Venora Match for SMEs · Pilot programme 2026
Every application analysed. Every decision, yours.
Enterprise-grade screening, scaled for small and mid-sized teams. Venora Match reads incoming CVs, scores how well each candidate fits the vacancy and explains why — set it up yourself, no IT project required, so your team spends less time screening and more time deciding.
Rationale:
Built by AvantIT · Microsoft Solution Partner · Portugal & Europe
Process
How it works
Three steps between receiving applications and having a substantiated shortlist.
Upload the vacancy and the CVs
Import the job description and the CVs you received, in PDF or Word. The system extracts and structures the information automatically, even from irregular formats.
The AI analyses the fit
Each candidate is evaluated against the requirements of the vacancy: skills, experience, education and preferred criteria, with a clear fit score.
Review, decide, move on
Receive the ranking with the rationale behind every evaluation. Confirm, correct or discard — the decision always belongs to the recruiter, with everything documented.
Deliverables
What your team gets
Fit score
An objective, comparable measure of the match between every candidate and every vacancy.
Shortlist with insights
Each candidate comes with a summary, strengths, areas to develop and suggested interview questions — not just a number.
Ranking per vacancy
All candidates ordered, with filters for essential and preferred requirements.
Semantic search
Ask about your candidate pool in plain language — in any language — and get answers with the reasoning behind them.
Bias-aware screening
Identifying details are removed before analysis, so candidates are compared on merit — and the workflow stays fair and auditable.
Hours recovered
Manually screening dozens of CVs becomes a minutes-long review of analyses already prepared.
Architecture
Built for trust and control
Consent, auditability and human oversight are designed into every layer — not bolted on afterwards.
Multiple intake channels
A public page, entry API, email-to-API and connectors bring CVs in — capturing candidate consent up front, with no payload stored without it.
Secure multi-tenant core
A .NET application manages candidates, tenants and consent centrally, with a full audit log on Microsoft 365.
Recruiter portal (ATS-lite)
Create and publish vacancies, run a lightweight pipeline, see scores with justifications, and log every human decision.
AI services
Python services handle structured extraction, fit, sentiment and retention scoring, gap and training recommendations, and CV reformatting to your template (DOCX/PDF).
Designed for the human to decide
Recruitment is classified as a high-risk use case under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. That is why human oversight in Venora Match is not a configuration option: it is the architecture of the product. The AI prepares and substantiates; your team validates and decides — and every decision is recorded.
Roadmap
Where Venora is heading
Venora Match is the first step. Here is what pilot clients can expect next.
Pilot programme
Selected companies run Venora Match on real vacancies, shaping the product with actionable feedback and anonymised data.
Public launch
Paid plans plus a free tier with immediate value, self-service onboarding and upgrades — debuting at Web Summit.
Specialist model
Venora's own specialised language model (SLM), refined continuously through a human-feedback (RLHF) loop.
Connected & European
Email and calendar integration, AI scheduling agents, and pilot partners across target European markets.
Team
The people behind Venora
A team with decades of combined IT experience, building Venora inside AvantIT.
Arsénio Ferraz
CEO & Co-FounderVision, fundraising and go-to-market. Built Venora Match inside an operating AI & Microsoft consultancy.
Henrique Serafim
CTO & Co-founderSovereign self-hosted platform, scalability and the proprietary SLM roadmap. The technical moat.
Teresa Barros
CCO & Co-founderTrust, EU AI Act compliance and data sovereignty. Turns regulation into competitive advantage.
Sérgio Fernandes
CPO & Co-founderProduct roadmap and priorities — the bridge between engineering and market. Decides what gets built next and why.
Questions