R. Aravind Kumaran
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Over 15 years across recruitment and technology. Leads go to market, product direction and finance. Built Xakal after fifteen years of judging candidates on claims he could not verify.
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The team
The people building Xara AI.
Engineering, hiring, enterprise and education. Four people, one interview engine, no outside capital.
Brahma Rishi
Chief Technology Officer
Leads engineering on Xara AI. Owns the interview engine, the scoring pipeline and the architecture that carries every interview from question set to finished report.
A.M Govind Kumar
Chief Business Officer
Fourteen years at HP across Asia Pacific and Japan, and four years at Airtel. Bachelor of Technology and MBA. Leads enterprise business and partnerships.
Venkat Eshwar P
Head of MBA and Behavioral Interviews
Over thirty years in the education industry. IIM Ahmedabad and College of Engineering Guindy. Builds the behavioral and admissions interview frameworks.
Supported by a wider group across engineering, human resources and marketing.
How we work
What a lean team gets right.
Close to the problem
The founder spent fifteen years hiring and judging people on claims he could not verify. The product is a direct answer to that.
Shipping over planning
Hiring is live across three audiences and the education programme is running inside colleges. Traction came before capital, not after it.
Both sides in the room
Recruitment, engineering, enterprise business and education, so neither the hiring side nor the candidate side gets designed by guesswork.
Working with us
We interview the way we sell.
Every candidate who applies to Xakal goes through a Xara AI interview. If we would not put our own hiring through it, we would have no business selling it.
Xara AI ranked shortlist
PSCandidate ABackend engineer
8.9Score
RMCandidate BBackend engineer
8.1Score
KTCandidate CBackend engineer
6.4Score
VerifiedRole fitRanked
Ranked against the role you posted, not a generic benchmark.
Talk to the people who built it.
Demos are run by the team, not by a script. Bring the hard questions.