Ashutosh Tiwari, Co-founder of Safhire.ai
For years, hiring has been a grind. Recruiters slog through hundreds of résumés, candidates chase jobs with little visibility, and the best matches often happen by chance. But 2025 has brought a new challenge: candidates are now using artificial intelligence to make their profiles look perfect, craft tailored cover letters, and even practise interviews with AI coaches.
The result? Recruiters are struggling to tell the real talent from polished illusions. The game is no longer just about skills - it's about who has the smarter machine on their side.
Enter Safhire.ai, a startup that's positioning itself as the recruiter's secret weapon in this new battle.
Candidates Are Fighting Back with AI
Talk to any recruiter in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, or Gurgaon, and they'll tell you: résumés look suspiciously flawless. AI tools now help candidates match keywords, highlight achievements, and present themselves better than ever. In India alone, analysts estimate that more than half of all résumés are now AI-assisted before reaching HR.
"It's AI versus AI," says Ashutosh Tiwari, Co-founder of Safhire.ai. "Candidates are using technology to shine. Recruiters need equally smart tools to spot who truly has the skills, intent, and potential."
Safhire.ai, a product of Laservision AI (headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina), recently launched in the U.S., India, Mexico, and Tanzania. The platform promises to cut résumé screening time by 80%, reduce admin work for recruiters by 80%, and double the quality of hires.
Image Caption: Safhire.ai platform screenshot
The platform does more than just filter résumés. It auto-ranks candidates, conducts initial screening calls to gauge intent, shares assessments automatically, and follows up on interviews. After interviews, it produces summaries highlighting achievements, anomalies, or psychological tactics candidates may use to impress.
A standout feature is personality prediction at the résumé stage, giving recruiters early insight into how a candidate might perform in the job.
Ashutosh Tiwari, an engineer-turned-recruiter with seven years in HR, founded Safhire.ai to solve the problems he lived through. He began as a technical recruiter, frustrated by repetitive admin tasks, and combined that experience with his love for AI to build the platform.
"I've seen recruiters spend 70% of their time on tasks that add no real value," Tiwari says. "Scheduling, following up, summarising interviews - it's exhausting. Safhire.ai lets recruiters focus on making judgment calls, not busy work."
Tiwari balances two roles: a visionary disruptor aiming to change hiring with AI, and a problem-solver addressing inefficiencies he knows intimately.
Critics Raise Questions
Not everyone is sold on recruiter-side AI. Some warn that over-automation could depersonalise hiring. Predicting personality or spotting interview "tactics" might save time but could introduce bias or overlook unconventional talent.
"There's a risk that people get reduced to data points," says a Bengaluru-based HR analyst. "Hiring needs nuance, empathy, and context. AI can help, but it shouldn't replace judgment."
Tiwari acknowledges the limits: "AI doesn't make the final call. It surfaces insights humans might miss. The recruiter still decides."
Why India Needs This Now
Companies in India lose millions each year due to slow hiring, unfilled positions, and mismatched candidates. Recruiters juggle hundreds of applications for every opening, and the pace of hiring has skyrocketed with remote work and pan-India talent searches.
Safhire.ai is emerging as a tool for recruiters to survive in this environment, giving them speed, accuracy, and insight that manual processes can't match.
Candidate AI vs. Recruiter AI
The real question: who benefits from this AI arms race? Candidates feel pressure to use AI to stand out. Recruiters deploy counter-AI to filter the noise. It could become a cycle where machines escalate against each other.
"We're not trying to pit machines against people," Tiwari says. "We want balance. If candidates use AI to shine, recruiters need AI to see who truly stands out."
Looking Ahead
With launches across the U.S., India, Mexico, and Tanzania, Safhire.ai shows that recruiter-side AI is a global need. But the industry must watch ethical risks. Will AI reinforce biases or miss unconventional talent?
For now, the battle lines are clear: candidates have AI, recruiters now have AI too. The hiring game has changed - and recruiters can't compete without their digital ally.
Hiring has always been about information. Today, that information is analyzed by machines. Whether it makes hiring fairer or colder remains to be seen. One thing is certain: in 2025, recruiters no longer face candidates alone. Their AI is ready for the fight.
