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SeekOut Names Co-Founder John Tippett President to Lead the Shift from Recruiting Apps to AI Coworkers

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The appointment comes as SeekOut moves recruiting inside the AI enterprises have already approved, with an AI coworker that earns responsibility the way a new hire does.

BELLEVUE, Wash., October 26, 2026--SeekOut, the agentic AI recruiting platform that works inside the AI enterprises already use, today announced that co-founder John Tippett has been named President, effective immediately. Tippett, most recently Chief Client Officer, will lead day-to-day operations and partner with co-founder and CEO Aravind Bala on the company's direction.

Tippett co-founded SeekOut in 2017 and has spent nine years closest to its customers, helping enterprise talent teams put the platform to work. He previously spent 18 years at Microsoft and holds a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

"Enterprises have already chosen their AI, connected it to their systems, and trained their people on it. Recruiting belongs inside it, not in one more app," said Aravind Bala, co-founder and CEO of SeekOut. "That is the shift SeekOut is built for, and John is the right leader to take us through it. He has been at our customers' side since the first day, and he knows what recruiting teams need from AI."

The appointment comes at a pivotal moment for talent acquisition. Teams have never had more AI tools, yet many feel busier than ever, because most recruiting AI makes one step faster and hands the rest of the work back to the recruiter, who carries context between the applicant tracking system, email, Slack, and the calendar by hand. SeekOut's answer is to put recruiting where that work already happens: inside the AI the company has approved, under the permissions IT has already set, with AI that takes on more of the job as it proves itself.

SeekOut's platform is built for exactly this shift. It meets recruiting teams where they are and takes them where they want to go, in three ways. Across all three, recruiters set the bar and make every call, with the reasoning shown.

  • SeekOut's recruiting tools deliver a stronger pipeline, faster: Sourcing across more than 1 billion profiles and the company's own ATS, Applicant Evaluation that scores every applicant with the reasoning shown, AI Screening, and Candidate Integrity checks that flag signs of fraud.

  • SeekOut MCP brings the same intelligence inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Amazon Quick.

  • SeekOut's agentic solution, now in early access, takes on the legwork around every search, from reading the role and the hiring manager's feedback to building the sourcing plan and drafting outreach in the recruiter's voice. It earns responsibility the way a great new hire does: it suggests first, then acts with approval, then runs on a schedule, and the team sets that level for each workflow.

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