The meeting between candidates and recruiters no longer escapes the wave of artificial intelligence. The young British company Jack & Jill is demonstrating this with a unique approach to recruitment: autonomous conversational agents capable of conducting discussions, assessing skills and matching the right profiles with the right positions. A development that is profoundly transforming the way companies identify and engage talent.
Jack, one of two AI agents developed by the startup, engages directly with candidates to understand their experiences, aspirations and working style. These structured conversations make it possible to enrich a contextualized database, well beyond the simple CV. Jill, her counterpart on the business side, interacts with the HR teams to qualify needs, understand the nuances of the position and identify the best profiles based on the information collected by Jack. Together, the two agents function as a digital pair capable of controlling the entire process of matching job supply and demand.
This approach puts an end to the fragmentation of traditional HR tools, where information systems, monitoring tables and job boards coexist without real interoperability. By centralizing exchanges and conversational data, Jack & Jill aims to offer a more fluid, responsive and measurable recruitment platform. The company already boasts more than 49,000 interactions with candidates and several hundred partner HR teams, particularly within high-growth London companies. The data collected is used to continuously refine recommendation models and improve matching accuracy.
Founded in 2025 in London by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan, Jack & Jill raised €17 million ($20 million) in seed from CREANDUM, with participation from ADA VENTURES, DIG VENTURES, ENTREPRENEUR FIRST, FIREDROP, REPEAT.VC, EPISODE1 VENTURES and PLAYFAIR. The round also includes more than 75 business angels, including Nico Rosberg and representatives from LOVABLE, ANTHROPIC and ELEVENLABS. The company plans to use these funds to establish a subsidiary in San Francisco, strengthen its technical and marketing teams, and accelerate the deployment of its AI-assisted recruiting platform in the US market.
