Vela GTM brain

Vela provides an AI scheduling coordinator for executive search firms and recruiters managing interviews across clients and candidates.

category

AI recruiting coordination

market profile

  • text: Executive search teams lose placement time to multi-party scheduling, follow-ups and rescheduling.
  • text: Interview scheduling vendors increasingly offer agents for complex panels and candidate messaging.

personas

  • title: Executive search consultant
    pains:
    • Client and candidate availability sits in separate email threads
    • Delays can let competing agencies submit first
  • title: Staffing or recruiting coordinator
    pains:
    • Chasing responses and managing time zones consumes hours
    • A cancelled panel interview triggers another round of coordination
  • title: Search firm owner
    pains:
    • Scheduling overhead limits recruiter capacity
    • Slow coordination can put placement fees at risk

icp

  • text: Executive search and staffing agencies coordinating client interviews for multiple candidates.
  • text: Recruiting teams with frequent multi-party panels, reschedules, and communication across time zones.

message pillars

  • text: Remove manual scheduling friction.
  • text: Coordinate all parties in existing conversations.
  • text: Protect placements by reducing delays.

objections

  • objection: Will candidates and clients need to learn a new system?
    response: Vela can be included in email or contacted by text, preserving a familiar conversational workflow.
  • objection: Can the assistant handle changes and unresponsive participants?
    response: Pilot a real panel and measure its follow-up, time zone handling and rescheduling against your team's expectations.

competitors

  • name: GoodTime
    website: https://goodtime.io/
    why: Automates interview scheduling, rescheduling and candidate follow-up with an AI agent.
  • name: ModernLoop
    website: https://www.modernloop.com/guides/best-interview-scheduling-software/
    why: Provides interview scheduling and an AI coordination agent.
  • name: Paradox
    why: Offers conversational interview scheduling across messaging channels.

influencers

  • name: Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati
    why: Vela co-founder and CEO.
  • name: Saatvik Suryajit Korisepati
    why: Vela co-founder and president.

keywords

  • executive search interview scheduling
  • AI recruiting coordinator
  • automated panel scheduling
  • recruiter scheduling assistant
  • candidate interview rescheduling
  • staffing agency scheduling automation

voice

  • plainspoken
  • time-focused
  • commercially practical

signals

  • text: A search firm has high interview volumes, frequent reschedules, or separate client and candidate threads.
  • text: An agency is scaling placements without a proportional increase in coordination staff.

stack

  • Gmail
  • Outlook
  • SMS
  • WhatsApp
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams

hiring

  • Founding Customer Success Lead
  • Member of Technical Staff
  • AI Operations Associate
  • Founding Engineer

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • YC directory
  • Product Hunt
  • scheduling benchmark

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Gobhanu left Wharton's Huntsman Program to go all in on Vela. Ex- Perplexity & BCG AI. Z Fellow. Previously founded SWIFTmfi (a microfinance bank) at 14, disbursed loans across 77 countries.
  • name: Saatvik Suryajit Korisepati
    title: Founder/President
    role: Founder
    bio: Saatvik dropped out of UChicago (Booth Scholar, MBA/MS CS) to build Vela. Filed his first patent at 16. Previously an award winning engineer on AWS's ML Supercompute team. BS CS + IS from Carnegie Mellon. Z Fellow.

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