Now onboarding Founding Customers

Hiring has never had more information. Yet hiring decisions still begin with too little real evidence.

Aikiyam helps companies make better hiring decisions using structured evidence — before the first interview.

“The interview starts where the evidence ends.”

Aikiyam Signal ProfileSample
Role context
Series A fintech · Senior Backend Engineer · Success at 90 days: owns payments infrastructure end to end
Evidence observed
Rebuilt payment reconciliation handling ₹2Cr/day — trade-off reasoning verified under follow-up; operated as sole backend owner for 8 months
Evidence not yet established
Cross-system architecture leadership — probed three times; likely exposure gap, not capability gap
Suggested interview focus
“Describe a time you disagreed with an architectural decision made by someone senior. What did you do?”

Not a score. A better starting point for the hiring team.

Why hiring feels harder

Four problems explain the confidence gap.

01 · The Signal Problem

More information than ever. Less confidence than ever.

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02 · The Compression Problem

Valuable career experience gets lost in resume translation.

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03 · The Reset Problem

Candidates start from zero at every company.

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04 · The Learning Problem

Hiring systems stop learning at the hire.

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How it works

Bring us one role. We’ll return the signal.

First

Role kick-off

A 45-minute structured session with the hiring manager. We capture what success actually looks like in this role — beyond the job description.

Then

Structured candidate conversation

Aikiyam Intelligence conducts a 90-minute conversation focused on real projects, real decisions, real trade-offs, and real ownership.

Within 24 hours

Signal Profile delivered

What we know. What we do not know. Exactly where the interview should focus.

And after the hire: we track outcomes at 30, 60, and 90 days — so every hiring cycle teaches the system, and the signal gets better over time.

The evidence starts with us. The judgment stays with your team.

What Aikiyam is not

Aikiyam does not make hiring decisions. It makes yours better-informed.

Does Aikiyam replace interviews?

No. It makes them more focused. Your panel enters with structured evidence rather than a resume and a gut feeling.

Does Aikiyam replace recruiters or the ATS?

No. Recruitment agencies source candidates — we evaluate them. The ATS organises the pipeline — we improve the signal entering interviews.

Does Aikiyam replace technical assessments?

No. It helps teams decide where deeper validation is needed and makes later-stage assessments more focused.

What roles is Aikiyam best suited for?

Roles where judgment, ownership, and decision-making matter — knowledge workers and leaders. Our first engagements focus on experienced engineering roles, where the signal problem is hardest and the cost of mistakes is highest.

Founding Customer Program
Now onboarding Founding Customers

Build the first hiring cycles with us.

Founding Customer benefits are available to the first 20 companies accepted into the program. Acceptance depends on role fit, hiring readiness and Aikiyam’s ability to support the engagement effectively.

  • Outcome fees waived for your first two successful hires
  • Founding Customer badge — recognised as a founding partner
  • Full product roadmap access
  • Quarterly founder reviews
  • Early influence on product direction

Prathap Narayanan brings more than a decade of experience hiring, assessing and leading hundreds of engineers, backed by over two decades across software engineering, program leadership, automation and engineering management. Aikiyam starts where that experience kept pointing: hiring teams making high-stakes decisions with incomplete context — and interviews starting too late.

Prathap Narayanan · Co-Founder & CEO · Formerly scaled an India R&D centre from 2 to 69 engineers · Read the founder story →

Are you an experienced professional?

Your real work — decisions, ownership, growth — deserves better than a one-page summary. Professional Brain remembers what resumes lose.

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“Every interview should begin where the evidence ends.”

See exactly what your hiring team would receive.

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