Dayforce Signs a Deal to Buy Interview-AI Company Ribbon

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Dayforce has signed an agreement to acquire Ribbon AI Inc., a company that builds AI recruiting technology to source, screen and engage candidates. The announcement came on October 23 from Minneapolis and Toronto.

Ribbon's voice AI interviewer holds two-way conversations with candidates at any hour. Given a job description, it can generate interview questions and a scoring rubric from relevant past interviews, then evaluate applicants from the interview transcripts. Built-in video and other integrity checks look for unusual audio, gaze and response-timing patterns.

About 90% of Ribbon's customers use the recommended default configuration. Dayforce says that lets teams roll out interviews quickly and consistently.

Scale and sourcing

Ribbon has hundreds of customers and has completed more than one million interviews. Fast Company named it one of the Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise in 2026 for using AI agents to run human-like job interviews.

The product also covers sourcing and talent rediscovery, which surfaces qualified people already sitting in an employer's talent pool. The technology has been tested across as many as 30 million candidates inside a single applicant tracking system. Outreach runs over SMS, WhatsApp and email, and an AI scheduling agent is close to completion.

After the deal closes, Ribbon's technology will be built natively into the new Dayforce Agentic Recruiting experience. Customers will then be able to source, screen, evaluate and engage talent in one connected flow.

"High-volume hiring shouldn't mean choosing between speed and a strong candidate experience," said David Ossip, founder and CEO of Dayforce. He said AI can take on more of the manual, time-sensitive work, while recruiters focus on engaging talent and making decisions.

Arsham Ghahramani, co-founder and CEO of Ribbon, said joining Dayforce will bring the company's conversational AI to more organisations around the world.

Source: Dayforce