Phenom Achieves FedRAMP® Ready Status to Advance U.S. Government Agency Hiring with Applied AI for Human Resources

PHILADELPHIA, May 5, 2026 — Phenom, the applied AI leader with the only AI infrastructure built specifically for HR, today announced it has achieved FedRAMP® Ready status, equipping U.S. government agencies with secure AI to attract and hire the right talent at scale.

Despite federal modernization initiatives, human resources in government has been largely locked out of AI hiring technology which is already transforming the private sector. Compounding this, average federal hiring timelines exceed 100 days, first-year attrition continues to climb, and younger talent pipelines are shrinking. With a state, local and federal workforce of more than 21 million people, the cost of outdated hiring tools has never been higher.

To eliminate talent gaps and support regulated deployments, Phenom built a dedicated government environment aligned to FedRAMP Moderate and IL4 controls, and has achieved FedRAMP Ready classification. This will enable government organizations to leverage AI that understands their industry, functions, roles, geographies and hiring workflows, resulting in contextually personalized engagement and sourcing that gets smarter with every hire.

Phenom’s Proven Foundation for Highly Regulated Environments

Phenom’s FedRAMP Ready status builds on years of supporting hiring in regulated environments, including 21 of the top 100 federal contractors and organizations across public health, higher education and other compliance-driven industries. These customers have increased quality applicants and achieved measurable reductions in time to fill and cost per hire. Those results directly inform Phenom’s approach to government hiring.

A layered architecture enables Phenom’s government offering to sit on top of core systems of record, helping agencies orchestrate talent experiences and automate hiring processes without displacing existing HR systems. Built with Section 508 accessibility compliance and FedRAMP security standards by design, the platform equips federal agencies to:

• Attract and convert mission-aligned talent through AI career sites, job descriptions and hyper-personalized candidate experiences that adapt to each visitor's role, skills and interests

• Build and nurture talent pipelines with AI discovery and candidate matching, automated nurture campaigns and re-engagement of past applicants for current and future roles

• Compress hiring timelines through automated interview scheduling and structured assessments that reduce bias and speed decision-making

• Keep hiring teams aligned with workflow automation and AI recommendations, while automatically re-engaging candidates who drop off or go cold with the right message at the right time

• Give HR leaders predictive analytics into pipeline health, hiring trends and critical vacancy status agency-wide, surfacing risks before they impact operations

To help agencies move quickly within federal procurement realities, Phenom’s Value Acceleration Model and AI Bootcamps replace lengthy implementation timelines with milestone-based deployment, dedicated solution architects and immersive training that rapidly builds internal AI fluency.

“Unlike their private sector counterparts, federal agencies are being asked to do something genuinely difficult: fill critical roles faster, build skills pipelines and redeploy talent, all within security and governance guardrails that most commercial vendors don’t need to navigate,” said Saumil Gandhi, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Phenom. “FedRAMP Ready status is how we meet them where they are and how we start closing a gap that has real consequences for citizens and communities.”

“Federal agencies have been operating with a significant disadvantage in the talent market — limited access to the modern HR technology that the private sector takes for granted,” said Karen Laughton, EVP Advisory Services at Coalfire. “Phenom’s FedRAMP Ready status changes that equation. It means agencies will soon have access to AI-driven talent intelligence within a compliant, secure environment, at a moment when federal workforce modernization is an urgent priority. When commercial innovation meets federal trust requirements, that's when real transformation becomes possible.”

Phenom is available to U.S. federal, state and local agencies and its extensive network of reseller partners and government contract vehicles. Agencies can review Phenom’s FedRAMP Ready listing directly on the FedRAMP Marketplace.

Visit the Phenom public sector page for more information.

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About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company with the only AI infrastructure built specifically for HR. Powered by Engines that harmonize data, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that hyper-personalizes experiences, and Agents that work alongside teams, Phenom’s platform uses industry and business context to automate workflows, eliminate busywork, and enhance every experience while remaining compliant. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, no other company is as dedicated to helping organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (5 years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in Canada, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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