Phenom
Also known as: Phenom People, Phenom People, Inc., PhenomPeople, Phenom TXM, Phenom Intelligent Talent Experience, Phenom X+, Phenom WorkOps, Phenom AppTrail, Phenom Unified Orchestration Engine, Phenom Voice Screening Agent, Phenom Sourcing Agent, Phenom Intake Agent, Phenom Fraud Detection Agent, Phenom Candidate Concierge Agent, Phenom AI Interviewer, Phenom Career Coach Agent, Phenom X+ Talent Advisor, Included.ai, Plum.io, Be Applied
Phenom sells an applied AI talent platform for large employers, joining a career site, talent CRM, applicant tracking, scheduling and talent management under one orchestration layer. Named agents run phone screens, source candidates and draft outreach, hold interviews, flag identity fraud, take intake from hiring managers, keep candidates updated by text and chat, and coach employees, while recruiters approve what moves forward. Prices are quoted through sales, and an AWS Marketplace listing shows $750,000 for a representative 36 month contract.
Phenom People, Inc., based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, sells an applied AI platform that helps large employers hire, develop and retain people. The suite spans an intelligent career site, a talent CRM, its own Hire applicant tracking product, interview scheduling, onboarding, a talent marketplace, career pathing, workforce intelligence and people analytics, all reading one map of skills, roles and work that Phenom calls X+ Ontologies.
Phenom counts 50,000 recruiters, talent marketers and hiring managers on the platform and names customers such as Truist, United Airlines, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dutch Bros Coffee and SSM Health. In 2026 it bought Included for people analytics, Be Applied for cognitive assessments and Plum for behavioral assessments.
Named agents do the work inside those products. Voice Screening Agent invites each applicant to a phone or browser screen within moments of applying, adapts its questions, answers candidate questions from the job description and knowledge base, and scores every answer from 1 to 5 against the employer's rubric with a link to the transcript. Sourcing Agent starts when a requisition opens, searches the CRM, applicant tracking system and talent networks together, explains each candidate segment and drafts email and text sequences for a recruiter to send. Intake Agent interviews the hiring manager on their own time and returns a job description, interview guide and sourcing criteria shaped by that manager's earlier intakes.
AI Interviewer runs structured interviews, Fraud Detection Agent compares face, voice and language across rounds, and Candidate Concierge Agent answers, reschedules and sends updates over chat, SMS, WhatsApp and email. Employees get Profile Builder, Skills Validation, Career Coach and Workforce Planning agents in the chat tools they already use. The Unified Orchestration Engine turns plain language policies into guardrails and routing across all of them, and AppTrail keeps a checksummed log of every recruiter action and AI recommendation.
Phenom lists no prices, and its pricing page is a request form for pricing and RFP questions. On AWS Marketplace, its Intelligent Talent Experience listing shows $750,000 for a 36 month contract for a representative customer, with custom private offers.
Administrators control single sign on, multifactor authentication, roles and API keys in HRIT Hub, users and groups can be provisioned over SCIM, and Phenom holds SOC 2 Type II, four ISO certificates, Cyber Essentials and CSA STAR Level 1.
The platform runs on AWS in the United States, Canada, Ireland or India, with EU and UK customer data held in Ireland, though several AI processors, among them OpenAI, Google Gemini, Deepgram and ElevenLabs, run only in the United States.
Phenom fits large employers hiring at volume or across many locations, such as health systems, retailers, airlines and banks, that want agents to screen, source, schedule and verify inside one recruiting platform while recruiters keep every hiring decision, with audit trails and model cards ready for AI hiring rules. It fits less well for smaller companies that want published prices or a quick start, buyers who want to choose the model behind each agent, teams that want an agent to operate a browser or desktop, and organizations that need voice screening and fraud checks processed inside the EU.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.phenom.com
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
Applied AI talent platform whose named agents screen, source, interview, verify and coach across hiring and talent management
Funding status
Phenom People, Inc. of Horsham, Pennsylvania, privately held and independent, led by CEO and cofounder Mahe Bayireddi, with affiliates in Canada, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain and Germany; it acquired Included in January 2026, Be Applied in February 2026 and Plum in April 2026.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Phenom connects to applicant tracking and HCM systems including Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, ADP and ServiceNow through bidirectional integrations, and its partner marketplace adds background checks such as Checkr, assessments, learning tools such as FLOWSPARKS and Edflex, and implementation firms such as Deloitte. Interview scheduling reads interviewer calendars and creates meeting links on the customer's video platform, Interview Intelligence joins scheduled meetings through a meeting bot, and agents reach people by email, SMS and WhatsApp through Twilio and through Microsoft Teams and Slack. A REST API covers jobs, candidates, applications, hiring status, tags, parsing and skill prediction, with SCIM for users, and AppTrail activity flows into SIEM tools.
In practice
A home health agency posts a caregiver role on Friday evening. Each applicant gets an email and text inviting a screening call; one starts by browser at 10pm, and Voice Screening Agent asks about licensure and shift availability, answers a question about pay from the job description and scores each answer against the agency's rubric. On Monday the recruiter checks the scores against their transcript moments, accepts them, and the qualified candidates book interviews themselves.
A bank opens a hard to fill compliance analyst requisition. Sourcing Agent starts on its own, searches the CRM, the applicant tracking system and outside talent networks together, and returns three candidate segments, each with a plain language reason. It drafts an email and SMS sequence for the strongest segment; the recruiter edits the first message and sends it, and the sequence stops for anyone who applies or replies with a no.
An analyst candidate passes a first interview, but in the second round Fraud Detection Agent finds that the face and voice no longer match the first round and flags polished answers after long pauses. The Integrity Check Panel shows a high severity finding with timestamped footage, a configured rule routes it to the compliance team, and a reviewer holds the candidate and records the decision in the audit trail.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
11.5 / 14 capabilities · 82%
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Bidirectional integrations with applicant tracking and HCM systems such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, ADP and ServiceNow keep agent work and hiring status in sync with the customer's system of record. Interview scheduling reads every interviewer's live calendar, books the slot and creates the meeting link on the customer's video platform, Candidate Concierge Agent confirms and reschedules bookings itself, and messages go out by email, SMS and WhatsApp. A partner marketplace adds background check, assessment and learning connectors such as Checkr, and Intake Agent reaches hiring managers through Microsoft Teams and Slack. Sourcephenom.com/marketplaceread 2026-11-09 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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The Unified Orchestration Engine watches each hiring workflow while it runs and changes the plan within policy: it widens a search, resequences or skips a step, or brings in a person, and one role can run different flows in different markets without separate builds. Leaders write policies in plain language, and the engine turns them into guardrail rules agents cannot cross and routing rules that hand work from one agent to the next or to a person. Agents chain along the funnel, with Intake Agent criteria feeding Sourcing Agent and screened candidates moving straight into interview scheduling. Sourcephenom.com/products/unified-orchestration-engineread 2026-11-09 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Talent Companion and Voice Screening Agent answer candidate questions through retrieval augmented generation over the employer's own knowledge base and job descriptions, so replies about benefits, culture and hiring steps come from the company's content. Job search and recommendations run on custom trained BERT embeddings with vector search, and every agent reads X+ Ontologies, a maintained map of skills, roles, licensing and work that resolves a requisition into role family, specialty and seniority and links adjacent skills. Sourcing Agent searches the CRM, the applicant tracking system and outside talent networks in one pass. Sourcephenom.com/products/talent-companionread 2026-11-09 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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Recruiters approve agent output before it moves. Sourcing Agent never sends outreach on its own: it drafts each sequence, and a recruiter reviews, edits and sends it. Voice Screening Agent and AI Interviewer deliver scores as proposals a recruiter accepts, adjusts or overrides, and nothing advances until then. Intake Agent's job description, interview guide and sourcing criteria wait for recruiter approval in Intake Playback, fraud signals are dismissed, acknowledged or escalated by a person with no automatic rejection, and guardrail policies send exceptions such as an offer above the pay band to a named approver. Sourcephenom.com/products/sourcing-agentread 2026-11-09 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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From HRIT Hub, administrators configure single sign on, enforce multifactor authentication, assign roles, set up admins across multiple sites, manage certificates and rotate API keys, and a SCIM API creates and updates users and lists groups and roles. X+ Talent Advisor answers only within the permissions a user already holds in the CRM, ATS and HRIS. Phenom holds SOC 2 Type II covering privacy, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27701 certificates, Cyber Essentials and CSA STAR Level 1, with audit reports and penetration tests released through a trust center access request. Sourcephenom.com/products/phenom-hrit-hubread 2026-11-09 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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AppTrail logs every recruiter action, hiring manager decision and AI recommendation as it happens, tagged with the candidate, requisition and stage, in checksummed entries that cannot be edited, and shows the matching criteria and scoring logic behind each recommendation. The Unified Orchestration Engine writes every decision, action and escalation to a live execution log with a timestamp and a reason. Screening scores link to recordings and transcripts, Sourcing Agent keeps each segment's filters and rationale, access timelines flow into SIEM tools, and Application Performance Monitoring alerts on failing integrations. Sourcephenom.com/products/apptrailread 2026-11-09 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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Candidate Concierge Agent keeps one conversation history per candidate across chat, SMS, WhatsApp and email and checks what was already said before each reply, so a thread started by text carries into the career site chat. Intake Agent builds a memory layer from past intakes: recurring preferences per hiring manager, recruiter edits that keep repeating and decisions versioned over time, each linked back to the conversation it came from. Neither store has its own retention period or a purge control separate from the candidate and requisition records it sits beside. Sourcephenom.com/products/candidate-concierge-agentread 2026-11-09 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Hosting runs on AWS in the United States, Canada, Ireland or India, and personal data for EU and UK customers sits in Ireland, backups included. Azure OpenAI, AssemblyAI and Snowflake process in the United States, Canada or Ireland, while OpenAI, Google Gemini for fraud analysis, Deepgram and ElevenLabs for voice agents, LiveKit and Tavus process only in the United States. All customers run on one multitenant code base, each with its own database schema and endpoint, and no single tenant, private cloud or on premises edition is sold. Sourcetrust.phenom.com/subprocessorsread 2026-11-09 |
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| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs | Full |
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A set of named agents ships ready, each doing a whole job: Voice Screening Agent for phone screens and reference checks, Sourcing Agent, Intake Agent, AI Interviewer, Fraud Detection Agent, Candidate Concierge Agent for candidate messaging, and X+ Talent Advisor for questions about hiring data. Talent management adds Profile Builder, Skills Validation, Career Coach and Workforce Planning agents. Each runs without the others, so fraud checks work with no voice screening and the career coach needs no recruiting agent, and agents come tailored to industry, role and market, such as home health or quick service restaurants. Sourcephenom.com/artificial-intelligenceread 2026-11-09 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Work reaches the agents from events, rules and inbound messages. A new requisition starts Sourcing Agent on its own, a submitted application sends the voice screening invitation by email and text and starts fraud checks, a stage change sends the candidate an update, and nudges to employees fire on triggers the HR team configures. Candidates can begin by texting a number on a job flyer, messaging on WhatsApp, chatting on the career site or replying by email, recruiters can launch an agent from a requisition or a candidate profile, and screening calls stay open around the clock by browser or callback. Sourcephenom.com/products/sourcing-agentread 2026-11-09 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Partial |
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Model choice belongs to Phenom, and customers get no picker. Generative features in X+ and Interview Intelligence run on Azure OpenAI, OpenAI also handles screening and content features, Fraud Detection Agent analyzes video with Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro, voice agents use Deepgram for speech recognition and ElevenLabs for speech, and Fit Score and job search run on Phenom's own trained models and BERT embeddings. Phenom's engineers move components between makers, such as switching one resume parser section from Gemini to ChatGPT, and manage model versions centrally. Sourcetrust.phenom.com/faqread 2026-11-09 |
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| APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A public REST reference covers jobs (search, create, update and delete), candidates with their skills, experience and attachments, applications, applicants and hiring status updates, onboarding data, tags, resume and job parsing and skill prediction, each call carrying an Authorization header. User management follows SCIM for users, groups and roles. The API addresses the platform's own records rather than starting an agent run, and partners use the Apply API to push leads and applications from their own job boards straight into Phenom without sending candidates to the career site. Sourcedeveloper.phenom.com/apidetailread 2026-11-09 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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AI Interviewer checks each interview plan for coverage and consistency before a candidate hears a question, then checks its own evaluation against the transcript for hallucination before scores reach a recruiter, and an interview can be scored again later without repeating it. AppTrail flags gaps between AI recommendations and the applicant pool and records bias review outcomes. Phenom's engineers test every prompt or model change against a versioned golden dataset before release, but customers get no harness to test their own questions, rubrics or policies before they go live. Sourcephenom.com/products/ai-interviewerread 2026-11-09 |
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| Browser / Computer-use | Not documented |
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Agents work through Phenom's own records, integrations and messaging channels and never drive a browser or desktop. Voice Screening Agent places calls over Twilio, AI Interviewer holds voice and video sessions inside Phenom, Candidate Concierge Agent books through calendar connections, and Interview Intelligence joins scheduled video meetings through a meeting bot service to record and transcribe them. Sourcing Agent searches the CRM, applicant tracking system and talent networks through the platform, so no agent clicks, types or moves between screens in software outside it. Sourcephenom.com/products/voice-screening-agentread 2026-11-09 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Quote only. Phenom's pricing page is a request form, and its AWS Marketplace listing shows $750,000 for a 36 month contract as a representative customer price.
Enterprise platform subscription quoted by users, platform and product access; the AWS Marketplace listing bills one contract dimension in units over 36 months
Included quota
No quotas, agent run limits or seat counts appear on Phenom's pricing page or on its AWS Marketplace listing.
What is public
A pricing and RFP request form on Phenom's site, and an AWS Marketplace listing with a representative 36 month contract price and custom private offers.
Billing mechanics
Enterprise subscriptions under a master subscription agreement, quoted through sales; through AWS Marketplace, one contract dimension billed in units over a 36 month term, with custom private offers.
Cost watchouts
Implementation runs through Phenom's Global Professional Services and partners such as Deloitte, with no public rates, and the only figure on record is a representative AWS Marketplace contract.
Variable cost rationale
The contract price varies with users, platform and product access rather than with agent runs, so agent use does not meter on its own, but no allowances or overage terms are public and volumes such as candidates, calls and messages may shape the quote.
Additional watchouts
No self serve plan, trial or public entry price, and the marketplace figure is a channel example rather than a list price.
Overage / add-ons
No overage terms appear on Phenom's pricing page or on its AWS Marketplace listing.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
No free tier or trial; buyers book a demo, and interactive product tours of individual agents are open without a sales call.
Lowest paid plan
Not published on Phenom's site. The AWS Marketplace listing shows $750,000 for a 36 month contract for a representative customer.
Commercial notes
Phenom People, Inc. sells through its own enterprise sales team and AWS Marketplace, with implementation partners listed in its partner marketplace.
Key ambiguities
The only figure is a representative contract on AWS Marketplace, which reflects that channel and varies with users, platform and product access; Phenom's own site lists no unit, tier or entry price.
Cancellation / refund
Terms sit in Phenom's master subscription agreement, negotiated through sales, and no cancellation or refund terms are public.
Support SLA / resale
Service level exhibits to the master subscription agreement come in Standard, Standard Plus, Premium and Advanced support tiers, released through a trust center access request.
Missing data
List prices, pricing units, prices for individual agents or modules, implementation fees and contract terms.
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