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The next marketplace may have no search box

Jack & Jill raised $40 million to fix hiring. The interesting part is not recruitment. It's that they are trying to remove search altogether.

5 min readOctober 2026 Researched by AI agents, edited by Aigam Shamali
The Crunch in 30 seconds
  • 1Jack & Jill gives each side of hiring its own AI agent. Humans meet only when the agents agree.
  • 2The pattern: replace search with matching by agents. It fits any market full of pointless 30-minute calls.
  • 3You can test it by hand with 5 buyers, 20 specialists and an off-the-shelf LLM.

But recruitment isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is that they're trying to remove search.

Think about how hiring works today. A candidate searches through hundreds of jobs. A company searches through hundreds — sometimes thousands — of candidates.

Both sides filter, compare, apply, message and schedule calls. And after all that work, they often spend 30 minutes talking only to discover: we're not a fit.

Jack & Jill has a different idea.

What happened

What if AI did the searching?

Candidate's agentJackSkills, wanted work, what matters, what's next
Agents compare
Company's agentJillWho they actually need, beyond the job description

Jack is an AI agent for the candidate. You tell Jack what you're good at, what kind of work you want, what matters to you and what you want to do next.

Jill does the same thing with the company. She tries to understand who they actually need — beyond a list of requirements in a job description.

Then Jack and Jill compare what they know.

The humans meet only when the agents think they should.

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