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Alex

Alex is an agentic AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter, Alex, has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, Alex asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Alex can be customized to yo

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2
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
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Y Combinator
competitors
6
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #27

Tired of switching tabs to cursor every time you're building your iOS app in Xcode? Worry not! Alex is a sidebar app that works directly with Xcode, and has the same Cmd+L, Cmd+K, and Apply Code commands as Cursor. And, it's super fast. Check it out: https://alexcodes.app

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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5614

Alex is an agentic AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter, Alex, has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, Alex asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Alex can be customized to yo

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High Signal interpretation

Alex is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
iOS appXcodeCompaniessidebar appfuture of hiring
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Alex

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Echo

match 65

Echo helps B2B founders know exactly what to say during a sales call to win the business, including how to respond to any objections that come up. We do this by generating a personalized sales playbook based on best practices and providing an intuitive interface for following its guidelines in real time.

shared product terms: best, time, call, during; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Fastpad

match 63

Fastpad builds hiring software for the Indian market that gets rid of spam and ensures that companies can see quick snapshots of real candidates. Fastpad is looking to create the dominant recruitment marketplace by cutting through the noise in an Indian hiring marketplace that’s growing 40 percent year-over-year.

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: hiring, companie, over, candidate; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lightscreen AI

match 61

Lightscreen’s voice + video AI interviewer enables companies to identify and invest in genuinely skilled candidates. It's already being used by high-growth startups and recruiting agencies to screen technical candidates. We provide companies with a voicebot that can run a full-length technical interview, does smart interruptions, and multi-modal cheating detection. The AI provides the company rubric-based, rich candidate evaluation in minutes and can be fully customized to ask questions and eval

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: companie, video, candidate, interview; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Talentdrop

match 59

When it comes to hiring, there are lots of resources to help managers get more candidates. But on average, only 1 in every 300 of these candidates actually get hired. Hiring managers and recruiters end up taking a robotic, brute force approach to sourcing - the kind of approach top talent hates. Managers are increasingly finding that the simplest and most personable way to attract talent starts with their network. The best candidates want to work for great people, not faceless companies. Sharing

shared extracted concept terms: companie; shared product terms: recruiter, hiring, companie, best; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Reppls

match 43

We are going to change existing HR practice of choosing candidates by CV - introducing AI Interview Agents who conduct real-time video interviews with all candidates, assessing their full background and providing instant feedback.

shared product terms: candidate, interview, real, time; same category: AI agents

Talimai SAS

match 27

AI agent to prepare and assess critical conversations, starting with the job interview

shared product terms: conversation, job, interview; same category: AI agents