HRBlade
Talent Graph

The relationships in your workforce, queryable

Semantic search across people, skills, departments and roles. Inferred similarity finds candidates that match without keyword matches. Subgraph traversal surfaces ex-colleagues, internal-mobility paths and skill concentration risks.

Every candidate, employee, skill, department and role becomes a node. Edges capture explicit relationships (has_skill, works_with, reports_to, mentors, interviewed_for) and inferred ones (similarity > 0.75 via vector embeddings). Ask in natural language and the graph answers — with the people behind it.

AI agent management screen: 17 conversational intents, scenario builder, automation triggers, model settings and live conversation logs
Features

What this pillar does

Semantic Search

"Find a PM who's worked in fintech" matches on meaning, not keywords. Three-tier search: vector embeddings → AI-assisted SQL + graph expansion → keyword fallback.

Inferred Similarity

Vector cosine ≥ 0.75 surfaces candidates similar to your top performer — even when their resumes use completely different language. Find the next 10 like the best one you already hired.

Ex-Colleague Discovery

N-hop subgraph traversal reveals candidates who worked with your existing employees, who report to whom, who mentored whom. Reference checks built into the graph.

Internal Mobility

Open a role and the graph surfaces employees in adjacent skill clusters who could grow into it — promotion candidates you'd otherwise miss.

Skill Concentration Risk

See where critical skills cluster on a single person. Bus-factor visualization for your engineering, sales and ops orgs — before someone gives notice.

Connected Database

Surveys, interviews, simulations, performance reviews — every signal becomes an edge or a node attribute. The graph compounds value with every interaction.

Demo

From natural-language query to ranked candidates

  1. 1

    Ask in plain English

    "Senior backend engineer with payments experience and someone who's worked with our Lead Engineer." The graph parses intent, finds nodes, expands relationships.

  2. 2

    Ranked results with reasoning

    Top 20 nodes with similarity scores. Click any result to see the graph path — which skills matched, which colleagues overlap, which projects connect.

  3. 3

    Visualize the subgraph

    Open the network view. Pan, zoom, expand N-hop neighborhoods. See your team's skill topology at a glance.

Candidates list: 14 profiles in pipeline, average score 67, filters by stage and status, sortable columns for evaluations and tags
Numbers with sources

What the benchmarks show

0.75
Vector cosine threshold for inferred similarity edges — high-precision matching

Source: HRBlade TalentGraph spec

3-tier
Search stack: semantic embeddings → AI-assisted SQL → keyword fallback for completeness

Source: HRBlade TalentSearchService

5+ edge types
has_skill, works_with, reports_to, mentors, interviewed_for, similar_to — extensible per company

Source: HRBlade product

Use cases

When this is especially useful

Find more like your top performer

Pick your best engineer. The graph returns the 20 most-similar candidates in your database — not by job title, but by behavioral and skill similarity.

Reference-network search

Filter for candidates who've worked with at least one current employee. Built-in social proof and reference paths.

Skill-gap planning

Visualize your team's skill graph. Find the gaps before you write the next job spec.

FAQ

Frequently asked

Automatically from your existing data — candidates, employees, applications, interviews, surveys, assessments. Vector embeddings are generated asynchronously and refresh as new data arrives.

Testimonials
What our customers say
  • HRBlade rewired how we hire. Time-to-fill dropped from 45 days to 12. AI video interviews replaced an absurd number of recruiter screening calls — quality went up, my team doesn't burn out.
    VP People
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    Head of Talent
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    Director of People Operations
    We onboarded HRBlade in a single afternoon. No consultant, no migration project. The UI is intuitive enough that engineering managers can run requisitions themselves. Best HR tool we've adopted in five years.
    Founder & CEO
  • Distributed evaluation across 6 cities used to be a calendar nightmare. Now everyone scores async, the AI rolls up consensus and flags variance. The amount of time saved on alignment meetings is enormous.
    Senior Recruiter
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    People Ops Lead
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    Talent Director
    We piloted the voice agent for outbound recruiting calls. <500ms latency means it actually feels like a conversation. Candidates rate it 4.6/5 and our outbound conversion rate doubled.
    Head of Recruiting
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    Chief People Officer
    Hiring senior engineers is brutal. The Digital Twin lets me rehearse the interview in 5 minutes before the real call. I show up sharper, candidates get a better experience, and our hire rate on senior offers went from 60% to 85%.
    VP Engineering
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