Vela is an AI recruiting coordinator. Cc it on any email thread and it takes over: candidate screens, multi-round loops, and full panels. It offers times, chases people who go quiet, handles reschedules, sends the resume with the invite, books prep calls, and collects feedback. Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, and phone, every time zone, 24/7. No links, no logins, nothing new for your team to learn. Trusted by The World's Best Recruiters, and backed by YC, CRV, and other incredible investors.
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I'm Gobhanu, co-founder of Vela. Vela is the only scheduling agent trained specifically on recruiting scheduling data.
The problem
If you have ever run an executive search, you know the drill. One placement means six-plus rounds: a hiring committee, a board member three timezones away, a candidate who can only talk at 7am before their current job notices. Every round is a new permutation.
And here is the part that breaks every existing tool: you have read/write access to exactly zero of those calendars. You are not scheduling for yourself. You are brokering between parties who have never met.
So you live in the reply-all thread. Propose, get declined, repropose, chase, repeat. Most firms solve this by hiring coordinators. Scheduling links do not work, because the person you need to book is not your user.
What Vela does
You CC Vela on the email thread. That is the whole onboarding. No new tool, no workflow change.
From there Vela:
Runs the back and forth exactly like a professional coordinator would, in your firm's voice
Handles the edge cases: reschedules, no-shows, "can we push 30 minutes," five people across three timezones
Sends the calendar invite with the resume attached and the right video link
Works across email, SMS, and WhatsApp, 24/7
recruiting coordination eats so much time, realy useful 🙌 does it plug into greenhouse?
the part I'd want to understand is the feedback collection step, not the scheduling. scheduling mistakes are annoying but recoverable, you just repropose a time. "collects feedback" and talks to candidates in the firm's voice is a different category, if a candidate asks "how did it go" or "am I moving to the next round" mid-thread, does Vela wait for an explicit decision from the hiring team before it answers, or can it infer an answer from the tone of the feedback it collected and relay that as if it were settled? that's the kind of thing that's hard to walk back once a candidate has heard it.
Finally something that actually just works from your inbox instead of forcing a whole new login. Loved that it just chased my no-show candidate without me lifting a finger.
The tool seems quite interesting. Do you support integrations with the most common ATS? Thanks!
'write access to zero of those calendars' names the real problem. with no calendar access either side, how do you avoid offering a slot that's already gone?
Love how it just lives inside the email thread, no new dashboard to babysit. Chasing candidates across SMS and Slack while the rest of us sleep feels like actual leverage, not another tool to maintain.
the cc it and forget about it approach is genuinely brilliant, no new dashboard to babysit when the rest of the recruiting stack already feels bloated. love that it just lives where the work already happens.
About Vela on Product Hunt
“The AI Recruiting Coordinator”
Vela launched on Product Hunt on July 29th, 2026 and earned 126 upvotes and 25 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Vela is an AI recruiting coordinator. Cc it on any email thread and it takes over: candidate screens, multi-round loops, and full panels. It offers times, chases people who go quiet, handles reschedules, sends the resume with the invite, books prep calls, and collects feedback. Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, and phone, every time zone, 24/7. No links, no logins, nothing new for your team to learn. Trusted by The World's Best Recruiters, and backed by YC, CRV, and other incredible investors.
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