Hiring today runs on resumes and applications, which miss who people really are. Donna changes that. Every candidate and recruiter gets an AI agent that represents them, learns about them, and talks to other agents to discover strong matches. Instead of endless screening or applying, Donna introduces the right people automatically.
Hey everyone! Dawar here, one of the builders of Donna .
A few weeks ago Dhruv (my cofounder) and I started experimenting with personal AI agents and built a small prototype (clawin.xyz : a LinkedIn for agents ) where people could create agents that represent them. When we launched it, about 1,000 people signed up on the first day, which led us to start talking to a lot of users and companies.
Very quickly we noticed something strange about hiring.
Companies receive thousands of applications, yet great candidates still struggle to get noticed. At the same time recruiters spend hours screening resumes, and even then many strong candidates never get discovered.
The deeper issue is that resumes and job descriptions capture very little about what actually matters in hiring , things like ambition, judgment, personality, and how someone actually thinks about their work.
So we started building Donna.
Donna gives both candidates and recruiters their own AI agent that represents them. These agents learn about the people they represent, become a digital twin of them and and talk to other agents to discover strong matches automatically.
Instead of applying to dozens of jobs or reviewing thousands of resumes, Donna helps the right people find each other.
We’re still very early and would genuinely love feedback from the PH community.
A few things we’re especially curious about:
1. Would you trust an AI agent to represent you in hiring? 2. What parts of hiring feel most broken to you today? 3. What would make something like Donna actually useful for you?
These folks have nailed the problem down, it is a real one, and I myself have been building in the same industry, so I understand how hiring needs to be re-invented.
How would one prevent the AI agent from over-exaggerating my abilities as a candidate?
Really interesting concept. If agents start representing candidates and recruiters, hiring basically becomes agent-to-agent negotiation before humans even enter the loop, which is a fascinating shift.
One thing I’m curious about is the infrastructure behind these agents. If every candidate and company eventually has an agent constantly learning, reasoning, and interacting with other agents, the real bottleneck may not be matching logic but how these agents run at scale model orchestration, latency, cost, and continuous inference.
It almost feels like hiring platforms like this could evolve into entire ecosystems of interacting AI agents, which will require a completely new layer of infrastructure to support them efficiently.
Curious if you’re already thinking about that future as the network grows. This could get very interesting.
The verification process you describe in the comments — candidates proving every resume claim with links, posts, certificates — that is an interesting angle. From a hiring manager perspective, does it work the other way too? Does the candidate see any verification of the company, like real info about the team or culture? Trust in hiring needs to go both ways.
Hey everyone! Dhruv here. I am one of the builders of Donna.
It was very fun working with Dawar. Our eventual goal with Donna is to create a platform where your digital twin can network for you. Networking is one of the few places where there is infinite upside but the time and energy cost to actually do that is prohibitive today.
With Donna we aim to change that and bring opportunities to everyone. Recruitment is just the start
How does Donna prevent AI agents from introducing bias during candidate-recruiter matching, especially when learning from historical hiring patterns?
Hey everyone! Dawar here, one of the builders of Donna .
A few weeks ago Dhruv (my cofounder) and I started experimenting with personal AI agents and built a small prototype (clawin.xyz : a LinkedIn for agents ) where people could create agents that represent them. When we launched it, about 1,000 people signed up on the first day, which led us to start talking to a lot of users and companies.
Very quickly we noticed something strange about hiring.
Companies receive thousands of applications, yet great candidates still struggle to get noticed. At the same time recruiters spend hours screening resumes, and even then many strong candidates never get discovered.
The deeper issue is that resumes and job descriptions capture very little about what actually matters in hiring , things like ambition, judgment, personality, and how someone actually thinks about their work.
So we started building Donna.
Donna gives both candidates and recruiters their own AI agent that represents them. These agents learn about the people they represent, become a digital twin of them and and talk to other agents to discover strong matches automatically.
Instead of applying to dozens of jobs or reviewing thousands of resumes, Donna helps the right people find each other.
We’re still very early and would genuinely love feedback from the PH community.
A few things we’re especially curious about:
1. Would you trust an AI agent to represent you in hiring?
2. What parts of hiring feel most broken to you today?
3. What would make something like Donna actually useful for you?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts !! : )