The entire flow
A vacancy opens
Currently: you piece the brief together from a voice note and three WhatsApp chats.With Harsift: one place, the moment the role opens.It knows your company
Currently: you repeat the salary band and visa rules for every role.With Harsift: set them once, every role uses them.Describe the role
Currently: you write an ad that says what you want, but not how to tell who really has it.With Harsift: brief it like a colleague; it writes the questions that show who really did it.CVs come in
Currently: you download and forward CVs by hand.With Harsift: every applicant lands already read and sorted, straight from your ATS or inbox.Every CV read
Currently: you spend about 7 hours reading 400 CVs properly.With Harsift: 1,000 read in about 30 seconds.The proof behind each call
Currently: you get a score of 82 you can’t check.With Harsift: the exact sentence, highlighted. 0 wrong on the shortlist vs 229.Nobody dropped for a gap
Currently: you spend days on WhatsApp chasing visa and notice details.With Harsift: the message is pre-written. One click sends it, and their reply sorts them.Connect your AI agent
Currently: you click through a dashboard for every answer.With Harsift: ask ChatGPT, Claude or any agent about any role, and get the proof back.
You know this week
None of this is anyone doing their job badly. It’s too much reading for the hours in a week, done with tools that match words instead of what people actually did.
It’s not just you
- UAE200 → 2,000applications per role, then and nowapplications per role, then and nowAvinav Nigam, CEO, TERN Group, in Khaleej Times, Aug 2026Khaleej Times, Aug 2026
- UAE2 weeksof one recruiter’s time to read 400 CVsof one recruiter’s time per 400 CVsAkeed Azmi, CEO, Cercli, in Gulf Business, Jun 2026Gulf Business, Jun 2026
- UAE3 in 4UAE hiring teams struggle to find qualified peoplestruggle to find qualified peopleLinkedIn research, reported by Gulf News, Jan 2026Gulf News, Jan 2026
- Global746applications per recruiter in 2025, up 412% since 2022applications per recruiter, +412%Greenhouse, The Hire Standard / Hiring Benchmarks, Mar 2026Greenhouse, Mar 2026
Getting through every CV
244 applications per job, hundreds in days
Greenhouse Hiring Benchmarks, Mar 2026 · Avinav Nigam, CEO, TERN Group, in Khaleej Times, Aug 2026Every CV read as it arrives
Knowing why someone was picked
Same CV, scored 5.5 and 7.23
Privacy International, 'Humanless Resources: uncovering AI recruitment software', Jul 2026The exact line from their CV, checked word for word
What people are saying
“I've been recruiting in the UAE for 20 years. I have never seen CVs this polished or this useless. AI has broken the CV as a screening tool. Not damaged. Broken.”
Group HR director at a Dubai company · LinkedIn, Aug 2026
“I recently posted a position for an HR manager in Dubai for only 8 days. I received over 4000 applications, and trust me, only 5 of them were good enough for me to call them in.”
Self-described HR professional hiring in Dubai · Reddit r/dubai, Feb 2024
“They think they're detecting capability. They're detecting formatting, vocabulary, and pattern-matching to past hires.”
Akeed Azmi, co-founder and CEO, Cercli, on screening systems · Gulf Business, Jun 2026
See it work

Your company, set up once
Salary bands, hiring rules and documents, each with its source.

Say it or type it, and it drafts what to look for.

Plain words in, a row-by-row edit out, with Undo.

Straight from your ATS or inbox.

Shortlist, Needs a look, Not a match.

The sentence behind the call, highlighted.

What’s missing, and the message to send.

Connect ChatGPT or Claude in one click.


Who it’s for

In-house hiring teams
Every open role gets the same pipeline, and the hiring manager signs off in Slack or Teams.

Recruitment agencies
Each client gets their own space, and a shortlist with the line behind each name.
Teams building with AI agents
Run the whole process from ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent.
More ways people use it
See who already applied before you post
A thousand CVs in a week, each read as it lands
The hiring manager approves in Slack or Teams
Interview questions from what their CV says they did- Drop five years to four, and everyone re-sorts
After a job fair, know who to call that evening
Run hiring from ChatGPT or Claude
Connect in one click, then just ask. Every answer comes back with the CV line behind it.
Senior Accountant, Dubai is open with 7 requirements and 23 small questions. The CVs are in and read.
list_roleslist_candidatesget_candidate356 on the Shortlist, 214 in Needs a look, 430 Not a match. Alya Al Mansoori has all 7 requirements confirmed. On UAE tax, their CV says:
“Prepared and submitted quarterly UAE VAT201 returns through EmaraTax for 5 legal entities.”
Here’s the question for the 214 in Needs a look: “What is your notice period?” Their replies will move them to the right pile.
It knows how your company hires
Salary bands, visa rules, who signs off. Set once, used by every role.
Change a salary band once, and every role uses the new one.
Every fact shows where it came from.
You check each role before any CV is read.
What it would save you
AED 11,533 a month
AED 946 a month, including AED 0.59 to screen
Current tools would also put 229 wrong people on your shortlist: 15 hours and AED 2,641 a month to open and reject them. Harsift put none there.
Tell us what’s broken
Questions
Does it replace my ATS?
No need. Harsift works inside the ATS you already have: it picks up new applicants from it and writes the pile, the evidence and a note per requirement back onto each candidate’s record. If you don’t use an ATS, it works from your inbox.
What works today?
Roles, screening, the three piles, the evidence view and the one question all work today, and we’ve tested them on 1,000 CVs. The Workable and Zoho Recruit connections are built and run in test mode, reading applicants and writing nothing back until they’re switched on. The MCP server already lets an agent read roles, piles and CV lines. Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp, Slack, Teams and Bullhorn are next, switched on one by one, along with agent tools that act as well as read. Joining the waitlist is how you get in as each one opens.
Does AI decide who gets rejected?
No. Harsift uses Jev to answer small factual questions about each CV, like “did they file the VAT return themselves?”. Fixed rules that you can read and change turn those answers into the pile. A language model only writes explanations when you ask for one, and it never changes a decision.
How did you test it?
We built 1,000 deliberately hard CVs for a Senior Accountant role in Dubai, wrote down the right answer for each one before any tool saw it, and ran three screeners on the same files. They’re test CVs in one clean layout, for one role in one market, and they test the hard part: telling apart who did the work from who only mentioned it. Messy real PDFs and scans go through a separate reading step first, and the next test is a live role.
Isn’t this just ChatGPT with a prompt?
No. One model reading the job ad and the CV and giving a verdict is exactly what the AI screener in our test does, and it got 43.6% right. Harsift breaks the role into small factual questions, uses Jev to answer each one against the CV, and fixed rules make the call. Same CVs, very different result. The difference is how the screening is built.
Where do our CVs go?
Harsift uses Jev by TypeSafe AI to answer the questions, and a language model only when you ask for an explanation. Before any real CV goes in, we agree with each team where CVs are stored, how long they’re kept and when they’re deleted.
What happens when a CV can’t be read?
It goes to a separate list to fix. It’s never marked Not a match, and Harsift never guesses what the CV might have said.
Does it look at age, nationality, photos or other personal details?
No. Harsift only asks about work: what they did, for how long, and what they’ve stated about notice, visa and salary. Anything you ask for that touches a protected detail gets flagged when the role is drafted.
What does it cost?
We’re setting prices with the first teams on the waitlist. Reading and sorting 1,000 CVs costs us about AED 0.59 today, so screening won’t be the expensive part.
Who built it?
Hamza, as a side project, using Jev by TypeSafe AI. It grew from a screening test into a full hiring pipeline once it held up against 1,000 difficult CVs.
Get in early
We’re letting teams in a few at a time, starting with the ones who have a live role.






