“We need five hires by March and nobody has time to run it.”
We run the search end to end on Emmy, brief to offer, inside your team or as your agency. The shortlisting tool stays when we step back.
How recruitment worksA recruitment function that builds.
For startups that have just raised and need to double the team. We run hiring inside your team or as your agency, find the ambitious people who'll build the company, and leave you the tools, so you never start a hire from zero again.
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The problems we get called in for.
If one of these sounds like your week, that's what the discovery session is for. Whatever we build to fix it stays with you.
“New starters take a month to get going.”
Week-one onboarding with the admin automated and the welcome still human.
“Every manager asks HR the same questions.”
A tool built on your policies that answers managers in seconds, so they lead instead of waiting on HR.
“Reviews are a form nobody fills in.”
Reviews and development plans built on real work, not paperwork.
“People can't find the policy, so they ask in Slack.”
Answers in Slack in seconds. Policies people can actually find.
“I don't actually know what my people need.”
A plan built on what they're really asking, and the tools to act on it.
How it works
Three steps, and everything we build stays with you.
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Discovery session
Three hours on your next ten hires. Which roles change what the company becomes, who you need in them, and where AI gives your team back the work they actually care about.
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We run the hiring inside your team
An email on your domain, a seat in your Slack. We brief, search, talk to people and close, from a day a week to a full-time seat, for as long as the push lasts. You get the hires and everything we learned about the market. If you already have a people team, we join it.
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We build what we saw
The tools that stop your team doing the work they are there for, built into your own repo. Yours to keep, change and run next time.
Founder & CEO
Olivia Dyet. Not an engineer. Built it anyway.
Deep, strategic HR experience. Director of People Transformation at The Warehouse Group, then five years as a fractional Chief People Officer for growing companies. Restructures, pay reviews, the hard conversations. She has run them from the top seat.
Then she founded Empathix and built it herself. More than 100,000 people have been through it since. Now she runs hiring inside growing teams, and builds the tools they keep.
5 yrs
as a fractional CPO
100k+
people through Empathix
Backed by Startmate
What people leaders say
From the teams we work with.
"Empathix helps me connect with so many candidates at once and I have uncovered great people that a recruiter would charge thousands to find. I also love that it gives more candidates a genuine chance to have their voice heard. It has been great being involved from the early days and seeing how openly the Empathix team takes on feedback and continues to evolve the product."
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Alysha
Director of People, Kwetta
"We were looking for an AI Talent tool that could address very different challenges across all of our global markets. Empathix not only offers several solutions in one platform, but also truly listens and iterates on feedback!"
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Lauren Denny
Director of Talent, Global, Koala
"Empathix finds talent needles in the recruitment haystack - FAST! Using this platform is redefining how we connect people to their next opportunity, so powerful."
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Stuart Little
Managing Director, Agency8 & Thrive
"I use Empathix because it's 2025 and no one has got time to manually do something that a tool can do better and faster for you? 😂"
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Milena
Chief of Staff, Multitudes
"The platform enabled us to access passive talent pools without our Talent & PX Partners spending hours manually sourcing profiles. As a high-growth company, we needed a solution that could build strong candidate pipelines without agency-level fees. Empathix delivered high-quality candidate lists that proved both efficient and cost-effective."
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Sian Govind
Director of Talent & PX, Auror
Olivia Dyet
Founder & CEO, Empathix
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Every hire is a tenth of the company.
We work with founders who have just raised, so the next ten hires are the ones the company gets built on. Start with a discovery session.
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