hireEZ combines its 1 billion open web profiles with Nexxt and Talroo to unify passive sourcing, nurtured talent, and active applicants into one agentic workflow.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 9, 2026 — For years, the top of the recruiting funnel has been the most expensive and most fragmented stage of hiring. Talent acquisition teams juggle sourcing platforms, job marketplaces, and recruitment marketing agencies — each operating in its own silo, each requiring manual effort to connect. Candidates fall through the cracks between systems. Recruiters spend more time stitching tools together than engaging talent.
That model is ending.
hireEZ, the AI-native talent acquisition platform, today announced strategic partnerships with Nexxt and Talroo to bring agentic AI to the top of the recruiting funnel — the highest-volume, most repetitive, and most automation-ready stage of hiring.
Together, they are building something the recruiting industry has never had: a unified, agent-driven top of funnel where passive candidates from hireEZ's own database, nurtured professionals from Nexxt, and active job seekers from Talroo all flow into a single agentic workflow — automatically. "hireEZ becomes the platform that orchestrates every candidate source into one agentic workflow," said Steven Jiang, CEO and Co-founder of hireEZ. "That's the shift from tools to a system that runs the funnel for you."
Why the Top of the Funnel, and Why Now
Every major recruiting technology wave has started at the top of the funnel. Job boards replaced newspaper classifieds. LinkedIn replaced Rolodexes. Programmatic job advertising replaced manual media buying. Each shift followed the same logic: the top of the funnel has the highest volume, the most repetition, and the greatest cost — making it the first place where new technology delivers undeniable ROI.
Agentic AI is the next wave, and it follows the same pattern.
Unlike chatbots that automate a single interaction or copilots that assist a single user, agentic AI executes entire workflows autonomously. In recruiting, that means an agent can take a job requisition, identify the right candidates across multiple channels, and engage them — without a recruiter manually sourcing, exporting, deduplicating, or drafting outreach.
The bottleneck has never been candidate volume — most talent acquisition teams are overwhelmed with applications. The real constraint is quality and efficiency: finding the right candidates across fragmented channels, and engaging them before they move on. An agentic workflow engine solves the efficiency problem. The question is whether it can access high-quality talent streams. That's what this partnership solves.
Three Streams, One Agentic Workflow
The agentic top of funnel starts with hireEZ's own foundation: over 1 billion professional profiles sourced from the open web — the largest passive candidate database available on any recruiting platform. These are candidates who aren't applying anywhere, aren't in any talent community, and aren't responding to job ads. They're invisible to every other channel. hireEZ's agents find them.
The two partnerships extend that foundation across every other candidate state:
Nexxt is live within hireEZ today. It delivers access to over 150 million candidate profiles and nurtured talent audiences through Nexxt's candidate acquisition and engagement technology, helping employers reach qualified talent beyond traditional job postings. hireEZ customers can activate this channel now. "Partnering with hireEZ lets us plug that reach directly into an agentic workflow, so candidates aren't just accessible, they're actively surfaced and engaged the moment a requisition goes live. That's a meaningful shift for talent acquisition teams who've been stitching these channels together manually for years," said Dwaine Maltais, Chief Strategy Officer at Nexxt.
Talroo is coming to the platform. A high-volume, top-of-funnel talent source, Talroo will connect hireEZ customers with high-intent, unique job seekers through performance-based job advertising — bringing the active seeker channel directly into the agentic workflow.
"Talroo has always focused on connecting employers with active, high-intent job seekers at scale, and this partnership puts that talent stream to work inside a truly automated workflow. hireEZ's agentic platform amplifies what performance-based job advertising does best: delivering the right candidates at the right moment, without the manual lift," said Bruce Ge, CEO at Talroo.
Passive. Nurtured. Active. Three streams, unified on one platform.
When a talent acquisition leader activates a requisition on hireEZ, the channels engage automatically. Agents source passive candidates from hireEZ's 1 billion open web profiles. Nurtured professionals surface through Nexxt's talent community. And soon, active seekers will apply through Talroo's marketplace. Every candidate — regardless of origin — enters a single pipeline, where autonomous agents research, match, deduplicate, and advance them.
No CSV exports. No manual deduplication. No switching between tabs or dashboards. One requisition triggers an entire top-of-funnel operation, powered by agents.
From Point Solutions to Platform
This partnership reflects a broader shift in how recruiting technology is being adopted. For the past decade, TA teams have assembled fragmented tech stacks — one tool for sourcing, another for CRM, another for screening, another for scheduling. Each tool optimized a single step. None of them talked to each other.
Agentic platforms change the economics. When autonomous agents execute the workflow, the value shifts from individual tools to the platform that orchestrates them. The candidate sources that plug into that platform become more valuable, not less — because their reach is amplified by automation instead of constrained by manual process.
Nexxt and Talroo each recognized this independently. Their decision to integrate with hireEZ's agentic workflow reflects a market consensus: the recruiting ecosystem is reorganizing around platforms that can act, not just inform.
What This Means for Talent Acquisition Leaders
For TA leaders evaluating their technology strategy, this announcement signals a practical shift. The question is no longer "which sourcing tool should I buy?" It's "which platform connects my candidate channels into a workflow that runs itself?"
The companies that move first will operate with fundamentally different economics: broader candidate reach, faster time-to-engage, and lower cost-per-hire — not because they hired more recruiters, but because agents did the work.
Availability
The Nexxt integration is available to hireEZ customers today. The Talroo integration will be available to early design partners in 2026, with general availability to follow. Talent acquisition leaders interested in early access can contact hireEZ here.
About hireEZ
hireEZ is the AI-native talent acquisition platform where agentic AI automates the end-to-end recruiting workflow — from research to sourcing, outreach, nurture, application screening, and scheduling. Learn more at www.hireEZ.com.
About Nexxt
Nexxt helps employers discover, reach, and activate talent at scale through candidate sourcing, programmatic advertising, and multi-channel recruitment marketing. Through Nexxt's platform, employers can reach the right talent at the right time. Learn more at https://www.nexxt.com.
About Talroo
Talroo is a high-volume, top-of-funnel talent source that connects employers with high-intent, unique job seekers through performance-based job advertising. Learn more at https://www.talroo.com/.
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