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Bolto - Find, interview, and hire engineers with AI

Bolto is an all in one recruiting and HR platform. It uses AI to source, interview, and match software engineers to startups, then enables startups to pay and manage those engineers in the same place.

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Mrinal Singh

Hi Product Hunt Community!

I’m Mrinal, one of the founders of Bolto (YC S23).

Bolto is an AI-powered recruiting and HR platform. We assess candidates using AI and match them to companies.

For candidates:

Candidates take our AI interview and technical assessments. We combine this info along with their resume, Github profile, and any other info they provide to create a Bolto candidate profile.

For companies:

Companies who upload or type in their job description on our platform are shown candidates that our AI algorithm believes have a high probability of success in their role based on all of their profile information. Once a company makes a hire, they can run payroll and HR on our platform as well.

Our story:

We struggled mightily with hiring at our last startup. We hated having to source, interview, hire, manage, and pay candidates all on separate platforms and wished it could all be done in one place.

We also, like many of you, have been reading articles about how AI is going to completely replace human workers. We don’t believe in this future and are deeply passionate about using AI to create jobs, not take them away. We want to help companies find the absolute best fits for their roles, empowering them to succeed and continue hiring more great humans.

Who is Bolto for?

We’re starting with software engineers on our platform, so our ideal user is anyone who is hiring engineers! That being said, we find the companies who benefit the most from our services are those who are growing and making multiple hires, but might not have the patience or budget to hire a recruiting agency or staff multiple recruiters.

How are we different?

We are the very first all in one recruiting and HR platform in the world! There is no other company that from start to finish, can handle sourcing, interviewing, hiring, paying, and managing employees.

Why are we launching on product hunt?

We got on Product Hunt ourselves a couple months ago when the CEO, Rajiv, commented on our tweet about our YC launch and said we had to try PH! We’ve found an incredible community here filled with smart, thoughtful people who take time out of their day to give invaluable product feedback.

We’ve also found some awesome products that we now use!

We want to thank the Product Hunt community in advance for their support and feedback – we can’t wait to hear what you all think of Bolto!

Nika

Will AI engineers be needed in the AI era? 🙂

Mrinal Singh
@busmark_w_nika Yes, the AI era will amplify their role. Think of AI as a power tool: it still needs skilled engineers to use it, guide it, and build with it.
Supa Liu

Streamlining the entire recruitment flow—from sourcing to payroll—within one AI-powered platform is a big win for lean startups. Excited to see how this changes hiring for early-stage teams!

Mrinal Singh

@supa_l Thank you so much! We truly believe early-stage teams deserve a simpler, faster way to build great teams without juggling multiple tools. Our goal is to remove the friction from hiring so founders can focus on growing. Excited to have you following our journey!

Yong Woo Shin
Launching soon!

Though I finished hiring last week, I feel really excited to build my dream team with Bolto in the future.

Feel like someone perfect to our team is going to join our team!

Congratulations. Good luck :)

Mrinal Singh

@pritraveler Love that energy! We’re here for whenever you’re ready to build the next chapter of your dream team. Cheers to what’s ahead!

Kay Kwak
Launching soon!

How many HR managers can Bolto replace?

Mrinal Singh

@kay_arkain Great question! We’re not trying to replace HR managers. We’re giving them superpowers. For lean startups without a full HR team, Bolto can handle sourcing, interviewing, and even payroll, so you don’t need to hire multiple roles early on. For larger teams, we make existing HR teams 10x more efficient.

Michael Vavilov

How does your matching engine work? By keywords?
Congrats on the launch!

Mrinal Singh

@michael_vavilov Thank you! Our AI looks at structured and unstructured data (like resume, code samples, interview scores, etc.) and matches them against job traits that drive success. It’s designed to find people you'd otherwise miss with just keyword filters.

Michael Vavilov

@mrinalsingh2 So it's a kind of semantic search?

Mrinal Singh

@michael_vavilov Exactly. Semantic search is a big part of it! But we go a step further by incorporating structured performance signals from interviews, so it's not just about language similarity, but actual fit and potential.

Samir Rashed

Looks great! Good luck guys

Mrinal Singh

@samirrashed Thank you! Really appreciate the support. We're just getting started and excited to build something that truly helps teams grow faster (and smarter). If you have any feedback or ideas, we’re all ears!

Samir Rashed

@mrinalsingh2 Sound great! it seems promising platform. I will share it with my HR friends to try it

Kendra Wilkins

Congrats on the launch, Bolt Team! Hiring is one of the more challenging parts of being a founder -- we have had a hard time with the interview part of the process and making sure AI isn't being used to misrepresent their skillset or experience. Does Bolt have a way to detect if AI tools are being used during the AI interview or technical assessments?

Owen Oktay

@kendra_wilkins Such an important question. Products like interview coder are making this super hard. Some steps we're taking:

  • Phased out leetcode-style interviews and now do take home assessments, live debriefs, and live coding

  • Human reviews of every candidate

  • Automatic detection of pauses, leaving the tab, etc

Not perfect yet, but we're working on it!

Aleksandr Heinlaid

Bolto makes hiring engineers smarter with AI-driven matching and interviews – very needed. Gave my support. Congrats on launch – I'm launching my product too, feel free to check it out.

Mrinal Singh

@aleksandr_heinlaid Thank you for you support! Looking forward to your product!

Aleksandr Heinlaid

@mrinalsingh2 wellcome to "draw on screen" :)

Alex Cloudstar

Congrats on the launch, Mrinal! 🚀 Bolto sounds like a seriously useful platform bringing sourcing, interviewing, and HR all into one place is such a game changer, especially for fast-moving teams.

Love that you’re using AI to empower hiring rather than replace people. Wishing you lots of traction today and beyond!

Mrinal Singh

@alex_cloudstar thanks so much Alex! Really appreciate the kind words

Adi Agashe

We've hired 4 extremely talented engineers through Bolto, could not be more happy with their vetting process and how quickly the team moves!! Cannot recommend more highly!!

Owen Oktay

@aagashe196 You've been so great to work with! Thanks for the positive feedback :)

Farrukh Anwaar

Bolto’s approach to hiring and managing engineers is super smart. Great use of AI! We’ve just launched Mukh.1 as well – AI agents to take care of everyday work. Check it out!

Mrinal Singh

@farrukh_anwaar Thank you! Congratulations on your launch! I will definitely check it out.

David Neira

Congrats on your launch 🎉🎉

Amazing platform ❤

Owen Oktay

@chape Thanks so much David!

Jun Shen

Excited for AI-driven recruiting! Saves time. 😄

Owen Oktay

@shenjun Thanks Jun!! For sure, that's the goal

Tanmay Parekh
All the best for the launch @mrinalsingh2 & team!
Owen Oktay

@mrinalsingh2  @parekh_tanmay Thanks for your support!

Max Cameron

Congrats on the launch! Love how Bolto bundles AI sourcing, skill vetting, and payments in one place—huge time-saver for scrappy teams. Does it also cover global hiring compliance? Upvoted!

Owen Oktay

@maxcameron Thanks Max! Yes, we do global compliance as well :)

Adam Casole-Buchanan
what was th hardest dev challenge you overcame in the launch process?
Owen Oktay

@adamcbuchanan Building search over a database of thousands of engineers!

Xi.Z

Been using Bolto for our startup's engineering recruitment and it's been a complete game-changer! As a tech lead who's suffered through traditional recruiting processes, this AI-powered approach is refreshingly efficient. The platform doesn't just find candidates - it actually conducts initial technical screenings and skill assessments, saving us countless hours of preliminary interviews.

The matching algorithm is impressively accurate. Instead of wading through hundreds of mismatched resumes, we're getting candidates who truly fit our tech stack and culture. The AI seems to understand both technical requirements and soft skills, which is crucial for our remote team.

Love how everything is integrated - from initial sourcing to payroll management. The $1k rebate on 6-month hires is a nice bonus, but the real value is in the time saved and quality of matches. We've hired two senior engineers through Bolto, and both are exceeding expectations.

One particularly clever feature is how it handles technical interviews - the AI generates role-specific coding challenges and provides detailed analysis of candidates' solutions. Much more insightful than traditional whiteboarding!

Jason Chernofsky

i love this a lot - do something similar for reallygood, but i wonder if you could help us as well? (freelance/agency sourcing, as opposed to traditional recruiting)

also -do you find workers that haven't taken the AI test or just evaluate the ones who come through ?

Tim Hillison

Congratulations to you and the team on your launch, @mrinalsingh2! Look forward to trying Bolt out.