Empowering One Billion People Through Voice

Turning hiring into innovation

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We launched Kerplunk with a tougher mandate: turn the messy, “gut-feel” art of interviewing into clean, model-ready data pipelines that any CFO, CHRO, or ML engineer can trust. Our bet is simple—if you can quantify nuance in real time (voice cadence, reasoning chains, code critiques), you can make hiring fairer, faster, and orders of magnitude smarter.

Kerplunk connects people through the spoken word. We believe video is the richest signal in hiring, and that AI can turn every answer, every pause and every spark of excitement into a map of someone’s potential. If we do our jobs right, recruiters stop drowning in résumés, candidates get heard on their own schedule, and entire organizations level-up their decision-making.

Inside Kerplunk you can zoom into the atoms of an interview—criteria, context, code snippets, culture cues—and surface the moments that truly matter. Trade ideas with peers on what makes a brilliant DevOps engineer tick, or riff on your favorite question for spotting hidden sales talent. We’re building a shared playground for hiring wisdom, one conversation at a time.

Despite the quirky name, Kerplunk isn’t a random word choice. It nods to an old 1960s party game where every removed stick changes the outcome—just like each hiring choice shapes a company’s future. A forgotten IBM researcher reportedly used the game to illustrate early queue-theory models; we ran with that lore and layered modern AI on top.

We learn something new daily: grappling with transformer models in the morning, debating hiring ethics over lunch and redesigning workflow UX before close of play. We’re blending bleeding-edge tech with the dusty traditions of HR, and we’re convinced the collision will rewrite how teams form, grow and flourish in the decades ahead.

We are a nimble, mighty team

The future of talent management is what motivates us. We love to build and we love to solve some of the hard problems in the world. Our mission is to positively impact one billion lives.

Chuck Cotter
Chuck Cotter
CEO
Jonathan Gallegos
Jonathan Gallegos
Founder & CPO
Michael McDaniel
Michael McDaniel
Co-founder & CGO
Simon Ledbetter
Simon Ledbetter
Head of Engineering
Zach Rickards
Zach Rickards
Principal Front End Engineer
Kyle Schutt
Kyle Schutt
DevOps and Scalability
Russ Monroe
Russ Monroe
CFO + COO
Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee
Data & Operations

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We are makers at heart. Problem solvers and storytellers. We are on a mission to impact the lives of one billion people through the power of the spoken word.

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The future of talent management is what motivates us. We love to build and we love to solve some of the hard problems in the world. Our mission is to positively impact one billion lives.

Jonathan Gallegos
Jonathan Gallegos
Founder / Product

Kerplunk transforms spoken insight into crystal data, so teams hire for potential, not paper, and every video interview becomes tomorrow’s talent map.

Chuck Cotter
Chuck Cotter
Chief Executive Officer

With Kerplunk, AI listens at scale, ranks what matters, and lets hiring leaders spot diamonds before they’re lost beneath thousands of resumes.

Michael McDaniel
Michael McDaniel
Co-Founder / Growth

Kerplunk’s video-first platform compresses weeks of screening into minutes, freeing recruiters to focus on people, strategy, and cultures that win.

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