Chain Labs

What Chain Labs does

Chain Labs is a Pune, India-based AI agent studio founded in 2021 that builds and operates autonomous agents for recruiting desks. Its product portfolio comprises four core agents — a signal-based Sourcing Agent that monitors LinkedIn, GitHub, public fundraising, layoff, and visa data to surface candidates in motion; a Qualify Agent that runs public-signal enrichment plus structured async intake over email, WhatsApp, or Telegram; a Vapi-powered Screening Agent that conducts 10-minute voice interviews with scoring rubrics; and a Reporting Agent that drafts client updates from ATS, email, and notes. Four additional channel-specific agents (LinkedIn, Telegram, Email, WhatsApp) handle reactivation and outreach. The agents integrate with Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Recruitee, and Bullhorn ATSs and slot into existing recruiter workflows via Slack, Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp Business, and Telegram.

The company sells a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) retainer at $9,500–$18,000 per month on a month-to-month basis with no lock-in and no equity. An embedded senior engineer ships 2–4 new or tuned agents per month inside the client's Slack, with a product manager and second FDE added as engagements scale. A self-serve scoping tool on the website and free 30-min "agent audit" calls feed the top of the funnel. The team comprises approximately 6 people, and current booking is for Q3 2026 recruiter retainers with 2 capacity slots reported as remaining.

Chain Labs also retains a Web3 heritage, reporting $600M+ in on-chain volume handled across DeFi, NFT, and identity protocols for clients including Curve Labs, Movement Labs, Safe Global, Protocol Labs, Hyperlane, Toucan Earth, Giza, Arbitrum, Komet Wallet, Zo World, Antigravity, and Bipzy. No funding rounds, investors, or formal financial disclosures are public; the firm operates as an independent, privately-held entity serving customers globally across the US, UK, Germany, India, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands.

Name

Chain Labs

Legal name

Chain Labs

Website

https://chainlabs.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Chain Labs builds AI recruiting agents — sourcing, qualifying, voice screening, reporting, and reactivation — delivered via an embedded Forward-Deployed Engineer on a $9.5k–$18k monthly retainer for recruiting agencies and in-house talent teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pune

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Forward-Deployed Engineer Retainer: Monthly retainer model ($9,500-$18,000/mo) for embedded AI engineering. Includes weekly ops review, 2-4 new agents per month, existing agent tuning. Month-to-month, no lock-in, cancel anytime. Fixed-price SOW for first agent, then retainer cadence.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Chain Labs builds and ships custom AI agents that automate sourcing, qualifying, screening, reporting, and CRM reactivation for recruiting agencies and in-house talent teams. Each agent is delivered through a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) retainer of $9,500-$18,000 per month, in which a senior engineer embeds in the client's Slack and ships 2-4 new or tuned agents per month. Clients retain ownership of the agent code after day 30, and engagements are month-to-month with no lock-in or equity.

Product overview

Chain Labs offers a suite of AI recruiting agents delivered via a forward-deployed engineer retainer model. The core product portfolio consists of four primary agents (Sourcing Agent, Qualify Agent, Screening Agent, and Reporting Agent) supplemented by four channel-specific outreach/reactivation agents (LinkedIn Reactivate, Telegram Reactivate, Email Agent, and WhatsApp Reach-out). All agents are deployed as part of a Forward-Deployed Engineer retainer engagement starting at $9,500/month, where a senior engineer embeds in the client's Slack and ships 2–4 new or improved agents per month on a rolling basis. The platform integrates with major ATS systems (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Recruitee, Bullhorn) and messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Gmail, Outlook) to slot into existing recruiting workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sourcing Agent

Quantifiable outcome

• 12.5× ROI delivered to clients
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration17 records

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VapicoreTechnology or IntegrationVoice infrastructure provider powering the voice screening agent for 10-minute candidate interviews. Core technology partner for voice AI capability.
• ATS Platforms (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Recruitee, Bullhorn)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partnerships with major ATS platforms. Agents slot into existing ATS, CRM, and messaging stack. Custom SQL stores and spreadsheets also supported.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Phenom: AI-powered talent platform for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and onboarding at enterprise scale. Directly comparable to Chain Labs' end-to-end recruiting agent suite, with a more enterprise SaaS go-to-market.
• Paradox (Olivia): Conversational AI assistant for recruiting that automates candidate screening, scheduling, and Q&A. Closely comparable to Chain Labs' Voice Screening Agent and structured intake flows, delivered via a SaaS model rather than FDE retainer.
• Eightfold AI: Talent intelligence platform that applies AI to sourcing, matching, and workforce planning. Overlaps with Chain Labs because it sells AI agents/automation into enterprise talent acquisition, the same workflow Chain Labs targets with its agent stack.
• HireEZ: AI sourcing and outbound platform built for recruiters and talent acquisition teams. Comparable to Chain Labs as a competing AI-native solution aimed at automating candidate sourcing and engagement in the recruiting funnel.
• Gem: Recruiting automation platform with sourcing, outreach, and CRM workflows for talent teams. Comparable because it competes for the same recruiting operations budget that Chain Labs targets with its sourcing, outreach, and reactivation agents.
• SeekOut: AI-powered sourcing and talent intelligence platform for recruiters. Directly comparable because it sells AI-driven candidate discovery to recruiting teams, the same buyer Chain Labs targets with its signal-based Sourcing Agent.

Emerging players

• Recruiterflow: Recruiting CRM and ATS for staffing agencies with built-in automation and AI features. Comparable as a horizontal platform aimed at recruiting agencies — the same customer segment as Chain Labs — though with a more packaged product approach.

Broad incumbents

• Greenhouse: Leading applicant tracking system with an open integration ecosystem. Both a key integration partner and competitive threat because its AI roadmap could subsume functionality currently delivered by Chain Labs' ATS-connected agents.
• iCIMS: Established enterprise talent acquisition suite with growing AI features across sourcing, CRM, and ATS. Broad incumbent that competes indirectly by embedding AI capabilities directly into the ATS/CRM recruiting teams already pay for.

Others

• Palantir Technologies: Enterprise software company that pioneered the Forward-Deployed Engineer model of embedding senior engineers inside customer organizations. Not a competitor but the clearest analog for Chain Labs' FDE delivery motion and the operational challenges that come with it.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses6 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/0xChainlabs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/0xchainlabs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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