I've spent the last 18 years in staffing and recruitment. It's an industry full of sharp, battle-tested professionals who can sell solutions and deliver value — but they're asked to do it with the wrong tools.

When I led innovation for the largest staffing firm in the world, I built products to solve real problems. In 2018, I was already talking about how AI was coming for recruitment. Now it's here — and the tools alone aren't enough. The only way forward is solutions that integrate directly into the workflows, remove admin, and drive results.

That's why we started EQ. First, we built a community — over 30,000 recruiters strong. We launched the AI in Recruitment podcast, drawing 12,000 monthly views, and listened carefully.

So we built the RIV Score and a network of AI agents that match, enrich, and screen candidates and clients — surfacing only the best opportunities. Our first product, EQBuddy ("ChatGPT for recruiters"), gave us early revenue and, more importantly, proprietary data to power our models.

Now we're scaling the EQ Agent Platform — the agentic infrastructure that runs both EQ Recruiting (supply) and EQ ICP for Sales (demand) on the same core. Like Nvidia powers AI models, EQ powers agent-enabled service delivery for staffing and service companies. We solve the biggest challenge for small to mid-sized staffing and recruiting firms, connecting them to relevant, interested, and verified (RIV) clients and candidates at the right time. We do this by building AI agents that integrate seamlessly into their workflow.