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Nodes is software that runs inside your own cloud, reads the systems your teams already use, and drafts decisions your people approve.
NODES connects to the systems you already run and reasons across the data you approve. It drafts the next workflow, shows the cost of action versus inaction, and waits for a human to approve, edit, or reject before anything happens.
NODES parsed 8,181 candidate keywords from four years of applicant data at a Fortune 500 carrier and tested the 3,597 with enough data to measure. None predicted sustained production after Bonferroni correction. Thirty were anti-predictive of the first production milestone.
The standard ATS funnel at this customer eliminated 98% of their eventual award winners cumulatively. The industry-experience filter, while not predictive of award-level production either way, eliminates 80 percent of eventual award winners on its own. The filter your ATS trusts most threw out four of every five people who became your best.
Every score is monitored for adverse impact, and no candidate is rejected by the model alone. A person approves, edits, or declines every decision, and the reasoning is logged.
$17.7M in observed annual premium credit, from 2,863 hires this one filter would have screened out at the first gate. Every one produced.
Source: 4-year retrospective on 10,765 hires at a Fortune 500 carrier. Top performers defined as Rookie Production Award winners. Funnel base: 50 RPA achievers with parseable ATS skills. See the case study for the cumulative filter table.
A Decision Trace connects what the ATS screened on, what the assessment measured, what the interview surfaced, and what actually happened in production, for every candidate, indefinitely.
Institutional knowledge becomes auditable. When a hiring manager leaves, their judgment doesn't leave with them.
One model, reading through the data where it already lives, one trail of evidence behind every call it makes. The only thing that changes is the decision: who to hire, what to fix, which deal to save.
From the first applicant to the first promotion. The brain reads every signal in the pipeline, scores it against real production data, and proposes who to call next, with what acting is worth and what waiting costs on every recommendation. Your team approves, edits, or declines it.
Problem: 1,000+ applicants per role, screened by keyword filters that reject 80 percent of future top performers. Structured interviews take 45 minutes per candidate. Hiring managers skip them or conduct them inconsistently.
Solution: The brain reads every applicant against 28+ behavioral dimensions calibrated on your own production data. A 0-100 Fit Score writes back into your ATS as a native field, so your recruiters never leave the screen they already work in. A 12-minute async interview surfaces the same signals, scored on the same structured rubric for every candidate. Candidates are told it is AI-assisted, and every score carries a Decision Trace. Outcomes are monitored continuously for adverse impact, with the four-fifths ratio as one screen among validity evidence. No candidate is advanced or rejected on the AI score alone. The brain identifies passive candidates from public professional profiles using patterns learned from your own validated top performers, with notice and consent flows configured to your counsel's requirements. We connect to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Avature, and Taleo through your existing auth, scoped to least privilege.
Proof: 80 percent of top performers at a Fortune 500 carrier were filtered out by a single "relevant industry experience" requirement. The Fit Score caught them.
Proof: Four of six top-performer signals detected in a candidate the ATS would have rejected. That candidate was promoted at month 11.
Read the use case For candidates: how NODES scoring worksProblem: New hires take 6-9 months to reach full productivity. Managers rely on gut feel to decide who needs coaching.
Solution: The brain reads onboarding signals (training completion, early production, manager check-ins) and flags exactly where each new hire is diverging from the top-performer ramp curve.
Pilot observation: Role-calibrated ramp signals identified at-risk hires 6 weeks earlier than manager escalation at pilot scale.
Read the use caseProblem: High performers leave because they do not see a path. Career development conversations happen once a year, and employees leave when they cannot see what is next.
Solution: The brain scores every employee against every open or projected role using the same Fit Score, surfacing the highest-fit next moves and the gaps to close. Cross-role pattern matching replaces manager nominations.
Modeled: Internal mobility candidates matched the top-performer pattern for the target role at rates comparable to external hires scored by the same model.
Read the use caseProblem: Succession plans live in spreadsheets updated once a year. When a senior leader announces departure, the replacement scramble takes 60 to 90 days at minimum.
Solution: The brain reads the senior-leader signal pattern continuously, identifies ready-now and ready-soon successors against the calibrated role-family pattern, and drafts the development plan for each named successor.
Pilot target: Deliver readiness scorecards on every critical role family, where each ranking carries an audit-grade Decision Trace defensible against challenge.
Read the use caseProblem: The best managers consistently develop top performers. Others struggle to, and the difference is rarely visible early enough to coach it.
Solution: The brain traces team-level production, ramp curves, and retention rates back to coachable patterns. The result is a private coaching signal, surfaced only to the manager and their HRBP. We never publish a ranking.
Pilot observation: Manager-level production traces revealed a 2.1x output variance attributable to management patterns, controlling for hire quality.
Read the use caseProblem: A single mis-hire runs one to two times annual salary in fully loaded cost. By the time HR sees an exit interview, the decision was made months ago.
Solution: The brain reads production trends, engagement signals, and cohort patterns to surface retention risk before the employee starts job-searching.
Modeled: cohort-level attrition forecast within 3 percentage points of actual on the study population.
Read the use caseEvery operational system generates signal. The brain reads it and drafts the next action, with the math attached: what acting is worth, what doing nothing costs. Your HRBP approves, edits, or declines it inside ServiceNow or your ATS, not a new console. HR tickets, compliance reviews, compensation benchmarks: same model, same proof trail.
Problem: Your HR team answers the same fourteen questions every week. Each answer takes 8-12 minutes and a policy lookup.
Solution: The brain reads every inbound ticket, drafts a policy-grounded response, and routes edge cases to the right specialist. The human approves, and the system learns.
Pilot target: 30 percent reduction in ticket resolution time for queues where answers take 8-12 minutes, with zero policy-violation escalations on auto-drafted responses.
Read the use caseProblem: Headcount planning runs on last year's numbers plus a growth target. Nobody models what the incoming cohort will actually produce.
Solution: The brain projects cohort-level output by combining pipeline quality scores, historical ramp curves, and attrition forecasts into a single planning model. The brain matches candidate patterns to geo-calibrated production data, recommending the placement most likely to produce sustained output.
Pilot target: Cohort output forecast within 8 percent of actual over a 12-month window at 2,000-hire volume.
Read the use caseProblem: Compensation bands are set by title and tenure. Actual production varies 5x within the same band.
Solution: The brain shows where pay has drifted away from contribution and surfaces pay-equity gaps, so comp conversations start from evidence instead of title and tenure alone. Your team owns every pay decision.
Proof: Top-performer rate rises monotonically by score quintile: RPA 5.1% (Q1) to 13.0% (Q5), 2.55x. n=747, out-of-sample.
Read the use caseProblem: ER cases take weeks to document, and the evidence for adverse actions lives in fragmented case notes across email, HRIS, and ER case tools. When litigation hits, the audit trail has to be reconstructed from memory.
Solution: The brain handles case intake, drafts the documentation, and generates a sha256-immutable Decision Trace for every adverse action. No autonomy level can authorize an adverse action without a human approver.
Pilot target: Generate an audit-grade, sha256-immutable evidence chain for every adverse action.
Read the use caseProblem: Four-fifths parity gets audited quarterly. By the time a violation surfaces, the cohort is already locked in and the regulatory exposure has been incurred.
Solution: The brain runs real-time four-fifths parity monitoring across every hiring cohort, every promotion cycle, and every comp decision, and flags drift before it crystallizes.
Pilot target: Provide continuous monitoring across every hiring cohort, promotion cycle, and comp decision, delivering live ratios instead of quarterly snapshots.
Read the use caseProblem: Audit prep takes weeks of pulling records across five systems. Evidence gaps surface during the audit, not before.
Solution: Decision Traces provide a continuous, queryable audit trail. Every hiring decision, every score, every override is linked to its evidence chain and signed.
Pilot target: An audit query that runs in minutes instead of a multi-week records pull, with every score resolving to a signed, immutable Decision Trace.
Read the use caseThe brain that reads people reads deals. Pipeline velocity, renewal risk, referral signal: the same pattern-matching engine applied to revenue systems.
Problem: Two reps in the same territory with the same comp plan close at 14 percent and 28 percent. The pattern of what made the top quartile produce was never captured, so it cannot be replicated.
Solution: The brain reads CRM, HRIS, and performance data to score every current rep and every new hire against the top-performer pattern, and drafts the next coaching action for the bottom quartile. The brain identifies which employees are most likely to refer a top performer, based on network overlap with the validated top-performer pattern.
Pilot target: Predicted top quartile of reps will outperform the predicted bottom quartile by 25 percent or more on quota attainment. The model is based on patterns from four years of production data from the insurance deployment, adapted for sales roles.
Read the use caseProblem: Customer churn is measured after it happens. Renewal conversations start too late and rely on relationship intuition.
Solution: The brain reads usage patterns, support ticket sentiment, and engagement signals to score renewal risk months before the contract date.
Pilot target: Flag 70 percent of eventual churns with renewal risk scores at least 90 days before contract expiration.
Read the use caseProblem: Deals slip a week at a time. By the time the forecast misses, the quarter is over.
Solution: The brain reads CRM activity, email cadence, and meeting patterns to score deal health in real time. Slipping deals surface before the rep flags them.
Pilot target: Identify at-risk opportunities 3 weeks earlier than rep self-reporting, via deal-health scoring in a CRM integration.
Read the use caseProblem: New reps take 8 to 12 months to ramp. The pattern of what got the top-quartile reps to productivity fast was never captured, so enablement runs the same onboarding for everyone.
Solution: The brain reads ramp signals across CRM, calendar, and learning-system completion, compares each new rep to the trajectory of top-quartile reps in the same segment, and drafts the coaching intervention. The manager approves.
Pilot target: 31-day median ramp acceleration for reps paired with the buddy pattern. The money-back agreement is for a median acceleration of 10+ days.
Read the use caseThe same brain that read these 10,765 hires reads every system in your company and hands you the next move, with the math of acting versus waiting attached to each one. Your team approves, edits, or declines it. From the day Alex applies to the day Alex retires.
Read the full story Run the ROI calculatorSingle-tenant deployment in customer-owned infrastructure. Fine-tuned, open-source models. No third-party AI in the chain. SOC 2 Type I and II. Reviewable by your security team the same way Snowflake is.
See the artifact pack: SOC 2 Type I and II, DPA, pen-test summary, framework matrix 17 days sounds too fast? Read the mechanism behind it Run the numbers: hiring ROI calculatorNODES will run a backtest against a sample of your production data, in your environment. You will see, numerically, which of your filters worked, which did not, and what a calibrated Fit Score would have done differently.