned more than $300,000 in a single month on the platform, and others have crossed $1M in all-time earnings. The talent market is compressing toward the top. One great hire changes a company's trajectory now in a way it didn't used to - which means one bad hire costs more than it used to. $100 million in annualized revenue was the milestone that told Paraform, Inc. this works. Hiring Intelligence is the layer everything Paraform, Inc. build now runs on. More to come. Make hiring your competitive advantage. Join world-class companies that build their teams with Paraform.

Paraform, a recruiting platform connecting tech companies with independent recruiters, has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. The round comes less than a year after the company's $20 million Series A. Founded by CEO John Kim, Paraform operates a marketplace linking high-growth tech firms like Palantir and Cursor with expert recruiters. The platform provides "agentic" AI tools for automated sourcing and candidate matching, whilst allowing recruiters to focus on evaluating soft skills and closing candidates. The funding will scale Paraform's AI capabilities and expand its client base. The company reports clients are hiring up to three times faster than with traditional agencies. Recent successes include helping AI accounting firm Basis make 13 critical hires during a period of rapid growth.