Orbio
Also known as: Orbio AI
HR agents that handle recruiting, onboarding, and retention analysis across the employee lifecycle.
Orbio is an AI native HR platform that runs the full employment lifecycle for frontline and deskless workers through three named agents: Maria for recruiting, Daniel for onboarding, and Claire for engagement and retention. Founded in Madrid in 2025 by Sergi Bastardas, a decade long Amazon veteran, alongside Nacho Travesi and Antonio Mele, the company raised a $21 million Series A led by Dawn Capital in June 2026, bringing total funding to roughly $26 million after a seed round the prior autumn. Early enterprise customers include YUM Brands, the owner of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, along with Adecco, Inditex, and The Stepping Stones Group, where Orbio now runs the full US frontline operation.
The design targets the 2.7 billion frontline workers that traditional HR software overlooks, many of whom lack a corporate email address, by reaching candidates and staff over WhatsApp, SMS, and voice around the clock and across time zones. Maria writes job descriptions, screens, and interviews; Daniel manages onboarding; and Claire runs daily check ins and flags retention risk. What sets the system apart is a shared data layer: onboarding conversion feeds back into recruiting criteria, exit signals recalibrate who Maria selects, and engagement patterns adjust how Daniel structures onboarding, producing a longitudinal profile of every worker. The company reports up to eighty percent faster hiring and twenty percent lower early turnover.
Orbio is ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II audited, and aligned with GDPR and the EU AI Act, which matters for the enterprise procurement and legal review that high volume frontline hiring attracts. One open question buyers should press on is fairness: no independent bias audit of its screening criteria has been made public, and the always on behavioral scoring runs from the first WhatsApp exchange onward. For retail, logistics, contact center, and healthcare support employers running high volume frontline hiring, Orbio is a purpose built option that replaces fragmented point tools; teams needing an open platform, model choice, or developer extensibility will find those are not its focus.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://orbio.work
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
HR recruiting and people ops agents
Funding status
Independent, founded in Madrid in 2025 by Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesi, and Antonio Mele. Raised a $21 million Series A led by Dawn Capital in June 2026, with Visionaries, Enzo Ventures, Plus Partners, and Endeavor Catalyst participating, bringing total funding to roughly $26 million after a seed round led by Visionaries Club in late 2025.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Runs on a built in applicant tracking system with custom career pages and source tracking, and reaches candidates and workers over WhatsApp, SMS, and voice across time zones. A shared data layer connects the recruiting, onboarding, and engagement agents so signals from one inform the others.
In practice
You hire hundreds of frontline staff a month and time to hire keeps slipping. Maria writes the posting, screens, and interviews over WhatsApp around the clock, cutting hiring time sharply without adding recruiters.
Early turnover is quietly draining a retail or logistics operation. Claire runs daily check ins and flags retention risk at day thirty, while exit signals feed back to sharpen who gets hired next.
Onboarding for deskless workers lives in spreadsheets and texts. Daniel runs it over the channels workers actually use, and the signals recalibrate recruiting and engagement across the lifecycle.
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Research notes
Added via Crunchbase discovery batch July6Agentic1to50. Core fields only; enrichment (longDescription, useCaseScenarios, 14-axis VendorFeature, pricing) pending.
Capability coverage
7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%
| Integrations & Tool CallingWorks across the HR stack with a built in ATS and reaches workers over WhatsApp, SMS, and voice; the breadth of external system integrations is not extensively documented, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Partial |
|---|---|
| Workflow OrchestrationThree coordinated agents, Maria for recruiting, Daniel for onboarding, and Claire for engagement, run the frontline employee lifecycle end to end with a shared data layer feeding signals between them, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGBuilds a longitudinal behavioral profile per worker and shares signals across agents; document grounded RAG is not the marketed capability, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Partial |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsPositions agents as autonomous across hiring and monitoring while retaining auditability for enterprise procurement and legal; no public bias audit of screening criteria, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Partial |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II audited, and aligned with GDPR and the EU AI Act, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityMaintains auditability that enterprise procurement and legal require and reports outcome metrics; a full observability toolset is not detailed and no public bias audit exists, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Partial |
| Memory & State PersistenceA shared data layer persists a longitudinal profile per worker across recruiting, onboarding, and retention, feeding signals back to recalibrate later decisions, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Full |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyDelivered as SaaS; self host is not offered, though GDPR alignment implies EU data handling, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksShips three prebuilt role specific agents ready to run the frontline lifecycle rather than requiring customers to author agents, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Full |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageAgents operate around the clock across WhatsApp, SMS, and voice, reaching candidates and workers across time zones and running scheduled daily check ins, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Full |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingNo customer facing model choice or routing documented, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Unable to verify |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityNo public developer API, SDK, or MCP surface documented, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Unable to verify |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationNo customer facing testing or evaluation tooling documented, and no public bias testing methodology has been disclosed, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Unable to verify |
| Browser & Computer UseNo browser or computer use capability documented; interaction is over messaging and voice channels, Orbio docs 2026-07-06 | Unable to verify |
Pricing
Not public; enterprise sales, scoped to hiring volume and headcount managed
hiring volume and headcount managed
What is public
No public rate. Orbio publishes no list pricing and routes commercial terms through sales.
Billing mechanics
Negotiated enterprise contracts scoped to hiring volume and the number of frontline workers managed across recruiting, onboarding, and retention. Deployments typically begin as pilots before full rollout.
Cost watchouts
Cost is tied to hiring volume and managed headcount, so seasonal hiring surges or expanding all three agents across the lifecycle raise spend. Confirm whether messaging channel costs and voice minutes are included.
Variable cost rationale
Priced as an enterprise contract scoped to hiring volume and managed headcount; predictable once sized, but seasonal hiring surges or adding lifecycle stages raise the contract.
Additional watchouts
With no public rate, benchmark against your current cost per hire and confirm how pricing scales as you add lifecycle stages from recruiting into onboarding and retention.
Sales call required
Yes — required for paid access
Free / trial
Pilot programs through sales before full deployment; no public free tier
Key ambiguities
No entry rate, billing unit, or tiering is published; all pricing is negotiated under sales.
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