Asendia AI

AI Recruiters for Staffing Agencies and Enterprise

Spring 2026ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceB2BAISan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

Asendia AI builds AI recruiters for staffing agencies and enterprise companies. It clones their best recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates 10x faster. In a few months, the Asendia team crossed $500k in revenue and is now working with the top enterprises in the space.

Verdict

High Signal

Market Opportunity

Staffing and recruiting automation is a massive B2B market — global staffing industry is $600B+. Clear ICP: staffing agencies and enterprise HR/talent teams. Monetization path is obvious (SaaS per seat or per placement). AI-driven recruiting has proven enterprise willingness to pay.

Medium Signal

Founder Signal

Rihab has cloud engineering experience at Microsoft and Google across Europe and US — solid technical pedigree. Badis has 6 years at Infineon (semiconductor/embedded systems) after EE at TU Munich — technically credible but not directly recruiting or AI SaaS experience. LinkedIn profiles unavailable for detailed verification, which limits confidence. No prior exits.

Low Signal

Competition

The AI recruiting automation space is crowded with direct competitors: Paradox (Olivia), HireVue, Beamery, Findem, Fetcher, and dozens of YC-backed AI HR startups. OpenAI and LinkedIn (Microsoft) are obvious threats given the domain. No data provided on differentiation beyond speed claims, and no proprietary data moat is evident.

Medium Signal

Product

$500k revenue in a few months is a strong traction claim, and working with 'top enterprises' suggests real customers. However, no named logos, no press coverage, no demo or pricing page visible, and the revenue figure is self-reported with no corroboration. The 10x faster claim is unverified marketing language.

OverallB Tier

The $500k revenue in a few months is the headline signal here — if accurate, it proves real enterprise demand and execution speed. Founders have relevant technical backgrounds (Microsoft/Google cloud + Infineon AI engineering) but no recruiting domain expertise or prior exits, and LinkedIn data is unavailable for verification. The market is genuinely large and enterprise-friendly, but the competitive landscape is brutally crowded with well-funded incumbents and big tech lurking. The core differentiation — 'cloning your best recruiter' — is a compelling narrative but needs a moat beyond prompt engineering. Worth watching if traction holds, but needs clearer differentiation story and verifiable customer evidence to move to A-tier.

Active Founders

Rihab Lajmi

Founder

I am Co-Founder & CEO of Asendia AI. Previously I worked as a cloud engineer at companies like Microsoft and Google across Europe and the US. Now I am co-building Asendia AI, the smartest recruitment engine for staffing agencies.

Badis Zormati

Founder

Co-Founder and CTO of Asendia AI. I'm an AI engineer turned founder, building the recruitment engine that's replacing manual screening for staffing agencies. Before Asendia, I spent six years at Infineon after studying Electrical Engineering at TU Munich, but what really shaped me was traveling, meeting people everywhere, and never being able to stop connecting dots between them.

Asendia AI

TierB Tier

BatchSpring 2026

Team Size3

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

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