Team

The people building Agentiv.

A small team in Helsinki. A recruiter who wanted better tools, an engineer who builds them properly, and two advisors who were there at the very start of AlphaSense.

Helsinki FinlandFounded 2026Agentiv Oy 3620640-6
Founders

Who builds it.

Tony James
Founder, CEO

Tony James

Tony has spent more than 15 years in recruiting. He started Agentiv in 2026 to build the recruiting system he always wanted to work in, and runs product and the pilot programme.

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Sherry Ummen
Founder, CTO

Sherry Ummen

Sherry leads engineering at Agentiv: the platform, the AI agents that draft, search and take notes, and the controls that keep customer data in the EU.

Founding Advisors

Who’s been here before.

Milla and Eero were among AlphaSense’s earliest employees. They advise on building a company from its first customers up.

Milla Mäkeläinen
Founding Advisor

Milla Mäkeläinen

One of AlphaSense’s earliest employees.

Eero Jyske
Founding Advisor

Eero Jyske

One of AlphaSense’s earliest employees.

How we work

Three things we hold to.

They’re in the product as much as in how we run the company.

  • A person makes every call. Agentiv drafts, searches and takes notes. Recruiters decide, and every fit label shows its reasons.
  • We build in the open. Release notes, product posts and founder notes go out on agentiv.md, including what isn’t finished yet.
  • Made in Helsinki, kept in the EU. Agentiv Oy is a Finnish company, and customer data is stored in the EU.

Hire Smarter, Stay Human.

Everything hiring, in one surface. EU-hosted, human-reviewed, done properly from day one. Ten pilot places, and the founder replies personally.