AboutAI hiring, rebuiltFounder-led

Hiring deserved
better than a
keyword filter.

Why we exist

Ployo interviews every applicant, reads every CV for evidence, and hands hiring teams a ranked shortlist they can actually defend.

Built for the people who do the hiring, not for job boards.

Evidence over gut. Humans decide.
01 / The thesis

Hiring isn't broken because of the tools.

Traditional hiring was designed around human bandwidth, not human judgment. It filters for volume rather than insight, and optimises for speed over signal. A great candidate can be screened out in seconds by a keyword no one should have weighted.

AI does not fix that by bolting a chatbot onto the same broken funnel. Used well, it lets you redesign the function entirely: interview everyone, read everyone, and surface the evidence behind every decision.

We built Ployo on one conviction: hiring should be a discovery and advocacy engine, not a filtering mechanism. Every candidate gets a real interview, and every shortlist comes with the reasoning attached.

Ployo platform data

30,000+

AI interviews completed

340,000+

Candidate answers captured and graded

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Languages the AI interviewer conducts interviews in

60+

Applicant tracking systems Ployo pushes shortlists into

02 / What we built

Interview everyone. Shortlist with evidence.

Two AI agents run the workflow, and a human makes every decision that matters.

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Every applicant interviewed.

Sarah runs an adaptive AI video interview with every applicant the moment they apply. No one is filtered on CV formatting alone.

Meet Sarah.
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Every CV read for evidence.

Each CV is parsed into a structured profile with cited evidence, so a claim is only as strong as what backs it.

Cited, not guessed.
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A ranked, explainable shortlist.

Recruiters get a ranked shortlist with full recordings, transcripts, and timestamped AI insight behind every name.

Ranked. Auditable.
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In front of your ATS, not instead of it.

Ployo pushes shortlists into Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, and 60+ others. It sits in front of the ATS, it does not replace it.

60+ integrations.
Two colleagues reading a printed candidate record together, one taking notes
Where the two AI agents hand off: they run the interview and read the CV for evidence, then a person looks at what they found and decides who moves forward.
03 / Who we build for

For anyone hiring at real volume.

Ployo is B2B software for any team with more applicants than hours, across every industry. Recruiters, talent teams, hiring managers, and founders use it to interview everyone and shortlist with evidence.

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In-house recruiting teams

More applicants than the team can ever interview.

Across every open role, Ployo interviews each applicant and ranks them on the same rubric, so your recruiters spend their hours on the shortlist, not the inbox.

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B

Founders & hiring managers

Making a key hire without a full talent team.

Describe the role and let Ployo handle the sourcing-to-shortlist work, with the evidence in front of you when you make the call.

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C

High-volume & frontline hiring

Hundreds of applicants per role, every week.

Retail, hospitality, logistics, contact centres, care, healthcare, and more. Anywhere volume is high and good people get missed, Ployo interviews all of them.

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Industry-agnostic by design, with deeper solutions for high-shortage sectors like care and healthcare.
04 / The team

Built by operators, not bystanders.

Most AI in hiring is theatre. You can tell because the funnel still looks identical: same stages, same dropouts, same bias, just with a chatbot in front.

Ahmed Raza
Founder & CEO

Ahmed built the entire Ployo platform end to end: the AI interview agents that speak with every applicant, the evaluation and scoring pipeline that turns each conversation into evidence a recruiter can audit, and the integrity engine behind it. The platform has now completed more than 30,000 AI interviews, and Ahmed runs parts of the company itself on autonomous agents he wrote.

Sole engineer behind 30,000+ completed AI interviews.
Mohsin Ali Khan
Advisor

Mohsin spent fifteen years at the intersection of AI, product, and talent. At SEEK he led teams of more than 45 across product, engineering, and AI for 50M+ users across APAC, and as Chief Product Officer at Hudson he deployed an AI-driven candidate profiling engine that tripled consultant productivity. He advises Ployo on the recruitment market and product.

Previously: Head of Product at SEEK, CPO at Hudson.
05 / How we think

Five things we won't compromise.

01

Evidence, not gut feel.

Every score traces back to something a human can read and check.

02

Humans make the call.

AI surfaces and ranks. People decide who gets hired.

03

AI earns its place.

We add it where it creates real leverage, and keep it away from decisions it shouldn't touch.

04

Bias-aware by design.

Same role, same rubric, every candidate. Consistency is the point.

05

Founder-led, not faceless.

Packaging is scoped per team directly with the founder, not sold from a price list.

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Founder-led

Let's rebuild your
hiring together.

A 30-minute call for hiring teams evaluating Ployo on one of their live roles. No deck, no pitch, just your funnel and where the evidence would change it.