Reejig: The Sydney Startup Mapping Every Skill in Your Workforce With AI
What Is Reejig?
Reejig is a Sydney-based HR technology company founded in 2019 by Siobhan Savage and Saif Akhtar. The company has built an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform that helps large organisations understand, map, and mobilise their existing talent.
The core idea: most large companies don’t actually know what skills their employees have. Reejig’s AI analyses job histories, project work, learning records, and performance data to build a real-time skills map of every person in the organisation — then helps match them to new roles, projects, and upskilling opportunities.
How Reejig Uses AI
- Skills inference: AI analyses job titles, responsibilities, and career histories to infer skills — even when they’re not formally recorded
- Zero Wastage model: Reejig’s proprietary AI framework designed to eliminate wasted human potential by matching people to the right opportunities
- Internal mobility: AI surfaces internal candidates for open roles before companies default to external hiring
- Workforce planning: Predictive analytics that flag which roles and skills will be in shortage 6–18 months out
- Bias reduction: AI-driven matching designed to reduce unconscious bias in talent decisions
Why It Matters
Reejig targets large enterprises — government agencies, banks, professional services firms — rather than small businesses. But the problem it solves is universal: organisations constantly hire externally for skills they already have internally, because they lack visibility over their own workforce.
The company has been recognised globally for its ethical AI approach, publishing its AI model and bias audit results openly — a rarity in HR tech.
Key Facts
- Founded: 2019
- HQ: Sydney, NSW
- Founders: Siobhan Savage (CEO), Saif Akhtar (CTO)
- Focus: Enterprise workforce intelligence and internal talent mobility
- Notable: Open AI ethics framework; recognised by World Economic Forum
- Funding: Venture-backed; Series A raised 2022
Reejig and the Future of Work in Australia
As AI automates more tasks, the ability to rapidly reskill and redeploy workers becomes a competitive advantage. Reejig is building the infrastructure for that — helping Australian enterprises treat their workforce as a dynamic asset rather than a static org chart.
This profile is part of SmallBizAI.au’s guide to Australian AI companies by industry.
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