Hey Sumo-lings! 🚀

It’s only been a few weeks since we went live — and your feedback has been 🔥. We’ve been listening, building, and shipping non-stop.

Here’s everything we’ve rolled out since launch:

🎯 Candidate experience & AI upgrades
Custom AI Interviewer: Rename your AI and swap the avatar — no more being stuck with “Katherine.”
Smarter AI Interviewer: Katherine now asks sharper, context-aware questions that dig deeper.
Live Interview Page Redesign: Sleeker, faster, and way more intuitive for candidates.

💼 Job creation & customization
Powerful Job Creation Flow: Full control over question generation, custom instructions, and tone.
Private Job Posts: Hide certain roles and share only via direct link — great for internal hiring or invites.
New Org Types Supported: Set up jobs for Public & Private Educational Institutions.

🖥️ Dashboard & usability improvements
Dashboard Redesign: Track jobs, responses, and performance with fewer clicks.
Interview Time Visibility: Applicant cards now show when the interview happened — prep and follow-up just got easier.
Browser Compatibility Checks: We now warn users if their browser isn’t supported — before interviews break

🌐 Careers page (job board)
Trustworthy Design Upgrade: Your public job board now looks clean, modern, and employer-brand friendly.

🧠 Support & status page
Help Center Launched: Video walkthroughs, step-by-step guides — no more support ticket maze.
Uptime Status Page: Stay updated on system performance at petrova.ai/status

This is just the beginning. We’re building Petrova in the open — shaped by your ideas, feedback, and pain points.

📄 Full changelog → https://petrova.ai/changelog 
💡 Suggest your next favorite feature → https://petrova.ai/feature-requests

Let’s keep building something epic,
— Arjun, Founder @ Petrova

Hey Sumo-lings! 🚀

It's been only 24 hours since launching Petrova AI, and you've completely blown us away!

I'm getting flooded with DMs saying "I found you on AppSumo and have been looking for something exactly like this!" The excitement and demand have exceeded everything we imagined.

But here's what I love most—you're not just buying, you're giving us great feedback, and we've been listening to every single conversation. So we made some exciting upgrades! 

Here's what we've upgraded:

🔥 Tier 3 now includes: Fraud detection, AI interview summaries, and auto scheduling, plus in Tier 3 you already get UNLIMITED: Async video interviews, job postings & team members.

🔥 Tier 4 boosted to: 100 AI live interviews, 100 CV screenings, 50 AI phone screenings per month

🔥 Tier 5 boosted to: 300 live interviews, 300 CV screenings, 150 phone screenings per month, 5 Custom AI agents

This is what happens when we build together—your voices shape the product in real-time!

Keep the feedback coming, keep pushing us to be better. We're just getting started!

Enjoy! ✨

👋 Hey Sumo-lings! I’m Arjun, founder of Petrova AI.

Finding the right people — whether it's a co-founder, remote hire, franchise partner, or sales rep — can be frustratingly slow and full of guesswork.

Endless back-and-forth, manual screening, and gut-feel decisions? That’s broken.

So we built Petrova — your AI-powered sidekick for faster, smarter evaluations.

Petrova runs live video interviews, then instantly reviews each response and delivers smart AI scores, full transcripts, sharp summaries, behavior analysis, and visual snapshots — everything you need to make confident calls without the chaos.

We’re thrilled to be launching on AppSumo and can’t wait to see how Petrova helps you build better teams, faster.

Let’s do this! 🚀

— Arjun Jha Founder & CEO, Petrova AI

What are past projects, failures, or successes you’ve had in your career?

Before Petrova, I wore a lot of hats. I’ve worked at early-stage startups as an Founding engineer, led product launches, and even helped scale a fintech platform. Some projects took off, others flopped hard — but each one taught me how to move faster, build better, and obsess over what users actually care about. One of my earlier products never gained traction. We had a slick interface, but I got stuck in a perfection loop and never shipped it—a mistake I promised never to repeat. This time, we built a real-life product shaped by dozens of customer conversations. Petrova wasn’t built in isolation—it was built by listening, iterating, and launching early. This isn’t just a tool for me — it’s a product born from everything I’ve learned the hard way.

What 3rd party tools is your product critically dependent on?

Petrova doesn’t critically depend on any third-party tools, while we do use a few third-party services for optional features (like generating job description), these are not critical to our product’s core functionality.

Where is your customer data stored?

All customer data is securely stored on MongoDB Atlas, hosted across AWS data centers in both the US and India. We ensure high availability, encryption at rest, and full compliance with industry-standard security protocols to protect customer information.

What is your current monthly recurring revenue (MRR)?

Our current MRR is around $500.

How many customers do you have today?

120+

What’s the origin of the idea for your product?

I was hiring for a startup and found myself drowning in unqualified AI powered resumes and no-shows. We thought, “What if AI could pre-screen candidates and give us real insights before the first call?” That’s how Petrova was born — to make people evaluation smarter, faster, and scalable.

What problem is your product solving and how?

Petrova solves the pain of manual screening. It runs real-time or async video interviews, asks follow-up questions, and evaluates responses using AI scores, transcripts, summaries, and behavioral insights — helping you instantly spot great fits (and bad ones) without wasting hours.

What’s the #1 thing you’re looking to gain from the AppSumo campaign?

Validation from a community that gets it. We want feedback, real-world use cases, and early adopters who’ll push Petrova to grow faster and smarter.

What are your plans with the customers, cash, and learnings from the AppSumo campaign?

We’ll reinvest everything back into acquiring recurring revenue (MRR).