One recruiter closed about 15 data-engineering offers in two weeks, and Orion Innovation scaled it from India to the US and Mexico.
Volume arrived faster than recruiters could screen
Orion Innovation runs technical hiring for large financial-services clients it cannot afford to keep waiting. When one client’s mandate expanded, data-engineering roles arrived faster than the team could screen them by hand.
The load fell on individual recruiters, sourcing, screening and coordinating panels largely alone, while engineering and hiring managers lost hours to first rounds that mostly filtered rather than decided.
“With Zeko AI, it’s weeks now, without losing quality.”
Avya carried the volume, recruiters kept judgment
Orion rolled out Zeko AI across its recruiters and business units, with Avya running first-level screening. Recruiters stayed in control of judgment, deciding which candidates to call, engage and push toward a panel.
In one two-week window, one recruiter moved 300+ inbound applicants through auto-ranking and Avya-run screens down to roughly 15 offers.
data-engineering offers closed in two weeks by one recruiter, an 83% final-round conversion (15 of 18).
Source: Orion-stated.interview completion rate among candidates invited, among the highest Zeko AI has measured.
Source: Zeko AI platform data.The two-week funnel, one recruiter
Stage by stage, from inbound applicants to offers.Trust took longer to build than the technology
Avya’s evaluation was tuned to Orion’s hiring managers for these roles. Panels came to rely on the L1 signal rather than re-litigate it, once they understood how it reasoned.
The hardest part was trust, not technology. Hiring managers doubted whether Avya’s questions were relevant, since the calibration behind them was not visible. Trust took two to three months to build.
The real load was enablement: 30+ recruiters onboarded and 15+ live open-house sessions, where teams brought Avya questions directly and worked through edge cases.
From India to the US and Mexico
Avya has run Orion’s screening since July 2025. Fourteen months on, the India team still relies on it daily, and in July 2026 Orion extended it to its US and Mexico teams. Once teams were fully adopted, Orion moved to deep integration: candidate data now syncs automatically, and recruiters work entirely from their ATS.
“Hiring for a project used to take months for us. With Zeko AI it’s weeks now, and that speed, without losing quality, is what changed how we deliver.”
Scope: period covered July 2025 to September 2026 (about 14 months). Figures supplied by Orion (offers, final-round conversion, and the two-week funnel) and by Zeko AI platform data (completion rate). “Completion rate” = candidates who completed the interview divided by candidates invited.
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