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Where exceptional talent meetsambitious teams

The best hiring decisions don't begin with a résumé. They begin with understanding motivation.

Hire in hours instead of days

How it works

Two agents. One private negotiation. Zero noise.

  1. 01 · Max listens

    One conversation, not an application

    He asks what would make you leave a role you already like. Your answer becomes your bar.

  2. 02 · Donna decodes

    The mandate under the job description

    Has scaled a team from 10 to 40. She reads what the posting wasn’t allowed to say.

  3. 03 · Both say yes

    A warm introduction, never a cold message

    They settle it between them, privately. No database is searched, and no name moves until both sides have said yes.

Meet your agent

Max for candidates. Donna for companies.

Max is the AI agent that works for your career

While you build your career, Max looks after it.

Max learns your ambitions, your strengths, your deal-breakers — and what would genuinely make you leave a great role.

That becomes your bar. Every role in the market, advertised or not, gets checked against it line by line. Most fail. You never hear about those.

He writes to you once — when one clears every line. The silence is the product.

Your profile is never shared without your permission. Ever.

Meet Max

How Max works

From one conversation to the interview that counts, in four steps.

Max replaces the hundred forms

One screening call is the whole application. You never retell your story again.

Max works the market while you work

Every new role, advertised or not, scored against your bar around the clock. No boards to refresh. No evenings lost to the search.

Max only writes when you'd win

Top few percent, or he doesn't write. One email, your yes or no — and nothing about you moves until you say go.

Max rehearses you for what counts

Practise that exact role with Max. Find where the answer thins out here, not in the room.

Technology

Agents that get sharper with every introduction.

Architecture

Two models, one private match

Max keeps a living model of each candidate, Donna a model of each mandate. Matching happens between the two — never on a public profile. There is no searchable candidate database for anyone to buy access to.

Consent gate

Private by design

Not a privacy policy in a footer — a step in the pipeline that nothing gets past without an explicit yes for that specific role. Your profile is never shared without your permission. Ever.

Outcome flywheel

Every outcome trains the next match

Otavo is the only party that sees both ends of the transaction. A job board never learns who got hired; an applicant tracking system never learns why a candidate said no. Otavo learns both, on every search.

Stories from both sides

The Otavo difference, in their own words

  • Shashank Singhal

    “Otavo's platform was able to suggest specific roles which suited my profile as well as my requirement.”

    Shashank SinghalISB, Ex-McKinsey, Ex-Filo

  • Dr. Vaibhav Agrawal

    “The team was exceptionally good at helping us calibrate, creating a pipeline of deep talent and then helping us close a candidate.”

    Dr. Vaibhav AgrawalFounder and GP, ODDBIRD VC, ex-Lightspeed

  • Pranav Bhageria

    “Otavo felt like personalized matchmaking — they shortlisted two or three roles that were genuinely aligned, instead of pushing me to apply everywhere.”

    Pranav BhageriaIIM Bangalore, Ex - Monitor Deloitte

  • Harshita Madan

    Placed as Director of Strategy & Operations at Aramya — matched to the broader general-management ownership she was looking for after Meesho.

    Harshita MadanISB, Ex-Meesho

Interviewing for your dream role?Practise before it matters

Practise with an expert

A 30-minute live session with someone who had hired and managed 300+ employees across organisations.

  • Mock interview
  • Salary negotiation

Mahak Garg

Founder and CEO, Otavo.ai

Stanford MBAForbes Under 30
Mahak Garg, Founder and CEO of Otavo.ai

Practise with AI

AI interview customised to your resume and the job you are applying to. Just like the real deal.

Global

Talent crosses borders. So do our agents.

  • Max represents you wherever the role is

    Remote, relocation or a new market — your agent reads roles you would never have seen, in markets you have no network in.

  • Donna hires leaders wherever they are

    Mandates are matched on fit, not on who happens to be in the same postcode. A cross-border mandate costs Donna nothing extra to run.

  • A recruiter’s reach is their network. An agent’s reach is the market.

    That is the difference a border makes obvious, and the reason distance stopped being a filter.

Why we're different

Better decisions.
Not more activity.

One meaningful introduction from Otavo is worth more than a hundred irrelevant ones from anywhere else.

Hiring todayOtavo
More applicationsBetter opportunities
More sourcingBetter introductions
Keyword matchingDeep understanding
Cold outreachMutual interest
NoiseConviction

Companies are hiring in hours, not days

30Companies hiring with Donna
10,000Professionals using Max
3,500Job matches reviewed

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Still curious? Write to us at contact@otavo.ai.

Let's make hiring fun again.

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