semata.ai

How do you hire in the age of AI?

If you are an executive, you are probably considering how to keep your workforce competitive.

If you're hiring primarily for AI skills listed on a CV, you're focused on the wrong thing: those skills, like all others, will become obsolete with the next model release.

Traits, or soft skills, like adaptability and grit are becoming paramount in today's workforce.

And yet, none of the current solutions in the market surface these reliably and at scale in large candidate pools.

Semata.ai
We are the first platform that surfaces the traits correlated with success.

The traits we measure are the ones Harvard, Kellogg, and the world's leading researchers have spent decades defining.

We map the companies and teams someone has moved through, so we can judge their traits and capabilities in context rather than off a CV alone.

The signal comes from the environment record: where someone worked, when, for how long, in what sequence, and what those environments demanded of the people inside them. That record is verifiable and expensive to fake. An AI can polish a personal statement infinitely; it cannot retroactively put someone through the UBS integration of Credit Suisse.

Trained across profiles spanning fintech, healthcare, and climate, this lets us surface the candidates who will actually drive value for you in the long run, not just the ones who write the best CV.

Traits highly correlated with success in uncertainty

Complexity
Solving hard problems
Zhang et al., 2025  ·  70 million job transitions
Outcomes
Resource allocation & social skills
Deming, 2017, 2024  ·  Weidmann et al., 2024
Grit & Adaptability
Persistence through adversity & change
Duckworth et al., 2007
Who it's for
Who benefits from Semata

The conversation usually starts with the CEO or founder, who is thinking strategically about workforce composition and long-term competitiveness, and who then brings in the Head of Talent or Head of People to own execution.

Working with us
What Semata can do for you
01
Uncover the strongest candidates in your market
By their proven ability to deliver results in uncertainty. Understand their traits and capabilities in the context of lived experience, not self-reported CV claims.
02
Map companies and teams with a high bar for quality and a culture that mirrors your own
Surface top candidates from these teams.
03
Find hidden talent in your pipeline
We integrate with any hiring software to surface top candidates based on traits and proven capabilities.
In 30 days: better hires, faster, at a lower cost-per-hire.
This year: you build the muscle to hire for adaptability, and you help shape the discussion around how teams get built in the AI era.