Calimala.ai joins the EU AI Pact
Calimala.ai has joined the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Pact, a voluntary initiative of the European Commission that brings together companies committing to implement key elements of the EU AI Act ahead of its full enforcement.
By signing the Pact, Calimala aligns its AI-driven hiring platform with some of the world’s leading technology and industrial players who have also joined, including organizations such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Adobe, Cisco, and Palantir.
For a company building AI for recruitment and workforce planning, this isn’t a branding exercise—it’s infrastructure. The Pact sits at the intersection of regulation, ethics, and product design, and that’s exactly where Calimala’s platform operates.
“Hiring is one of the most sensitive use cases for AI,” said Michal Saracen, Founder & CEO of Calimala.ai. “When algorithms influence who gets interviewed, who gets hired or promoted, the bar has to be higher. Signing the AI Pact is our way of saying: we welcome that higher bar—and we’re building for it.”
What is the EU AI Pact?
The EU AI Pact was introduced by the European Commission as a bridge between today’s AI practices and tomorrow’s regulatory requirements under the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive horizontal framework for AI.
It asks companies to voluntarily implement key safeguards early, such as risk management, transparency, human oversight and security controls, especially for high-risk AI systems.
More than 100 organizations have already signed, covering cloud, software, finance, industry, healthcare and many European SMEs.
For Calimala, which operates in Europe and the UAE but works with global clients, this framework anchors product decisions in a standard that is quickly becoming a reference worldwide.
What Calimala.ai is committing to
As part of the AI Pact, Calimala.ai is formalising commitments in four main areas relevant to data & AI-driven hiring:
Transparent AI-assisted scoring
Clear explanation of how candidate scores are produced (inputs used, factors that matter, and what is not used—e.g. age, gender, nationality).
In-product UX that makes AI involvement visible and understandable to recruiters and, over time, to candidates.
Bias detection and fairness by design
Routine testing of models for bias across protected or sensitive attributes where legally and technically possible, with corrective measures documented.
Continuous monitoring of false negatives (good candidates being filtered out) and their patterns across regions, seniority levels, and role types.
Human-in-the-loop hiring decisions
AI never makes the hiring decision; it prioritises, flags, and summarises. Final calls remain with human hiring managers and talent partners.
Workflows and product controls that make it easy to override the AI’s recommendation and record human judgement.
Robust governance and documentation
Internal AI system inventories and model cards describing use cases, data sources, limitations and known risks—aligned to the risk-based approach promoted by the AI Pact.
Clear data-processing agreements and retention policies for both candidates and clients, particularly for EU-based processing.
Why responsible AI matters in hiring
The AI Act explicitly recognises employment and worker management as a high-risk area when AI systems significantly influence decisions.
For Calimala’s customers—banks, telcos, industrial and digital services groups—this means:
They can’t treat AI in hiring as an experiment; it needs controls, logs, and governance.
They will increasingly be asked by internal risk, compliance and external regulators to prove that hiring tools are fair, explainable and auditable.
Supplier selection will gravitate towards vendors who can demonstrate alignment with the AI Act and similar frameworks.
By joining the AI Pact, Calimala is signalling to those clients that its platform is being built with regulation-ready guardrails from the start, not patched on later.
What happens next
Calimala’s AI Pact commitments will show up in three practical ways:
Product roadmap: more visible explanations in the UI, better audit trails for candidate ranking, and configurable “risk profiles” for different engagement types.
Sales and legal: clearer documentation for clients’ risk and compliance teams, including how Calimala supports their own AI Act readiness.
Internal governance: a standing AI & Ethics review loop involving the product, data and legal teams to assess new features against AI Pact-aligned criteria.
For a company whose mission is to make AI hiring both faster and fairer, the AI Pact is not just a badge—it’s a design constraint.
Calimala supports CDOs, CIOs and business leaders with specialised Data & AI talent, structured engagements and delivery oversight — so critical initiatives are staffed with the right people, on time.
