# Next Biz Thing #408 smoothhiring.com

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Podcast: [Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business](https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632)
Published: 2026-08-25T16:01:02+00:00
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## Resource

SmoothHiring https://smoothhiring.com This episode looks at SmoothHiring, the Worthington, Ohio company behind an AI hiring platform built to predict which candidates will succeed and stay, rather than simply processing applications faster. Markus explores how patented behavioural science sits alongside applicant tracking, automated job distribution across 200+ boards, skills assessments and one way video interviews, and why carrying the platform past the offer letter into onboarding and performance closes a loop the industry has left open for decades. A thoughtful listen for anyone who has ever hired on instinct and hoped for the best. Here is a number that should bother every business owner listening right now. Most hiring decisions are made on the strength of a document the candidate wrote about themselves, and a conversation that lasts under an hour. We would never buy a building that way. We would never sign a supplier contract that way. And yet we bring people into our companies, people who will shape the culture and the output and the mood of the place for years, on the basis of a resume and a gut feeling. Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for the companies quietly solving problems that everybody else has simply learned to live with. Some of the businesses I cover are tiny. Some are already at scale. What they have in common is that somebody looked at a broken process, decided it did not have to stay broken, and built something better. Today's company is very much in that second camp, and the process it is fixing is one that touches absolutely every organisation on earth. The company is SmoothHiring, and they are based in Worthington, Ohio, just north of Columbus. What they have built is an AI hir…

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