Cooper Launches AI-Native Hiring Platform to Help Companies Build Teams Faster with AI Agents

Cooper introduces an AI-native platform that automates sourcing, screening, interviewing, and applicant tracking

BERLIN, BERLIN, GERMANY, September 1, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Recruitment has changed dramatically over the last decade, but much of the technology powering it has not.
Recruiters still spend countless hours searching for candidates, reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, and managing hiring workflows across multiple disconnected systems. While applicant tracking systems have digitized hiring, they have done little to eliminate the manual work that slows recruitment teams down.
Today, Cooper announced the launch of its AI-native hiring platform, designed to fundamentally rethink how companies recruit talent.
Rather than serving as another system for managing candidates, Cooper acts as an intelligent recruiting partner—using specialized AI agents to automate the repetitive work involved in hiring while keeping recruiters in control of every hiring decision.
The platform brings together AI candidate sourcing, intelligent screening, structured AI interviews, workflow automation, and applicant tracking into a single hiring experience.
The Next Generation of Recruiting Software
Traditional ATS platforms were built to organize recruiting.
Cooper was built to accelerate it.
Instead of expecting recruiters to manually perform every step of the hiring process, Cooper's AI agents actively assist throughout the recruitment journey—from finding qualified candidates to evaluating applicants and conducting structured first-round interviews.
This AI-first approach enables recruiting teams to move significantly faster without sacrificing hiring quality or candidate experience.
Whether companies are hiring ten people or several hundred, Cooper helps reduce operational bottlenecks that often delay hiring decisions.
Three AI Agents Working Together
At the core of the platform are three specialized AI agents that work together throughout the hiring lifecycle.
Coo, Cooper's AI sourcing agent, helps recruiters discover qualified talent across multiple talent sources, dramatically reducing the time spent searching for candidates.
Scout automatically screens incoming applicants against customized hiring criteria, organizing candidates into priority groups based on job requirements instead of relying solely on keyword matching.
Robin conducts structured AI interviews, creating standardized interview experiences while generating recordings, transcripts, summaries, and evaluation insights that help hiring managers make informed decisions faster.
All three AI agents work seamlessly inside Cooper's built-in Applicant Tracking System, creating one unified workspace for recruiting teams.
Early Customer Feedback Highlights Immediate Impact
One of the biggest challenges with recruiting technology is adoption. New systems often require extensive onboarding and process changes before teams experience value.
Cooper was designed differently.
The platform focuses on simplicity, allowing hiring teams to begin using AI without changing the way they recruit.
Early customers have already experienced the difference.
"Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution."
— Florian Richter, Managing Director, Boda Borg Germany GmbH
The feedback reflects Cooper's broader goal: making advanced AI accessible to every recruiting team, regardless of company size.
Built for High-Growth Organizations
Growing companies often face a difficult hiring challenge.
As hiring demand increases, recruiting teams typically respond by adding more recruiters, purchasing additional software, or outsourcing recruitment. These approaches increase costs without necessarily improving hiring efficiency.
Cooper offers a different model.
By automating sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and evaluation, the platform enables existing recruiting teams to handle significantly higher hiring volumes while maintaining consistency across every candidate.
The platform is particularly well suited for startups, scaleups, technology companies, hospitality businesses, logistics organizations, manufacturing companies, and any business managing high-volume or continuous hiring.
AI That Works Alongside Recruiters
Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest conversations in HR technology, but concerns remain around replacing human judgment.
Cooper approaches AI differently. The platform is designed to remove repetitive administrative work, not human decision-making.
Recruiters remain responsible for building relationships with candidates, collaborating with hiring managers, and making final hiring decisions.
AI simply handles the repetitive tasks that prevent recruiters from spending time where they create the most value.
This collaborative approach allows organizations to improve productivity while maintaining fairness, transparency, and consistency throughout the hiring process.
A Platform Designed for the Future of Hiring
The future of recruitment will not be defined by companies using more software.
It will be defined by companies using smarter software. As organizations compete for talent in increasingly competitive markets, hiring speed, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity have become critical business advantages.
Cooper's AI-native platform reflects this shift by moving beyond applicant tracking to actively participating in the recruiting process.
By combining intelligent sourcing, automated screening, structured interviewing, workflow automation, and applicant tracking in one platform, Cooper enables organizations to hire faster while giving recruiters more time to focus on what matters most—people.
About Cooper
Cooper is the flagship AI hiring platform developed by CooperHire GmbH, a Germany-based HR technology company founded in 2020 by Sohraab Joshi and Amar Ahlers. The founders first worked together at Honeypot, the European developer hiring platform that was later acquired in a €55 million exit. Drawing on their experience building recruiting technology at scale, they founded Cooper with a vision to eliminate repetitive recruiting work through AI while keeping recruiters at the center of every hiring decision.
Today, Cooper helps startups, scaleups, and enterprise organizations automate candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, workflow automation, and applicant tracking through specialized AI agents. CooperHire GmbH is backed by APX, the early-stage investor jointly backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, supporting the company's mission to build the future of AI-powered hiring.

Pawan Kumar
CooperHire GmbH
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