How AI Interviews Talent Humans Can't Even Screen
Show notes
In this episode, I'm joined by Nikhil Chainani, Co-founder and CEO of Suitable AI. We talk about how his platform uses autonomous AI agents to source, screen, and run technical interviews over voice and video for manufacturing enterprises in India across aerospace, automotive, and semiconductors. Nikhil explains why companies and candidates both got comfortable letting an AI run the first interview, how the agents drill deep into expert domains like engine calibration that a human recruiter could never probe, and why rejected candidates get feedback to improve and try again. He shares the thinking behind going narrow instead of broad, starting with the hardest roles to hire for and building sector dominance one industry at a time, and why he believes India's young, English-speaking STEM population will supply expert engineering talent to the world. We also get into his arc through Nomura investment banking and three startups with the same co-founder, how referrals and phone-led outbound drive demand, and the one thing he'd fix right now: telling the candidate side of the story better.