Rapha is a recruiting platform that captures culture fit and hard skills through asynchronous audio responses, replacing traditional resume screening and initial phone screens. It centralizes applicant activity, comments, and evaluations while supporting global, multi-language hiring for distributed teams. The platform includes built-in CRM features and keyboard shortcuts to help hiring teams move faster.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional hiring relies heavily on resumes and LinkedIn profiles, which often fail to convey an applicant's true personality, communication style, and cultural fit. Initial phone screens consume significant time for hiring teams and can delay the recruitment process, especially for distributed or global teams.
Solution
Rapha is a recruiting platform that lets applicants answer behavioral, technical, sales, design, and product-related questions through asynchronous audio responses, allowing them to sell themselves beyond a written resume. Hiring teams can listen to these responses to build consensus around an applicant's narrative, potentially redefining or skipping the first call entirely. The platform centralizes all applicant activity, stages, comments, and evaluations in one place, while its built-in CRM and keyboard-command navigation help recruiters move quickly. Rapha is designed for distributed teams, supporting global hiring and multiple languages.
Target Audience
Primary users are founders, recruiters, agencies, and hiring managers at distributed or global companies who want to streamline screening and improve culture-fit assessment.
Features
- Asynchronous audio responses for applicants to answer role-specific questions, capturing communication skills and personality
- Centralized activity tracking for applicant stages, comments, and evaluations in a single dashboard
- Built-in CRM functionality to manage candidate relationships and pipelines
- Keyboard shortcuts for fast navigation across jobs, applicants, and platform features
- Multi-language support designed for global and distributed hiring teams