About Avrio

We’re doors people.

Since 2016 we’ve been building a hiring system that finds candidates instead of filtering them out.

Hiring sideChooses who to interview
Operations manager
NeedsScheduling, vendors
Experience5+ years
The role, and their own scorecard
Rio’s screening, and the reasoning
Candidate sideChooses to interview
Opted in to be considered
Talks with RioSees their scorecardGets an answer

Avrio builds both sides. Both sides choose.

Nachi Junankar, founder of Avrio AI
“We’re trying to get people screened in instead of screened out.”
Nachi · Founder, Avrio AI

Why we started

Hiring was failing the people inside it.

Job requirements get copied from old postings. Keyword filters miss people who fit. Qualified candidates never hear back, and managers start sourcing on their own.

We built Avrio to connect the right candidates and the right roles directly. Both sides choose.

What makes us different

Post-search

You don’t search. The candidates who fit arrive, with the reasoning behind each one.

Paid on outcome

Agencies take a percentage. Software charges seats. We charge when someone is hired.

Doors people

The hiring stack was built to screen people out. We’re built to let the right ones in.

Our story

Ten years of hiring.

How the technology works →
  1. 2016

    Founded

    Started with a question: why does hiring filter people out instead of finding them?

  2. 2018

    The matching engine

    Three years of research into how skills relate. The Skills Correlation Matrix becomes the core of every match.

  3. 2022

    In production

    Live with enterprise customers in the US and EU, including the City of New York, meeting its AI hiring rules. First hire in five days.

  4. 2024

    Scale

    The world’s largest staffing firm brings Avrio to its recruiters. Over 20 million jobs in the system.

  5. Today

    Rio, and partners

    Rio interviews candidates in conversation. NVIDIA Inception, Microsoft and AWS partner. Member of the Agentic AI Foundation.

City of New York · customerWorld’s largest staffing firm · customerMicrosoft · AWS · NVIDIA · partnersNVIDIA Inception Program memberAAIF Silver

The team

The people behind Avrio.

See open roles →
Nachi Junankar, AI-assisted studio portrait

Nachi

Thomas Giametta, AI-assisted studio portrait

Tom

Alan Pham, AI-assisted studio portrait

Alan

Eula Reed, AI-assisted studio portrait

Eula

Come build the door with us.

Hiring with us, or hiring for us. Either way, say hello.

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