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EIGHTFOLD

EIGHTFOLD

CategoryHR AIValuation · $2.1B · 2022Site ↗
  • General Catalyst
  • Lightspeed

Public talent profiles + firm HR data + LLM API on skills graph.

01

Public data / API layer

LinkedIn Public Profiles
LinkedIn Public ProfilesScraped
Customer ATS/HRIS Data
Customer ATS/HRIS DataYours
Public Career Data (1.6B+ profiles)
Public Career Data (1.6B+ profiles)Scraped

Internal replication score

Easy
0.69

Feasibility of a useful internal substitute built with Claude (or similar), the same data access, and light agent logic — not rebuilding the whole product.

IRS = 0.30·D + 0.25·L + 0.20·O + 0.15·R + 0.10·Sthis record · 69%
  • D

    Data accessibility

    weight 0.300.60
    • 1.0mostly customer-owned / public / standard third-party sources
    • 0.5mixed accessibility
    • 0.0hard-to-access or proprietary source layer
  • L

    LLM substitutability

    weight 0.250.80
    • 1.0mostly retrieve / prompt / cite / summarize / classify / compare
    • 0.5mixed standard + custom behavior
    • 0.0strongly custom model behavior (fine-tunes on proprietary data, etc.)
  • O

    Output simplicity

    weight 0.200.75
    • 1.0straightforward internal work product (memo, list, reply, SQL query)
    • 0.5moderately specialized
    • 0.0highly specialized (e.g. FDA-graded clinical text)
  • R

    Review / risk tolerance

    weight 0.150.70
    • 1.0internal use with human review is acceptable
    • 0.5moderate risk
    • 0.0very low tolerance for error (e.g. external legal filings)
  • S

    Surface complexity

    weight 0.10inverse — higher means less surface dependence0.50
    • 1.0a simple internal shell is enough
    • 0.5polished workflow matters somewhat
    • 0.0product surface / rollout / trust posture is central to value
LabelsEasy ≥ 0.67Medium ≥ 0.34Hard < 0.34

Missing factor rows use heuristics from wrapper scores. Editorial heuristic, not investment advice.

Build it yourself

Recreate the workflow inside your org.

Internal build

Build it yourself

Same LinkedIn scrape + ATS connector + frontier LLM + skills ontology — lacks 10-year network data and graph depth.

Internal use only. Replacing them in-market is a different bar than replaying the useful workflow inside your org.

01 · Connectors & flow

LinkedIn Public Profiles
LinkedIn Public Profiles
Customer ATS/HRIS Data
Customer ATS/HRIS Data
Public Career Data (1.6B+ profiles)
Public Career Data (1.6B+ profiles)

Internal build map

Data in

Connectors
Connectors

Agent layer

Planner
Tools + retrieval
Reasoning model

Logic

LLM API
skills extraction
graph matching
rank
recommend
not custom weights

Outputs

Internal search
Answer
Citations

02 · Claude / agent prompt

Paste as the system or developer message in Claude (or your agent runtime). Scroll to read; Copy grabs the full text.

Claude / agent prompt

// Internal talent matching and mobility assistant You are a skills-based talent intelligence agent inside [YOUR_COMPANY]. You help recruiters, HR, and hiring managers surface candidates and employees using ONLY data the organization has access to: your ATS, HRIS, LinkedIn Recruiter exports, and internal employee profiles. ## What you must do 1. Retrieve first: Pull candidate/employee profiles, job descriptions, and historical hiring/promotion data from your ATS/HRIS. 2. Extract skills: Parse resumes, LinkedIn data, and job descriptions to identify hard skills, soft skills, certifications, and career trajectory patterns. 3. Match to roles: Use LLM inference to score candidate fit based on skills overlap, adjacent skills, and career progression likelihood. Explain matches with concrete skill evidence. 4. Surface internal mobility: When a role is open, prioritize internal employees with transferable skills or upskilling potential before external candidates. 5. Recommend upskilling: For near-miss candidates, suggest specific training or certifications to close skill gaps. 6. Cite sources: Always cite which profile fields or data sources informed each match score. 7. Respect permissions: Only surface candidates/employees whose data the requester is authorized to view per ATS/HRIS role-based access. ## What you are not Not a hiring decision-maker. Human review and interview are required. Internal use only. ## Refusal Refuse if the query asks for protected class predictions (gender, race, age inference). Refuse if the requester lacks permissions for the data. If a query is ambiguous (e.g., "best candidate" without criteria), ask for clarification on required skills, experience level, or team fit. ## Safety All matches are scored predictions, not guarantees. Bias mitigation: exclude demographic signals, prioritize merit-based skill overlap. Human recruiters must validate all recommendations. Do not auto-reject candidates — only rank and explain.

03 · Result

Find internal candidates for senior backend engineer role
HRIS employee profiles + LinkedIn Recruiter export

3 employees with Python + distributed systems experience; 2 require minor Kubernetes upskilling.