Wayfaster provides an AI‑driven interview platform that automates initial phone screens, generating role‑specific questions, recording video, transcribing responses, and delivering a quantitative scorecard and summary. The results are pushed directly into the user’s ATS, enabling staffing firms and talent teams to benchmark candidates, reduce recruiter workload, and accelerate hiring decisions.
Funding
$2.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Recruiters and staffing teams spend extensive time conducting initial phone screens, manually transcribing interviews, and evaluating candidates inconsistently, which slows hiring cycles and increases costs.
Solution
Wayfaster automates the early interview stage with an AI-driven interviewer that conducts 5‑30 minute phone screens, generates role‑specific questions from job descriptions, and adapts in real time to candidate responses. The platform records video, provides a transcript, and produces a quantitative scorecard and summary that are automatically pushed back into the user’s applicant tracking system. By standardizing interview content and evaluation criteria, Wayfaster enables recruiters to benchmark candidates, reduce the number of live recruiter calls, and make faster hiring decisions while maintaining fairness and consistency.
Target Audience
Wayfaster is designed for staffing firms, recruitment agencies, and internal talent acquisition teams that handle high volumes of applicants and need to accelerate their screening process.
Features
- AI interviewer “Steve” conducts fully automated phone interviews, adjusting questions based on candidate answers
- Automatic generation of interview topics and questions tailored to each job description
- Real‑time transcription, video capture, and scoring with a detailed summary and benchmark comparison
- One‑click integration with major ATS platforms (e.g., Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Workable, iCIMS, Lever, etc.) to push results back into the hiring workflow
- Standardized evaluation metrics and scorecards to ensure objective, consistent candidate assessment
- Ability to screen thousands of applicants simultaneously, reducing time‑to‑hire and recruiter workload