Talio 2.0: the AI hiring stack for high-volume teams

We started Talio with one conviction: recruiters deserve to spend their day on the work only they can do. Our first product did exactly one thing well. It ran first-round screening interviews by voice, chat and WhatsApp, at any scale, for staffing agencies.

Then we watched what happened around the screening.

What we learned from our customers

Screening was never the whole problem. Every customer taught us the same thing: once the interview was done, the recruiter's day still filled up with everything around it. Calling back candidates who had landed in voicemail. Chasing a certificate that never arrived. Answering the same twenty questions about shifts and pay. Updating a status in the ATS, sending the reminder, forwarding the shortlist. Two minutes each, two hundred times a week.

Meanwhile the database was going stale. Candidates who were not a fit six months ago could be a fit today, but nobody had the time to call through thousands of profiles, so every vacancy started from scratch on a job board.

And every team we met had solved a piece of this with a separate tool. One for outreach, one for scheduling, one for documents, one for the chatbot on the career site. A vendor per step, an integration per vendor, and a recruiter stitching it together.

Recruiters spend most of their day on work that does not require a human. Automating the interview alone does not change that.

How our positioning changed

So we stopped describing Talio as a screening tool. Talio is the conversational AI and automations layer for recruitment: the AI hiring stack for high-volume teams. It talks to every candidate on every channel, screens and books them, keeps profiles and documents current, answers their questions, and automates the small tasks in between. One layer, one vendor, sitting in front of the systems you already use.

Most of this is what customers were already asking us to do. Some of it is new. Together it is four parts.

What did not change

The conversations still feel like a good recruiter, because that is the whole point. Talio still connects to the systems you already use, with every outcome written back where you work. And pricing is still usage-based: every feature, channel and integration included from day one, no seat fees, no integration fees.

Who it is for

High-volume teams. Temp and student staffing agencies. Multi-site hospitality and retail operators. Facility, cleaning and security companies hiring against attrition all year. High-volume staffing and recruitment agencies with an ATS to connect. If your process is straightforward and your volume is high, Talio can run the first phase end to end. And if you have no ATS, or barely use the one you have, Talio can be the system itself.

Where this leaves us

The conviction did not change: recruiters deserve to spend their day on the work only they can do. What changed is how much of the day we can give back.

If you want to see it on your own vacancies, schedule a call. We map your process, set everything up with you, and you run it live for a month before you decide.