See how people really work.
AI-native hiring and training: automatic work simulations, adaptive steps, one continuous data flow.
Applied AI from Lahti, Finland · since 2018 · Top 100 Innovations, ARCTIC15 2026
Hiring?
Candidates do real work in a short simulation; you get facts about what each one did, against your own must-haves. Start free with 30 credits.
Investor or partner?
Oppi AI is raising a €500K pre-seed round on SAFE terms, closing December 2026. WorkProbe has its first paying customer (since September 2026), an enterprise evaluation with a Big Four firm, and a live hiring pipeline. Talk to us.
What we believe
We started in 2018, before the hype. Our view hasn't changed: AI is a tool that has to earn its place, measured against real conditions, not demos.
Research-grounded
We build from peer-reviewed evidence, not vendor claims. If the research doesn't support it, we don't ship it.
Built for production
Systems designed around a specific business problem, built to work when it's live, not just when it's pitched.
Judgment-first
We care whether AI actually improves a decision, not whether it looks impressive doing it.
We track how AI is changing work, decision-making, and team performance, and translate that research into practice.
WorkProbe: a real work trial before the interview
WorkProbe is an AI-native platform for hiring and staff training, built on three ideas:
Automatic work simulation
From a job description, a realistic 20 to 45 minute task with documents, simulated colleagues and an AI assistant.
AI-first, adaptive steps
Pre-screening, CV analysis, simulation and final review, each building on what the last one found.
One continuous data flow
From job description to hire, built to carry on into staff training.
The employer sets the must-haves; WorkProbe reports facts with evidence. No scores.
Grounded in peer-reviewed research from MIT, Harvard and Nature Human Behaviour.
Team
Taras Zagibalov
Founder & CEO
A computational-linguistics PhD (University of Sussex) with more than a decade in AI, NLP, and data science — from early NLP research at Brandwatch to EdTech and now hiring assessment. Inventor of WorkProbe's method (US patent pending). Granted US patent in language learning.
He reads the research before writing the code.
Erich Radlmann, US co-founder (joins Q4 2026)
Joins in Q4 2026. 20+ years in US staffing. Built and exited his own staffing businesses. Has used hiring assessments with clients for two decades. Will lead WorkProbe in the US.
Recognition
Top 100 Innovations · ARCTIC15 2026
First paying customer · September 2026
Built on 9 peer-reviewed studies
Contact
Ready to talk? We'd like to hear from you.
General
hello [at] oppi.aiInvestors and press
hello [at] oppi.aiwith ‘Investor’ in the subject
Location
Lahti, Finland