# Sistava vs Eightfold AI

*Big Tech and Enterprise*

Sistava vs 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.

> **Bottom line:** Eightfold manages and matches human talent inside a large existing workforce. Sistava adds AI employees who do the actual work, sales outreach, content, support tickets, ops tasks, for a small team that has no HR department to begin with.

## Profile

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

## Why Sistava

- Eightfold manages and matches human talent inside a large existing workforce. Sistava adds AI employees who do the actual work, sales outreach, content, support tickets, ops tasks, for a small team that has no HR department to begin with.
- Eightfold is enterprise software sold to Fortune 500 HR teams with custom, sales-quoted pricing. Sistava is self-serve: sign up and hire an AI employee today, on published plans from Free + $49/mo up to $399/mo.
- Honest concession: Eightfold's talent-matching database, 1.6 billion career trajectories and 1.6 million skills, is a scale of proprietary data no general workforce platform, Sistava included, has any equivalent to.

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Eightfold AI | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
|  | AI agents that interview and match human job candidates | AI employees that do sales, marketing, support, and ops work |
|  | 160+ Fortune 500 enterprises | Solo founders and small teams |
|  | Custom, sales-quoted | Free + $49/mo |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | 1.6B career trajectories, 1.6M skills | ✗ |
|  | Not applicable, a talent platform, not a workforce platform | ✓ |