The Whippy AI alternative that calls your bench.
An AI voice agent that calls your candidates and workers, then writes every answer back.
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 hand Underheard the phone.
Screening that asks your questions.
Licenses, transport, gear, start time. It asks what you set and answers theirs from what you told it.
See screening calls
Open shifts, offered by phone.
It checks who is free and offers the shift, then writes every answer back to the job.
See shift calls
Your recruiter confirms every booking.
It hands over a live call with a short summary, and your recruiter confirms the shift from one list.
How hand-offs workAgentHi Luis, I'm Brightline Staffing's AI assistant. Can you work the morning shift next week?
LuisMornings work for me next week.
AgentGreat. I'll pass that to Jamie, who will confirm your shifts.
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 freeOpen shifts by phone.
Your workers get a real call about each open shift, and every yes waits for your recruiter to confirm.
A spoken brief first.
Your recruiter hears who is on the line and what they need before picking up the live call.
Over 120 languages.
Workers answer in the language they think in, from the very first call.
Live in four days.
From the first agent to the whole agency on the phone takes 4 days.
Expect more from the agent that calls your workers.
| underheard. | Whippy | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to go live | Underheard: Live in 4 days | Whippy: Live in 1 month (G2) |
| Screens applicants by phone | Underheard: yes. Screens applicants by phone | Whippy: yes. |
| Calls matched workers straight away | Underheard: yes. Calls matched workers straight away | Whippy: no. |
| Speaks your workers' languages | Underheard: yes. Speaks your workers' languages | Whippy: yes. |
| Hands live calls to your recruiter | Underheard: yes. Hands live calls to your recruiter | Whippy: yes. |
| Texts your workers | Underheard: yes. Texts your workers | Whippy: yes. |
| Calls at any hour | Underheard: yes. Calls at any hour | Whippy: yes. |
| Remembers every call, out of the box | Underheard: yes. Remembers every call, out of the box | Whippy: no. |
How Underheard and Whippy AI differ on staffing calls.
Whippy voice AI and Underheard's calls
Whippy's voice AI page describes an AI call center for incoming calls and automated outbound calls, including calls set off by updates in your ATS or CRM, in 50+ languages. Underheard covers more than 120 languages, so a picker from Haiti or a welder from Poland hears the job in their own words. A missed call gets a voicemail and a callback at the time you chose. Each transcript and recording then sits on the worker's page for your team to open.
Whippy's AI recruiter and Underheard's agent
Whippy's staffing page says its AI Recruiter calls applicants the moment they apply, introduces the job, answers questions and starts screening. Its Recruiting Agent checks experience and availability and scores each candidate. Underheard's agent makes that same first call and carries the conversation from there. A text or WhatsApp goes out before and after, and when a worker asks for a person, your recruiter hears a short spoken summary and then takes the call live.
Whippy Search & Match and open shifts
Whippy's Search & Match picks top candidates for a job and, its blog says, sends each one a text within minutes. It follows up once a day for up to five days, and for workers who stay quiet, the blog says the recruiter can call them directly. Underheard phones the workers who fit the order, asks if they can take the shift, and lines up every yes for your recruiter to confirm.
Going live: one month or four days
G2 reviewers put Whippy's time to implement at one month. Underheard runs on a shorter clock. You set up an agent in 10 minutes, and the whole agency is live in 4 days. From then on, answers go into Bullhorn, Avionté, TempWorks and more. You can also hear the agent before any meeting: try a call from it in your browser on the Underheard staffing page, and it starts talking straight away.
Too many calls? Underheard is built for you.
Underheard is the calling agent for the bench you already have.
Old candidates, back on the phone.
It calls the people who went quiet, asks if they are looking and writes every answer back.
Wake up your bench
Every call in one list.
Outcome, answers and transcript for each call, and the ones that need you on top.
See the Calls list
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 Whippy AI.
What is Whippy co, and what does Whippy AI do?
Whippy co is Whippy, a Los Angeles software company whose legal name is Hello Flexy Inc. Whippy AI is its messaging and calling platform with AI agents built in, sold to staffing, law, pharmacy, real estate and healthcare businesses. For staffing it names four agents: recruiting, receptionist, onboarding, and payroll and HR. Underheard's agent does the calling for staffing agencies. It phones your applicants and workers and records what each one says in your ATS.
How much does Whippy AI cost?
Whippy's pricing page lists its platform plans by the month, but voice AI sits under the Custom plan, which shows Contact Us in place of a price. So the cost of AI calls comes out of a sales conversation. Underheard keeps its price in the open, starting at $1,000 a month.
What do Whippy AI reviews and complaints say?
G2's AI summary of Whippy reviews, dated February 2026, lists cons that include advanced features needing a lot of instruction and an overwhelming number of notifications. Underheard's agent is set up in 10 minutes. Each worker's calls, messages, emails and transcripts sit together in one thread, so your recruiter reads one history per person and has the final say on each booking.
Does Whippy AI integrate with Bullhorn?
Yes. Whippy lists a Bullhorn integration it developed itself, and its staffing page names Avionté and TempWorks too. Its Bullhorn page says the link keeps candidate data in sync between the two systems. After every call, Underheard writes scores, skills, certifications, notes and call logs into Bullhorn, Avionté, TempWorks and more, so your recruiters keep working in the ATS they already know.
What are the alternatives to Whippy AI?
That depends on the work you want off your recruiters' desks. Whippy puts its AI agents inside a larger messaging platform. If the heavy part of your day is phone work, Underheard is an AI voice agent made for those calls. It screens applicants, asks workers about their availability, offers open shifts and takes call-offs, and nothing is booked until one of your recruiters approves it.
Do candidates mind talking to an AI recruiter?
Bullhorn's research says most candidates are fine with it. Its GRID Talent Trends 2026 report found that 92% of candidates rate AI voice interviews as good or better. With Underheard, the agent answers questions about the job in the worker's own language, one of more than 120. They get a text or WhatsApp before the call and another after, and anyone who asks for a person reaches your recruiter live, right after a short spoken summary.
Will an AI recruiter replace my recruiters?
No. It takes the repeat calls off their plate so they spend the day placing people. Underheard's agent takes on screening calls, availability questions and open shifts, but a recruiter confirms every booking and takes any call a worker wants a human for. Bullhorn's 2025 research found AI-using firms are 2x more likely to see revenue grow, and it is still your recruiters who win and keep the clients.
How fast can an AI recruiter go live at a staffing agency?
With Underheard, four days for the whole agency and 10 minutes for each agent. That pace matters when a client calls with a big order on Monday. For comparison, G2 reviewers list one month as Whippy's time to implement. Once you are live, the agent calls at any hour, and your recruiters pick up from its answers in your ATS.
See it call your bench.
Book a demoWhippy AI details from whippy.ai, Whippy's help center and G2 reviews, checked 4 November 2026.
By Navid Mani, co-founder and CEO of Underheard. Updated 4 November 2026.