Fall 2026

Lantern AI

Turn Your Taste Into Hires

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What they do

agentic recruiting that learns a firm's hiring taste

How close to us

3, close

Memory of hiring decisions plus agents running the workflow; recruiting only, no measured loop stated.

Wedges

  • No wedge fit written yet.
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 2, clear
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 2, clear
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light

Who buys

Firm size
enterprise
Buyer type
business
Role
head of talent
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

Lantern is the agentic recruiting platform for enterprise. Traction: 1M ARR in 11 months, with clients like Crypto.com, Hyatt Hotel, Baker McKenzie across 10 markets

Lantern runs on:
(1) World People Model, a live talent graph of a billion professionals that knows who’s exceptional, reachable, and about to move
(2) Company Hiring Model, which learns your taste from every hiring decision you’ve ever made

Together, our agents plug into your existing systems and run the whole workflow: sourcing, application review, AI interviews, meeting intelligence, and analytics, under universal context.

Full teardown

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Technical detail
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lantern-ai
Lens hash
179096c479
Pass
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Stale
no