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Max Krasnykh

Max Krasnykh

Founder & CEO at Mokka

Max Krasnykh is the founder and CEO of Mokka, an AI-powered talent acquisition platform; previously co-CEO of Gett and an investor at Intel Capital.

Writes on AI recruiting, talent acquisition, candidate sourcing, candidate screening, and hiring automation.

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Articles by Max Krasnykh

Essays and analysis on AI recruiting, sourcing, screening, and hiring automation.

• de-risking outreach compliance: how autonomous sourcing agents navigate global opt-out registries and privacy walls 14 Oct 2026 AI sourcing
• multimodal pre-interviewing: combining behavioral audio telemetry and contextual text analysis to evaluate high-volume applicants without bias 12 Oct 2026 AI interviews
• behavioral print matching: auditing candidate digital footprints to stop synthetic persona creation before the first interview 9 Oct 2026 AI interviews
• The ATS is an Anti-Sourcing Database: Why Centralizing Candidate Records Destroys Passive Sourcing Momentum 7 Oct 2026 AI sourcing
• the marginal cost of zero-click pipelining: why hyper-targeted autonomous agents out-convert traditional enrichment pipelines 5 Oct 2026 Recruiting essentials
• auditing your tech stack for integrity vulnerabilities: a step-by-step security framework for talent acquisition leaders 2 Oct 2026 Hiring integrity
• Screening 100% of inbound applicants means abandoning text-heavy resumes for multi-modal conversational intake 30 Sep 2026 AI screening
• Killing the scheduling ping-pong: why asynchronous AI pre-interviews within 30 seconds of application beat calendar links every time 28 Sep 2026 AI interviews
• Beyond deepfakes: detecting real-time keystroke injection and llm-assist scripts during live video pre-interviews 25 Sep 2026 Hiring integrity
• Architecting a zero-dropoff candidate onboarding flow for high-volume conversational pre-interviewing 23 Sep 2026 AI interviews
• Why personalized cold outreach fails at 850-million scale and how deterministic intent signals fix it 21 Sep 2026 AI sourcing
• The Synthetic Skill Inflation Crisis: How Fraudulent Applicants Game Automated Technical Assessments 18 Sep 2026 Hiring integrity
• Real-time biometric pacing and keystroke telemetry: stopping LLM-generated code and answers during live technical assessments 16 Sep 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Operationalizing Zero-Touch Inbound Triage: A Step-by-Step Blueprint for High-Volume Talent Teams 14 Sep 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Designing a high-volume intake workflow that actually uses 100% applicant screening without triggering candidate churn 11 Sep 2026 AI screening
• Mapping the Dark Web of Talent: Why ATS-Scraping Outperforms Job Boards for Niche Engineering Roles 9 Sep 2026 End-to-end recruiting
• From Copilots to Autonomous Agents: The Economics of Agentic Recruiting Workflows 7 Sep 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Identity verification belongs in screening, not onboarding 4 Sep 2026 AI screening
• Uncapped inbound activation: turning your dormant ATS graveyard into an active talent pipeline via autonomous re-engagement 2 Sep 2026 End-to-end recruiting
• Screening 100% of applicants: what changes when nobody gets auto-rejected 31 Aug 2026 AI screening
• Structured AI pre-interviews vs one-way video screens 28 Aug 2026 AI interviews
• Voice, text, or video: why candidates should choose the interview mode 26 Aug 2026 AI interviews
• Surviving the Workday Lawsuit: How Agentic Sourcing Shields TA From Screening Liability 24 Aug 2026 AI sourcing
• Autonomous Agents are Crossing the Threshold: The Economics of Delegate Labor in Talent Acquisition 21 Aug 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The North Korean IT worker scheme, explained for recruiters 19 Aug 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The Compliance Premium: How the EU AI Act Will Rewire Sourcing Economics 17 Aug 2026 AI sourcing
• A recruiter's playbook for spotting AI-generated applications 14 Aug 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The 15-minute AI pre-interview: what it catches that resumes can't 12 Aug 2026 AI interviews
• Deepfake candidates in video interviews: a 2026 detection playbook 10 Aug 2026 Hiring integrity
• The Sourcing Arms Race: When Candidates Have AI Agents Too 7 Aug 2026 AI sourcing
• How AI sourcing finds passive candidates your recruiters miss 3 Aug 2026 AI sourcing
• Best AI sourcing tools for startups 14 Jul 2026 AI sourcing
• Proxy interviews: the fraud vector your screening misses 8 Jul 2026 Hiring integrity
• 1 in 4 candidates fake by 2028: what Gartner's number actually means 8 Jul 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Autonomous recruiting agents vs traditional sourcing 2 Jul 2026 AI sourcing
• AI sourcing tools comparison 2026 2 Jul 2026 AI sourcing
• The sourcer is a routing layer, not a relationship 15 Jun 2026 AI sourcing
• The AI arms race in hiring is a coordination failure 15 Jun 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Cold outreach is broken because humans send it 12 Jun 2026 AI sourcing
• The death of Boolean sourcing 8 Jun 2026 AI sourcing
• Your best candidates will never see your job post 1 Jun 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The fake-candidate problem nobody is sizing 29 May 2026 Hiring integrity
• Reference checks are a ritual, not an assessment 18 May 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The cargo cult of employer branding 15 May 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The 90-second triage 16 Apr 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Culture fit: the belief system nobody can define 23 Mar 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Rejection emails as market signals 16 Mar 2026 Recruiting essentials
• The hidden tax on diverse hiring 11 Mar 2026 Recruiting essentials
• $4,700 per hire on a 1921 process 6 Mar 2026 Recruiting essentials
• Your ATS is a bottleneck, not a system 2 Mar 2026 End-to-end recruiting
• The Interview Tax: What Panel Interviews Really Cost Your Business 28 Feb 2026 AI interviews