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Technologies, home of the Digital Executive Podcast. Do you work in emerging tech? Working on something innovative? Maybe an entrepreneur? Apply to be a guest at www.corazon.com brand welcome to the Digital Executive. Today's guest is Matthew Stewart. Matthew Stewart is the founder of Talent Sprout, an AI recruiter that automates first round interviews for companies hiring at volume built on conversational voice AI. The platform runs natural human sounding screening interviews 247 in more than 50 languages, then scores and ranks candidates across communication, domain experience, problem solving, cultural fit and professionalism, turning what used to be weeks of phone screens into that same day shortlist. Well, good afternoon Matthew. Welcome to the show.
D (1:57)
Hey Brian, thanks a lot for having me.
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Absolutely my friend. I appreciate it. You're hailing out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm in Kansas City. Appreciate you jumping on making this work. I know you're just an hour ahead, which makes it a little bit easier, but again, most appreciated. And Matthew, if you don't mind, I'm going to jump right into your first question. You've built a career as a software engineer and product builder before Founding Talent Sprout with what experiences led you to focus on solving hiring challenges with AI?
D (2:29)
Yeah, so before founding Talent Sprout, I had about a decade of experience building software and Internet businesses, so I spent a lot of time doing hiring, specifically offshore hiring. And for anyone who's done a lot of hiring, they know you just get like absolutely bombarded with applicants and it's really hard to sort through the noise to see who's qualified or even who's real. So I'm just finding I was spending hours on flipping through resumes, clicking on profiles and if I was able to get a candidate on the call, it was very repetitive first round screening calls where I was asking the same questions. And so that's actually where the initial idea for Talents Pro came from. And it was just a problem I was experiencing in previous businesses. And yeah, the timing was, was really perfect because the conversational AI technology is finally good enough to actually conduct end to end voice interviews and evaluate candidates effectively. So it was just kind of the perfect timing of a problem and an opportunity identified and the technology as well.
