HR & recruiting

Lantern AI

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lantern is the agentic recruiting platform for enterprise.

Lantern runs on:

(1) World People Model, a live talent graph of a billion professionals that knows who’s exceptional, reachable, and about to move

(2) Company Hiring Model, which learns your taste from every hiring decision you’ve ever made

Together, our agents plug into your existing systems and run the whole workflow: sourcing, application review, AI interviews, meeting intelligence, and analytics, under universal context.

Lantern also launched OpenRouter for People (people.lantern.md), an agent-native infrastructure to empower agents to find, research, outreach to anyone in the world.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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HR & recruitingAI agentBusinessesEnterpriseSubscription

Founders & team

Thomas Chan

Founder/CEO

Founder at Lantern AI. Serial founder with 3 prior recruiting startups, generating 2M+ in sales. Studied at Tsinghua and CUHK.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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