Fuku

About

What started as a shared vision to solve the inefficiencies of modern recruitment has grown into Fuku.AI, the world's first AI-native hiring operating system. Founded in 2024 by recruitment industry veteran Kevin Gao and Harvard-educated AI engineer Kai Yang, the company was born out of a firsthand frustration with the slow, inconsistent, and biased nature of traditional hiring. They realized that great candidates were constantly being missed and wrong decisions were being made simply because legacy platforms relied on rigid, keyword-based filters rather than true contextual understanding. Driven by the mission to empower organizations to hire faster and decide smarter, the founders set out to build a unified platform where data-driven decisions meet human potential. They developed a proprietary resume-matching discriminator model and an intelligent video interview agent named Fiona. By leveraging deep contextual understanding and multi-channel candidate outreach powered by a large language model assessment engine, Fuku.AI began transforming the recruitment landscape for small and medium-sized enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region. Today, Fuku.AI stands as a vital force in accelerating employment recovery and streamlining high-volume hiring. The platform automates sourcing, screening, and outreach, reducing recruitment cycles from weeks to days and cutting costs significantly. Despite its rapid growth and technological advancements, the company remains deeply committed to a 'Human-in-the-Loop' philosophy. Fuku.AI ensures that its technology acts as a trusted co-pilot, providing transparent, bias-aware insights while keeping people at the center of every final hiring decision.