Intelletto.ai — Investor White Paper
Intelletto.ai is a startup executing a clean‑room rebuild of capabilities our team shipped in prior roles. We attach an explainable, governed AI sidecar to ATS/HCM/CRM—bringing speed, fairness, and closed‑loop learning without a platform rip‑and‑replace. Visit intelletto.ai for more.
Vision
Our vision is straightforward. Enterprises should never have to choose between speed and trust. Systems of record—ATS, HCM, CRM—must do more than store data. They must help leaders make decisions they can defend.
Intelletto.ai will be the explainable control plane for enterprise decisioning. The sidecar listens to events, reads the minimum context required, applies policy-as-code, and writes back outcomes with reason codes, confidence, and evidence. Every recommendation is transparent by default.
Over time, the system compounds learning. 30/90/180-day outcomes feed back in, improving accuracy and fairness. This creates a durable advantage: a record system that not only captures history but also learns from it.
We measure success by customer adoption, fairness, and defensibility—not by features shipped. Our long-term orientation is to make every enterprise decision explainable, auditable, and value-creating.
What is Intelletto.ai
Intelletto.ai is an embedded AI sidecar—an attach layer that sits beside your ATS, HCM, and CRM via APIs and event hooks. It listens to business signals, reads only the minimum context with least‑privilege access, applies policy‑as‑code, and writes back recommendations with rationale, confidence, and evidence. The result is no rip‑and‑replace and weeks‑to‑value inside the tools your teams already use.
Why it’s different
- Embedded, not replaced: your system of record remains the source of truth; zero change fatigue.
- Audit‑ready by default: versioned prompts/models, immutable logs, exportable evidence packs.
- Closed‑loop learning: 30/90/180‑day outcomes are written back to sharpen signals and reduce bias.
- Governed by design: RBAC/ABAC, least‑privilege access, encryption in transit/at rest.
- One architecture, many domains: consistent control plane for Talent, Workforce, and Revenue.
How the sidecar works
Listen → Read → Reason → Recommend → Act → Learn
- Event‑driven: reacts to “application submitted”, “case updated”, or “opportunity stage changed”.
- Minimal read: ingests only necessary context via scoped APIs.
- Reasoned outputs: LLMs + policy‑as‑code produce explainable recommendations with guardrails.
- Human‑in‑the‑loop: Approve / Edit / Decline with inline rationale and evidence.
- Write‑back & replay: decisions and explanations saved with correlation IDs for audit and rollback.
- Outcome‑linked learning: outcome data recalibrates prompts/weights to improve precision weekly.
Résumé Parsing & Scoring
Universal intake → deduped, clean profiles → explainable Role Compatibility Score with drill‑downs.
- Faster shortlists; fewer false negatives/positives
- Reason codes with evidence (audit‑ready)
- Closed‑loop learning at 30/90/180 days
AVAR — Virtual Automated Recruitment
Video résumés, adaptive assessments & simulations with a transparent Composite/Role Fit.
- Faster time‑to‑hire; better quality of hire
- Bias monitors & audit trails; human‑in‑the‑loop
- Recruiter command center & candidate portal
Perfect Match — Outcome‑Linked Intelligence
Tie predictions to real outcomes; refresh scores and reason codes continuously.
- Outcome feedback at 30/90/180 days
- Exportable audit & fairness reports
- Plugs into ATS/HCM (no new portal)
AI Workforce Intelligence
Skills radar, readiness & growth nudges with wellbeing signals and completion likelihood.
- Shorter, continuous review cycles
- Readiness forecasting; burnout risk signals
- Real‑time feedback loops
Customer & Revenue Intelligence
Instant lead profiles (<60s), next‑best‑action & opportunity health inside your CRM.
- Prioritize right accounts at the right time
- Revenue leak detection; churn & upsell signals
- Tighter, explainable forecasts
Financials At‑A‑Glance
Executive Summary
Enterprises rely on ATS, HCM, and CRM to make hiring and customer decisions. These systems are slow, opaque, and don’t learn from outcomes. Managers can’t trust the “why,” regulators can’t audit it, and boards can’t defend it.
Intelletto.ai attaches an explainable AI sidecar to those systems. No rip-and-replace. The sidecar listens to events, reads the minimum context, applies policy-as-code, and writes back outcomes with reason codes, confidence, and evidence links.
The result is simple: time saved, trust earned, and learning that compounds on 30/90/180-day outcomes. We rebuilt familiar patterns—resume parsing, explainable scoring, and integrations—using a clean-room approach for defensibility.
What we will deliver
- Weeks-to-value: measurable ROI in weeks, not years.
- Explainability by default: every recommendation includes the “why.”
- Governance built-in: least-privilege, RBAC/ABAC, audit receipts.
Targets we will hold ourselves to
- ARR: $2.0–$2.2M at exit Year 1; ~$5.0M at exit Year 2.
- Margins: gross margin improving from ~45% (Y1) to ~62% at breakeven.
- Retention: NRR ≥ 120%; GRR ≥ 90%.
- CAC payback: ≤ 12 months.
The ask
Raising $1.5M seed to fund connectors, KPI-gated pilots, and compliance packs, extending runway 18–24 months. The sidecar is not another tool—it is an attach layer that makes existing systems auditable, defensible, and faster to value.
Problem
Enterprises depend on ATS, HCM, and CRM systems to manage talent and customers. But these systems have three persistent flaws that customers remind us of:
- Messy and duplicate data. Résumés arrive in different formats, from multiple channels, and often repeat. Recruiters spend hours cleaning, formatting, and reconciling—time that adds no value.
- Opaque recommendations. Hiring managers see scores or matches but rarely know why. This lack of explainability erodes trust, slows decisions, and exposes risk with regulators.
- No feedback loop. Once a candidate is hired or rejected, the system doesn’t learn. Signals drift, bias persists, and outcomes stay static. The same mistakes are repeated quarter after quarter.
The result is wasted time, lower trust, and higher risk. Managers don’t trust the outputs. Regulators don’t accept them. Boards can’t defend them. Customers want the opposite: fewer clicks, better shortlists, clear reasons, and audit receipts.
Product & Domains
Intelletto.ai is a single sidecar control plane that attaches to systems of record and powers multiple domains. Each module is designed to do one thing well, deliver value quickly, and improve with use. We don’t replace platforms. We make them more trustworthy and efficient.
Parsing & Scoring
- Universal intake removes duplicates and normalizes candidate data.
- Role Compatibility Score explains why a candidate matches, with reason codes and drill-downs.
- Outcomes at 30/90/180 days feed back into the model to sharpen results.
AVAR (Virtual Automated Recruitment)
- Video résumé capture, transcription, and adaptive assessments.
- Behavioral simulations and composite fit scores.
- Recruiter Command Center for bulk actions and a Candidate Portal for transparency.
Perfect Match
- Closed-loop intelligence that links early predictions to on-the-job outcomes.
- Exportable fairness reports and audit receipts for compliance teams.
AI Workforce Intelligence
- Skills radar, readiness scoring, and development plans tied to outcomes.
- Well-being signals such as sentiment and burnout risk, measured with privacy constraints.
Customer & Revenue Intelligence
- Instant customer profiles, next-best-action prompts, and relationship health scores.
- Churn detection, upsell signals, and forecast confidence checks.
The same architecture powers all of these. That consistency lowers complexity, reduces cost, and speeds adoption. Customers don’t have to learn a new system. They just get better results from the ones they already use.
Technology Stack & R&D Roadmap
Our technology stack is built to be durable, explainable, and cost-efficient. We use proven components, keep the architecture simple, and automate wherever possible. The principle is straightforward: fewer moving parts, lower risk, faster learning.
Stack
- Core Platform: Event-driven services running on Kubernetes, infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Data Layer: S3 for storage, RDS for relational workloads, and OpenSearch for indexing and retrieval.
- Integration: Secure API gateway with contract-tested connectors for ATS, HCM, and CRM systems.
- MLOps: Versioned models, monitoring dashboards, retraining hooks, and guardrails for fairness.
- Inference: Policy-routed model calls with RAG for context and embeddings for search and deduplication.
- Observability: Golden signals, drift monitors, and fairness dashboards visible to customers and auditors.
R&D Roadmap
- Near Term: Strengthen connectors, accelerate Time-to-First-Value, and release fairness dashboards.
- Next 12 Months: Add confidential compute, expand classification capabilities, and automate compliance reports.
- Long Term: Counterfactual analysis and continuous learning systems that adapt in near real time.
We invest in R&D with a clear rule: each step must make the system more explainable, more governed, or more efficient. That discipline keeps us focused on customer outcomes, not feature bloat.
Architecture, Security & Governance
Our architecture is designed to be simple, resilient, and auditable. We do not add complexity for its own sake. Every layer has a clear purpose: process signals, protect data, and provide evidence that decisions are explainable.
Control Plane
- Policy-as-code directs model selection, cost, and latency targets.
- Every decision carries lineage for replay, rollback, and audit export.
Data Plane
- Durable storage combining relational, vector, and inverted indexes.
- Event bus for low-latency inference and streaming feedback loops.
Security & Privacy
- Least-privilege access by default; RBAC and ABAC enforced at every service.
- Encryption in transit and at rest, with regional residency options.
- Support for DSAR, deletion workflows, and retention controls.
Governance
- Immutable audit logs with reason codes and evidence links.
- Exportable compliance bundles for regulators and boards.
- Clean-room IP policy: contributor attestations, license scans, SBOMs.
Resilience
- Multi-AZ deployments, health-based routing, and circuit breakers.
- Regular chaos tests to validate failure recovery.
The outcome is straightforward: systems that customers can trust. Managers see why a recommendation was made. Regulators see defensible evidence. Boards see decisions they can stand behind. Trust is not an add-on; it is the architecture.
Security & Compliance
Security and compliance are not features we add later. They are part of the foundation. Customers, regulators, and boards expect systems they can trust. We design Intelletto.ai so that privacy, auditability, and governance are defaults.
Security Principles
- Least privilege by default: every service enforces RBAC and ABAC rules.
- Encryption end-to-end: data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Regional control: customers choose where their data resides to meet local laws.
Compliance by Design
- DSAR support: data subject requests are traceable and fulfilled on demand.
- Retention controls: customers set lifecycle rules; expired data is deleted automatically.
- Exportable evidence: audit packs are generated with logs, reason codes, and outcomes.
Governance & Assurance
- Immutable audit logs capture every decision, who made it, and why.
- Clean-room IP hygiene with contributor attestations, license scans, and SBOMs.
- Independent readiness for SOC 2, GDPR, and PDPA built into the roadmap.
The standard we hold ourselves to is clear: customers must be able to explain and defend every decision. Security and compliance are not cost centers. They are the reason customers adopt and stay.
Governance & Explainability
Customers and regulators expect more than outcomes. They expect evidence. Governance and explainability are not features in Intelletto.ai — they are the way the system works.
Explainability
- Every recommendation carries a reason code, confidence score, and evidence link.
- Managers see why a candidate or customer was ranked, not just the score.
- Boards and regulators get audit packs that can be read and defended without technical translation.
Governance
- Policy-as-code: rules for fairness, compliance, and data use are explicit and versioned.
- Immutable logs: every decision is recorded, time-stamped, and tied to a correlation ID.
- Regional control: data residency and retention policies are enforced at the platform level.
Outcome-Linked Learning
- Signals at 30/90/180 days are written back into the system.
- Bias is monitored, drift is flagged, and recalibration is automatic.
- Progress is measured by outcomes, not just model accuracy.
The principle is clear: if a decision cannot be explained, it should not be used. Intelletto.ai makes explainability and governance defaults. That is what builds durable trust.
Competitive Benchmarking
Directional ratings for quick scan. Claims to be finalized during diligence.
Vendor | Approach | Key Modules | Explainability | Governance | Write-back | Time-to-Value | Rating | Notes |
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Intelletto.ai
Sidecar
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Embedded control plane | Parsing, Scoring, AVAR, Workforce, Revenue | Reason codes + evidence | Policy-as-code; DSAR; fairness | Yes (ATS/HRIS/CRM) | Weeks | 5/5 | No rip-and-replace; closed loop |
Eightfold (Talent) | Platform w/ AI matching | Matching, CRM, Career site | Limited public detail | Ecosystem-dependent | APIs | Months | 3/5 | Broader suite |
Beamery (Talent) | Talent OS/CRM | CRM, Marketing, AI match | Evolving | CRM-centric | APIs | Months | 3/5 | Replaces modules |
HireVue | Assessment + Video | Video interviews, Assessments | Rubric/validity docs | Assessment-centric | Integrations | Weeks–Months | 3/5 | Focus on interviews |
Workday AI | Platform-embedded | Workday HCM suite | Suite explainers | Within Workday | Native | Months | 2/5 | Workday tenants only |
SAP SuccessFactors AI | Platform-embedded | SF HCM suite | Suite explainers | Within SAP | Native | Months | 2/5 | SAP tenants only |
Paradox (Olivia) | Automation/Chat | Scheduling, Screening | Basic | Workflow-level | Integrations | Weeks | 3/5 | Front-end automation |
Costing — Parsing & Scoring (per résumé)
Parsing — Standard Tier
Component | Costing |
---|---|
Resume Deduplication | 0.0011 |
Resume Upload | 0.0018 |
Data Extraction | 0.0080 |
Data Cleaning, Structuring & Processing | 0.0377 |
Total Parsing (Standard) | 0.0486 |
Parsing — Premium Tier
Component | Costing |
---|---|
Resume Deduplication | 0.0011 |
Resume Upload | 0.0018 |
Data Extraction | 0.0080 |
Data Cleaning, Structuring & Processing | 0.0377 |
AI Data Wrangling | 0.0660 |
Total Parsing (Premium) | 0.1146 |
Scoring — Standard Tier
Component | Costing |
---|---|
Generate Score | 0.1728 |
Grand Total (Standard Parsing + Standard Scoring) | 0.2203 |
Scoring — Premium Tier
Component | Costing |
---|---|
Generate Score | 0.2880 |
Grand Total (Premium Parsing + Premium Scoring) | 0.4015 |
Notes: Estimated per‑résumé costing (USD), directional for planning; excludes storage/egress; subject to model/provider choice and volume tiers.
Go‑To‑Market & Pricing
Motion
- Paid pilot (6–10 weeks) with KPI gates; convert on pass; remediate on fail.
- Marketplace listings + SI partners; founder‑led enterprise motion.
Packaging & Pricing (directional)
Module | Base | Usage | Governance Add‑ons |
---|---|---|---|
Parsing | $X per tenant/mo | per 1k résumés | Audit bundle, DSAR exports |
Scoring | $X per tenant/mo | per shortlist | Reason‑code exports, fairness pack |
Video (optional) | $X per tenant/mo | per hour processed | Rubric library, reviewer analytics |
Compliance Pack | $X per tenant/mo | — | SOC 2 readiness artifacts |
Delivery & Implementation
- Week 0–2: Connector setup; mapping; TTFV ≤ 14 days.
- Week 3–6: KPI dossier baseline; recruiter training; governance receipts.
- Week 6–10: Acceptance review; production cutover; attach Compliance Pack.
Financial Plan & Unit Economics
Multi‑Year Targets
- ARR ramp: Y1 exit ≈ $2.0–$2.2M; Y2 exit ≈ $5.0M; Y3 breakeven (GM ~62%).
- Efficiency: CAC payback ≤ 12 months; NRR ≥ 120%; GRR ≥ 90%.
COGS Levers
- Policy‑driven model routing; adaptive batching; cache windows; GPU reservations.
- Connector contract tests; rollback via feature flags; cost SLOs per pipeline.
The Ask & Use of Funds — Seed Round ($1.5M)
- Instrument: SAFE (valuation cap TBD) or priced round by lead preference.
- Use: Core platform & connectors; compliance readiness; marketplace launches; KPI‑gated pilots.
- Runway: 18–24 months with prudent spend and 40% prepay target on pilots.
- Close target: This quarter; initial commitments allocated to connector acceleration.
Category | % | Amount | What it funds | Milestone gates |
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Product & Engineering | 33% | $495,000 | Core platform, connectors, Retrieval/RAG, model routing, SRE automation | ≥ 6 connectors GA; P99 < 800ms; error budget < 1% |
Security & Compliance | 10% | $150,000 | SOC 2 readiness, DPIA templates, DSAR exports, residency/retention controls | DSAR path validated; SOC 2 pack complete |
GTM & Marketplaces | 14% | $210,000 | Pilot SOWs, ABM, listings, partner enablement | ≥ 2 listings live; ≥ 3 SI‑sourced/co‑sold wins |
Customer Success | 6% | $90,000 | Onboarding, playbooks, success tooling (NPS, adoption) | TTFV ≤ 30 days; NPS ≥ +60; Admin sat ≥ 85% |
Ops, Legal & Finance | 5% | $75,000 | MSA/DPA, insurance, board reporting; fractional advisors | Monthly board pack; runway ≥ 12 months |
Cloud & Inference | 18% | $270,000 | Compute reservations, storage, observability, model usage | GM +200–300bps; no unplanned token spikes |
Talent (gated) | 10% | $150,000 | +1 data eng, +1 frontend, +1 QA/automation | ≥ 2 conversions before each add |
Contingency | 4% | $60,000 | Spikes, urgent hires, accelerated integrations | CEO/CFO approval |
Total | 100% | $1,500,000 |
Hiring Plan (Milestone‑Gated)
Role | Timing | Rationale | Gate |
---|---|---|---|
Data Engineer | Q1–Q2 | Pipeline scale; feature stores; quality | ≥ 2 pilot conversions |
Frontend Engineer | Q2 | In‑tool widgets; recruiter command center | Marketplace listing live |
QA/Automation | Q2–Q3 | Regression, contract tests, reliability | ≥ 6 connectors GA |
Customer Success Lead | Q2 | Onboarding, KPI dossiers, adoption | ≥ 10 active tenants |
Solutions Architect (SI) | Q3 | Enablement, co‑sell, field feedback | ≥ 2 SI‑sourced wins |
KPIs & Milestones
- Speed: Time‑to‑Shortlist ↓ ≥ 50%; TTFV ≤ 14 days.
- Efficiency: Recruiter hours ↓ ≥ 40%; first‑round pass‑up ↑ ≥ 15%.
- Governance: DSAR path validated; fairness dashboards adopted.
- Commercial: ARR exit Y1 ≈ $2.0–$2.2M; exit Y2 ≈ $5.0M.
Risks & Mitigations
- Connector variability: Contract tests, feature flags, playbacks.
- Inference cost volatility: Policy routing, caching, reservations.
- Adoption friction: In‑tool UI, KPI dossier, CS‑led onboarding.
- Compliance & IP hygiene: Clean‑room policy, contributor attestations, license scans, audits.
Founders & Team
With 40 years of leadership in emerging-market financial services across the Middle East, Asia, Russia, Europe, and Africa, Gerrit Heyns has held pivotal roles at marquee global institutions such as Troika Dialog, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, and Kleinwort Benson. His operational depth spans market strategy, trading infrastructure, and regulatory navigation during economic cycles. Complementing this background is academic rigor—an International Finance master’s and a finance bachelor’s—ensuring both strategic insight and quantitative grounding.
Advisory & Governance Board: Post-bank career, Gerrit co-founded a sustainability-driven investment firm in 2009, cementing his reputation in principled finance. He is a recognized voice in sustainable investment, blending environmental stewardship with financial discipline. This unique mix makes him ideally suited to guide a mission like Intelletto.ai’s—one that emphasizes explainability, governance, and trust in AI-powered workflows.
Scott B. Darrow is a globally experienced Chief Technology Officer with over four decades of leadership in digital transformation. He has architected enterprise systems across FinTech, eCommerce, ESG, blockchain, and AI-powered platforms. His track record includes designing 36 modular ERP, SCM, and MRP systems across 28 industries; leading Build–Operate–Transfer (BOT) operations in the Philippines and Japan; modernizing sustainability-aligned platforms recognized by Oracle; and deploying AI in core HR, recruitment, and operational systems at scale.
Operational Core: As an operational technology strategist, Scott combines strategic vision with execution: redesigning legacy systems into federated, AI-native architectures such as SuperApp ecosystems that reduced onboarding time by 40%, recruiter effort by 25%, and accelerated delivery across engineering squads. He has embedded AI-first infrastructure into talent, performance, and wellbeing systems, and launched AI-augmented “super apps” for mobile, micro-front-end orchestration, and big data analytics.
Julio Endara, a founder of technology-enabled professional services and offshoring businesses, has led end-to-end delivery across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC. His career includes senior leadership at a Manila-based outsourcing group focused on recruitment, staffing, and software services. Earlier roles span management consulting at a global firm (UK base) with multi-region engagements, followed by operating positions blending business development with hands-on execution.
For Intelletto.ai, Julio’s value is practical and immediate: structuring KPI-gated pilots, packaging BOT/managed services around the sidecar, and aligning delivery playbooks to enterprise expectations on cost, quality, and speed.
Richard Mills is a senior business-development leader with two decades of experience building C-suite networks and enterprise relationships across the Philippines and broader APAC. He chairs a national business events platform that convenes thousands of senior leaders annually and has delivered keynote addresses across HR/BPO and executive-compensation forums—translating reach into qualified enterprise pipeline and sponsorship/partner revenue. Richard also co-founded an executive-search firm serving multinationals across Southeast Asia.
Rebecca Bustamante is a founder-operator who scaled one of the country’s largest executive forums and co-founded a regional executive-search firm. She runs high-frequency event programs and multi-channel outreach that consistently attract senior decision-makers—turning stage presence and community into targeted account engagement and warm introductions. Rebecca leads top-of-funnel creation (events + media), partner marketing, and executive briefings tied to KPI-gated pilots and governance-ready rollouts.
Borja Hernández Celorio is a founder–operator with deep experience building outsourced engineering and DevOps organizations, as well as leading mobile/SaaS delivery practices. His background spans standing up distributed teams, instituting modern CI/CD and SRE guardrails, and delivering multi-tenant products for enterprise clients.
For Intelletto.ai, Borja brings pragmatic “factory floor” discipline to an explainable-AI control plane: codifying playbooks for KPI-gated pilots, right-sourcing (in-house vs partner), and hardening the sidecar’s operational perimeter—observability, change management, and incident response.
Resources
Sidecar Diagrams
Control‑plane diagrams covering recruiting, workforce, and revenue.
Parsing & Scoring — White Paper
Universal intake, de‑duplication, explainable scoring, and role compatibility.
AVAR — White Paper
Video résumés, adaptive assessments, simulations, composite fit score.
Perfect Match — White Paper
Outcome‑linked intelligence with 30/90/180‑day feedback.
AI Workforce Intelligence — White Paper
Skills radar, readiness scoring, continuous feedback, well‑being signals.
Customer & Revenue Intelligence — White Paper
Lead profiles, next‑best action, relationship health, forecast confidence.