Echo

Hiring is Broken. We Built Echo to Fix the First 80%

Finding the right candidate shouldn’t take months of manual effort. But today, recruiters and hiring managers are overwhelmed — swamped with resumes, fragmented workflows, and inconsistent screening methods. Great candidates are lost in the noise. Bias creeps in. And teams waste time on interviews that should never have happened.

Generic AI tools promise to speed things up, but most are black boxes. They’re hard to trust, easy to misuse, and often reinforce the same hiring problems they’re supposed to solve.

We wanted a system that would actually help companies hire better — not just faster.

Introducing Echo 

Echo is Farpoint’s AI-powered recruiting platform, designed to streamline the hiring process from first touchpoint to first interview. It reviews resumes, runs contextual matches, and conducts structured screening conversations — all while surfacing candidates who actually fit the role, team, and context.

Echo doesn’t just look for keywords. It analyzes experience, learning signals, and trajectory. It understands what the role requires, and what success looks like over time. The system adapts to company values, position expectations, and hiring team preferences — with built-in safeguards for consistency and fairness.

The Challenges of Building Fair, Effective, Scalable Hiring

Hiring is messy by nature. Human judgment matters, but so does standardization. Most recruiting pipelines suffer from two extremes — they’re either too manual and subjective, or too automated and opaque.

Echo was built to find the middle ground. It accelerates evaluation without removing humans from the loop. It ensures consistency without ignoring nuance. And it was designed from day one to protect against biased outcomes, with accountability baked into every decision.

What We've Seen So Far

In internal use, Echo has:

• Reduced recruiter manual screening workflows by more than 60%
• Increased top-of-funnel candidate quality through intelligent filtering
• Enabled consistent, structured interviews across teams and roles
‍• Surfaced high-potential candidates that were previously overlooked by resume-based screening

Early experimentation shows faster hiring cycles, clearer feedback loops, and greater confidence in how decisions are made.

Hiring with Intelligence and Integrity

Echo isn’t just about automation. It’s about alignment — between roles and candidates, between companies and the people they’re building with. It reflects a belief that recruiting can be smarter, fairer, and more human with the right tools.