Hire elite Hawaii & Pacific talent on autopilot.
Post a role. Talent Hui matches, scores, and schedules every applicant automatically, sourced from tens of thousands of vetted professionals your competitors cannot reach.
Why hiring managers switch
Every layer between you and your next hire, gone.
Hiring usually means stitching together job boards, an ATS, a scheduler like Calendly, and endless email back-and-forth, then drowning in unqualified applicants while the role sits open for weeks. Talent Hui replaces all of it with one agentic system that speeds up and automates the admin work, so you only spend time with the people worth meeting.
Matching
Agents match every applicant to the role and surface the strongest candidates automatically. No keyword filters, no manual triage.
Confidence scoring
An AI confidence score on every applicant the moment they apply, so your shortlist is ready before you open the tab.
Scheduling
Books interviews inside the calendars you already use. No back-and-forth, no double-booking, invites sent to both sides.
Local sourcing
Agents source straight from a Hawaii and Indo-Pacific talent community of kamaʻāina, alumni, and returning professionals you won't find anywhere else.
Hawaii & Pacific Talent Community
Tens of thousands of Hawaii-rooted professionals across the islands, the mainland, and the wider Pacific. The living talent network every agent searches first.
The teams hiring on Talent Hui.
Featured Companies
The Founding Team
From Hawaii, building hiring that runs itself. Team backgrounds span Y Combinator, Columbia, and Carnegie Mellon.
Zack Hernandez
2X Founder, Hawaii native & talent executive
Founder of Talent Hui, building the agentic hiring platform from Honolulu. Proved the model inside AEP Hawaii's live recruiting operation before turning it into a platform any team can run.
PunahouColumbiaAEP Hawaii
Jeff Mori
Engineering
Built compensation and HR infrastructure at tech giants and enterprises. Architect of the Talent Hui platform. Big Island raised.
Y CombinatorCarnegie MellonHawaii Prep
Darius "Bubs" Monsef
Advisor
Three exits. One of Y Combinator and Hawaii's most trusted operator-investors, with a direct line to global venture capital.
Y Combinator3 exitsParker SchoolNalukai FoundationBattle Tested & Built Aloha
Proven running real hiring across the Pacific, then built into a company.
Talent Hui ran live recruiting inside AEP Hawaii and dozens of its Hawaii and Indo-Pacific clients: venture-backed startups, defense primes, and Pacific enterprises.
Proven inside
AEP Hawaii + dozens more
Need a dedicated recruiting team? AEP Hawaii's recruiters embed with you, powered by the Talent Hui stack.
Talk to AEP Hawaii →Our Mission
Bringing kamaʻāina back home, elevating Hawaii across the Pacific.
For so many kamaʻāina, the dream is simple: build your career, then find your way home. We bring kamaʻāina home, create high-paying jobs, and back the next wave of founders in Hawaii. Through school, island, and city leaderboards, we keep Hawaii's alumni connected, visible, and rooted, no matter where their career takes them.
Defense and Dual-Use
Mission-ready talent for the Indo-Pacific.
Talent Hui runs a dedicated defense and dual-use talent segment, sourced across Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific. We support defense primes and mission-driven teams hiring for hard roles in the region, from engineering to program management.
Talk to our defense team
What the community says
Built for Hawaii & the Pacific.
“Love the vision, will use it as our central source of truth for sourcing Hawaii talent.”
“Great tool. User-friendly for recruiters and candidates alike.”
“Talent Hui is something we've been missing, built for Hawaii, by people who understand Hawaii.”
One Talent Network
Source from it. Or join it.
Hawaii's living talent network powers both sides of the platform, the companies sourcing and the people they're hiring.