Verilo
Verilo
Pre-Seed Round 2026

Changing how the world
gets hired.

Proof, not instinct.

We judge people on who they are — their communication, personal skills, and potential — not an AI-generated résumé.

01
The Vision
character
drive
curiosity
potential
grit
growth

Judge the person,
not the AI.

Verilo is changing how people get hired — judged on their communication, personal skills, and potential, not an AI-generated résumé.

02
The Problem

“You have three great candidates.
How do you tell who to pick?”

A
Candidate A
Strong communicator Great culture fit Solid experience
?
Score
B
Candidate B
Strong communicator Great culture fit Solid experience
?
Score
C
Candidate C
Strong communicator Great culture fit Solid experience
?
Score

Identical on paper. The only tiebreaker is gut feel — and no tool scores the actual interview. We asked 50+ recruiting firms; none had a better answer.

03
The Solution

Upload any interview.
Get research-backed proof.

Same interviews — scored & ranked
300 500 700 900 C A B
#1 Candidate B 0 Strong hire
#2 Candidate A 0 Solid
#3 Candidate C 0 Mid

No process changes. No extra steps. Just upload the interview you already recorded.

04
How It Works

Three steps. That's it.

Upload
AI
Analyze
Report
↓ what’s underneath ↓
What's underneath

40 years of IO psychology research

Structured Interview Theory Construct Validity Predictive Validity Behavioral Anchoring Inter-rater Reliability Criterial Thinking Signal Detection Prosodic Analysis Specificity Scoring Competency Modeling Dawid-Skene Aggregation Cognitive Load
Research partners Dr. James Gaskin  ·  Dr. Mark Keith BYU Marriott School of Business
05
The Report

Your decision. Their proof.

Clarity
Specificity
Criterial Recog.
6 research-validated dimensions · 0–1000 score
Key Evidence
14:32
Specificity
(4.2)
Well-defined situation and actions with concrete outcomes — candidate provided specific scope, impact, and timeframe for their mentorship initiative.
22:15
Clarity
(4.0)
Clear causal reasoning — identified root cause and connected it to a structured response.
+ 2 more evidence moments in full report
06
Candidate Comparison

Rank candidates apart. Objectively.

Lower
Developing
Mid Tier
Strong
Upper
~900
Sarah C.
~750
Michael R.
~625
Emily W.
~425
James T.
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07
Market Opportunity

30,000 firms. We have 15.

Internal HR
✕ Slow, committee-driven decisions
✕ Fears AI will replace them
✕ Bad hire = inconvenience
✕ Locked into HireVue, ATS tools
Recruiting Firms
✓ Fast, owner-driven decisions
✓ Actively seeking competitive edge
✓ Bad hire = lost revenue
✓ No AI deterministically scores their interviews
$16.6M
SOM · 1,500 firms @ $925/mo
$2.2B
SAM · AI candidate fit scoring (2025)
$15B
TAM · AI in HR by 2030 · Year 2+ (Grand View Research)
08
Growth Roadmap

Recruiting is the wedge. Not the ceiling.

One engine — voice to objective score — for any high-stakes conversation.

RecruitingLive
Score interviews to rank candidates objectively.
30K firms · 15 in pilot
Corporate HRNext
In-house hiring teams — recruiter reports are the warm intro.
500K+ companies
Interview-Prep EdTechExploring
Coach students to interview better, with a real score.
19M+ US college students
M&A Talent DiligenceExploring
Assess an acquired team’s talent fast — backed by data.
$3.5T M&A deals / yr
Hospitality & CXExploring
Analyze guest & staff conversations to retain customers.
$1.1T US restaurants
Sales & Support QAExploring
Score every call for coaching & quality.
$43B convo-AI by 2030
09
Competition

Others automate interviews.
We validate them.

They replace your process
HireVue, Harver, Glider
$390M+
Locked into enterprise HR platforms
Metaview, BrightHire
$86M
Notes only, non-deterministic output
Paradox, NTRVSTA
$1B+ acq.
Absorbed by Workday, replaces the recruiter
Verilo validates your interviews
No process changes
Upload interviews you already record
Deterministic & regulation-ready
Same input, same output — fully auditable
Proprietary research pipeline
BYU-validated constructs, trained grader network, growing dataset

Every pilot generates more data → better models → more pilots. The moat compounds.

10
Why we win

Three things Google can’t clone.

01Market-led
Shaped by 50+ recruiting firms — our pivot, our product, earned on the phone.
A year of cold calls to replicate. No shortcut, no acquisition.
02Research-backed
Built on 40 years of BYU I/O-psychology research — not an LLM wrapper.
An academic partnership you can’t buy.
03Compounding data
15 pilots feeding a proprietary dataset no one else has.
Years behind on day one — this data can only be built.
11
Our Journey

We stopped building what we wanted.
We built what recruiters need.

2023 Built a lie detector that beat the polygraph 2024 Working model. Market said no. Pivoted twice. 2025 BYU partnership. 40 years of research. Complete rebuild. 2026 15 of 20 said yes.
12
Traction

One demo. 75% say yes.

150
Cold Calls
›››
13%
book rate
20
Demos
›››
75%
close rate
15
Active Pilots

Pre-revenue. Each firm dedicating senior recruiters to the pilot.

13
Business Model
98.5% gross margin · 40x client ROI
Core
$500/mo
1–3 users
Advanced
$1,000/mo
4–10 users
Enterprise
$1,500/mo
10+ users
$0.15 per interview (~20 min)
Serverless GPU, no human labor → 98.5% margin
1 extra placement/mo = $20K fee
vs $500/mo subscription → 40x ROI
14
Financial Projections

Break-even Month 9

Cash never drops below $615K

Based on 3% monthly churn, 50% pilot conversion, $925 avg. revenue per account

15
The Team

Built by builders

Isaac Dayley
Isaac Dayley
CEO
Built the ML scoring engine, data pipeline, and product.
Samantha Austin
Samantha Austin
COO
Built AI for Southwest Airlines before Verilo — now owns its research moat.
Rob Crowther
Rob Crowther
CMO
Built the pipeline from cold — 15 signed pilots, 75% demo close.
Advisors
KP
Kenny Prestwich
Founder · Costa Vida
Co-founded Costa Vida; scaled the brand to 90+ locations. Multi-unit operations & franchising.
JR
Jake Runyan
CEO · Magellan HCM
Built Magellan into a full-suite payroll & HCM platform. Deep HR & go-to-market expertise.
Dr. James Gaskin
Dr. James Gaskin
Professor of IS · BYU
185+ peer-reviewed publications; AIS-honored researcher in human–AI interaction.
Dr. Mark Keith
Dr. Mark Keith
Professor of IS · BYU
60+ publications on machine learning & human decision-making; built BYU’s ML curriculum.
16
The Ask

$800,000

Bridge to break-even. Month 9.

15%
Product & Engineering
ML engineer, model R&D, CEO full-time
50%
Sales & Growth
Team of 5, GTM, CMO full-time
20%
Operations
Pilots, research, legal, COO full-time
15%
Runway & Reserve
Cash buffer to Month 9

The vision: people hired for who they are — not a résumé. One engine, expanding from hiring to every high-stakes conversation.

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