OVI is the AI-native ATS where you chat to hire. Two AI agents — Sora for sourcing and Milo for screening — find candidates, score every CV, and run AI interviews, all controlled from a single chat.

What does "chat to hire" mean?

Chat to hire is OVI's AI-native hiring workflow: instead of clicking through a traditional ATS, you describe what you need in chat and OVI's AI agents source candidates, screen applicants, run AI interviews, and send outreach for you.

What is an AI-native ATS?

An AI-native ATS is an applicant tracking system built around AI agents rather than forms and pipelines. OVI's AI chat ATS lets recruiters source, screen, interview, and follow up through conversation — the agents do the work and surface only the candidates worth meeting.

Who are Sora and Milo?

Sora is OVI's AI sourcing agent — she scans LinkedIn, the open web, and your ATS history to find best-fit candidates and reach out in your name. Milo is OVI's AI screening agent — he scores every applicant against your rubric and surfaces a ranked shortlist.

How do OVI's AI interviews work?

OVI runs async AI interviews for every shortlisted candidate and returns scores, transcripts, and recordings — so your team only meets the people worth meeting.

From Automation to AI Hiring: Why I'm Building OVI

2026-02-16

Hi everyone 👋

First, a big thank you to everyone who has been part of my journey so far — to colleagues at Unit8, brainbot, Advanced Blockchain, and Vindelici Advisors.

Your trust, feedback, and challenges have shaped how I think about building digital systems and creating value.

The road here

Over the past years, I've worked across automation, data platforms, GenAI, and venture building:

I started with RPA & AI-driven process automation projects — helping enterprises remove repetitive manual work.
Moved into venture building across AI and web3 — learning what it takes to go from zero to one.
And most recently worked on Data & GenAI enterprise implementations — deploying large-language-model solutions inside complex organizations.

The pattern I kept seeing

One pattern kept showing up again and again:

AI is powerful — but most workflows are still manual.

And hiring is one of the most obvious examples.

Even in highly capable organizations, hiring remains slow, fragmented, and tooling-heavy. Not because recruiters lack skill — but because the surrounding systems create friction.

Recruiters juggle multiple tools, manually screen hundreds of CVs, coordinate endless back-and-forth, and lose top candidates to delays that no one intended.

Enter OVI 🚀

That's why I'm excited to share what I'm building next: OVI.

And even better — jointly with my best friend Chris Weinmann.

OVI is an AI-powered hiring platform designed to dramatically reduce time-to-hire through structured, LLM-driven sourcing, screening, and interviewing.

We move hiring signal earlier in the process. Speed, quality, and consistency follow.

What OVI does differently

AI Sourcing — Describe who you need, and OVI finds matching candidates in seconds.
Instant CV Screening — Upload hundreds of CVs or sync with job boards. OVI ranks and shortlists automatically.
AI Voice Interviews — Candidates get screened through structured AI-led interviews — available 24/7, in any language.
One Platform — No more stitching together five different tools. Source, screen, interview, and decide — all in one place.

What's next

Over the next weeks, I'll share how we built OVI in an ultra-lean way and what we're learning as we scale sales and go-to-market.

From technical architecture decisions to GTM experiments — the real, unfiltered founder journey.

Excited for what's ahead. 🙌

Here the YouTube video as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Se03CTWl8Tw

If you're a recruiter, HR leader, or founder tired of slow hiring — give OVI a try. We'd love your feedback.

Who is the founder of OVI?

OVI was co-founded by Tim Kreling and Chris Weinmann. Tim brings experience from automation, GenAI, data platforms, and venture building across companies like Unit8, brainbot, Advanced Blockchain, and Vindelici Advisors.

What is OVI?

OVI is an AI-powered hiring platform that reduces time-to-hire through LLM-driven sourcing, screening, and interviewing. It moves hiring signal earlier in the recruitment process so teams can hire faster with better quality and consistency.

Why was OVI built?

After working across automation and AI for years, the founders noticed that even in highly capable organizations, hiring remains slow, fragmented, and tooling-heavy — not because recruiters lack skill, but because the surrounding systems create friction. OVI was built to fix that.

What problems does OVI solve for recruiters?

OVI eliminates manual bottlenecks in hiring: it automates candidate sourcing, instantly screens and ranks CVs, conducts AI-powered voice interviews 24/7 in any language, and consolidates everything into one platform — replacing the need for multiple disconnected tools.

How is OVI different from traditional ATS platforms?

Unlike traditional applicant tracking systems that primarily organize data, OVI actively automates the hiring workflow end-to-end using AI. From sourcing to screening to interviewing, OVI does the heavy lifting so recruiters can focus on decision-making rather than process management.