Building Hiring Infrastructure for the AI Era
We've seen both sides of the hiring table. We've helped hundreds of professionals find the right roles and dozens of startups build their teams. Now we're using that experience to fix the process for everyone.
Why We're Building Cruitical
Over the past few years, we've been on both sides of the hiring table. As hiring managers, advisors, founders and community leaders, we've successfully helped over 200 professionals navigate career transitions and bridged talent at some of the most exciting early-stage startups today. Every single time, we saw the same inevitable broken patterns.
Talented people struggling to figure out what employers truly want, and hopelessly trying everything that could get them a conversation and potentially hired. Companies spending weeks interviewing candidates who couldn't actually do the work. Both sides are trapped in a context-sparse system, just hoping to have a genuine, candid conversation with people who may share some of their passion.
The introduction of AI screening tools made things worse. Candidates were struggling to beat these blackbox processes, people took note, and more than a few dozen startups popped up helping them auto-apply, curate their resumes to "beat the system" or cheat on interviews. Companies began deploying products that promised to save them from the applicant flood, but the vast majority are band-aid fixes that only leave both sides more scarred and the process more fractured.
We realized the problem wasn't individual tools or tactics but the infrastructure itself. Hiring has been measuring the wrong things for decades, and is definitely failing to capture the full resolution of a person. We're building Cruitical to change that, and to create infrastructure that assesses critical thinking, adaptability, job readiness and real problem-solving capability at scale. Infrastructure that makes hiring fast, transparent, and genuinely predictive of success.
We believe the companies and candidates who deserve each other should find each other, and the technology now exists to make that possible. We're building it.
The Team
Shubham Srivastava
Co-Founder & CEO
Serial founder, Carnegie Mellon graduate, and early-stage SaaS operator and advisor. Previously Head of Product and Growth at Zenduty, led everything from sales and customer success to product, design, and community.
Loves cycling, sci-fi movies, Counter Strike (nationally ranked once upon a time), and ranting about bad user design in everyday products.
Currently Listening: Wild by Spoon
Siddhartha Varma
Co-Founder & CTO
Technologist and systems architect focused on AI-native infrastructure. Georgia Tech MSCS, former Senior Software Engineer at Zomato, built core systems that scaled to over 300 million users. Has been on both sides of technical interviews and knows exactly where traditional processes break down.
Loves photography, home automation, brewing coffee, and maintains an active open source presence.
Currently Listening: Solar Power by Glass Animals
Our Vision
We're building the hiring system the humans in the AI era deserve.
Infrastructure that measures human capability at scale. That gives companies confidence and gives candidates genuine opportunities to prove themselves.
That makes the process fast, transparent, and predictive of who will actually succeed in the role.
Join Us
We're building Cruitical for candidates who are more than their resumes and companies who want to hire based on capability.
Are You a Builder?
If you're tired of being reduced to a keyword, we're building for you. Learn how Cruitical helps you get known for your full capability.
Are You Hiring?
Stop sifting through identical resumes. Start finding candidates who can actually do the work. Discover how Cruitical transforms your hiring process.