Recruiting platform Elly has officially announced the launch of its “AI-native recruiting” model, an approach designed to pair artificial intelligence with expert recruiters on every candidate search. Rather than replacing human personnel with automation, the system divides labor: AI manages scale by sourcing candidates, analyzing qualifications, flagging potential concerns, and surfacing top matches, while human recruiters provide essential context, critical judgment, and high-level decision-making. According to the company, this hybrid structure allows organizations to fill roles twice as fast and at roughly half the cost of traditional recruiting agencies.
A core advantage of the platform is cumulative learning across searches. Elly captures and retains insights—such as candidate interactions, interview feedback, and specific company preferences—so talent teams avoid starting from scratch with each new requisition, enabling past applicants to be reconsidered for future roles when relevant. In conjunction with the launch, Elly announced an initiative to help 100 job seekers land their next position through an open application process, highlighting the platform’s dual focus on expansive AI discovery and human evaluation.
Paradigm, the people intelligence company, today announced Surface Listening, a new AI-native employee listening capability within its Surface people intelligence platform. Surface Listening rethinks the traditional employee survey model by starting with signals across an organization’s workforce data, then identifying where employee input could help leaders understand and improve the outcomes that matter most, from performance and engagement to unwanted attrition.
Rather than relying on standardized questions and predetermined schedules, Surface can detect emerging patterns across workforce data, flag when listening would be valuable, identify the employees closest to what is happening, and generate the questions most relevant to understanding it. Once employees respond, Surface analyzes their feedback alongside broader organizational context, recommends what to do next, creates the work required to act, and measures what happens afterward.
“For decades, employee listening strategies started with, ‘when should we send out our survey and what template should we use?’ But that’s backward,” said Joelle Emerson, CEO and co-founder of Paradigm. “The more important questions are: What’s happening in our organization that we might be missing? What are we trying to understand or improve? And where could employee input help us make a better decision right now? With Surface Listening, we can finally start with those more strategic considerations and use employee feedback to actually help drive better outcomes.”
