We are Rihab Lajmi and Badis Zormati, Co-founders of Asendia AI.

Asendia AI clones your best recruiters into self learning AI agents that source, screen and help hire candidates 10x faster! And is used today by the top staffing companies in the US!

See Asendia AI in action: 🔗 Talk to Asendia Founders

Since joining YC:

→ Crossed $500K in ARR
→ Top recruitment companies in the industry now running on Asendia AI
→ 4 major industry events sponsored
→ hosted a webinar with 700 industry leaders
→ Multiple dinners with customers and partners across the US

Check out our Launch video Here

Problem

Staffing agencies lose deals every day because recruiters don’t have enough hours to place candidates fast enough.

• Recruiters spend 80% of their day on repetitive admin work: screening, outreach, scheduling, and follow-ups
• That leaves only a few hours for the work that actually drives placements: relationships, judgment, and closing
• Every candidate not submitted is a placement a faster agency wins

In staffing, speed is the margin.

Solution

Asendia lets staffing agencies build their own AI recruiters.

Each AI recruiter is cloned from how your best human recruiters actually work: their screening criteria, outreach style, prioritization logic, and escalation rules.

You configure how they operate:

• Which channels they use: phone, SMS, WhatsApp, email
• How they screen candidates
• What qualifies a candidate
• When they escalate to a human recruiter

Under the hood, Asendia connects to your ATS and learns from every candidate record, client req, and placement history.

Your AI recruiters don’t just search by keywords. They understand your database like a tenured recruiter, matching on context and surfacing signals like contract end dates, availability shifts, and past behavior.

Every morning, your team gets a brief: who was sourced, who responded, who’s qualified, and what needs attention.

Recruiters stop spending eight hours on admin and start spending eight hours on the work that wins placements.

The team

Rihab is ex-Google and ex-Microsoft, where she led cloud and engineering initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. Won world-wide mathematics olympiad at the age of 16.

Badis graduated with a Master’s degree in AI and Machine Learning from the Technical University of Munich and led AI projects at Infineon Technologies, a leading global semiconductor company. Worked closely with fortune 500 to assist with AI led transformations for hardware product.