What Silkroad does

Rival HR, operating from the Silkroad domain, is an AI-powered HR orchestration and talent suite company with a 20-plus year operating history. The company provides a modular SaaS platform spanning the full employee lifecycle, delivered through four core products: Rival Recruit (sourcing, CRM, and ATS), Rival Workflow (onboarding, employee journeys, and offboarding), Rival Learn, and Rival Perform. All products are unified by ROSI (Rival OS Intelligence), a proprietary AI engine that the company positions as powering process automation, personalized outreach, recommendation, and content generation across the suite.

The platform is built around an integration-first architecture that connects to existing ATS and HCM systems rather than replacing them, positioning the product as a complementary layer across enterprise HR and IT stacks. Core technical assets include search across 750 million professional profiles, agentic outreach with embedded GDPR compliance, self-service journey design, and automated provisioning. The company monetizes through subscription SaaS licensing of modular products, sold via a direct enterprise field sales motion with a "Book a Demo" conversion path.

Rival HR serves enterprise customers including Cleveland Clinic, NYU Langone, Avaya, General Dynamics, Gilbane, WPP, Rockwell Collins, Dairy Queen, and SPEC Building Materials. The customer base spans healthcare, technology, defense, construction, advertising, aerospace, and food & beverage verticals. Avaya is cited as a 20-year customer, evidencing long-tenured enterprise relationships. The company operates privately with no public listing, no disclosed revenue, and no disclosed funding history in the available data.

Name

Silkroad

Legal name

Rival HR

Website

https://silkroad.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rival HR, operating from the Silkroad domain, is an AI-powered HR orchestration and talent suite company serving enterprise customers with modular products for sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, learning, performance management, and offboarding, all unified by its proprietary ROSI AI engine.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Resources Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

akta.pro primary industry

Core HR & HRIS (BPACAPAA)

Keywords

• HR orchestration software
• Talent acquisition platform
• AI recruiting software
• Employee onboarding automation
• HR technology suite

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Talent Suite SaaS Subscription: Rival operates as a SaaS platform offering a modular talent suite covering sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, employee journeys, learning, and performance management. Revenue is generated through subscription-based licensing of the platform and its individual products (Recruit, Workflow, Learn, Perform).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Silkroad (operating as Rival HR) sells an AI-powered HR orchestration and talent suite delivered as a modular SaaS platform. The platform spans sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, employee journeys, offboarding, learning, and performance management, all powered by the proprietary ROSI AI engine. Customers can license the full suite or individual products (Recruit, Workflow, Learn, Perform) that connect to existing ATS or HCM systems.

Product overview

Rival is an AI-powered HR orchestration platform delivered as a modular talent suite. The core products include Rival Recruit (Sourcing, CRM, and ATS capabilities), Rival Workflow (Onboarding, Journeys, and Offboarding automation), Rival Learn (employee development), and Rival Perform (performance management). All products are powered by ROSI (Rival OS Intelligence), the proprietary AI engine that enables instant insights, process automation, and AI-assisted personalization. The platform connects to existing ATS or HCM systems and delivers a single system of action across the entire employee lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ROSI: Rival OS Intelligence - the AI that powers every Rival product, delivering instant insights and replacing manual steps in HR processes.

Products and services

• Rival Recruit AI-powered recruiting platform combining Sourcing, CRM, and ATS capabilities for enterprise HR teams. Offers search across 750M+ profiles, candidate matching with bias reduction, personalized outreach at scale, centralized job and candidate management, and built-in analytics. Reports 32% more search results vs other tools and 4x faster time-to-hire than industry average.
• Rival Workflow AI-powered workflow automation platform for onboarding, employee journeys, and offboarding for enterprise HR teams. Automates setup and provisioning across HCM and IT stacks, enables self-service journey design, captures institutional knowledge at exit, and provides analytics. Cleveland Clinic uses it to onboard 38,000 non-employee personnel yearly.
• Rival Learn Learning module within the Rival talent suite enabling employee development and training within the integrated HR platform.
• Rival Perform Performance management module within the Rival talent suite for employee evaluation and performance tracking.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4x faster time-to-hire than industry average
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 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

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/silkroadproject
• Facebookfacebook.com/silkroadproject
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/silkroadproject

Compliance1 record

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

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

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