Phenom, an applied AI company empowering organizations to hire faster, develop better, and retain longer, has been named a leader in AI and automation by the Fosway AI Market Assessment for Talent Acquisition. This distinction highlights Phenom's proven live customer delivery and advanced roadmap maturity, setting it apart from vendors reliant on hype rather than results. With only 27% of AI features across talent acquisition vendors currently live, Phenom's focus on tangible outcomes positions it as a strategic enabler for global enterprises navigating complex hiring challenges.
The Fosway AI Market Assessment, released in 2025, evaluates vendors on live AI capabilities versus roadmaps, revealing a stark gap where marketing often outpaces reality. Phenom excels with deployed solutions in sourcing, engagement, screening, and interviewing, backed by generative and agentic AI that addresses industry-specific compliance and scalability needs. This recognition, from Europe's #1 HR analyst, underscores Phenom's trajectory as a Strategic Leader in the Fosway 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition for the fifth consecutive year, with an "Excelling" rating in innovation and potential.
Phenom's platform unifies the talent lifecycle with purpose-built AI, automation, and personalized experiences, ensuring features integrate seamlessly to accelerate hiring and development. The proprietary AI and Automation Maturity Model facilitates gradual adoption, aligning with business goals for higher ROI. Innovations like voice agents for screening and personalized campaigns deliver measurable efficiency, transforming HR from reactive to proactive.
Global customers report transformative results: A large healthcare system cut screening time from 20 to 8 minutes per candidate, improving hire ratios from 7:1 to 3:1 with 85% completion rates. A major financial services firm reduced time-to-hire by 27 days via AI screening and scheduling, achieving 94% recruiter adoption. A manufacturing company shortened screening from days to 1.5 hours, doubling completion to 90%. A tech leader halved onboarding time with location/role-based automation.
“While others are making promises they can’t keep, we’re helping global enterprises reimagine their AI strategy and adoption with proven technology that’s already deployed and driving measurable results,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom.
“Despite widespread claims of AI-enhanced functionality across talent acquisition vendors, only 27% of mapped AI features are actually live with customers,” said David Wilson, CEO of Fosway Group. “This significant gap between marketing promises and reality means buyers cannot rely on product roadmaps and must demand visibility and evidence. Those vendors with genuinely live AI capabilities not only possess a competitive advantage but can deliver critical differentiation for companies across employer branding, recruitment marketing, candidate engagement, filtering, assessment and onboarding.”
Phenom AI Day, the industry's premier technical showcase, convenes HR, IT, and AI professionals on October 1, 2025, at 11 a.m. ET (5 p.m. CET) to explore engineering frameworks reshaping HR through context-aware AI, multimodal processing, and purpose-built agents. SHRM-accredited sessions demonstrate real-world use cases, ethical compliance, and scalable architectures for talent acquisition and management. Register for the live or on-demand event to gain insights on deploying AI agents for complex workflows across industries.
Phenom's leadership in the Fosway assessment affirms its role in bridging AI hype with delivery, empowering 700+ global clients to optimize hiring and retention. By prioritizing practical, compliant AI, Phenom drives sustainable transformation, helping organizations build resilient workforces in a competitive talent market.
To learn more about Phenom’s leadership position, read the Fosway AI Market Assessment for Talent Acquisition report.
Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organisations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalised experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent.
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