The short answer: TwinCafe, launched by Eightfold AI CEO Ashutosh Garg, turns a job seeker’s résumé, LinkedIn profile and work samples into an AI twin with a shareable link. Recruiters can question the twin about your roles, skills and career gaps before they ever meet you. Pricing, privacy and data-handling details have not been published yet.
Key facts
- What: TwinCafe, a tool that builds a digital twin of a job seeker.
- Who: launched by Ashutosh Garg, CEO of AI talent platform Eightfold AI.
- How: you upload your résumé, LinkedIn profile, work samples and other documents. You get a shareable link.
- Use: recruiters question the twin first, so the live interview can focus on judgment.
- Unknown: pricing, availability tiers, privacy and consent practices.
For years, the joke was that AI would take your job. Nobody warned us it would first take your job interview.
Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold AI, has launched TwinCafe. You feed it your résumé, your LinkedIn profile, work samples and other documents, and it builds a digital version of you. It then gives you a link to share. Fortune reported the launch on 12 Oct 2026. (Fortune)
The idea: a recruiter “interviews” your twin before they talk to you.
How would an AI twin interview actually work?
Garg imagines candidates putting the twin’s link at the top of their résumé or LinkedIn profile. A recruiter could then ask it about your past roles, your skills, or that two-year gap you usually explain with a nervous laugh. (Fortune)
The live conversation would then skip the résumé recap and go straight to questions that need a human. Fortune notes recruiters reportedly spend the first 20 minutes of an interview just verifying résumé details. (Fortune)
And yes, it gets more meta. Garg also imagines recruiters sending their own AI agent to screen your twin. Your AI interviews my AI, and we both go get chai. (Fortune)
Why does Eightfold think résumés are not enough?
“My main motivation was that a résumé is so limiting,” Garg told Fortune. His argument is that a twin can explain things a single page cannot, like a career break or a switch between industries. (Fortune)
He also pitched it as a way to widen the funnel: “Why limit a screening to five candidates? Why not interview everyone?” (Fortune)
That second point is genuinely interesting. Today, most applicants never get a conversation at all. If a twin gets you a fair hearing instead of a keyword filter, that is not a small thing.
What we do not know yet
This matters, so we will say it plainly. The Fortune report does not cover pricing, availability, privacy or consent practices, or how your data is stored and used. (Fortune)
Before you upload your entire career into anything, you want answers to a few questions:
- Who can see your twin, and can you revoke the link?
- Is your data used to train other models?
- What happens when your twin says something you would never say?
- Can you see what recruiters asked it, and what it answered?
None of these are reasons to panic. They are reasons to read the terms before the hype.
Our read (opinion)
Your résumé was always a marketing document. An AI twin is just a marketing document that talks back. The upside is huge if it represents you well. The downside is real if it does not, because it will be confident either way.
The skills that matter do not change. We wrote about building a résumé that is human, creative and ATS-ready last year. Same rules apply, now with higher stakes: clear achievements, real numbers, and a story that holds up to follow-up questions.
Because if your twin cannot explain your career gap, I promise the recruiter’s twin will notice.
Do this
Whether or not you ever use TwinCafe, prepare like your résumé will be interrogated. For each role, write down three achievements with numbers, one honest answer about any gap, and one example you would want an interviewer to ask about. That document makes you better in a human interview today, and gives any future AI twin something true to say.
FAQ
What is TwinCafe?
TwinCafe is a tool launched by Eightfold AI CEO Ashutosh Garg that creates a digital twin of a job seeker from their résumé, LinkedIn profile, work samples and other documents. It produces a shareable link that recruiters can question.
How does an AI twin job interview work?
A recruiter asks your twin about your past roles, skills or work-history gaps before the live interview. The live conversation can then focus on questions that need human judgment.
Is TwinCafe free?
Pricing has not been published. The Fortune report on the launch does not cover pricing or availability tiers.
Is it safe to upload my résumé to an AI twin tool?
Privacy, consent and data-handling details for TwinCafe have not been published. Before uploading, check who can see your twin, whether you can revoke access, and whether your data is used for training.
Will AI twins replace job interviews?
Not entirely. The idea is to replace the résumé-checking part of a first screen, so the live interview can focus on judgment, fit and follow-up questions.