Curious Thing

Curious Thing develops an AI-based conversational candidate assessment solution for volume hiring, offering a product called Curiosity with use cases in talent hiring and student interview preparations, along with an API for HR technology integration. The platform uses an AI-based conversational system that assesses candidates through oral interviews, leveraging natural language processing, speech and voice recognition, and AI infrastructure to conduct automated screening interviews at scale. The technology enables organizations to evaluate large volumes of candidates efficiently through natural conversational interactions, with the system analyzing responses to provide structured assessments of candidate suitability. Curious Thing's conversational AI platform supports automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding to deliver consistent, bias-reduced candidate evaluations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, the company has raised approximately $8.4M in seed funding. Curious Thing differentiates itself through its purpose-built conversational AI for HR assessment, combining speech recognition and natural language processing to automate candidate evaluation at volume for talent acquisition and interview preparation use cases.