Date: July 6, 2026
Strategic Initiative Overview
Naukri, part of Info Edge (India) Limited, announced the broad rollout of its AI-powered recruitment platform with multiple commercial products scaling across enterprises and jobseekers. The initiative represents a strategic expansion beyond traditional recruitment listings into recruiter productivity, talent intelligence, and premium hiring solutions.
AI Investment and Infrastructure
The company has built what it describes as India's largest AI recruitment lab, powered by over 25 years of proprietary hiring data. Info Edge invested approximately ₹70 crore in AI during FY26, with planned investment expected to reach approximately ₹150 crore in FY27. The platform hosts over 118 million candidate profiles with average daily addition of around 25,000 profiles and serves approximately 13 million monthly active users.
Product Launches and Commercialization
AI-Rex (Enterprise Recruitment AI)
- Flagship Agentic AI product designed to enhance recruiter productivity across hiring workflow
- Multiple specialized AI agents work across mandate refinement, candidate sourcing, personalized outreach, screening and qualification
- Now live across 4,000+ enterprise customers and recruitment firms
- More than 10% of users already converted to paid clients
- Hiring mandates through AI-Rex platform grew 3.7x between February and June 2026
- Adoption spans IT, BFSI, Sales, Finance, Healthcare, BPO, and Core Engineering sectors
Talent Pulse (Talent Intelligence Platform)
- AI-powered talent intelligence platform with over 600 paid customers
- Serves large enterprises to smaller organizations
- Enables enterprises to benchmark compensation, analyze talent availability, evaluate employer branding, and make workforce planning decisions
- Works alongside Executive Intelligence product to expand addressable market into talent intelligence and strategic workforce planning
PremiumX (Premium Hiring Platform)
- AI-powered premium hiring platform serving over 1,800 enterprise customers
- Targets white-collar professionals earning above ₹30 lakh annually
- Uses AI-driven talent discovery and Naukri verified (NChecked) profiles
- Identifies both active and passive candidates
- Extended through Naukri Top Tier (invite-only network for senior professionals), iimjobs (management/leadership hiring), and hirist (premium technology hiring)
Jobseeker AI Offerings
- Jobseeker agent Neo: AI-guided career navigation and job matching
- AI Resume Maker: Helps candidates build stronger profiles
- AI Mock Interview Prep: Provides personalized mock interviews and feedback
- Premium subscriptions for these tools are contributing to stronger revenue growth within Naukri's jobseeker revenue pool
Management Commentary
Hitesh Oberoi, Managing Director & CEO of Info Edge (India) Limited, stated: \"AI is fundamentally changing how companies discover, evaluate, and hire talent. Over the past several years, we have built what we believe is India's deepest AI and data platform for recruitment. AI-Rex, Talent Pulse, and PremiumX represent the first wave of commercial products emerging from that investment. As these platforms scale, we believe they will strengthen customer outcomes, create new revenue opportunities, and reinforce Naukri's long-term competitive advantage.\"
Strategic Implications
The AI investments reflect Naukri's commitment to building an integrated, data-driven hiring ecosystem that creates new revenue opportunities while strengthening competitive advantages. The platform leverages deep AI capabilities and proprietary data to expand beyond recruitment listings into higher-value enterprise solutions.