PromptMates x Stakkd: State of Tech in HR & TA

Thanks for taking part in this research report. All findings will be shared publicly across Recruiting & HR communities & social channels. Our aim is to provide practical insights into how HR & Recruiting leaders are approaching technology in their function over the next 12 months.

PromptMates & Stakkd will first share the findings on a live show on the 13th May, details here.

What best describes your role?

HR

Talent Acquisition (TA)

Both HR and TA

How many people are in your company?

1–50

51–200

201–500

501–2,000

2,000+

How many tools is your team actively using across your function right now?

1–5

5–10

10+

Has your tech budget grown, shrunk, or stayed the same in the last 12 months?

Grown

Stayed about the same

Shrunk

When it comes to your tech stack right now, are you primarily trying to consolidate or expand?

Actively consolidating: cutting tools and vendors

Actively expanding: adding new capability

No clear direction at the moment

When your team uses AI, where does most of it happen?

Almost entirely in general AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc.)

Mostly general AI, with some specialist HR/TA tools

About equal mix of both

Mostly specialist HR/TA tools, with some general AI

Almost entirely in purpose-built HR/TA tools

Which of these tasks has general AI (e.g Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) largely taken over from specialist tools in your team? Select all that apply.

A

Writing and communications (job descriptions, internal policies, candidate comms)

B

Scheduling and coordination

C

Data and reporting

D

Research and policy work

E

Screening and assessment

F

None, we still rely on specialist tools for all of these

G

None, we're not using general AI for any of this yet

Is general AI taking over more tasks from specialist tools compared to 12 months ago?

Yes, significantly more

Yes, slightly more

About the same

No, we've actually moved back towards specialist tools

If you could only keep one category of tool in your stack, what would it be?

ATS / recruitment platform

HRIS / people platform

Sourcing and talent intelligence

General AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot etc.)

Learning and development

Onboarding tooling

Analytics and reporting

Roughly what percentage of your team's weekly tasks are now handled or assisted by AI or automation?

0%

1–10%

11–25%

26–50%

51–75%

75%+

Is your team running any AI agents today? Tools that take autonomous actions, not just generate content

Yes, actively running agents

We're piloting something

No, but we're planning to

No, and it's not on the roadmap

How is your team getting AI capability into your workflows?

Buying vendor tools that have AI built in

Building directly on LLM or general AI tools (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)

Both buying some and building some

We're not using AI meaningfully yet

What's your prediction for how technology changes your function over the next 12 to 18 months and what are you doing about it now?

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