# Eightfold AI

AI-powered talent intelligence platform for enterprise recruiting, talent management, and workforce planning

## About Eightfold AI

Eightfold AI calls itself an "agentic talent intelligence" company, serving 160+ Fortune 500 clients including Salesforce, Citi, HP, and HSBC with AI agents that interview candidates, match them against a database of 1.6 billion career trajectories, and support talent acquisition, talent management, and internal mobility at enterprise scale. It is deep, specialized infrastructure for a large company's existing HR and recruiting org. Sistava is aimed at a different buyer entirely: a solo founder or small team hiring AI employees to run sales, marketing, support, and ops, not a platform for managing the careers of a large existing workforce.

## Platform details

- Pricing: Custom enterprise pricing. No public pricing, sales-quoted.
- Founded: 2016, Santa Clara, California
- Funding: $410M+ raised, including a $220M Series F (Aug 2024), at a $2.1B valuation
- Last reviewed: 2026-08-06

## Official website

- [Visit Eightfold AI](https://eightfold.ai)

## What does Eightfold AI actually do?

Eightfold plugs an AI layer into enterprise HR: matching candidates and existing employees to roles across a huge organization, running AI interviews at scale, and planning workforce needs, backed by a proprietary database of career and skills data most companies could never build themselves. Sistava is not trying to manage anyone's existing workforce. It hires new AI employees into a small business to do the sales, marketing, support, and ops work directly, a different product for a different buyer.

## Which one fits your situation?

The deciding question is whether you already have people. Eightfold assumes you do, and that there are enough of them that matching the right person to the right role is itself a hard problem worth buying software for. It is built for an organization with a recruiting function, a talent pipeline, and internal mobility to manage. Sistava assumes the opposite. The problem is not allocating people across roles, it is that the roles are empty and there is no budget to fill them. You hire an AI employee to own sales outreach or support, and it does that work rather than helping you find a human who will. If you run a business with an HR team and hundreds of employees, Eightfold is solving a problem you actually have and Sistava is not the right shape for it. If you are a founder covering five jobs yourself, the reverse is true.

## Can you use both?

Yes, and they do not overlap enough to conflict. They sit at different ends of the same company. Eightfold works on the human workforce you already employ, deciding who should be in which role. Sistava adds AI employees that carry out day to day work in sales, marketing, support and operations. A company large enough to need Eightfold is unlikely to be choosing between the two at all. The comparison usually comes up because both are described as AI for your workforce, which is the same phrase covering two genuinely different products.

## Comparison

- [Compare Eightfold AI with Sistava](/en/compare/enterprise/eightfold-ai) — See the two platforms side by side when you are ready to evaluate them.