# Umamy > Tech & sales recruitment that actually works. 90% of candidates we send are on-profile. Expert team + AI sourcing. First qualified candidates in 48 hours. Umamy helps founders and hiring teams fill tech and sales roles. We pair an expert recruitment team with AI that scans 800M+ profiles and scores every candidate against your scorecard. This file maps our public content for LLMs and AI search engines. ## Blog AI-powered hiring insights. A full-text RSS feed is available at https://umamy.io/blog/rss.xml. - [The Resume Is Now a Liability](https://umamy.io/blog/ai-resume-trust-crisis-verified-skills-2026): AI-generated applications have surged 239% in a year. Recruiters now open resumes looking for reasons to doubt, not reasons to say yes. Here's what that means for how we hire — and what verification actually looks like. - [What We Shipped in July: Smarter Filters, Slack Alerts, and a Table View That Actually Works](https://umamy.io/blog/umamy-product-update-july-2026): Umamy's July 2026 product update: 30+ new candidate filters, Slack notifications in beta, manual candidate import via LinkedIn URLs, and a rebuilt table view for the candidates screen. - [Hunt setup AI-first, assistant everywhere, inbox — July update](https://umamy.io/blog/things-we-shipped-july-2026): Hunt setup went AI-first. The assistant is now everywhere. Candidate recommendations have a unified inbox. Here's everything we shipped this month. - [Hiring Software Shouldn't Wait for You to Open It](https://umamy.io/blog/hiring-software-shouldnt-wait-you-open-it): The dashboard model assumes the user shows up. Hiring managers hire twice a year and have a full-time job in between. That assumption is why pipelines go stale. - [Your Hiring Data Should Be Reachable From Any AI. That's What MCP Is For.](https://umamy.io/blog/hiring-data-reachable-from-any-ai-mcp): The questions people ask about a hiring pipeline are different every time, which is exactly what a dashboard can't handle. The Model Context Protocol changes the shape of the problem. - [We went to VivaTech. Here’s what we took away.](https://umamy.io/blog/vivatech-2026-umamy): Umamy was at VivaTech 2026 in Paris. Three days of conversations with talent leaders and founders — here's what came up, over and over. - [Talent pool, AI assistant, activity feed — May update](https://umamy.io/blog/talent-pool-ai-assistant-activity-feed): The talent pool exits beta, the AI assistant is everywhere, the activity feed is live, and intent detection flags candidates before you ask. May 2026 update. - [The Four Recruiting Metrics That Actually Predict a Hire](https://umamy.io/blog/four-recruiting-metrics-predict-hire): Time-to-hire and cost-per-hire tell you what already happened. Four leading indicators tell you whether a search is working while you can still do something about it. - [Cross-hunt analytics, degree filters, and Flatchr partnership](https://umamy.io/blog/cross-hunt-analytics-mcp-flatchr): Cross-hunt analytics dashboard, degree timing filters, inbound Q&A filters, AI message generation, Flatchr partnership, and MCP coming soon — May update. - [Outreach You Can Defend: The Governance Layer AI Sourcing Forgot](https://umamy.io/blog/outreach-you-can-defend-ai-sourcing-governance): AI lets three people contact thousands of candidates. Almost nobody builds the controls that make that safe — and the failure modes aren't gradual, they're single events. - [LinkedIn Recruiter sync, collaborative notes, and scorecard AI](https://umamy.io/blog/linkedin-recruiter-sync-scorecard-ai): LinkedIn Recruiter now syncs with Umamy. Collaborative notes, scorecard AI suggestions, do-not-contact lists, candidate transfers — the April 2026 update. - [ATS inbound, hunt overview redesign, employment status](https://umamy.io/blog/ats-inbound-hunt-redesign-march-2026): ATS inbound sourcing is live, hunt overview gets a redesign, employment status tracking added. The March 2026 Umamy product update. - [Your ATS Is Full of Qualified Candidates You Never Called Back](https://umamy.io/blog/ats-full-qualified-candidates-never-called): Companies spend heavily to reach strangers while hundreds of people who already applied sit unscreened. The economics of inbound screening have quietly changed. - [New website, smarter filters, and talent pool in beta](https://umamy.io/blog/new-website-smarter-filters-talent-pool-beta): A new marketing site, smarter hunt filters, a redesigned hunt details view, and the talent pool entering beta. Here's what changed in February–March. - [On-Profile, Not High-Volume: What Candidate Quality Actually Means](https://umamy.io/blog/on-profile-what-candidate-quality-means): Every sourcing tool promises quality candidates and almost none define it. Here's a definition you can measure, argue with and miss — and why more volume makes it worse. - [White-glove recruiting, Ashby sync, and the metrics dashboard](https://umamy.io/blog/white-glove-recruiting-ashby-webhooks): A managed recruiting service, Ashby ATS integration, a metrics dashboard, webhooks, and bulk tagging — the February update covers a lot of ground. - [Most AI Hiring Tools Automate the Wrong Step](https://umamy.io/blog/ai-hiring-tools-automate-wrong-step): Teams adopting AI in hiring almost always start with outreach. It's the easiest step to automate and the least important. Here's the step that actually decides whether a search works. - [Rebuilt from scratch: AI-first hunt setup and smart outreach](https://umamy.io/blog/umamy-rebuilt-hunt-creation-ai-recruiting): Hunt creation is now AI-first. The recruiting assistant is live. Smart outreach sequences adapt automatically. Here's everything we rebuilt in January. - [AI hiring is now table stakes — what separates the best teams](https://umamy.io/blog/ai-hiring-table-stakes-what-differentiates-teams): 87% of companies now use AI somewhere in hiring. Adoption is no longer the advantage. Here's what separates teams getting real results. - [The Real Cost of a Bad Hire (And Why Your Gut Instinct Is Making It Worse)](https://umamy.io/blog/real-cost-bad-hire-gut-instinct): A bad hire costs 6–12 months of salary. Most of them happen because interviewers trusted their gut. Here's the data on why intuition fails — and what replaces it. - [What Skills-Based Hiring Actually Means (And What It Doesn't)](https://umamy.io/blog/skills-based-hiring-what-it-actually-means): Everyone claims to do skills-based hiring now. Most of them are just removing degree requirements and calling it done. Here's what it actually takes. - [The AI Hiring Doom Loop — And How to Get Out](https://umamy.io/blog/ai-hiring-doom-loop-how-to-escape): Candidates use AI to apply to hundreds of jobs. Companies use AI to screen them out. Nobody wins. Here's the structural fix that actually works. - [Founder-Led Hiring: How to Keep Quality High When You're the Recruiter](https://umamy.io/blog/founder-led-hiring-keep-quality-high): Most early-stage founders are also the head of recruiting — whether they planned to be or not. Here's how to hire well without it consuming your calendar. - [The Structured Interview: Why It's the Most Underused Tool in Hiring](https://umamy.io/blog/structured-interview-most-underused-hiring-tool): Most hiring interviews are casual conversations. That's a problem. Structured interviews are the single most predictive hiring method — yet most companies still don't use them. - [Your next great hire won't have the resume you expect](https://umamy.io/blog/next-great-hire-wont-have-expected-resume): The resume is losing its value as a hiring signal. Here's why the best candidates in 2025 look different on paper — and how AI-powered structured interviews surface them anyway. ## Key pages - [Umamy — home](https://umamy.io/): AI-assisted tech & sales recruitment; how it works, pricing, and results. - [Integrations — MCP for Claude & ChatGPT](https://umamy.io/mcp): connect your live recruiting data to AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol. - [About Umamy](https://umamy.io/about): who we are and how we work. ## Feeds & indexes - [Blog RSS (full text)](https://umamy.io/blog/rss.xml) - [Sitemap](https://umamy.io/sitemap.xml)