Vela

AI interview scheduling for executive search firms

Vela builds AI systems that handle coordination work, beginning with scheduling, a task far harder than it looks. Its clients are top recruiting and executive search firms filling roles such as chief executive, chief HR officer and board member at Fortune 500 companies, and Vela's AI arranges the interviews for those searches on its own. Doing that well means making thousands of decisions a day that depend on context, for example, a candidate may accept a 7am slot to meet a CEO but refuse the same hour for a peer. In searches worth six figures, a single slip in timing, tone or context can derail the whole process.