“Can AI + founder brand replace the 25%-of-salary headhunter model for tech and sales hiring?”
Umamy is an early-stage (founded 2025) French AI recruitment agency positioned as an alternative to traditional headhunters and RPOs. It combines a proprietary AI candidate-scoring engine with human recruiters, and distributes via MCP/ChatGPT connectors so founders can source from their AI of choice. It is a SaaS/services business — not a fintech — and consequently has no embedded finance stack.
Umamy was founded by Stéphane Millet, Clément Revillion, Connor Blair and Jonathan Bouaziz and is founded in 2025, headquartered in Biarritz, France (also Paris).
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