In 2018, two co-founders sat down together with a single goal: figure out how to fix recruitment for a 9-store franchise operation. The hiring process was slow, expensive, and manual — and nobody had built tools that actually fit the reality of running hourly-wage restaurants.
That problem became Interviewy — a recruitment automation platform that transformed how the company hired. It worked so well that the same operator grew from 9 locations to 146, and the early customers who joined us in those first years are still with us today.
Then COVID hit. While others pulled back, we leaned in — staffing the most difficult locations in the most difficult market anyone had seen. We adapted Interviewy to be technologically superior to competitors while providing agency-like services that operators actually needed. We integrated with onboarding solutions, scheduling systems, and payroll platforms to become the connective tissue of restaurant operations.
In 2024, the Conversey engagement platform was born — heavily integrating into existing payroll and scheduling systems to deliver critical notifications for large-scale operators: bonus compensation that keeps employees happy and increases retention, operational messages at scale, performance reviews, sales analytics, and more.
By 2025, we adopted the latest technology, integrating MCP natively into our apps to support automation across customer data and deliver key information for timely decision-making. We've been AI-native from the start — not as a marketing label, but because it's the only way a small team can build tools that compete with companies ten times our size.