Phenom Voice Screening Agent Earns 2026 CODiE Award for Best Productivity / Workflow Solution

PHILADELPHIA, July 21, 2026 — Phenom, the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, announced that its Voice Screening Agent has been named a 2026 CODiE Award Winner in the Best Productivity / Workflow Solution category. This marks the second consecutive year Phenom has earned CODiE recognition, following last year's award for Best Human Capital or Talent Management Solution.

The CODiE Awards recognize the most innovative products, platforms, and services across technology and education. Winners are selected through a rigorous evaluation process led by independent industry experts who assess each solution based on innovation, functionality, market impact, and overall value.

A Voice Screening Agent That Never Sleeps 

Recruiting teams have long faced a hard ceiling on early stage hiring: the number of phone screens a human recruiter can complete in one day. As candidate volumes surge and open roles multiply, qualified applicants fall through the cracks simply because there is not enough capacity to reach them. Phenom Voice Screening Agent breaks through that ceiling. The conversational voice AI operates 24/7, conducts role-specific screening conversations, and delivers structured transcripts, generated summaries, and company-defined rubric-based scores across more candidates than any team could manually reach.

Voice Screening Agent understands what candidates say and what it means in context. The result is 90% candidate satisfaction and proven quality outcomes that demonstrate speed and hiring excellence move together, not against each other:

• One healthcare provider cut time to offer in half and saved 400 recruiter hours a month

• A global retailer saved 17,000 recruiter hours and eliminated the 5-7 day gap between application and first candidate contact 

• An industrial manufacturer achieved 95% screening completion and 55% applicant conversion across every market in its 100-country operation

“The best productivity solutions need to be always on and adapt on the fly to avoid exceptions,” said John Deal, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Phenom. “Voice Screening Agent reaches candidates on their schedule and pivots based on the direction a conversation takes without missing a beat or necessary piece of information.”

Built for Limitless Agentic Orchestration

Voice Screening Agent supports a larger automated hiring workflow from first contact through screening, scheduling, interviewing and onboarding. HR and IT teams can configure and expand those workflows without any custom development work, putting control in the hands of the people closest to the hiring process.

As enterprises move beyond single-agent deployments, Phenom WorkOps gives them the infrastructure to deploy limitless agents across the hiring lifecycle without losing oversight. An orchestration engine governs every agent action in real time, enforces compliance policies and escalates to human review when needed.

That orchestration works because Phenom’s Hypercell operating model gives each agent the context to handle the specifics of any role, industry or location, whether that’s a nurse in Los Angeles, a warehouse associate in Berlin, or an engineer in Bangalore, while keeping hiring strategy coordinated across the enterprise. Other agents already working alongside Voice Screening Agent include an Intake Agent that captures hiring manager requirements before sourcing begins, a Fraud Detection Agent that identifies synthetic candidates before they reach a recruiter's queue and Compliance and Exception Agents that review onboarding documentation to catch issues before they become downstream problems. 

Faster Value Realization and Continuous Optimization

Voice Screening Agent earns this CODiE recognition because it delivers results, not just for a narrow slice of roles, but across a variety of job types in different industries. Organizations unlock value faster through Phenom’s Value Acceleration Model, AI Bootcamps and defined levels of AI maturity, which give them a guided path from initial automation to autonomous operations with measurable outcomes at each step. Go-live becomes a starting point, not a finish line.

To see how Phenom Voice Screening Agent operates within a fully orchestrated AI system built for talent workflows, register for AI Day. Broadcasting live from Phenom Studios on September 17 at 10 a.m. ET (4 p.m. CEST), it will be available on demand after the broadcast.

About Phenom

Phenom is the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer. It understands unique industry and business needs for departments, teams, employees and candidates. This is AI that knows company DNA, powered by Engines that harmonize data and facilitate orchestration, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that creates hyper-personalized experiences, and Agents that work alongside teams with unprecedented speed and precision. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, this is responsible AI that is enterprise-secure, compliant, and always explainable.

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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