Maki and Recruitics Partner to Bring AI Voice Screening to the Pre-Apply Experience

Maki today announced a new partnership with Recruitics, bringing AI-powered voice interviewing into AdaptiveApply™, Recruitics' candidate experience technology and integrated hiring solutions marketplace that connects screening, assessment, verification, and hiring technologies directly into the pre-apply workflow.

The partnership enables employers to embed Maki's AI voice interviews directly within the application flow and conduct initial screening before an application ever hits the ATS, delivering pre-qualified and enriched candidate signals to recruiters while creating a more seamless path for candidates. It shifts candidate assessment from the post-apply process to an earlier stage of the hiring journey, so employers gain deeper insight into every candidate while the application itself stays simple. The value to talent teams is one connected funnel: Recruitics attracts quality applicants efficiently, and Maki screens them fairly at scale, from first impression to qualified shortlist.

"Recruitics is exceptional at getting the right people to apply. We are exceptional at screening them fairly, at scale, by voice. Together we give high-volume talent teams one funnel that is efficient at the top and rigorous at the bottom. It is what we both mean by hiring better, not just faster," says Maxime Legardez, CEO, Maki.

The new capability addresses a growing challenge facing talent acquisition teams. As generative AI has made resumes easier to create and optimize, recruiters are finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish candidate quality based on resumes alone. At the same time, many qualified candidates, particularly passive talent and frontline workers, may not have an up-to-date resume readily available. By embedding AI voice interviewing into the pre-apply experience through AdaptiveApply, candidates can complete an interview without leaving the application flow, while employers evaluate talent based on skills, experience, and responses rather than a resume. The result is a hiring experience that no longer makes a current resume a barrier to entry, enabling employers to engage passive talent, expand access to qualified candidates, and connect with people who might otherwise never enter the hiring funnel.

Key benefits include:

• Stronger candidate signal: Live, adaptive voice interactions provide context that resume-based screening cannot.
• Reduced application friction: Candidates engage directly through the application experience, creating a more streamlined path to consideration.
• Expanded access to talent: Qualified candidates can showcase their experience and fit even when they do not have a current resume.
• Greater recruiter efficiency: Interview results and candidate insights are delivered directly into existing ATS environments, so teams can optimize toward hiring outcomes.
• Defensible decisions: Every candidate is evaluated against validated, science-backed criteria, with a human always making the final call.

For organizations that hire at scale, whether high-volume frontline roles (retail floors, warehouses, contact centres, delivery fleets, frontline healthcare) or large enterprises running hundreds of roles across the business, the hard part was never attracting applicants. It was screening thousands of them, fast and fairly, without burying recruiters in calls and CVs. That is exactly what this partnership solves.

Maki's Voice Screening (Mochi) screens applicants at scale: a real, adaptive voice conversation, available 24/7 in dozens of languages, that evaluates every candidate against validated, science-backed criteria and hands recruiters a ranked, defensible shortlist in hours rather than weeks, with a human always making the final call.

"Recruiters today are drowning in the noise of applications that look the same on paper. The integration with Maki People gives employers a way to hear from candidates directly and assess their skills, communication, and fit right inside the apply flow. That's the kind of signal that leads to better and faster hires," says Adam Stafford, CEO, Recruitics.

This is a combination built for the brands that are always hiring. Recruitics powers talent attraction for companies including DoorDash, Chipotle, Walmart, Baylor Scott & White, and Labcorp, while Maki is trusted by global leaders including Capgemini, Deloitte, Nespresso, Grant Thornton, Wagamama and Volkswagen, alongside one of the world's largest airlines, one of the world's largest fashion retailers and a leading global beauty retailer, among others. Bringing the two together gives talent teams at always-on employers a complete, measurable hiring funnel.

As part of the growing AdaptiveApply marketplace, Maki joins Recruitics' ecosystem of hiring technology partners helping employers build a more intelligent, outcome-driven hiring process. Together, Maki and Recruitics are helping organizations move beyond traditional screening methods and toward a hiring experience designed to cut through the noise and focus on authentic candidate signals, one connected funnel that is efficient at the top and rigorous at the bottom.

Maki People

Maki is Hiring Intelligence, end to end: one system, five capabilities (Intake, Screening, Deep Assessment, Interview Co-pilot and Hire Recommendation) that sits on top of the ATS recruiters already use and helps enterprises hire better, not just faster. Every candidate is evaluated against validated assessment science, so each hiring decision is defensible when a board, a works council or a candidate asks how it was reached. Enterprise-ready by design (ISO 27001, GDPR, EU AI Act ready), Maki runs in 60+ countries and 45+ languages, cutting early-tenure turnover by up to 25%, accelerating time to hire 3x and automating 90% of screening and assessment work, with a 98% candidate NPS. Learn more at makipeople.com.

Recruitics

Recruitics is the talent acquisition platform for organizations where hiring never stops. The platform unifies predictive labor market intelligence, programmatic reach across every channel candidates trust, and AI-ready job application workflows to optimize every stage of the pre-apply journey, from market signal to qualified hire. More than 400 enterprise organizations across healthcare, logistics, retail, and beyond trust Recruitics to reach and convert talent across 100+ countries. For more information, visit recruitics.com.