High Five, AI Recruitment Platform for SEA Talent, Screens 5,000 Candidates, Adds Multilingual AI Interviewer

The Singapore-based platform, which replaces agency fees of 15-25% with a flat subscription, now conducts first-round interviews autonomously in multiple languages across five Southeast Asian markets.
High Five [https://highfive.global/], an AI-powered recruitment platform for Southeast Asia talent, has screened 5,000 cumulative candidates since its founding in 2024 and launched an AI interviewer agent that conducts first-round screening calls in multiple languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese and Tagalog. The agent reduces recruiter time spent on initial screening by 30 to 40% and allows candidates to complete interviews at any hour without scheduling coordination with a hiring team.

The AI interviewer operates as the first stage in High Five's five-step hiring pipeline. When a candidate clears automated sourcing and scoring, the agent conducts a structured screening conversation, captures responses and routes a summary to High Five's internal recruiters for review before any shortlist reaches the client. That human review step remains in place regardless of how much of the upstream process the agent handles. The platform sources candidates across LinkedIn, GitHub and niche professional communities simultaneously, covering channels that a single manual recruiter cannot replicate at the same scale.

"We built the AI interviewer after processing 5,000 candidates through the pipeline and seeing exactly where time was lost," said Chris Gunawan, chief executive officer of High Five. "Recruiters were spending 30 to 40% of their week on first calls that followed a predictable script. The agent runs those calls now, and our recruiters apply their judgment to the candidates who actually require it."

The multilingual capability addresses a structural gap in cross-border hiring across Southeast Asia. A recruiter based in Singapore hiring for a role in Jakarta or Ho Chi Minh City typically cannot conduct a first-round interview in the candidate's primary language, which raises the drop-off rate at the earliest stage of the process. Companies including PayMongo and Nafas have used the High Five platform to build remote teams across the region under this model. The platform covers technology and product roles, including software engineers, data professionals and product managers, as well as accounting, finance, operations and legal functions.

"In markets like Indonesia and Vietnam, where candidates are strongest in their native language, a screening call in English filters out people who are highly qualified for the role," Gunawan said. "The AI interviewer removes that filter. It conducts the first call in the candidate's language, and the output the recruiter reviews is the same regardless of which language the conversation was in."

High Five operates on a flat monthly subscription with no success fees and no placement fees, replacing the traditional agency model that typically charges 15 to 25% of a candidate's first-year salary per placement. The AI interviewer is included in the existing subscription at no additional cost. The platform also offers employer of record services and payroll management for companies hiring remote employees across Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore without establishing a local legal entity. Subscriptions can be paused or cancelled at any time.

About High Five

High Five is an AI-powered recruitment, employer of record and payroll platform founded in 2024 and headquartered in Singapore. The platform helps companies hire talent across Southeast Asia on a flat monthly subscription, replacing agency success fees that typically run 15 to 25% of first-year salary. Autonomous AI agents handle sourcing and screening across LinkedIn, GitHub and niche professional communities, with human recruiter review before any shortlist is delivered. High Five covers Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, serving founders, operators and HR teams at fast-growing companies globally.

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