Sterling Smith

Founder & CEO, RightMatch AI

HR techOn TechTO stages since 2024

Sterling Smith is founder and CEO of RightMatch AI, which generates and scores technical interviews so non-technical HR teams can screen candidates without an engineer in the room. He demoed it at TechTO's Build & Tell hackathon during Collision week in June 2024, opening with the cost of a bad hire.

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TECHTO BUILD & TELL HACKATHON4:22

RightMatch AI Demo with Sterling Smith | TechTO Hackathon

Build & Tell Hackathon · June 2024

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In their words

it cost roughly $118,000 to hire the wrong person

TechTO Build & Tell Hackathon, Jun 2024 · watch at 00:24 ↗

how do we know that the person that I'm interested in hiring can get the work done — that's the problem we're solving for

TechTO Build & Tell Hackathon, Jun 2024 · watch at 00:49 ↗

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Quick answers

What is RightMatch AI?

A hiring platform Smith founded in 2024. It uses language models to generate role-specific interviews — technical, coding and culture-fit questions — that HR teams send to candidates without writing them themselves.

Where did he demo it?

At TechTO's Build & Tell hackathon in June 2024, held to kick off Collision week in Toronto.

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