Elly Launches AI-Native Recruiting, Where Expert Recruiters and AI Work Together on Every Search

Elly combines expert recruiters with AI to find exceptional talent 2x faster and at half the cost of traditional recruiting agencies.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Elly today announced the launch of a new model for recruiting: AI-native recruiting, where expert recruiters and AI work together on every search to find exceptional talent faster and at a lower cost than traditional recruiting agencies.

Rather than replacing recruiters with AI, Elly is building recruiting around them.

Every Elly search is worked jointly by an expert recruiter and AI. AI handles the scale, searching candidates, evaluating experience and fit, identifying potential red flags, and surfacing the strongest matches, while recruiters bring the judgment, context, and expertise needed to make the right hire.

This model enables searches to move 2x faster than traditional recruiting agencies at approximately 50% lower cost.

"AI is changing recruiting, but we don't believe the answer is to take humans out of the process," said Kristen Habacht, CEO and Co-Founder of Elly. "The best recruiters bring judgment, context, and a human understanding of what makes someone great. AI can make them dramatically better at that work. Elly is built around that combination."

Every Search Makes the Next One Better

Unlike traditional recruiting agencies, Elly retains the knowledge built throughout every search. Candidates, interview feedback, hiring decisions, and company preferences can be used in future searches, allowing companies to build on what they've already learned rather than starting from scratch.

A candidate who wasn't right for one role may be exactly right for another months later. Elly can surface that candidate along with the context from the previous search.

Elly Is Helping 100 People Land Their Next Role

To celebrate the launch, Elly is helping 100 people land their next role.

Anyone looking for their next opportunity can apply at app.elly.ai/apply to interview with Elly and get matched with real employers hiring for their skills and experience.

This gives candidates a new way to get discovered while demonstrating Elly's approach to recruiting: combining the reach and speed of AI with the judgment and expertise of human recruiters.

About Elly

Elly is building the future of recruiting through an AI-native approach, where expert recruiters and AI work together on every search. Elly combines human expertise with AI-powered sourcing, candidate evaluation, and screening to help companies make better hires, faster, while building intelligence that makes every search better than the last.

Learn more at elly.ai.

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