About us

How it started

There's no dramatic origin story. We built 100Hires for ourselves. At our previous company we were hiring developers straight out of a Google spreadsheet. Candidates slipped through the cracks, nothing was automated, and every step was manual. We wanted a tool we'd actually enjoy using, so in 2019 we built one. It turned out a lot of small teams had the exact same problem.

Who's behind 100Hires

100Hires is built by Alex Kravets (CEO) and Zhandos Nuftiyev (CTO), who started the company in 2019. We're bootstrapped, which means we answer to our customers, not investors. Today we're a globally distributed team of 14, and we hire wherever the right person happens to live. If that sounds like you, take a look at our open roles.

What we shipped first

Being a small, independent team means we ship fast, and we've often put features into recruiters' hands before the rest of the ATS market did.

• Waterfall email finder. We chain several contact-finders together, so you still get a candidate's real personal email when one provider comes up empty, instead of hitting a dead end.
• One of the first ATSs with an MCP server. AI assistants can run recruiting workflows directly inside 100Hires, from posting a job to moving candidates through your pipeline.

Where we're headed

Hiring is still mostly manual. Recruiters live in spreadsheets, copy and paste outreach, and chase candidates by hand. We think that era is ending. Our goal is an ATS where AI does the heavy lifting end to end: finding candidates, reaching out, screening, and moving people forward, so the humans can focus on the conversations that actually decide a hire. We've been building toward that since day one, and we plan to keep shipping ahead of the market.