airloc.ai

What airloc.ai does

AIRLOC is a private, venture-stage software company founded in 2023 by Jessica Hammond (Founder & CEO) and K. Scott Davis that builds an agentic AI platform purpose-built for retained executive search firms. The platform automates the research-intensive early phase of an executive engagement — developing a search strategy, mapping role-specific talent across tiers, generating target company lists, and producing ranked and rated longlists of executive candidates. The underlying technology is described as a "highly-specialized AI Agent" trained specifically on the executive search process rather than on generic skills-based or title-matching prompts, with the founding team citing Stanford's August 2023 paper on generative agents as the conceptual basis for the platform. The product is delivered as a cloud-based web application accessed via app.airloc.ai, supports Google authentication for sign-in, and operates on text and structured candidate data modalities.

The product architecture combines four AI capability types — autonomous agents, generative AI for strategy reports and longlists, process automation, and large-scale knowledge retrieval across candidate profiles beyond LinkedIn. AIRLOC claims the system compresses the first six weeks of executive search research into approximately 45 minutes, reduces search cycles by 45%, and accelerates candidate placement by 40% relative to traditional methods, which the company benchmarks against an industry average of 117 days to placement, a 76% success rate, and fees often exceeding $150,000 per placement.

AIRLOC sells on a usage-based, per-search pricing model with a "no search = no fee" structure, and goes to market through a demo-driven enterprise field sales motion with human-led intake to scope the search mandate. Target segments include retained executive search firms (primary), in-house executive talent teams, solo recruiters and boutique search practices, and dedicated research teams, distributed globally through direct sales. The company does not disclose named customers, pricing tiers, revenue, headcount, institutional funding, patents, trademarks, awards, or partnerships in the available source material.

Name

airloc.ai

Legal name

AIRLOC

Website

https://airloc.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Short description

AIRLOC is a private AI software company that sells an agentic AI platform to retained executive search firms and in-house talent teams, automating search strategy, candidate research, and ranked longlist generation on a usage-based per-search pricing model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Search Software

NAICS

Executive Search Services (561312), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

C-Suite & Board Search (BPACAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support) (HDAAAGAJ), Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery (HDAEAGAH)

Keywords

• Executive search software
• AI talent sourcing
• Candidate longlist generation
• Executive recruiting AI
• Talent pipeline automation

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Per-Search Usage Model: AIRLOC is available on-demand for one or all searches. No search equals no fee. Users engage AIRLOC when needed, paying per search or search engagement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

AIRLOC is a cloud-based agentic AI platform purpose-built for executive search firms that develops search strategy and generates ranked, rated, and qualified executive talent longlists. It compresses the first 6 weeks of research and sourcing into minutes by automating candidate research, role-specific talent mapping, auto-benchmarking, and AI-generated target company lists. The product is sold on a per-search, on-demand usage basis to retained executive search firms and in-house executive talent teams.

Product overview

AIRLOC is a single, unified Agentic A.I. platform purpose-built for retained executive search firms. The core AIRLOC product combines strategy development, candidate research and sourcing, talent benchmarking, ranking and scoring, and longlist generation into one integrated workflow. The platform is designed to work as an extension of search teams, handling the analytical and research-intensive portions of the search process while human recruiters maintain control of client relationships and candidate engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AIRLOC Cloud-based agentic AI platform for retained executive search firms and in-house executive talent teams that develops a foundational search strategy with the user and then generates ranked, rated, and qualified executive talent longlists from millions of candidate profiles beyond LinkedIn, compressing the first 6 weeks of research into minutes. Sold on a per-search, on-demand usage basis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Decrease search cycles by 45% and up to 6 weeks
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SeekOut: AI-powered talent intelligence and sourcing platform used by enterprises and search firms; directly comparable as an AI-native sourcing tool competing for the same executive and hard-to-fill candidate pools.
• HireEZ: AI sourcing platform that searches beyond LinkedIn for candidate discovery; comparable in its AI-driven outbound sourcing approach and target buyer (recruiters and talent teams).
• Loxo: AI recruiting platform with executive search and outbound sourcing capabilities; one of the closest peers given explicit executive search functionality and AI-first architecture.
• Gem: Recruiting platform combining sourcing, CRM, and analytics for talent teams; comparable as a workflow-augmenting AI tool used by search and recruiting teams.

Broad incumbents

• Eightfold AI: Enterprise AI talent intelligence platform with broad capabilities across recruiting, retention, and skill matching; comparable as an AI-native talent platform but at significantly larger scale and broader scope than AIRLOC.
• iCIMS: Large, established talent acquisition suite used by enterprises for ATS, CRM, and candidate management; represents incumbent competition AIRLOC must integrate with or displace.
• LinkedIn Recruiter: Default sourcing and candidate database for most executive search practitioners; the dominant incumbent AIRLOC explicitly positions against with its beyond-LinkedIn sourcing claim.
• Greenhouse: Established ATS and recruiting platform with sourcing and CRM modules; comparable as an incumbent in the broader recruiting tech stack where AIRLOC would either integrate or compete for workflow ownership.

Regional players

• Heidrick & Struggles: Global retained executive search firm; comparable as a customer-segment proxy — one of the types of large retained firms AIRLOC sells into, and a potential partner or competitor depending on GTM.
• Spencer Stuart: Premier global executive search firm; representative of the large retained search customer AIRLOC targets, with established internal research operations that could either adopt or bypass AIRLOC.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 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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