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Turn Digital Interest Into Qualified Opportunities

Organizations invest heavily to generate candidate and student interest across digital channels. But generating traffic is only part of the equation. The bigger challenge is engaging that interest when it arrives, understanding intent, and converting it into meaningful action.

Talk2Apply is a conversational engagement platform that helps organizations engage job seekers and prospective students 24/7, capture intent and readiness, and turn digital interest into actionable opportunities.

Behind the Concierge is an agentic conversational orchestration layer that brings together AI chat, Voice AI, conversational intake, intelligent routing, scheduling, human handoff, and workflow integrations. It can also support future-interest capture and re-engagement through SMS and email, helping organizations stay connected with people who are interested but not ready to act today.

Talk2Apply also turns conversations into site intelligence. By capturing the questions people ask in their own words, organizations can better understand what candidates and prospective students are looking for, where information may be unclear or missing, and where content and conversion experiences can be improved.

Through its Career Site Concierge and Student Enrollment Concierge, Talk2Apply helps reduce drop-off, improve response and handoff, and convert more of the demand organizations already generate into recruiter-ready candidates and advisor-ready prospects.

More meaningful conversations. Clearer signals. Smarter engagement. More opportunities to convert.

Leadership

Meet the Founders

Building practical Conversational AI for real-world recruitment and student enrollment workflows.

Kiran Karra

Kiran Karra

Founder

I'm building Talk2Apply to help organizations turn digital interest into meaningful conversations, clearer signals, and real outcomes.

As Founder, I lead product strategy, go-to-market, and client engagement, while working closely with our engineering team to build practical Conversational AI systems across recruitment and student enrollment.

I bring 15+ years of experience across enterprise technology, HR tech, recruitment advertising, talent technology, client strategy, and enterprise sales. Today, I'm hands-on across product architecture, conversational workflows, AI orchestration, Voice AI, UX, integrations, QA, and production operations, while also working directly with customers and partners to translate real business problems into scalable product and workflow solutions.

My focus is on building AI systems that work in the real world, complement existing technology, and deliver measurable business value by helping organizations convert more of the demand they already generate into qualified hiring and enrollment opportunities.

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Mohammad Ahmad

Mohammad Ahmad

Technical Co-Founder & Founding Engineer

I'm the Technical Co-Founder and Founding Engineer at Talk2Apply, where I lead the technical architecture and engineering behind our Conversational AI platform.

My background spans Agentic AI, Generative AI, machine learning, conversational systems, and end-to-end product engineering. At Talk2Apply, I've been involved from early architecture decisions through production, building the technical foundation behind AI chat, Voice AI, agent orchestration, conversational workflows, integrations, and scalable platform infrastructure.

I work across the engineering lifecycle, including system architecture, backend infrastructure, prompt and agent orchestration, voice workflows, API and ATS/CRM integrations, reliability, retry and fallback logic, QA, performance, and production deployment.

My focus is turning AI concepts into reliable systems that can operate in real-world environments and support Talk2Apply's goal of helping organizations turn digital interest into meaningful conversations, clearer signals, and qualified hiring and enrollment opportunities.

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