For in-house hiring teams

How American Express Ventures Hires 5x Faster With the Same 3 Recruiters

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Free hire on us

$0 down. No card. We do the setup.

  • 9.6 days

    to fill a role (was 48)

  • $158,400

    in agency fees saved a year

  • −60%

    recruiter hours per hire (21.5 → 8.6)

American Express Ventures: 3 recruiters, 65 hires a year. From its case study.

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Our promise

Free hire on us with $0 down.

Give us one open role. If you make a hire on it in the next 4 weeks, you pay nothing for it.

  • $0 down. No card. We do the setup.
  • 4 weeks on one open role, with a real person helping you.
  • Not happy at the week 4 review? Walk away. You owe nothing.
  • You keep your data and everything we built for you.
  • It never turns into a bill on its own.

Week 1 goal: every applicant on your role scored against your rules, and the fakes flagged, before anyone on your team opens one.

We start only 2 new teams each week, because a real person sets up each one. When this week is full, you start next week.

Applying got free. Reading didn't.

Talent leads at growing companies tell us the same three things.

  1. 1

    The good one is buried in the pile.

    One post brings in hundreds of people. Most can't do the job. Some aren't real. Nobody has time to find the twenty worth a call.

    "you get 800 candidates and 780 are just. No, right. But you don't know which ones."
    Talent lead, emergency-tech software company

    12 of 23 told us this. Almost no other buyer did.

  2. 2

    Fake people are reaching your panel.

    Bots apply. Someone else sits the test. AI feeds the answers on the video call. Your team pays for every one of them in hours.

    "we're seeing a lot of avatars, a lot of potential cheating, some fraud is happening with regards to our AI skills testing."
    Head of talent, 300-person software company

    9 of 23 told us this. Four times the rate of other buyers.

  3. 3

    Your ATS stores people. It was never built to act on them.

    You like your ATS. The AI added on later doesn't learn from your choices, and every new feature is one more thing to pay for.

    "lever has a one thing that they call talent fit, but which is kind of static AI. Basically, it doesn't learn with our behavior."
    Talent operations lead, digital-health company

    18 of 23 told us this

Recruiters feel it too.

"We talk a lot in this industry about giving recruiters a seat at the table. Honestly, most of us just need fewer tabs."
Jen HulmeFreelance Talent Acquisition
"The recruiting tech stack has become its own full-time job."
Dominic JoyceTA Programme Lead, The Weir Group79K followers

The 5 things in-house teams liked about Hivemind

From our calls with talent leads at growing companies.

  1. 1

    Know who is real

    Every test and video interview comes with an integrity score. See who pasted answers, left the tab or had help, and watch the replay.

    "I love the visualization. I love the integrity scoring."
    Head of talent, 300-person software company
    Sample data
  2. 2

    Every applicant scored, by your rules

    Hivemind reads every application against the bar you set. Below your line, it goes where you say: out, or to a person.

    "I can't figure out who's a valid candidate or not without spending a minute in each application"
    VP of People, HR software company
    Sample data
  3. 3

    A person signs off where you say

    Put a human check on any step. Nothing moves past it until someone on your team says yes.

    "when you build these workflows, when does the system take action autonomously?"
    Recruiter, 300-person software company
    Sample data
  4. 4

    Interviews book themselves

    Candidates pick a time from your panel's real calendars. Reminders and nudges go out on their own.

    "Why does it take us a few days from, you know, a candidate passing an interview stage to, you know, to scheduling the next that like it should be all automated."
    Head of recruiting, 700-person software company
    Sample data
  5. 5

    Numbers leadership will read

    Ask in plain words. Get a live dashboard of every role, and share it with finance or your CEO.

    "so much of getting them to actually use the data and look at it is making it very easy to consume."
    Recruiting ops lead, audit software company
    Sample data

Quotes are from our calls with in-house talent teams, 2025 and 2026. We keep their names private.

Build the hiring stacks of your dreams.
15+ Native Modules and 275 Integrations

Keep Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or Workday. Hivemind connects the tools around it, so your team stops being the glue.

  • Workday
  • Greenhouse
  • Ashby
  • Ceipal
  • TempWorks
  • Lever
  • SmartRecruiters
  • Workable
  • BambooHR
  • LinkedIn
  • Indeed
  • ZipRecruiter
  • Slack
  • Zoom
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • Docusign
  • Zapier
  • Checkr
  • Built In
  • HackerRank
  • CodeSignal
  • Codility
  • CoderPad Interview
  • Adaface
  • SeekOut
  • Gem
  • Fetcher
  • HireEZ
  • Metaview
  • BrightHire
  • Willo
  • ModernLoop
  • Guide
  • Deel
  • Rippling
  • Gusto
  • ADP

American Express Ventures case study

American Express Ventures hires for its own team: investing, product, engineering and data. It has 3 recruiters and made 65 hires a year. Its tools were good. The problem was that the team still had to run all of them. Here is what changed.

  • 9.6 days

    to fill a role

    down from 48 days

  • 100 of 100

    applicants scored against the role

    up from 12

  • 30 minutes

    of reading applicants for each hire

    down from 5.4 hours

  • 8.6 hours

    of recruiter time for each hire

    down from 21.5

  • 14 of 14

    hiring managers using it

    up from 0

  • 2 tools

    to run hiring

    down from 6

Same 3 recruiters. Nobody had to make them switch.

In all, about $267,700 a year back, for $37,800 a year of Hivemind.

"We weren't coming from a broken stack. We had an ATS, sourcing tools, interview tooling, scheduling, and the usual mix of recruiting software. The problem was that our team still had to operate all of it."
Michael, American Express Ventures

From the American Express Ventures case study and our interview with Michael, 3 months in.

Your team stays in charge.

"You can't automate being human, so recruiters aren't going anywhere. But the chaos can leave."
Katrina CollierAuthor, The Robot-Proof Recruiter36K followers
"They made a deliberate choice: automate the data collection, never the judgment."
Kobi AmpomaHead of Talent Acquisition, HEINEKEN27K followers

Your free hire. Here is what you get.

  • One open role, done for you. Hivemind scores every applicant, checks who is real, tests them and books the interviews. Your ATS stays.
  • Your files, safe. Hivemind can read your system. It can't change it.
  • A team that knows how. We train your team on day 0, when we set you up.
  • Proof you can see. Every week, we look at your numbers with you.
  • Help when you need it. One real person and a shared chat for all 4 weeks.

Setup and training normally cost $4,980. In your free hire it is $0, and you keep everything we built.

$4,980

Your price for 4 weeks

$0

Free hire on us

Good questions we hear.

"We already have an ATS. We like it."

Keep it. Hivemind works next to it. Your recruiters stay where they are, and we start with one role.

"Isn't this just one more tool?"

It's the one that runs the others. Keep your ATS, and pick which tools around it you could stop paying for.

"Will the AI turn down good people?"

Only if you tell it to. Every applicant is scored against your rules. Below your line, it goes the way you choose: out, or to a person.

"Can it catch every fake?"

No tool catches every one, and we won't tell you ours does. It catches most, and shows you why: the integrity score, the cheat report and the replay.

"We don't have time to set this up."

We do the setup. Your team joins one kickoff and training on day 0, then a short check-in each week.

"What does it cost after?"

You get a real price on the call, before you start.

Our promise

Free hire on us with $0 down.

Give us one open role. If you make a hire on it in the next 4 weeks, you pay nothing for it.

  • $0 down. No card. We do the setup.
  • 4 weeks on one open role, with a real person helping you.
  • Not happy at the week 4 review? Walk away. You owe nothing.
  • You keep your data and everything we built for you.
  • It never turns into a bill on its own.

Week 1 goal: every applicant on your role scored against your rules, and the fakes flagged, before anyone on your team opens one.

We start only 2 new teams each week, because a real person sets up each one. When this week is full, you start next week.

Try a free hire on one of your open roles.

Book a 30-minute call. We pick the role and your start date.

After you book

  1. You get an email with the time.
  2. Bring last month's numbers: applicants on your biggest role, and how many a person opened.
  3. We set up your role before your free hire starts.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What's included in the free hire?

Four weeks on one open role, and we do the setup. We link Hivemind to your ATS (it can only read), build the workflow and train your team on day 0. Hivemind scores every applicant, flags the fakes and books the interviews. Setup and training normally cost $4,980. Here it is $0, and you never give us a card.

Do you work with our ATS?

Yes. Hivemind has 275 integrations, including Ashby, Lever and Greenhouse. We don't replace your ATS. Hivemind works next to it.

What happens if I'm not happy with Hivemind?

Walk away at the week 4 review and owe nothing. You keep your data and everything we built for you. The trial never turns into a bill on its own.

What happens if I'm happy with Hivemind?

Nothing gets rebuilt. The role, the workflow and the link to your system stay where they are. If you want to keep going, you pick a plan at the week 4 review and add more roles when you are ready.

How many trials do you run at a time?

We start 2 new teams a week, because a real person sets up each one and trains your team. When this week is full, you start the next week.

Your numbers

What is reading every applicant costing you?

Move the sliders. See the hours your team spends reading, and what you get back.

Reading time back each year

$62,500

That is 1,250 hours a year, or about 31 full work weeks. Your team reads the top 25 for each role. Hivemind scores the rest.

These are example numbers. Change them to yours.

100
400
2
25
$
Hours reading today
1,333 h
Hours reading with Hivemind
83 h
Hours back each year
1,250 h
Back each year
$62,500 / yr

We count the minutes your team spends on each applicant today. With Hivemind, every applicant is scored against your rules first, and your team reads only the top ones for each role. It is a guess, not a promise.