Case Study: Coda achieves 3x hiring scale and 6% fewer mis-hires with Searchlight

Coda Uses Searchlight’s Behavioral Data To Improve Quality of Hire

Coda, the San Francisco–based all-in-one doc startup valued at $1.4B, needed to scale hiring quickly while maintaining high quality of hire. Their team relied on reference checks as a predictive signal but found manual scheduling and calls (taking hours per candidate) slowed decisions. To address this, Coda adopted Searchlight’s Predictive Talent Platform—using One-Click References and behavioral data—to automate and standardize reference insights.

Searchlight integrated with Coda’s recruiting workflow (Greenhouse) to deliver structured reference reports within 36 hours, saving about 1–2 hours per candidate and enabling Coda to hire three times more people. Searchlight’s behavioral data helped Coda avoid costly mis-hires (catching an estimated 6% false-positive rate), recover roughly 5% of candidates they might have rejected, and give hiring managers actionable insights to speed onboarding and improve on-the-job performance.

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Kenny Mendes

Head of People & Operations