Hirint, a professional competency assessment platform leveraging behavioral science to evaluate job candidates beyond traditional resumes, has expanded its global reach to more than 20 countries while reporting over one million euros in revenue. Founded in 2019 by Javier Cañizares, the software-as-a-service company addresses persistent hiring inefficiencies by moving past historical work experience to measure critical soft skills such as teamwork, communication proficiency, and foreign languages.
The company was initially shaped by the personal experiences of its founder. While selecting staff for a newly launched chain of aesthetic clinics, Cañizares heavily weighted candidates’ past work history over their broader skill sets, a hiring strategy that ultimately proved unsuccessful. “Unfortunately, I had to dismiss more people than I would have liked,” Cañizares recalls. “And I realized that it is one of the great evils of today: pigeonholing people by their past experience and not so much by what they can contribute.” Seeking to correct these hiring flaws, Cañizares combined his background in talent recruitment with software engineering to establish Hirint.
Although officially incorporated in 2019, the platform gained significant market traction in 2021 following the launch of its core product amid pandemic disruptions. Initially funded through the personal resources of its founder before securing outside investment, the startup targeted the Spanish and Latin American markets. Today, the company reports executing more than three million evaluations across a client base of 400 organizations spanning over 20 countries. Roughly 65% of Hirint’s business remains anchored in Spain, where its technology integrates directly with major employment and staffing platforms such as Infojobs, alongside enterprise partners like Manpower, KPMG, and La Casa de las Carcasas.
Evaluating Soft Skills Beyond the Resume
Traditional hiring relies heavily on chronological work histories, a practice Hirint views as providing valuable yet fundamentally incomplete data regarding a candidate’s workplace potential. Modern employers increasingly prioritize interpersonal aptitudes, prompting the platform to focus on behavioral metrics, communication styles, and language capabilities. “We provide them with competency information,” Cañizares explains, noting that recruitment professionals often utilize the platform’s reports to hire applicants they might otherwise have dismissed based solely on standard CV reviews.
A core element of Hirint’s operational model is administrative simplicity and time optimization. Candidate assessments are designed to take between five and seven minutes, a brevity that management credits with driving exceptionally high response rates. Following completion, the software generates concise analytical reports designed to be easily interpreted by hiring managers without requiring specialized psychological certifications. “In the world of traditional assessments I saw two inefficiencies that I didn’t understand,” Cañizares notes, pointing to the excessive cost and procedural complexity that historically hindered psychological and competency testing.
Subscription Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Integration
Hirint operates on a business-to-business subscription model scaled according to the volume of annual evaluations conducted by an organization. The platform structures its services across distinct tiers: the Discover package, which provides baseline testing; the Grow tier, offering expanded diagnostics; and the Scale package, which unlocks advanced technological features.
The Scale tier incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities designed to streamline advanced screening phases, including AI-driven video interviews and automated oral language testing that evaluates candidates’ conversational English proficiency. Financial disclosures indicate that the company surpassed one million euros in annual revenue last year, though the enterprise remains unprofitable as it prioritizes ongoing expansion and software development.
Market Position and Future Outlook
As remote work environments and digital recruitment continue to evolve globally, automated competency evaluation tools occupy an increasingly prominent role in human resources strategies. By lowering the financial and administrative barriers traditionally associated with behavioral assessments, platforms like Hirint aim to democratize talent screening for mid-sized enterprises and multinational corporations alike.
Corporate clients and recruitment agencies utilizing automated assessment suites can access further documentation, service packages, and enterprise integration guidelines directly through official platform channels and corporate portals.
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