HireAbility

What HireAbility does

HireAbility is a privately held, bootstrapped SaaS company headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire, that provides cloud-based resume, CV, and job order parsing technology. Its flagship product, ALEX (Automated Linguistic EXpert), is a grammar-based parsing engine that uses proprietary semantic algorithms and NLP techniques to convert free-format candidate documents and job postings into structured HR-XML or JSON data. The platform supports 50+ languages and dialects with automatic language detection, extracts 200+ data points per resume, and is offered with a 99.999% uptime SLA at documented throughput of thousands of documents per minute.

The company sells through an API-first go-to-market model, supplemented by direct enterprise sales, OEM/embedded integrations, and a 200+ partner channel spanning ATS vendors, HRIS platforms, job boards, HR analytics firms, social networks, and staffing companies. Named integrations include Oracle Fusion Cloud, Salesforce, Infor, ThisWay Global, and StaffBot. Pricing is primarily usage-based (per-parse with volume discounts) via prepaid annual credit packages, with an optional annual fixed-price arrangement for enterprise budgeting and a discounted Developer Program to accelerate integration post-trial.

HireAbility operates as HireAbility.com, LLC, is owned by founder and CEO Steve Kenda, and has been led by him since 2000. The executive team is intentionally small (four members) and the company is GDPR compliant by design and EU-US Privacy Shield certified, positioning it for cross-border enterprise HR procurement. The platform has cumulatively parsed 100M+ resumes and CVs and serves 1,000+ clients across 30+ countries on six continents, indicating a mature, installed-base business rather than an early-stage growth company.

Name

HireAbility

Legal name

HireAbility.com, LLC

Website

https://hireability.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HireAbility provides ALEX, a cloud-based grammar-based resume, CV, and job order parsing API. It serves ATS vendors, HRIS platforms, job boards, staffing firms, and enterprise HR departments globally across 50+ languages, operating as a bootstrapped, founder-led SaaS business.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Resume and Job Parsing Software

NAICS

Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Core HR & HRIS (BPACAPAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Capital Management (HCM) & Payroll Platforms (HDAEAEAJ), HRIS/HCM Implementation & EOR Platform Services (BPACAHAJ)

Keywords

• Resume parsing software
• CV parsing API
• Job order parsing
• Applicant tracking systems
• HR data extraction

Headquarters

HQ city

Londonderry

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Per-Parse Pricing (Usage-Based): Volume-based per-parse pricing model where the price per parse declines rapidly as customers buy larger packages. Pre-paid packages are valid for one year from payment receipt. Monthly programs available with certain volume restrictions. Customers are notified when within 20% of remaining credit balance.
2. Developer Program: Discounted developer program offering 5000 credits for $250 (66% discount) valid for one year to new customers. Helps developers complete integration after free trial period.
3. Annual Fixed-Price Contracts (Optional): For enterprise customers who need annual fixed pricing for budgeting purposes, HireAbility can accommodate with good estimates on anticipated usage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

HireAbility provides cloud-based resume/CV and job order parsing as an API service. Its flagship product, ALEX (Automated Linguistic EXpert), converts free-format resumes, CVs, social profiles, and job postings into structured HR-XML or JSON data using grammar-based NLP and semantic parsing. Output is consumed by ATS, HRIS, job board, and recruiting platforms via a single API key, with skills/job title ontologies, confidence scoring, 50+ language support, and OCR for scanned documents.

Product overview

HireAbility offers a unified parsing platform built around ALEX (Automated Linguistic EXpert), a grammar-based NLP parser. The portfolio consists of two core products: ALEX Resume & CV Parser for converting candidate documents into structured HR-XML or JSON, and ALEX Job Parser for processing job postings. Both share skills and job title taxonomies for optimized matching. Supporting modules include OCR support for scanned documents, social media profile parsing (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), and a Skills & Job Title Ontologies intelligence module. The platform operates as SaaS with API integration requiring a single key. Developer program available for integration assistance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ALEX (Automated Linguistic EXpert): HireAbility's primary resume/CV parser and job order parser product. A grammar-based parser using proprietary semantic parsing algorithms to understand and properly tag meaningful data from resumes. Supports over 50 languages and dialects, outputs HR-XML and JSON formats.

Products and services

• ALEX Resume & CV Parser Cloud-based parser that converts free-format resumes, CVs, and social media profiles into structured HR-XML or JSON output. Supports 50+ languages with automatic language detection, grammar-based NLP parsing, skills ontologies, and AI confidence scoring. Sold to ATS, HRIS, job boards, and recruiting platforms via API.
• ALEX Job Parser Parser that converts job orders, postings, and vacancies into structured HR-XML or JSON output, sharing skills and job title taxonomies with the Resume Parser for optimized candidate-to-job matching. Extracts position title, location, salary, job description, required skills, and education.
• Developer Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 200+ data points extracted per resume/CV
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ThisWay Global (AI4JOBS)coreTechnology or IntegrationHireAbility is the resume and job parser behind the award-winning AI4JOBS platform by ThisWay Global. Selected over all other parsing companies due to accuracy, support, speed and team of experts behind the technology.
• InforcoreTechnology or IntegrationEnterprise software partner (Infor) and healthcare staffing software provider (Infor/Bluesky) utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• StaffBotcoreTechnology or IntegrationStaffBot partnered with HireAbility to parse American Heart Association (AHA) eCard certificates for healthcare staffing. Many healthcare employers require certification details on file for employees.
• Oracle Fusion CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration into Oracle Fusion Cloud workflows. HireAbility's world-class resume and job vacancy parser integrates with Oracle product through straightforward and intuitive API.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationHireAbility offers free sample code to use the parser within Salesforce as part of their developer program. Creates candidate profiles from resumes directly in Salesforce.
• AnnashaeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStaffing solutions partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing technology.
• ProHealth StaffingminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealthcare staffing partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing technology.
• NextMileminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartner company utilizing HireAbility's resume and job parsing solutions.
• BCjobs.caminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCanadian job board partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• JobsInTheUS.comminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJob board partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• Avacko Job BoardminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJob board partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• Staffing BackboneminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStaffing technology partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• RecruiterLinkminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRecruiting partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• Inter-City Personnel AssociatesminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStaffing/recruiting firm partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• SelectyminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBrazilian recruiting platform partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• CareerLeafminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCareer site partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• MST SolutionsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMarketing and sales solutions partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing technology.
• TalentZoominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJob board partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• HumanusminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStaffing and recruiting firm partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.
• Core77minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDesign community platform partner utilizing HireAbility's parsing solutions.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Sovren: Sovren offers a resume/CV parsing engine and matching API used by ATS, job boards, and enterprise HR systems. Like HireAbility, it sells an AI-powered parsing component embedded into other HR software platforms via API.
• RChilli: RChilli provides resume parsing, taxonomy, and matching solutions sold to ATS/HRIS vendors (including Oracle and Salesforce ecosystems) as an embedded API. It competes head-on with HireAbility for OEM and partner-led deals in the HR technology stack.
• Textkernel: Textkernel is a leading provider of multilingual resume and job parsing APIs (Parse, Match) to ATS, HRIS, and staffing vendors globally. It is the most direct competitor to HireAbility's ALEX parser on product, multilingual coverage, and enterprise customer base.
• DaXtra Technologies: DaXtra offers resume/CV parsing and search/match technology for the recruitment industry, including DaXtra Parser and Daxtra Search. It targets staffing agencies, RPOs, and corporate HR - the same buyer segments as HireAbility.

Emerging players

• Affinda: Affinda provides AI-powered resume parsing and document extraction APIs built on modern machine learning. It targets similar ATS/HRIS customers with an LLM-influenced approach, representing an emerging technical alternative to grammar-based parsers like ALEX.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI provides an AI-driven talent intelligence platform that ingests structured resume data to power skills inference, matching, and workforce planning. It competes with HireAbility indirectly by extracting equivalent signals through its own AI models.

Broad incumbents

• Lightcast (formerly Burning Glass): Lightcast provides labor market analytics, skills taxonomy, and parsing/matching technology to HR tech vendors. It overlaps with HireAbility on resume/job parsing and on the skills ontologies that power downstream matching - making it a competitor on the data and intelligence layer.
• Workday: Workday is a leading enterprise HCM/HRIS platform that could in-source or bundle parsing capabilities, directly competing with HireAbility's value proposition as a third-party parsing layer embedded in HR workflows.
• iCIMS: iCIMS is a large enterprise talent acquisition platform (ATS/CRM) that currently integrates third-party parsers but has the scale and incentive to build or acquire in-house parsing - posing a platform risk to HireAbility's partner channel.
• Beamery: Beamery is a talent lifecycle platform serving large enterprises with AI-driven candidate matching and CRM. As a broad HR-tech incumbent, it competes for the same enterprise HR budget and could integrate or replace third-party parsing vendors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HireAbility
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCGNaa_MDCPKs6ywHBTHtxjg
• Facebookfacebook.com/hireability
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/1039438

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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