An AI recruitment agent for ambitious talent teams.

Human powered, AI supported. Aria sources, screens and schedules so your team spends its time on the conversations that matter.

How it works

One conversation with Aria starts the recruitment process.

1 · Describe the rolePlain English. “Senior Golang engineer, Cape Town, 5+ years.”
2 · Approve the planAria shows her search plan first, including how many people match, before a credit is spent.
3 · Review the slateUp to 25 ranked candidates, every rating backed by cited evidence from the profile.
4 · Reach out as youOutreach sends from your own mailbox, and replies land back in the same thread.
5 · InterviewsAria reads the candidate’s availability against your calendar and books the call.
AI Candidate Sourcing

Sourcing that finds South African talent fast.

LinkedIn, GitHub and the open web, searched with your criteria, ranked with evidence you can check.

A plan, with a pool count

Aria shows the search plan and how many people actually match it, free, so you never pay to discover a dead end.

Every rating is cited

Each candidate card shows which of your criteria they meet and where the proof sits on their profile. No black-box scores.

You see everything you paid for

Weaker matches are shown, marked and unbilled, with the reason they fell short, instead of quietly disappearing.

Candidate Outreach

Outreach that gets replies, sent as you.

Connect your own mailbox. Aria drafts in your voice, you approve, and every reply flows back into the pipeline.

From your address, not a robot’s

Emails send through your connected Google or Microsoft account, so candidates reply to a person they can look up.

Answers become next steps

When a candidate replies with availability, Aria parses it and moves straight to booking. No copy-paste.

Never double-contacts

Aria remembers who your team has already approached and warns before anyone is emailed twice.

Interview Scheduling

Zero back-and-forth scheduling.

Aria matches the candidate’s stated availability against your calendar and books the Meet or Teams call: invite, link and all.

Booked while you work

A candidate says “Tuesday afternoon works” and Aria finds the slot, creates the event and sends the invite.

Real availability, never double-booked

Connected to your Google or Outlook calendar, so proposed times are ones you can actually make.

Walk in briefed

Interview kits and candidate briefs are prepared before the call, and follow-up tasks are drafted after it.

For Agencies

Pitch candidates, not just fill briefs.

Two lanes built for the agency desk: place the candidate you already have, or find more like your best one.

Speculative CV, to the right desks

Upload a CV and Aria builds a branded, anonymised candidate brief and researches the hiring managers worth pitching it to.

More like your best candidate

Start from one great profile and Aria finds the lookalikes: rated, evidenced and ready for outreach.

Every client, one desk

Engagements, candidates and interviews per client, with your agency’s own branding on candidate-facing documents.

Why teams pick Aria

Built for how South Africa hires.

POPIA firstConsent, forget-me and subject-access requests are product features, not paperwork.
Rand pricing, no surprisesCredits, priced in ZAR, with the cost shown before every search runs.
Knows the local marketAria knows the employers, salaries and cities of the SA market, not a US index with SA gaps.
Honest when it mattersIf a data provider is down or a pool is thin, Aria says so before your money moves.
Your identityOutreach from your mailbox, interviews on your calendar, briefs in your branding.
Our story

Recruitment, rebuilt around your culture.

From day one we believed the best hires aren't the ones who tick the most boxes, they're the ones who raise the standard around them, that belief shapes how we use AI. We don't treat it as a shortcut to push more CVs through faster. We use it to screen for genuine values alignment at scale, and strip out the bias that quietly narrows a talent pool and leaves every team looking and thinking the same. Aria handles the heavy lifting so the Talent Team spend their time where it counts.

What is Ask Aria? Ask Aria is the application behind this site: a recruitment workspace where Aria, our AI agent, finds candidates, screens CVs, drafts outreach and books interviews, always with a human approving what goes out. If you connect your Google or Microsoft account, Ask Aria uses that access only to send your recruiting email and schedule interviews from your own mailbox and calendar, and you can disconnect it at any time. See our Privacy Policy for the details.

500+
Successful placements worldwide
98%
Client satisfaction
5
Global offices
2020
Founded
24/7
Always-on sourcing

Faster time-to-hire

Aria scans GitHub, LinkedIn and your bench in minutes. Ranked candidates with reasoning, not lists.

Quality matched to culture

Every shortlist is calibrated against hiring manager notes, not just JD keywords. Aria understands fit.

Human in the loop, always

AI proposes, humans decide. Your AiR consultant reviews every recommendation and handles the conversations that matter.

Meet Aria

Your always-on recruitment agent.

Aria is the AI agent at the heart of AiR. She handles the heavy lifting so your team and our consultants can focus on the high-judgement work: building relationships, calibrating with hiring managers, and getting offers across the line.

Sourcing across the open web

GitHub and LinkedIn X-Ray. Ranked profiles with evidence.

CV screening at scale

Bulk-upload a stack; Aria reads, scores, and flags blind-spots.

Scheduling on autopilot

Google + Outlook in, candidate-friendly slots out.

Interview kits + scorecards

Calibrated questions and structured scorecards per stage.

Insights you can act on

Time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, source ROI. All in one dashboard.

Built for the regions you hire in

Compliance, baked in. Not bolted on.

Hiring across borders means hiring across rule books. AiR is built from the ground up for the regulatory frameworks our customers actually live with, so you never have to chase a candidate consent, an EE return, or a B-BBEE report at the last minute.

POPIA-ready by default

Lawful basis, consent capture, retention windows, subject access requests.

Employment Equity Act

Auto-generated EEA reports and designated-group tagging.

B-BBEE scorecard support

One-click scorecard packs for verification.

Full audit trail

Every Aria action logged with timestamp and operator.

Your Google data, handled right

Connect Google and Aria works from your own mailbox and calendar, never reading your inbox, never training on your data. Exactly what we access, and why.

POPIA
SA Protection of Personal Information Act
EE Act
Employment Equity reporting
B-BBEE
SA scorecard support
GDPR-aware
EU data subject rights honoured
SOC 2-hosted infrastructure
Supabase + Cloudflare, audited platforms
Pricing

Priced in credits, not surprises.

Aria runs on credits. Every action has a published price that never changes mid-month, and a search that returns nothing is never charged. Pick the plan that matches your hiring volume.

Free

R0/ month

2,000 creditsevery day, resets nightly

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Starter

R1,999/ month

15,000 creditsper month, unused credits roll over

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Team

R11,999/ month

120,000 creditsper month, pooled across the team

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Prices in South African rand. Plan credits roll over while your subscription is active; the free plan’s daily allowance resets each day. Prefer annual billing? Choose Yearly at checkout and save 10%.

FAQs

Common questions, answered.

Everything you need to know before getting started with AiR and Aria.

Getting started

No. You don't need to be an existing AiR client to get started. You can book a 30-minute demo with one of our consultants to see the platform in action and discuss your hiring goals before committing to anything.

You can sign up now, or book a 30-minute demo first if you would rather see it in action. You can also reach us at [email protected]. Once onboarded, you sign in at askaria.co.za/aria-login.

No. AiR is built on the principle of "Human in the loop, always." Aria handles the heavy lifting (sourcing, screening, scheduling), but your AiR consultant reviews every recommendation and manages the candidate conversations. AI proposes; humans decide.

What Aria does

Aria covers the full recruitment workflow:

  • Sourcing: searches GitHub, LinkedIn X-Ray and your existing bench, returning ranked profiles with supporting evidence
  • CV screening: bulk-upload a stack of CVs; Aria reads, scores, and flags blind spots
  • Interview scheduling: syncs with Google and Outlook calendars and offers candidate-friendly slots automatically
  • Interview kits & scorecards: generates calibrated questions and structured scorecards per stage
  • Insights dashboard: tracks time-to-hire, cost-per-hire and source ROI in one place

Aria scans GitHub, LinkedIn (via X-Ray search) and your internal bench. Results are ranked with reasons so you see why a candidate has been surfaced, not just their name.

Shortlists are built against hiring manager notes and cultural context, not just job description keywords. Aria is designed to find candidates who fit your team, not just tick boxes.

The platform

The dashboard gives you a real-time view of your pipeline across all active roles: candidates by stage, sourcing activity, bulk CV uploads and analytics. Everything is in one place so you're never chasing updates across email threads.

Yes. The Bulk CV Upload feature lets you drop in a large stack at once. Aria reads and scores each one and surfaces the strongest matches with flags for anything that needs attention.

Yes. Aria integrates with both Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, automatically generating candidate-friendly interview slots based on your team's availability.

Pricing & fit

Ask Aria is priced in credits rather than per seat. There's a free tier (2,000 credits a day) and paid plans from R1,999/month (Starter) through R4,999 (Pro) to R11,999 (Team), billed in South African rand with unused plan credits rolling over. Every action has a fixed, published credit price, so there are no surprise charges.

Ask Aria does everything an ATS does, tracking candidates through each hiring stage, and adds an AI agent that actively sources candidates, screens CVs and schedules interviews. Many teams use it as their ATS and recruitment software in one, replacing several disconnected tools.

Yes. Ask Aria is a full recruitment platform: sourcing, CV screening, interview scheduling, interview kits and pipeline analytics in one place. It works from your own Google or Microsoft mailbox and calendar, so it fits your existing workflow instead of adding another silo.

Two things. First, it's an AI agent that does the work of sourcing, screening and scheduling, not just a database you fill in yourself. Second, it's built for the South African market, with POPIA, Employment Equity and B-BBEE support baked in. AI proposes; your team always decides.

Compliance & data

Yes. AiR is POPIA-ready by default, covering lawful basis, consent capture, retention windows and subject access requests.

Yes. Aria automatically generates EEA reports, handles designated-group tagging, and produces one-click B-BBEE scorecard packs for verification.

AiR honours EU data subject rights and is built to be GDPR-aware, which is important when hiring across borders.

The platform runs on SOC 2-audited infrastructure (Supabase + Cloudflare). Every action Aria takes is logged with a timestamp and operator record, giving you a full audit trail.

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