About Loxo: A Note From Our Founder

Recruiting technology is arguably the most saturated, unforgiving market on the planet. To enter this arena with the intent to not just compete, but to render the competition irrelevant, requires a borderline unreasonable level of conviction.

Some might call it madness to believe you can become a Category of One in a space this crowded.

We made it our mission

To maintain that altitude, we operate with an uncompromising philosophy: true dominance is found in the gap between "good enough" and "perfect." From our grandest strategic vision down to the microscopic details of execution, we recruit only the exceptional and focus obsessively on raising the bar of quality and continuous improvement across every aspect of the business. We operate with the belief that how you do anything is how you do everything.

This isn't just business. It is the pursuit of the absolute pinnacle of performance.

The origin of the obsession 

This conviction didn't appear overnight. It was born from a realization in 2012. I was a software entrepreneur looking for a place to invest my life’s work and build a company that defines a category.  When I evaluated the recruitment landscape, I was horrified by what I found.

I saw a profession being suffocated.

The market was a graveyard of broken tools. Firms were forced to stitch together a "Frankenstein" stack of disconnected systems—an ATS here, a CRM there, multiple sourcing tools, and spreadsheets living in exile. The data was stagnant. The workflows were chaotic. The user experience was painful.  The visual design was uninspiring.  

The industry didn't just need another option; it was starving for a revolution. We were the first to ask: "Why?"  How could this possibly be?

The recruitment world didn't need a better database. It needed a new Operating System.

The architecture of excellence 

So, we rejected the status quo. I headhunted a "special forces" unit —including my co-founder Ilia, designers, fullstack engineers, and machine learning engineers—to build what others called impossible. 

We didn't set out to build the best ATS. We set out to invent the Talent Intelligence Platform.

While others built moats to trap their customers in admin work and marketplace bolt-ons, we built intelligence and a unified platform to liberate them.

• Where others offer static data, our engines self-update, dedupe, enrich, rank, and recommend in real-time.
• Where others force manual labor, our AI Agents handle the memory, enrichment, outreach, follow up, automation, recommendations, data cleanup and continuous learning.
• Where the emerging new market entrants rely on "AI Wrappers"—renting intelligence from third-party chatbots—Loxo has spent a decade building the brain itself.

There is a stark difference between a company that uses AI and a company that is native to it. We don't rely on the API of the day. We built proprietary deep learning neural networks and a Knowledge Graph that is now entering its 7th generation.

The new standard 

Today, Loxo stands as the realization of that initial impossible dream. We have evolved from a bootstrapped startup to a category-defining leader, recently securing over $115M to accelerate our dominance in AI product development.

But our true metric isn't capital; it’s clarity, customer satisfaction and delivering an unrivaled bar of quality and ultimate return on our customer’s investment.

We stripped away the clutter to create a UX so minimal it feels invisible. We poured our hearts into making every pixel beautiful. Our goal is that you no longer feel suffocated by your tools, but liberated by them.

Loxo is not just a platform. It is a promise that recruiting can be effortless, beautiful, and undeniably intelligent. Once you experience the flow of a system that was always meant to be this way, you won't just use Loxo—you’ll wonder how you ever survived without it.

Welcome to the Category of One.

Matt Chambers Founder & CEO, Loxo