Major updates to Gem's AI agents: AI Rediscovery, AI Talent Insights, and more

Last year, we laid out Gem's vision to build AI across every recruiting channel and launched our AI Sourcing and AI Application Review agents to the world. Since then, we’ve seen remarkable adoption and results from recruiting teams using Gem's AI agents.

Gem AI’s momentum in the past 1.5 years:

• 7x growth in revenue from AI products

• 600K+ total hours saved with AI

• 130x growth in AI-assisted hires

Today, we're continuing that mission with the biggest upgrades our suite has seen. Our AI agents now help you work 10x faster with AI Rediscovery, AI Talent Insights, Ideal Profiles, and intelligent upgrades that understand your complete recruiting context — freeing you up to focus on what matters: building relationships, advising hiring managers, and making strategic talent decisions.

What’s new in Gem’s AI Sourcing Agent

AI Rediscovery: Find the best past candidates faster

Why it matters:

46% of hires in 2024 came from existing CRM and ATS databases, up from 26% in 2021. Your best candidates might already be in your database — people who applied for different roles, silver medalists who came in second, or prospects who weren't ready before but might be now. One of our customers, Scale, made 70% of their hires from these "silver medalists."

The problem? Most recruiting teams start from scratch on LinkedIn every single time, missing the goldmine of qualified talent sitting in their own systems.

“70% of hires were either silver medalists or other people we’d sourced through Gem that we moved to a different track. Had we not had access to candidate rediscovery through Gem, there’s no way we would have been as efficient”

Brie Bastidas

Global Director of Technical Talent

What it does:

When searching for talent, Gem’s AI Sourcing Agent automatically surfaces past candidates from your ATS and CRM who match your criteria. You get complete relationship history — previous applications, interview scorecards, email engagement, and notes from your team. You can see exactly when and why to re-engage, and you'll never accidentally duplicate outreach to someone you've already contacted.

How it makes you 10x:

Scale AI filled 70% of their roles by rediscovering past candidates — silver medalists who already knew the company, interviewed with the team, or built relationships with their recruiters. Instead of starting from zero on LinkedIn, you're picking up where you left off with qualified talent who have the warmest possible context. And because these candidates are already sourced and vetted, they move through your process faster than cold outreach.

AI Talent Insights: Understand the market before you start recruiting

Why it matters:

The first question in any job opening is always: "What does the market look like?" Before you spend hours setting up your job and start recruiting, you need to know if you're looking for a unicorn, where candidates are located, and which companies have the talent you need. Plus - setting realistic hiring manager expectations upfront saves everyone time.

What it does:

For every search you partner on with AI Sourcing Agent, it gives you instant analysis of your talent pools by role, company, tenure, and location. You can see the distribution of candidates before you start outreach, identify gaps in your pipeline, and export snapshots to PDF to share with hiring teams.

How it makes you 10x:

Make data-driven decisions about where to focus your sourcing efforts instead of relying on gut feelings. This helps you set hiring manager expectations with actual data: "Most senior PMs at PLG companies are concentrated in SF and NYC" or "There are only 50 qualified candidates at Series B fintech companies." Best of all, these insights come right out of the box with your AI Sourcing Agent — no need to buy or maintain separate market intelligence tools.

Ideal Profiles: Find candidates like your best hires

Why it matters:

The fastest way to align with hiring managers on what "good" looks like is to show them examples. But manually searching for candidates similar to your star employees takes hours.

"One thing I like about the AI Sourcing tool is I feel like I'm finding new candidates I haven't seen before. I like being able to describe exactly what I'm looking for, like experience in a marketplace. It's been really helpful in terms of finding new people to reach out to. There are some functionalities in the Gem AI tool that I really like in the sense that it's just easier to create a profile that I'm looking for."

Jojo Zou

Product Strategy, Analytics Recruiter

What it does:

Give AI Sourcing Agent examples of great candidates — like your top performers or successful hires — and it’ll find similar profiles. The agent analyzes their experience, skills, and career trajectory to suggest search optimizations  and surface candidates with similar backgrounds automatically.

How it makes you 10x:

Accelerate calibration with hiring managers from days to minutes. Instead of multiple back-and-forth conversations about requirements, you show them actual profiles that match your shared definition of "ideal."

AI Funding Insights: Get quick intel on the companies listed in candidate profiles

As you browse candidates with your AI agent, it provides instant company context to help you understand their background. Hover over any company name and the agent shows you funding history, growth stage, investor details, and business focus — so you can quickly assess whether a candidate's experience aligns with your role without opening new tabs or doing manual research. It's like having a research assistant that anticipates what you need to know about every profile you're reviewing.

What’s new in Gem’s AI Application Review Agent 

While AI Sourcing Agent partners with you to find passive talent, AI Application Review Agent tackles the other side of the equation: the surge in applications. Recruiters are processing 93% more applications per recruiter than in 2021, and you can't afford to miss qualified candidates in the noise.

Here are the latest updates:

• AI-suggested criteria from job descriptions to get you started in seconds

• Proactive warnings for biased inputs per EEO guidelines or subjective criteria like "demonstrates leadership skills" that AI can't interpret consistently

• Email notifications when candidates meet your ideal match score threshold

• Annual third-party bias audits with partner BABL to ensure our AI recommendations remain fair and compliant as part of our ongoing commitment to responsible AI

The results speak for themselves:
Workiva's recruiting team saves approximately 10 hours per week on applicant screening after implementing AI Application Review Agent. They've also reduced time from application to interview by 3 days and cut disposition time for screened-out candidates by 18 days. The agent helps recruiters prioritize who to interview while ensuring every candidate gets faster feedback. Zillow is seeing similar results:

"Rather than taking days, AI in Gem is helping us find better candidates in minutes. We don’t want to ignore applicants just because we have too many. With Gem’s AI, we can actually surface the best talent from our inbound pipeline, rather than defaulting to passive sourcing every time."

Shahbaz Ali

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition Enablement, Experience, and Brand

How it makes you 10x:

Gem’s AI Application Review Agent processes thousands of applications in minutes instead of hours. It never misses a qualified candidate, even when you're drowning in volume. It’s the perfect partner to help you get through inbound faster, while maintaining a defensible, compliant process with explainable scoring backed by regular third-party bias audits.

Coming soon: AI Fraud Detection

We're continuing to build agentic capabilities across Gem's AI suite. Coming very soon: our agents will automatically detect fraud in applications, flagging suspicious patterns and AI-generated content so you can focus on real candidates. Look out for a big update next week and stay tuned for more in 2026. 

Why Gem AI?

Built on complete data, not fragments

Unlike AI point solutions that only see pieces of your recruiting data, Gem's agents are built on your complete ATS and CRM data. This isn't about bolting AI features onto disconnected systems — it's about AI that understands your complete candidate relationships from first touch to hire.

This complete-suite approach means:

• Calibrate just one agent: Use with Gem's agents for inbound applications, sourcing, and candidate rediscovery. When you teach one agent what "good" looks like for one role, that learning carries across all your workflows — not just within a single tool.

• Single  unified interface: Work with the same UI and agents across all your recruiting channels for faster onboarding and productivity. No context switching between five different tools with five different AI interfaces.

• Smarter recommendations with complete context: Gem's agents know and flag past interactions like recent rejections and previous emails. They understand your complete candidate history — not just resumes floating in isolation.

• Industry-best email finding: Get verified personal email addresses on every match with 2x better coverage than other sourcing tools — and no credits required.

• Compliance-ready from day one: Regular third-party bias audits with partner BABL, explainable scoring, and transparent match reasoning built into every agent interaction.

• Long-term consolidation: As your team grows, add Gem's scheduling, analytics, and ATS capabilities to consolidate multiple tools over time — all while keeping your agents trained on your complete recruiting context.

When Gem's agents have complete context across all your recruiting channels, they make smarter recommendations. Period.

Get started with Gem's AI recruiting suite

See how AI Rediscovery, AI Talent Insights, and the full agent suite can help make every recruiter on your team a super recruiter. Schedule a custom demo to see how you can 10x recruiting productivity in 2026 and beyond.