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Healthtech · AI product · Incubated by Preux

An AI recruiting assistant, taken to production

An autonomous assistant that handles the administrative half of healthcare recruiting, built and proven with real staffing teams.

Wakura AI

Admin time

−40%

Time to hire

20–30% faster

Candidate pool

+50%, same team

The challenge

Recruiters were consumed by repetitive work: pre-screening, email threads, calendar tennis across time zones, and constant ATS data entry. In a market with chronic talent shortages, slow responses lose qualified clinicians to whoever replies first.

Credential verification and interview coordination were manual and error-prone, and data lived fragmented across the ATS, calendars and inboxes, with no real-time view of the pipeline.

Our approach

We scoped the assistant to the work that actually consumes a recruiter's day: it answers candidate questions over chat and email, screens and ranks résumés by certifications and specialty, and books interviews against live calendars with automated reminders.

It updates the ATS autonomously, logging interactions and advancing candidates through pipeline stages, so the system of record stays current without anyone typing.

Compliance and bias safeguards are built in, and every consequential decision stays with a human. Dashboards track time-to-hire, drop-off and bottlenecks, so the assistant is judged on measured outcomes, not impressions.

Outcomes

  • Time spent on administrative work dropped by roughly 40%
  • Time-to-hire improved 20–30% for urgent roles, with interview no-shows down
  • A mid-sized trial firm handled a 50% larger candidate pool with the same team

Tasks like scheduling an interview, which might take several email exchanges over a day, are now handled in minutes by the AI.

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Client

Wakura AI

Sector

Healthtech

Discipline

AI product · Incubated by Preux

Engagement

Ongoing

Built with

TypeScriptClaudeATS integrationsCalendar APIs

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