Company Overview
PermitFlow revolutionizes construction permitting through innovative PropTech solutions. As a fast-growing remote company, Jason Yi, Head of Talent, needed to manage thousands of weekly applications across dozens of open roles while protecting against fraud targeting remote organizations.
The Challenge
PermitFlow's remote-first model and rapid growth created significant recruiting complexity that Jason's team needed to solve:
- Thousands of weekly applications: Overwhelming a lean recruiting team across dozens of simultaneous open roles requiring constant management.
- Remote hiring attracting sophisticated fraudulent applicants: Manual screening creating hiring velocity bottlenecks and time-intensive verification processes.
- Scale challenges: Preventing focus on genuine candidates while maintaining quality standards across high-volume hiring.
Tofu's Solution
PermitFlow deployed Tofu's AI screening agent and fraud detection system to automatically process massive application volumes while maintaining security and quality standards. Key capabilities included:
- AI Screening: Surfaces highest-signal candidates instantly from thousands of applications using advanced algorithms.
- Employer Enrichment: Enables screening based on detailed company experience beyond resume keywords for more accurate candidate evaluation.
- Automated Fraud Detection: Eliminates manual verification work with algorithmic flagging of suspicious applications.
- Complete Candidate Verification Infrastructure: Provides systematic fraud protection against elevated risks targeting remote organizations.
Impact
Tofu delivered transformational results for PermitFlow's high-volume recruiting operations:
- 85% Reduction in Resume Screening Time: From thousands of applications to focused candidate pools in minutes, dramatically improving recruiter efficiency.
- 100% Fraud Detection Automation: Complete elimination of manual verification processes with algorithmic flagging of suspicious applications.
- 3x Faster Top Candidate Identification: Advanced employer enrichment and AI ranking enable instant identification of highest-signal candidates from massive applicant pools.
- Enhanced Remote Hiring Security: Systematic fraud protection against elevated risks targeting remote organizations, providing confidence in candidate authenticity.
Head of Talent's Perspective
"Tofu has been a game changer for our hiring process. It helps us instantly identify the highest-signal candidates from inbound, flags potential fraud, and ultimately saves my team hours every week. It's become a core part of how we run an efficient, high-quality recruiting operation." — Jason Yi, Head of Talent @ PermitFlow
Conclusion
Tofu enables PermitFlow's lean team to process exponentially more applications while maintaining higher quality standards and faster time-to-hire metrics. By automating verification work and enhancing candidate surfacing at scale, Tofu has become integral to PermitFlow's ability to scale their remote team as rapidly as their business demands, providing the security and efficiency needed for successful high-volume remote recruiting.