The ConverzAI alternative you run yourself.
An AI voice agent you set up and change yourself, priced by the month instead of by the placement.
Just some of the teams that already put Underheard on the phone.
Calls go out. Answers come back.
Every call,
on the record.
- Outcome
- Qualified, Available, Confirmed
- Needs you, for a recruiter
- Answers
- Licenses, transport, gear, start time
- Written back to your ATS
- Summary and transcript
- A short summary up top
- Every word underneath
Here's why agencies run their own calling agent.
Every call, open to read.
Outcome, answers, summary and transcript for each call, in one list your whole team can see.
See the Calls list
Your whole bench, on the phone.
It calls past candidates and current workers, and marks who is free this week.
Wake up your bench
Nothing goes out unseen.
The agent prepares each booking and your recruiter confirms it from one list.
How hand-offs workAgentHi Maria, I'm Brightline Staffing's AI assistant, calling about the forklift operator job. Do you have a current forklift certification?
MariaYes, I renewed it in March.
AgentThanks. I'll pass this to your recruiter, who will set up your interview.
Set it up in minutes.
Describe the job and your agent is ready in ten minutes. Add your list and it calls at any hour, so your recruiters place faster.
Start free120+ languages.
Every worker hears the job in their own language, on the very first call.
Work after the placement.
First-week check-ins, shift confirmations, call-offs and timesheet questions, handled once the worker starts.
Live hand-off, with context.
Your recruiter takes the call live and hears a short spoken summary first.
Hear it before you buy.
Try a call from our agent in your browser and hear exactly what a worker hears.
From the first call to every shift after.
| underheard. | ConverzAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Speaks your workers' languages | Underheard: yes. Speaks your workers' languages | ConverzAI: no. Only English |
| Screens applicants by phone | Underheard: yes. Screens applicants by phone | ConverzAI: yes. |
| Messages workers on WhatsApp | Underheard: yes. Messages workers on WhatsApp | ConverzAI: no. |
| Texts your workers | Underheard: yes. Texts your workers | ConverzAI: yes. |
| Writes every answer back to your ATS | Underheard: yes. Writes every answer back to your ATS | ConverzAI: yes. |
| You decide who gets called | Underheard: yes. You decide who gets called | ConverzAI: no. |
| Try it on your own phone first | Underheard: yes. Try it on your own phone first | ConverzAI: no. |
| Fills tomorrow's shifts from your bench | Underheard: yes. Fills tomorrow's shifts from your bench | ConverzAI: partly. Application to placement |
How Underheard and ConverzAI differ on a temp desk.
ConverzAI's virtual recruiter and Underheard's agent
ConverzAI calls its agent the Virtual Recruiter. Its customer story with I.K. Hofmann says the agent phones a candidate within minutes of the application reaching the ATS and runs an interview if they answer. Underheard's agent calls each applicant as soon as they apply, then introduces the role, takes their questions and begins screening. A missed call gets a voicemail and another try on your schedule. It can also put the call through to your recruiter live, with a short spoken summary first.
Calls around the clock, and what follows
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter page promises always-on engagement. Underheard's agent calls at any hour too. When nobody answers, it leaves your message and calls back on your schedule. A text or WhatsApp goes out before and after each call, and the transcript and recording sit on the worker's page, in one thread with every call, text and email, so your recruiter can pick up any conversation without asking the worker to repeat a word.
ConverzAI, Underheard and Bullhorn
ConverzAI works with Bullhorn, and a customer story on its site, from The Advance Group, names that integration. Underheard writes back to Bullhorn, Avionté, TempWorks and more. Each call fills in the scores, notes, call logs, skills and certifications your recruiters already work from, plus any custom fields, and the resume gets parsed along the way. The transcript and recording stay on the worker's page, in one thread with every call, text, WhatsApp message and email.
Hearing the agent before you sign
The next step ConverzAI's site offers is a demo request with its team. With Underheard you can hear the agent first. Open the staffing page, try a call from it in your browser, and you hear the same voice, pace and questions your applicants and workers will hear. When you are ready, the agent is set up in 10 minutes, it speaks more than 120 languages, and the whole agency is live in 4 days.
Big desk or small? Start with one list.
Start with one list and one kind of call, then add the next.
Text or WhatsApp, before and after the call.
A message before the call, a follow-up after, and the whole thread on the worker's page.
See a worker's page
Shifts filled from your bench.
It offers the open shift to the workers you pick and shows who said yes.
See shift calls
Answers land where you work.
Your ATS, CRM, sheet or chat tool, plus webhooks and an API for the rest.
Ask about your systemQuestions agencies ask about ConverzAI.
What does ConverzAI do?
ConverzAI makes an AI agent for staffing firms, sold as the Virtual Recruiter. Its site says the agent phones new applicants, interviews them and matches people already in your ATS to open roles. Underheard's agent screens applicants and matches your workers to each job order as well. It also checks who is free, offers open shifts, runs first-week check-ins and takes call-offs, and every answer goes back to your ATS.
How much does ConverzAI cost?
ConverzAI does not print a price on its site, so the cost comes from a conversation with its sales team. Underheard runs starting at $1,000 a month, and its agent takes 10 minutes to set up, so you can see the full cost and a working agent on the same day, before you commit to anything.
What kind of agencies use ConverzAI?
ConverzAI's customer stories include commercial and light-industrial agencies and professional and IT agencies. Its Virtual Recruiter is sold to staffing firms of both kinds. If your desk fills hourly shifts from the same bench every week, Underheard is built for that work. It screens applicants, asks your workers who is free, offers the open shifts and takes call-offs, and every answer lands in your ATS.
Who are ConverzAI's competitors?
ConverzAI competes with the AI tools staffing agencies use to reach candidates: voice agents that screen applicants, messaging platforms with AI added, and recruiting suites with agents built in. ConverzAI's own blog sets its agentic AI against recruiting chatbots. Underheard is the ConverzAI alternative built for temp and light-industrial desks. It screens applicants, fills shifts from your bench, takes call-offs and checks in during a worker's first week, in more than 120 languages.
Is a virtual recruiter legit?
Yes. ConverzAI uses the name for its product, and the idea is the same across tools: an AI voice agent that calls applicants for a real staffing agency about a real job. Candidates rate it well. In Bullhorn GRID Talent Trends 2026, 92% of candidates rated their AI voice interview as good as a live one, or better. Underheard's agent introduces the job, answers the person's questions and hands the call to your recruiter live, with a short spoken summary first.
Is recruiting being replaced by AI?
No. AI is taking over the repeat calls, while recruiters keep the decisions and the relationships. In Bullhorn's 2025 research, staffing firms that use AI were 2x as likely to have grown revenue. Underheard is built for that split. Its agent makes the screening calls and the availability calls and offers open shifts to your workers, and nothing is booked until your recruiter confirms it.
How do I pick an AI recruiter for a staffing agency?
Start from the calls your desk makes every day, not from a ranking. For a temp or light-industrial agency, check four things. Does it call the workers you already have? Does it speak their language? Does it write answers back to your ATS? Can you hear a call before you buy? Underheard covers all four. It speaks more than 120 languages, and you can try a call from it in your browser today.
How fast can an agency go live with Underheard?
A whole agency can be live in 4 days. Setup for the agent itself takes 10 minutes. Once it's running, it calls applicants the moment they apply and phones your workers about open shifts at any hour, including the night before a shift. Every answer lands in your ATS, so your recruiters start each morning with the calls already logged.
See it on your own list.
Book a demoConverzAI details from converzai.com, checked 4 November 2026.
By Navid Mani, co-founder and CEO of Underheard. Updated 4 November 2026.