- Agentic AI is transforming hiring from a manual process into a 24/7, automated conversation.
- Digital twins are redefining how we understand, manage, and grow workforce potential.
- Talent intelligence isn’t just surviving disruption — it’s building the future of work.
The past year at Eightfold has been marked by rapid innovation and tangible real-world impact.
In 2024, we delivered foundational shifts in how we help customers operate more efficiently, move faster, and deliver better candidate and employee experiences. We’re proud of what we’ve delivered, but we’re even more excited about where it leads.
These innovations are more than standalone features — they’re building blocks for what comes next: a new era of agentic automation and a deeper, more dynamic understanding of the workforce.
At Cultivate ’25, we explored how these developments set the stage for the next chapter in talent intelligence.
Here’s a look at what we launched, why it matters, and what it enables in the year ahead.
Eightfold Chief Product Officer Sachit Kamat shares why talent intelligence is needed in a fast-changing world.
Talent intelligence is needed in a changing world
From economic shifts and trade turbulence, to the transformative impact of AI, it’s clear that 2025 presents a whole new set of challenges for organizations.
Our Talent Intelligence Platform was built precisely for times like these, combining enterprise data, market data, and user interactions to create actionable insights.
In 2021, this platform helped organizations navigate the pandemic. Today, it continues to evolve, offering CHROs a comprehensive view of workforce skills and empowering employees with disrupted roles to find new opportunities.
It’s our commitment to ensuring organizations and individuals stay resilient in the face of change.
Embracing agentic automation to reimagine recruiting
One of the most exciting areas of innovation is what we refer to as agentic automation. Agentic AI represents the next step in evolving workflows from manual to AI-driven and now to autonomous agents that handle tasks at scale.
For recruiters, much of the workflow has traditionally been manual and repetitive. Our AI interviewer changes the game by automating the phone screening process. Using agents in this way isn’t just about saving time. It’s about transforming the recruiting experience.
Imagine a world where recruiters can instantly invite candidates to interviews without the usual back-and-forth of scheduling. Candidates engage in natural conversations with an AI interviewer, which collects responses, evaluates them, and ranks candidates based on performance. It’s 24/7, simultaneous, and scalable.
And this isn’t a future vision — it’s happening now.
Companies like Dexcom are already piloting this technology. As Matt Hill, VP of Talent Acquisition, shared at Cultivate, AI interviewing has the potential to shave days off hiring timelines while delivering a better candidate experience.
Eightfold Chief Product Officer Sachit Kamat talks about how your digital twin can help you work more efficiently.
Expanding the role of AI across the talent life cycle
While we started with talent acquisition, the potential of agentic AI extends far beyond. We’re moving toward a future where the employee experience is deeply personalized and proactive.
This is where our digital twin concept comes into play: a comprehensive and dynamic profile of each employee’s knowledge, skills, and tasks gathered from their everyday work.
With this digital twin, we can:
- Automate performance reviews by generating self and peer feedback based on real work data.
- Provide instant status updates from employees’ systems of work, saving hours of manual reporting.
- Identify skill growth in real time and recommend personalized learning and career opportunities.
This approach also empowers managers. Imagine a manager onboarding a new employee with a 30-60-90 day plan generated from the digital twin of the person they’re replacing. Another excellent use case is automatically generating requisitions for backfilling roles based on the departing employee’s skills and contributions.
Giving people the gift of time
All these innovations — AI co-pilots, interviewers, digital twins — are driven by a simple goal: to give people time back. Time to focus on the strategic, human aspects of their work. Time to innovate, collaborate, and grow.
It’s not just about replacing tasks. It’s about augmenting human capabilities and enabling organizations to thrive in an era of rapid change.
Through that change, it’s clear to me that we’re not just witnessing a technological evolution — we’re shaping a new paradigm for work. Our Talent Intelligence Platform is moving from a two-dimensional view of workers to a three-dimensional understanding of the work itself.
From talent acquisition to talent management, from resource planning to employee engagement, these advancements are transforming how we attract, develop, and retain talent.
If you’re ready to take your organization into the future, we’re here to partner with you. The technology I’ve shared today is live, and we’re just getting started.
Let’s continue this journey — together.
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Sachit Kamat is Eightfold AI’s Chief Product Officer in charge of developing our AI-powered talent products and solutions.