# Paradox AI

Conversational AI hiring assistant ("Olivia") automating high-volume recruiting: screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding

## About Paradox AI

Paradox AI, now owned by Workday, builds Olivia, a conversational hiring assistant used by large employers like 7-Eleven, Tractor Supply, and General Motors to screen high-volume applicants, schedule interviews, run onboarding, and manage referrals over chat and text. It is purpose-built recruiting infrastructure for enterprise talent-acquisition teams filling thousands of frontline roles a year. Sistava is not a recruiting tool: it is a workforce platform for hiring AI employees into a small business, roles like sales, marketing, support, and ops, not for screening humans into your own company.

## Platform details

- Pricing: Custom enterprise pricing. No public pricing, sales-quoted. Sold as part of Workday.
- Founded: 2016. Acquired by Workday for approximately $1B, October 2025.
- Funding: Acquired by Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY), deal valued at approximately $1B, closed October 2025
- Last reviewed: 2026-08-06

## Official website

- [Visit Paradox AI](https://paradox.ai)

## What does Paradox AI actually do?

Paradox's Olivia is a conversational recruiting assistant: candidates apply, get screened, and book their own interview slot over chat, at a volume large frontline employers (retail, logistics, healthcare) need and a human recruiting team cannot keep up with by hand. Workday's acquisition folds it into a broader enterprise HR suite. Sistava is not competing for that budget or that buyer. It hires AI employees into a small business to do sales, marketing, support, and ops work, a completely different job than screening candidates into someone else's company.

## Comparison

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