OneHive

What OneHive does

OneHive is a Hampshire, United Kingdom-based AI software-as-a-service company that builds productivity tools for individuals and small businesses. The company was founded in 2022 by co-founders Ben O'Nion and Charlie Gray, who started the venture while in college and became the youngest ever winners of the VentureFest Open-Mic Pitch competition. OneHive operates a portfolio of two consumer- and team-oriented products distributed via dedicated self-serve websites. Its first product, InterviewBoss, is an AI-driven interview preparation tool launched in early 2024 that reached over 25,000 users within four months. Its second product, Echo, is an AI-powered meeting assistant launched on 10 January 2025 that automatically joins calls, transcribes discussions, summarises key points and delivers actionable recaps for teams.

The underlying technology combines application-layer use of AI across audio (speech-to-text transcription of meeting audio) and text (NLP-driven summarisation and generative AI content creation) modalities. The company has not disclosed proprietary models, patents, or research artefacts, and its AI capabilities are consistent with integration of third-party speech recognition and large language model APIs. OneHive does not publish pricing tiers, and its go-to-market is product-led growth via direct, self-serve web distribution at interviewboss.ai, meetecho.app and meetecho.io, supported by content marketing and a LinkedIn presence.

The business model is subscription-based recurring SaaS revenue from its two product lines, targeting individual job seekers (InterviewBoss) and modern teams/SMBs in the United Kingdom (Echo). The company has raised £2 million from Ridown Group, a single disclosed institutional backer, and the partnership with Ridown is described as enabling the development and launch of Echo. Headcount is stated at 1–10 employees, and no revenue, ARR, or paid-conversion metrics have been disclosed publicly.

Name

OneHive

Legal name

OneHive

Website

https://one-hive.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OneHive is a UK-based AI SaaS company that builds productivity tools for individuals and teams, operating two self-serve products: InterviewBoss (AI interview preparation) and Echo (AI meeting assistant).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Productivity Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI-Powered Tutoring & Study Assistant Platforms (EDANAGAD), Multimodal Generation (Text-Image-Video-Audio) & Creative Toolchains (HDAAACAG)

Keywords

• AI productivity software
• Interview preparation
• AI meeting assistant
• Generative AI SaaS
• Workforce productivity tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Southampton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. AI SaaS Products: Revenue generated from AI-powered SaaS products including InterviewBoss (AI interview preparation) and Echo (AI meeting assistant). Products target UK businesses to boost productivity through AI.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

OneHive is an AI SaaS company that develops productivity applications for individual job seekers and modern UK teams. Its main products are InterviewBoss, an AI-powered interview preparation tool for candidates, and Echo, an AI meeting assistant designed for teams and businesses. The company focuses on pairing cutting-edge generative AI with consumer-grade product design to drive rapid adoption among UK-based job seekers and small-to-mid-sized business teams.

Product overview

OneHive is an AI SaaS company offering a portfolio of productivity tools for modern teams. The company operates two core products: InterviewBoss, an AI-driven interview preparation tool launched in early 2024, and Echo, an AI-powered meeting assistant launched in January 2025. Both products leverage AI to streamline workflows and reduce administrative burdens, with Echo specifically designed to transform how teams handle meetings through automatic transcription, summarisation, and actionable recaps.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• InterviewBoss: AI-driven interview preparation tool launched in early 2024. Over 25,000 users signed up within four months of launch.
• Echo

Products and services

• InterviewBoss InterviewBoss is an AI-powered interview preparation application that helps individual job seekers practice for interviews and receive AI-driven feedback on their answers, reducing the need for human mock-interview partners.
• Echo Echo is an AI meeting assistant for teams and businesses that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings to surface key decisions and action items for the team.

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Otter.ai: Otter.ai is a leading AI meeting assistant that transcribes, summarizes, and generates meeting notes in real time. It is the most direct competitor to OneHive's Echo product, serving similar SMB and team use cases with comparable core functionality.
• Fireflies.ai: Fireflies.ai provides an AI notetaker that joins meetings, transcribes conversations, and produces searchable summaries. It directly competes with Echo on the same autonomous-bot, meeting-assistant workflow targeted at modern teams.
• Fathom: Fathom is a free AI meeting recorder and summarizer that automatically captures calls and produces recaps. It is a direct Echo competitor, particularly in the self-serve, PLG-driven SMB segment OneHive targets.
• Read AI: Read AI offers AI-powered meeting summaries, transcripts, and engagement analytics across major video-conferencing platforms. It competes directly with Echo for the team-meeting productivity workflow.
• Final Round AI: Final Round AI is an AI interview copilot and preparation tool that helps candidates during live interviews. It is the closest direct competitor to OneHive's InterviewBoss product, serving the same job-seeker segment with AI-driven preparation.
• Yoodli: Yoodli is an AI-powered communication and interview coaching platform that provides feedback on speaking and interview practice. It is comparable to InterviewBoss in targeting candidates preparing for interviews through AI-driven feedback.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Copilot for Teams: Microsoft Copilot bundles AI meeting summaries, recaps, and action items natively inside Microsoft Teams. As a broad incumbent with distribution through the Office 365 install base, it overlaps significantly with Echo's meeting-assistant value proposition.
• Zoom AI Companion: Zoom AI Companion provides built-in meeting summaries, smart recordings, and action items directly inside the Zoom platform. As a broad incumbent, it competes with Echo by offering similar AI-meeting functionality bundled with the dominant video-conferencing platform.
• Notion AI: Notion AI embeds generative AI across Notion's productivity workspace, including meeting-note summarization and team productivity workflows. It is a broad incumbent addressing the same AI-for-modern-teams productivity space as OneHive's portfolio.

Others

• Jasper: Jasper is an AI SaaS company providing generative AI tools for business content and productivity. While not a direct competitor to either product, it is a comparable AI-native SaaS peer in terms of business model, target customer, and go-to-market approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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