Hunar.AI

Hunar.AI is an AI-powered recruitment and workforce management platform specifically designed for India's frontline (blue-collar) labor ecosystem. Founded in 2021 in Bengaluru and backed by $1.78M in seed funding from Together Fund, Titan Capital, and angel investors Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl, Hunar.AI leverages multilingual Voice AI and WhatsApp-based automation to streamline high-volume hiring for manpower-intensive sectors including logistics, retail, BFSI, e-commerce, and healthcare. The platform acts as a digital HR teammate conducting human-like conversations in 9 Indian languages (Hindi, English, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, Odia) to vet candidates, verify documents, and manage employee lifecycle events. Hunar.AI handles 10,000+ AI-powered calls per day, reducing hiring cycles by 90% and boosting first-month productivity by 15-25%. The platform covers end-to-end frontline workforce operations including multichannel sourcing (social media, job boards, offline channels), AI-driven audio assessments and screening, automated document verification, interview scheduling, personalized onboarding training, and employee retention through surveys and sentiment analysis. Founded by Krishna Khandelwal (CEO, IIT Kanpur) and Shantanu Bhattacharyya (CTO, CMU PhD), both with backgrounds at Locus.sh, Hunar.AI offers two product variants: DIY Agents for fast-growing smaller teams enabling self-service agent setup with transparent credit-based costs, and Frontline OS for large enterprises with distributed workforces. The platform integrates with existing HRIS/ERP systems and uses WhatsApp as the primary candidate engagement channel. With verified large-scale clients including PhonePe and Tata Capital, Hunar.AI has processed over 10 million workforce engagements and reduces time-to-hire from months to under 3 days while cutting recruitment costs dramatically for high-volume hiring scenarios.