Recruitics adds AI interviews to pre-apply hiring flow with Maki People

Recruitics on June 23 announced a partnership with Maki People that embeds AI voice interviews into its AdaptiveApply pre-apply workflow. The move is aimed at helping employers screen candidates earlier, improve hiring signal, and reduce reliance on resumes as applicant volume and AI-generated applications rise.

Why it matters: - Recruitics is pushing candidate screening earlier in the hiring process, before an application reaches the ATS. - The integration is designed to give employers stronger candidate signals while reducing friction for job seekers. - The partnership targets a growing hiring problem: resumes are easier to generate and polish with AI, while many qualified candidates do not have a current resume ready. - The approach could help employers widen access to passive talent, frontline workers, and other candidates who may be missed by traditional resume-first screening.

What happened: - Recruitics announced a partnership with Maki People on June 23, 2026, in New York. - The partnership adds Maki’s AI-powered voice interviewing to AdaptiveApply™, Recruitics’ candidate experience technology and hiring solutions marketplace. - Employers can now embed AI voice interviews directly inside the application flow. - Candidates can complete an AI-powered interview without leaving the apply experience. - Recruitics positions the integration as a way to screen candidates before an application hits the ATS.

The details: - AdaptiveApply connects screening, assessment, verification, and hiring technologies directly into the pre-apply workflow. - The new capability delivers pre-qualified and enriched candidate signals to recruiters. - Recruitics says the shift moves candidate assessment from post-apply to an earlier stage of hiring. - Maki’s Voice Screening, called Mochi, runs as a real adaptive voice conversation. - Mochi is available 24/7 in dozens of languages. - The system evaluates candidates against validated, science-backed criteria. - Recruiters receive a ranked shortlist in hours rather than weeks. - A human makes the final hiring decision. - Recruitics says interview results and candidate insights feed directly into existing ATS environments. - The integration is aimed at high-volume hiring for retail floors, warehouses, contact centers, delivery fleets, frontline healthcare, and large enterprises managing hundreds of roles. - Recruitics says more than 400 enterprise organizations across healthcare, logistics, retail, and other sectors use its platform across 100+ countries. - Maki says its platform is trusted by Capgemini, Deloitte, Nespresso, Grant Thornton, Wagamama, Volkswagen, and several other global enterprises. - Maki says its enterprise stack is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and ready for the EU AI Act. - Maki says its system runs in 60+ countries and 45+ languages. - Maki says its platform can cut early-tenure turnover by up to 25%, accelerate time to hire 3x, automate 90% of screening and assessment work, and deliver a 98% candidate NPS.

Between the lines: - The partnership reflects a broader shift toward skills-based and conversation-based screening rather than resume-only filtering. - For employers, the value proposition is faster triage with richer candidate data. - For candidates, the pitch is a more accessible application process that does not depend on having a polished resume. - The collaboration also positions Recruitics and Maki People as part of a wider race to add AI into the earliest stages of hiring.

What's next: - Recruitics and Maki People will expand Maki’s role inside the AdaptiveApply marketplace. - Employers using the combined workflow can begin moving screening deeper into the pre-apply experience. - The companies are betting that earlier assessment will improve hiring outcomes as applicant pools continue to grow and AI-generated resumes become more common.

The bottom line: - Recruitics is making AI interviewing a front-end hiring tool, not a post-apply add-on, and Maki People is now part of that push.