Dayforce to acquire Ribbon AI to expand agentic recruiting capabilities

Dayforce has signed an agreement to acquire Ribbon AI, an AI-native recruiting technology company, as the human capital management platform looks to expand its agentic AI capabilities across hiring.

The acquisition will add Ribbon’s conversational voice and video AI technology to Dayforce’s recruiting offering, enabling employers to automate early-stage candidate screening and conduct interviews at scale. The technology is designed to help organisations reduce hiring time and costs while providing candidates with a more accessible and engaging recruitment experience.

“High-volume hiring shouldn’t mean choosing between speed and a strong candidate experience,” said David Ossip, Founder and CEO of Dayforce, Inc.

“AI can take on more of the manual, time-sensitive work that slows hiring down, while recruiters focus on engaging talent and making the decisions that matter. Ribbon accelerates our vision for agentic recruiting, helping frontline organizations get the right people into critical roles faster and build a more responsive, resilient workforce,” Ossip said.

Ribbon’s technology has been used by hundreds of customers and has facilitated more than one million interviews. In 2026, the company was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for its use of AI agents to conduct human-like, research-based job interviews.

Its voice AI interviewer conducts two-way conversations with candidates around the clock, allowing applicants to participate at a time that suits them. Using a job description, the technology can generate interview questions and scoring rubrics based on relevant past interviews. It then evaluates candidates using interview transcripts to support more structured, job-relevant assessments.

The platform also includes video and other integrity checks designed to detect unusual patterns in audio, gaze and response timing. According to Dayforce, approximately 90% of Ribbon’s customers use its recommended default configuration, allowing teams to deploy interviews quickly and consistently.

Beyond candidate screening, Ribbon offers AI-powered sourcing and talent rediscovery tools to help employers identify suitable candidates within existing talent pools. The technology has been tested across as many as 30 million candidates within a single applicant tracking system and supports outreach through SMS, WhatsApp and email.

Ribbon is also nearing completion of an AI scheduling agent intended to further streamline recruitment workflows.

“Ribbon was built on a simple belief: every candidate deserves a genuine opportunity to be considered, and every recruiter deserves technology that makes hiring better,” said Arsham Ghahramani, Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon.

“Joining Dayforce will allow us to bring our conversational AI, interview intelligence, sourcing, and outreach capabilities to more organizations around the world. Together, we can make hiring faster, more fair, and more personal,” Ghahramani said.

Following the completion of the transaction, Ribbon’s technology will be integrated into Dayforce’s Agentic Recruiting experience. The combined platform is expected to connect sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation and engagement within a more unified recruitment workflow.

The acquisition reflects the growing use of AI in recruitment, particularly in high-volume hiring, where employers need to process large numbers of applications while maintaining consistent assessments and candidate engagement. By automating routine tasks in the early stages of hiring, the technology aims to allow recruiters to focus more on candidate relationships and hiring decisions.