# Sistava vs Paradox AI

*Big Tech and Enterprise*

Sistava vs 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.

> **Bottom line:** Paradox solves one enterprise problem: moving human candidates through a hiring funnel at scale. Sistava solves a different one: giving a small team AI employees who do the sales, marketing, support, and ops work itself.

## Profile

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

## Why Sistava

- Paradox solves one enterprise problem: moving human candidates through a hiring funnel at scale. Sistava solves a different one: giving a small team AI employees who do the sales, marketing, support, and ops work itself.
- Paradox is enterprise software with custom, sales-quoted pricing and, since the Workday acquisition, enterprise-only distribution. Sistava is self-serve: sign up and hire an AI employee in minutes, on published plans from Free + $49/mo up to $399/mo.
- Honest concession: Paradox's Olivia is a deeply specialized conversational recruiting engine, built and proven on Fortune 500 hiring volume, that outclasses any general-purpose platform, including Sistava, on high-volume candidate screening and interview scheduling.

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Paradox AI | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
|  | AI assistant that screens and schedules human job candidates | AI employees that do sales, marketing, support, and ops work |
|  | Enterprise talent acquisition teams | Solo founders and small teams |
|  | Custom, sales-quoted (Workday) | Free + $49/mo |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | ✓ | ✗ |
|  | Not applicable, a recruiting tool, not a workforce platform | ✓ |