WhoWhy is an AI recruiting assistant that operates inside Slack to help hiring teams source, research, and evaluate candidates without leaving their communication platform. The agent maps a company's ideal customer profile, searches a database of 30,000+ companies to find relevant prospects, and shows every search query and reasoning step directly in the channel. Priced at $50 per month for two roles, it covers compute and data costs while remaining Slack-only for now.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Hiring teams rely on fragmented tooling for candidate sourcing, spending hours switching between job boards, LinkedIn, and ATS platforms to find and evaluate talent. Traditional recruiting workflows lack transparency and force recruiters to manually piece together candidate research, which slows down hiring and makes it difficult to scale sourcing efforts.
Solution
WhoWhy provides an AI recruiting assistant that lives inside Slack, allowing hiring teams to source, research, and evaluate candidates without leaving their communication platform. The agent maps the company's ideal customer profile by company type, then identifies suitable candidates within those organizations—leveraging the logic that someone hired at a top company has already passed that company's bar. Every search query and reasoning step is displayed in the Slack channel, giving teams full transparency into the agent's process. The tool integrates with third-party data providers like Apollo and LinkedIn to enrich candidate profilesaren't and contact details, and users can test multiple strategies per role as part of the subscription.
Target Audience
Primary customers are hiring teams and recruiters, particularly at startups and scale-ups, who use Slack as their primary communication tool and want to streamline candidate sourcing without adopting additional standalone recruiting software.
Features
- One-click Slack installation with channel selection, operational in under 30 seconds, and activated via @-mention
- Company-first candidate mapping that identifies ICP by company type and then finds relevant people within those organizations
- Access to a database of 30,000+ companies for candidate sourcing
- Full transparency with every search query and reasoning step displayed in the Slack channel
- Enrichment of candidate profiles and professional contact details through providers including Apollo, FullEnrich, and Exa
- AI-powered candidate evaluation and outreach drafting using large language models (Anthropic)
- Exportable context including strategies, companies, candidates, and notes in standard formats on cancellation
- Roadmap includes ATS integrations (Greenhouse, Lever) with manual transfer available currently