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Tweeks.io

Winter 2025 · Active

Lovable for Chrome Plugins

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

NextByte’s AI recruiter helps you identify top candidates faster, so your team can focus on what matters – building your product and hiring the best talent. Our platform understands the requirements for each role and tailors voice-driven technical and non-technical evaluations to surface candidates who are ready for your next onsite interview. NextByte can screen hundreds of candidates simultaneously and provides rubric-based, detailed evaluations in minutes. Our analytics dashboards provide a clear view of technical ability, problem-solving skills, and communication under pressure across your candidate pool, so you can confidently move the right candidates forward. With NextByte, hiring teams save time, reduce bias, and make faster, data-driven hiring decisions without sacrificing quality.

Founders

  • Jason MadeanoFounder

    Co-founder and CEO of Nextbyte Prior to Nextbyte, Jason was a Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest leading ML recommendations for modules on the Homefeed Relevance team. He holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from MIT in Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Science. His research on Cultural Transmission and Reinforcement Learning received a best paper award at NeurIPS.

  • Matt StalloneFounder

    Co-founder of NextByte. Before tackling agents, Matt was leading the post-training of Foundation Language Models at IBM Research, working on major releases including the Granite model series. During his career, he published multiple first author papers on his LLM research. He is classically trained in ML and Distributed Systems and holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.