How This Coimbatore SaaS Firm Cracked Hidden Enterprise Problem Costing Millions
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- Published on May 5, 2025
- In AI Startups
How This Bengaluru Startup is Making External Hiring Obsolete
“Now 70% [hiring needs] can be fulfilled internally, and only for 30% you’ll have to look outside. That is the best impact that we have.”
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- By Siddharth Jindal
Tech is moving fast, and companies are finding it hard to keep their teams upskilled. At the same time, managing the cost of talent is equally challenging. This is the problem Spire.ai is solving. The company has been in the talent space for eighteen years—long before ‘AI’ became the ubiquitous term it is today.
“The cost of talent is increasing significantly,” said Saurabh Jain, founder of Spire.ai, in an exclusive interview with AIM. “Organisations need to sustain their costs while still having the room for growth and bringing in new talent.”
However, he explained that cost management cannot come at the expense of preparedness. “Our objective is to make organisations completely resilient from a skills and talent point of view,” he said, adding that businesses cann
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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