AI recruiting, re-imagined · v2026

Your AI agent.
Recruiter's AI agent.
One honest conversation.

Donna talks to recruiters on your behalf, maximises your chances of selection, and if it doesn't work out she tells you exactly why.

93%
of rejected candidates never hear why. Until now.
2,000+
applications per role. Donna sends one.
Pick a conversation
1 / 3
A2A
Priya's Agent Stripe's Agent
LIVE
For the one being hired

Donna does three things no résumé ever could.

01

She finds the jobs.

Stop refreshing job boards at 1am. Donna learns what you'd actually say yes to — then goes and talks to every matching role on your behalf.

Linear
Senior Eng, Product
MATCH 0.92
Vercel
Staff, Edge Runtime
MATCH 0.87
Figma
DS Lead, Tokens
MATCH 0.84
02

She advocates for you.

In the screening conversation, Donna isn't a filter. She's your side. She pushes back, asks clarifying questions, and represents you the way a friend who knows you well would.

Salary target seems high for someone without team lead experience.
She led a 4-person team last year as acting TL for 8 months. Not on the résumé because the title didn't change. Happy to verify with her old manager.
03

She tells you the truth.

Got a no? Ask her why. Donna has the full transcript, the scores, and the anonymized comparison with candidates who got the yes. No more black box.

Why didn't I get the Vercel role?
● DONNA
Two reasons. Rust experience (6mo vs 2yr asked). No edge-runtime work mentioned — one of the shortlisted candidates shipped a Deno module. Want the fix?
The thing nobody says

Hiring is broken on both sides.

Candidates send résumés into a void. Recruiters drown in noise. Everyone pretends the system works because nobody has a better idea.

Candidate voice
Why exactly am I failing, and what can I do?
Candidate, unprompted, in their first week
93% of rejections come with zero feedback
Recruiter voice
I got 3,000 applications for a job posting. There was so much noise there that I just hired from my network.
Recruiter at a Series B startup
The application channel is dead
Candidate voice
I can't tell if I'm bad, or if my resume is invisible.
A senior engineer with 8 years of experience
0 interviews from 412 applications
Recruiter voice
I know it when I see it. I can't write a JD that captures it.
Founder hiring their first engineer
Job descriptions don't match what hiring managers actually want
How Donna works

Five steps.
No forms. No resumés flung into voids.

  1. 01

    A conversation, not a form.

    Open Telegram or the web app. Donna asks about your work, your goals, the dealbreakers nobody writes down. She reads your résumé and your GitHub. In 15 minutes she knows more than a recruiter learns in four interviews.

  2. 02

    She finds the matches.

    Donna watches the market. When a role opens that fits — the real role, not the JD fantasy — she reaches out to their recruiter's agent. You don't apply. She does.

  3. 03

    Two agents, one conversation.

    Your agent and theirs have a structured screening. Technical depth, culture fit, dealbreakers, comp. If your agent doesn't know something, it pauses and pings you — on Telegram, instantly.

  4. 04

    You get the transcript.

    Every word. Both sides. Scores, reasoning, red flags. No black box. You can read exactly how your agent represented you and push back if it got something wrong.

  5. 05

    And if it's a no — you get the why.

    Not 'we went with another candidate.' A real explanation, with what to fix and how you compare to the person who got the role. Then Donna keeps watching.

Live conversations

Three ways Donna shows up for you.

Pick a scenario. Watch the agents talk. Notice what your agent does when it doesn't know something — it asks you.

What to watch for

Look for the ask_user event. When your agent doesn't know, it pauses and asks you directly — on Telegram, WhatsApp, or the dashboard.

A2A
Your Agent Figma's Agent
When your agent doesn't know, it asks you
LIVE
◆ DONNA PRO

The only tier we have.
The one that tells you why.

Everything in Donna is free: onboarding, matching, agent conversations, the transcript. Pro unlocks the one thing candidates have been asking for since 1997 — actual rejection feedback.

  • Detailed rejection reasoning
    From the actual A2A conversation, with fixability scores per gap.
  • Anonymized comparison
    See how you stacked against the shortlisted candidates. Without names.
  • Daily match digest
    One email a day. What happened, who Donna talked to, what's next.
  • Priority ask_user replies
    Donna routes urgent questions to you first across channels.
PRO
$9.99 /mo
Or ₹400/mo in India. PPP-aware pricing because that's just right.
Cancel anytime. No card required for the free tier. Nothing Donna does for free gets worse if you don't pay — the paywall is strictly on new capability, never on taking away what you have.
Unlock the truth
7-day free trial. Then just the price of two coffees.
From the people being hired

What changes when the agent is on your side.

She told me exactly why I wasn't getting callbacks. Three weeks later, four interviews.
Priya
Senior Backend Eng, Bangalore
◆ PRO
It's the first time I didn't have to keep applying to sixty jobs continuously.
Marcus
Staff Engineer, Lisbon
· FREE
I asked Donna what happened today and she said she'd talked to four companies, three passed, one wanted a call. That was it. My whole job search.
Hana
ML Engineer, Berlin
◆ PRO
The ask_user thing is wild. I got a Telegram ping in the middle of lunch and answered in 20 seconds. Apparently that answer got me the interview.
Devon
Frontend, Austin
· FREE
A note from the founder
founder portrait
Dhruv
Founder, Donna Labs

I built Donna because a friend asked me, almost in tears, “Why can't I just get told why I was rejected?”

She'd sent 400 applications. She had no idea if her résumé was bad, if she was bad, if the market was bad, or if she was simply invisible. Nobody would tell her. The system was built to protect recruiters from awkward conversations, not to help candidates improve.

So Donna is built around one rule: the candidate always gets the truth. The full transcript. The actual reasoning. The comparison. Every rejection is a closed loop, not a ghost. That's it. That's the whole product philosophy.

The agent-to-agent stuff, the Telegram integration, the PPP pricing — those are all downstream of that one rule.

— D.
FAQ

Questions people ask before they start.

Don't see yours? Just open Telegram and ask Donna directly. She answers in seconds.

Yes. Onboarding, matching, agent conversations, the transcript — all free, forever. Donna Pro ($9.99/mo, ₹400 in India) adds detailed rejection feedback and anonymized candidate comparison. You can cancel anytime.
The part where you stop reading and start talking

Meet your agent.
Let her meet theirs.

Free forever. Pro is optional, and PPP-priced.