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HeyMilo
AI recruiting agents from New York that screen applicants by SMS, voice, video, phone, and resume review, built for staffing and high-volume hiring.
Staffing agencies, BPOs, and high-volume employers that want screening to start the moment someone applies, inside the ATS they already use.
Teams that will not spend time on setup and prompts, or companies that want a published price before a demo.
Verdict
HeyMilo is an AI recruiting company in New York, founded in 2023 by Sabashan Ragavan and Ramie Raufdeen, former product and engineering leads at Microsoft, Instagram, and Salesforce. Staffing agencies and employers use its agents to text, call, and video-interview applicants as soon as they apply, review resumes against a rubric, and send scored transcripts back to the ATS. It earns attention because it is built for staffing workflows like Bullhorn and Avionte, and it asks every candidate the same questions, which keeps screens consistent across a large recruiting team.
Score Breakdown
How HeyMilo scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
HeyMilo does not publish prices. Its pricing page books a demo.
Plans are quoted on screening volume and channels such as SMS, voice, video, phone, and resume screening, with SOC 2 Type II controls and a monthly AI bias audit.
The Field at a Glance
How HeyMilo compares with other AI interviewing & candidate screening vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
HeyMilo scores 7.4 in AI interviewing & candidate screening, under Alex (7.5), and level with Ribbon (7.4). Relative cost lands upper-mid for this subcategory.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing agency screening | Strong | Wilson, Randstad, and Inergroup use it at volume. |
| After-hours SMS screening | Strong | Starts within minutes of an application, nights and weekends included. |
| Consistent screens across recruiters | Strong | Every candidate gets the same questions and rubric. |
| Student and early-career programs | Mixed | Riipen uses it for guided reflections. |
| Quick self-serve setup | Weak | Results depend on the information and prompts you give it. |
| Executive search | Weak | Built for volume, not a handful of senior hires. |
Who it’s for
Good fit
- Staffing firms on Bullhorn or Avionte
- BPOs and contact centers
- Employers hiring hundreds of hourly workers
Poor fit
- Executive search firms
- Teams that want plug-and-play setup
- Buyers who need a public price list
Review Excerpts
Below are excerpts from public reviews. Our team scoured public reviews, forums, and chat rooms to get a balanced view of customers' experience with this company. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch were excluded.
“Our teams don’t touch the HeyMilo tool. They show up, their calendar is full from 9am to 4pm, they’ve got the interviews booked, and they’re solely focused on meeting those candidates.”
“The standardization is a hidden gem in HeyMilo... You can have a screening template and theoretically ask all candidates the same question, but scale that out across ten recruiters and you have to ask whether candidates are all getting the same experience.”
“The hiccups are pretty much anything you’ll find with AI-figuring out what to prompt…you just have to play with it a little bit.”
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of HeyMilo for buyers comparing options in ai interviewing & candidate screening. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. HeyMilo did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria sit under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for ai interviewing & candidate screening)
- Multichannel screening
- Staffing & high-volume fit
- Structured, consistent screens
- Setup without prompt tuning
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the fit pattern described above.
Scope
HeyMilo is graded here as ai interviewing & candidate screening. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.