ABOUT US

Round 1 fails everyone.
We got tired of watching it.

A recruiter buried in resumes. A candidate ghosted after three callbacks. A hiring manager who doesn't trust the shortlist she's handed. Round 1 has been broken for so long, everyone just learned to call it normal. We didn't.

Three seats we've all sat in

The recruiter's seat.

You open 400 resumes for one role. You know within four minutes which ones are worth a call — and you still screen all 400, because the alternative is missing the one good one buried on page nine.

The candidate's seat.

You cleared the first call. You prepped for a week. Then you sat across from someone reading off a script, half-listening, already three interviews behind schedule. Two weeks later: nothing. Not even a no.

The hiring manager's seat.

Someone hands you five shortlisted resumes and calls them “strong.” Strong by what measure, judged by whom? You're the one who has to defend this hire in six months when it doesn't work out — not the person who built the shortlist.

We've sat in all three chairs. That's the actual difference between us and everyone else building recruiting software.

None of us sketched TidyHire on a whiteboard from the outside. We built it from the seat we were sitting in when it broke.

What that actually changed

For recruiters:

Charlie runs Round 1, so your time goes to the four candidates worth a real conversation — not four hundred resumes.

For candidates:

the same interview, run fully and fairly, every single time. No one three interviews behind. No ghosting after you showed up.

For hiring managers:

a structured, scored record you can actually stand behind — not a gut call wearing a shortlist as a disguise.

Our leadership

Hari Krishna M

Co-founder and CEO

Ran hiring desks for 17+ years before this — the quota, the ghosting, the scheduling chaos, all of it firsthand.

“I've sat in the recruiter's seat for most of my career. We didn't build TidyHire because HR tech sounded interesting — we built it because we were the ones stuck inside the broken version.”

Ashish Kumar Sahoo

Co-founder and CTO

Built the systems recruiting teams actually have to run inside every day — and designed TidyHire so the power sits under the hood, not in the way.

“Recruiters don't want a clever architecture diagram. They want a clear answer and software that gets out of their way.”

Javeed A Khan

Co-founder and Chief Growth & People Officer

Spends most of his working life in rooms with HR heads and enterprise TA leaders who are tired of defending shortlists they don't fully trust.

“Nobody in Round 1 — not the recruiter, not the candidate, not the hiring manager — is having a good time right now. We built TidyHire for all three of them, not just the one who signs the contract.”