Paradox, the conversational AI platform helping global employers like Chipotle, 7-Eleven, General Motors, Nestlè, and nearly 1,000 clients automate recruiting and hiring work, has recently announced the acquisition of people analytics platform Eqtble.
Eqtble, co-founded in 2021 by Joseph Ifiegbu and Gabe Horwitz, aims to use analytics to fuel better workforce decisions. The company’s offering is based on a robust data model and analytics engine integrating data from all recruiting and HR systems. The company graduated from the acclaimed Y Combinator startup incubator and was formed by People Analytics professionals with approximately 30 years of combined expertise.
Speaking on the deal, Adam Godson, CEO of Paradox, said:
AI is the future of talent acquisition, and the foundation of useful AI is high-quality data, often connected from different sources, that helps our clients solve real business challenges. We’ve always believed that conversations are the UI of the future, and we see an opportunity to create a data foundation that powers people’s intelligence in a conversational, frictionless way.
In 2024 alone, Paradox’s AI assistant and software automated the scheduling of more than 20 million interviews across the globe and powered over 1 billion AI-driven interactions with candidates in 30+ languages, saving recruiting teams millions in costs and countless hours of manual work. Combining Paradox’s depth in conversational AI experiences with Eqtble’s expertise in people data, the vision is for clients to create simple, accessible dashboards through a conversational interface – and then take action that improves business results.
Joseph Ifiegbu, co-founder and CEO of Eqtble, added:
As practitioners, we constantly experience the pain of accessing workforce insights and thinking. Who better to solve this than people who understand the challenges firsthand? We’re thrilled to help accelerate Paradox’s mission and AI vision, bringing influential people insights to the fingertips of talent acquisition and HR leaders — all through the simple, frictionless conversational experiences that make Paradox so unique.
Paradox, founded in 2016, developed the first conversational recruiting platform, powered by its AI assistant Olivia, to allow recruiting and hiring teams to spend more time with people and less time with technology. The platform’s AI assistant serves global clients with hiring needs across frontline high-volume hourly and high-skilled professional roles by streamlining tasks like screening for minimum qualifications, instantly scheduling interviews, answering common candidate questions, and more through simple, frictionless mobile-, chat-, and SMS-driven experiences. The Deloitte Fast 500 has ranked the company as one of the fastest growing in HRTech, and it has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list four years in a row.
