Ceipal Launches Ceipal Ora, Its Agentic AI for Staffing and Recruiting

Ceipal Ora Executes Decisions Across ATS, VMS and Workforce Management, Within Recruiter Approved Guardrails, So Recruiters Can Focus on What Only a Person Can Do

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2026 — Ceipal today launched Ceipal Ora, its new agentic AI platform for staffing firms. Built natively into Ceipal's unified platform, spanning ATS, VMS, and Workforce Management on one data layer, Ceipal Ora runs agents and workflows across the full talent lifecycle, from sourcing to compliance.

Ceipal Ora is different because it is not AI added onto a single system. Ora is the harness that runs the work: it works from the requisition, candidate and client record, uses the tools in Ceipal, acts within recruiter approved guardrails, and logs every action. Automation platforms execute tasks. Ceipal Ora executes decisions and keeps people in control of decisions that matter.

Adoption is already broad. Six hundred fifty customer companies run one or more of Ceipal Ora's agents and workflows, from AI Sourcing and Matching and autonomous business workflows to the full end to end workflow from sourcing to selection. Customers report sourcing time falling from 2 to 3 hours to under 4 minutes, saving 4 to 6 hours per recruiter per day, and a 3x improvement in time to fill against their previous baseline.

"The staffing industry has been promised AI for years, but most of what exists is either a general-purpose tool adapted to fit, or automation added onto fragmented systems," said Sameer Penakalapati, Founder and CEO, Ceipal. "What we are launching today is different. Automation platforms execute tasks. Ceipal Ora executes decisions. That changes the recruiter's day. The searching, screening and follow up are already done, and the recruiter starts with a shortlist and a decision to make. For industries where placing the right person is not just a business outcome but a critical one, that distinction matters."

Ask Anything
Recruiters, account managers and operations teams ask what they want to know, such as pipeline health, open orders and compliance flags, and get an answer in seconds from live data across recruiting, vendor management and workforce operations. One question. One answer. No dashboards, no reports, no waiting.

AI Sourcing and Matching
Recruiters describe a role in natural language, and Ceipal Ora returns a ranked shortlist in seconds. Once the recruiter approves the shortlist, Ora drafts and sends personalized outreach as part of the same workflow. What used to be two separate workflows becomes one continuous action.

Voice Agent
Ceipal Ora's Voice Agent calls candidates by phone or video, conducts prescreening and technical screening, and produces a structured summary and score for recruiter review. The recruiter does not dial, and the recruiter still makes the decision. By the time a shortlist reaches a hiring manager, every candidate has already been spoken to and summarized.

Purpose Built for Staffing
In healthcare staffing, Ceipal Ora tracks credential and certification expiration dates, monitors compliance requirements by client and state, contacts clinicians for missing or expiring documents, and prepares submission-ready packages for recruiter review, including overnight. In IT and engineering staffing, it removes the sourcing and outreach lag that slows recruiters down, so they can focus on qualifying and placing, not searching and typing.

"In healthcare staffing, the relationship is everything with candidates," said Mike Lamia, Chief Operating Officer, Ardor Health Solutions. "When agentic AI handles the first touch, our recruiters start the day already ahead of the administrative work and can focus on what only a person can do: build the relationship that closes the placement."

Ceipal Ora also includes workflows for candidate submission scoring, job publishing checks for pay transparency and rate requirements, vendor onboarding, and worker onboarding.

See Ceipal Ora Live
Ceipal is showcasing Ceipal Ora this week at two industry events. Visit booth 406 at Staffing Industry Analysts' Healthcare Staffing Summit in Arlington, Texas or the Ceipal Lounge at the TechServe Alliance Executive Summit in Huntington Beach, California, to see Ora in action and speak with the team.

To explore Ceipal Ora's full agent suite or book a demo, visit ceipal.com/agents.

SOURCE Ceipal