Say hi to Mochi, Maki's AI phone screening agent

Hiring is broken. We fixed the first screen.

In hiring, timing is everything.

But when recruiters are buried under thousands of applications, delays are inevitable. Great candidates wait days, or hear nothing at all. Teams burn out chasing no-shows. And the best talent moves on.

At Maki, we built something better.

Introducing Mochi, our fully autonomous voice AI agent, designed to screen candidates in minutes through natural, adaptive phone conversations. In plain terms, Mochi is AI phone screening: it runs the first-round call, evaluates the answers and hands your team a structured result.

It speaks. It listens. It evaluates. It answers. It learns.

All in real time. At scale. So your team can focus on what only humans can do.

What Mochi does

Let's be clear: Mochi, our conversational screening agent, is not here to replace humans. It is here to free them.

Screening thousands of candidates is not a good use of anyone's talent, not yours, not your team's.

Mochi automates the repetitive, high-volume, low-value part of the process, so your recruiters can focus on what actually moves the needle: meaningful interviews, team alignment, onboarding and connection.

We believe HR deserves better than admin work. It deserves more-than-human powers.

Built for high-volume hiring

If you are hiring at scale, in retail, logistics, banking, hospitality, aviation, customer service, healthcare, education or manufacturing, you do not have time to chase no-shows or read through mountains of CVs. That is the daily reality of frontline hiring at scale.

Mochi can run millions of conversations per day, 24/7.

How AI phone screening works with Mochi

With Mochi, it is simple:

• Candidates get an SMS or WhatsApp message. They reply once they are ready. Seconds later, they are in a structured, dynamic voice conversation with your brand, by phone or web call.
• Mochi adapts to tone, phrasing and pace. It evaluates hundreds of skills, hard and soft, including empathy, collaboration, leadership, cognitive agility, behavioural traits, language proficiency and basic eligibility criteria.
• Strong candidates are routed instantly to the next step. No scheduling. No delays. No guesswork. With Kumi, our AI interview scheduling agent, the interview is booked the moment they clear the bar.

Every conversation is structured, and interview research shows that structure is what reduces bias in an employment interview. Mochi is grounded in that science and validated for fairness.

Usage is our moat. Data is our edge.

We are not just building agents. We are building the world's most valuable talent intelligence engine.

Every call, response and outcome feeds a system that learns continuously. It captures what has always been lost in hiring: tone, tempo, micro-signals, hiring manager comments, gut feeling.

The more Mochi is used, the smarter and more predictive it becomes, tailored to your culture, shaped by your feedback and evolving with every interaction.

Structured, high-quality, customer-specific data is our competitive edge. It is what makes Mochi unique, and what makes Maki unstoppable.

Why voice is the new signal

You can fake a résumé. You can cheat a form. But in a live conversation, your real self shows up.

Voice is fast. Authentic. Rich in signal. It is the closest thing to being there.

Mochi turns that signal into structured, science-backed insight, in real time.

It does not just automate. It understands. It does not forget. It does not miss great talent.

Welcome Mochi

Today marks a big step forward for Maki, and for hiring.

Mochi is:

• Scalable: millions of conversations per day, any time, anywhere
• Rooted in science: built for fairness, accuracy and transparency
• Adaptable: speaks in your tone, reflects your values, grows with your needs

Mochi gives recruiters superpowers, so they can focus on what really matters: connecting with people, not chasing processes.

Say hi to Mochi. AI phone screening, and hiring, reimagined.