Phenom Earns 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award for Best Advance in Practical AI

Recognized for Applying AI and Automation to Help Organizations Solve Hiring Challenges

PHILADELPHIA: #HRTech--Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, has been recognized for Best Advance in Practical AI by the 2026 Lighthouse Tech awards in the Talent Acquisition category.

“Phenom was one of the first HR Tech companies to develop AI capabilities, and the company hasn't stopped there. In one notable example, a client deployed a Voice Screening Agent for high-volume efficiency, resulting in 40% faster time to hire and five times more quality job seekers per month. Tremendous results,” said the Lighthouse Research & Advisory Awards Judging Panel.

Companies are Adopting AI with Real Results

Global enterprises are not waiting to see what AI can do. They are already realizing its value, and as their AI infrastructure matures, those results compound. The enterprises moving now are building an advantage that will only widen:

• A home care organization hiring 17,000 caregivers per year saw 40% growth in candidate screenings after deploying Phenom Voice Screening Agent, with 91% completed within a day and more than 40% happening outside business hours. Hires increased 21% and time to offer dropped by nearly a day and a half, with AI-interviewed candidates taking their first shift faster and working 3+ more hours weekly than recruiter-screened candidates.
• A global defense and technology company saved 15 hours per week per recruiter through automation, achieved 24% faster time to hire and delivered $1.3 million ROI in year one.
• A large health system deployed Phenom Voice Screening Agent, achieving 85% completion rates while screening 1,800 graduate nurses, cutting screening time by 60% and improving candidate-to-hire ratio from 7:1 to 3:1.
• A professional services firm hiring 70,000 people yearly validated that Phenom’s AI matched their best recruiters while reducing candidates needed for shortlists by 64%, and discovered 50% of external campaign applicants already existed in their database.
• A leading logistics provider consolidated 200+ disconnected career sites into 22 unified, AI-powered sites, achieving 40% faster time to hire and 5x more quality job seekers per month. Their Voice Screening Agent screened 10,000 candidates in weeks, immediately eliminating manual effort on 20% who lacked required certifications.

Phenom’s layered AI infrastructure connects and standardizes data across systems to deploy intelligence and agents where they matter most (across markets, geographies, labor environments and workforce models) without the risk, overhead and delay of building and maintaining custom solutions. This gives companies an ecosystem of limitless AI agents that use enterprise context to customize execution to specific use cases.

• Engines, the power layer: The core that powers AI-driven talent operations at enterprise scale
• Ontologies, the intelligence layer: A living map of how work, skills, and people connect across the enterprise, built on three dimensions: strategy that guides the flow of intelligence, structure that engineers how work gets done, and culture that defines purpose
• XAI, the shared capability layer: Flexible intelligence that organizations can trust and act on
• Experiences, the interaction layer: Purposely designed experiences that embed AI into every talent interaction
• Use Cases, the application layer: Nuanced AI applications tailored to real workforce challenges
• Agents, the execution layer: AI agents working alongside teams to execute talent operations from hire to retire

Together, these layers form the building blocks of Phenom WorkOps, giving HR the intelligence to understand every dimension of their workforce and act on it. The latest advances, introduced at its recent IAMPHENOM conference, span workforce redesign, agentic onboarding, candidate fraud detection, real-time agent orchestration and workforce analytics.

“The HR technology space is filled with AI promises that don’t hold up when they meet the complexity of real workforce environments,” said John Deal, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Phenom. “What differentiates Phenom is that our technology is already deployed and delivering results for candidates, employees, managers and the global enterprises that depend on their people to execute. This award reflects that.”

To see Phenom’s award-winning AI in action, register for its HR Innovation Showcase.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company with the only AI infrastructure built specifically for HR. Powered by Engines that harmonize data, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that hyper-personalizes experiences, Agents that work alongside teams, Phenom’s platform uses industry and business context to automate workflows, eliminate busywork, and enhance every experience while remaining compliant. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, no other company is as dedicated to helping organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (5 years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Fonte: Business Wire