Ropes

Overview

Ropes is a platform that validates candidate abilities, prevents fraud, and accelerates hiring for staffing firms.[1] The company sells an AI platform for detecting candidate fraud and verifying skills to staffing agencies, recruiting firms and talent solutions providers, screening applicants for identity and proxy test-taking, geolocation issues including VPNs and proxies, skills inflation and ATS resume anomalies.[2] Ropes is backed by investors including BoxGroup and GSV Ventures.[1] The company is headquartered at 27 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016.[3] Ropes offers two products: Scout for automated filtering of fraudulent candidates and Assessments for job-specific skills testing with verifiable proof.[6] Customers include Randstad Digital, Swoon, Eclaro, Mitchell Martin, ConsultNet, Medical Solutions, Improving, Curate Partners, Take2, INSPYR Solutions, KellyMitchell and Game7 Staffing.[4] According to a Swoon testimonial, the staffing firm used Ropes to test over 200 candidates, of which 70 turned out to be fraudulent, and reported increasing its interview to hire ratio by over 21 percent.[5]

Ropes' privacy policy gave its mailing address as Ropes AI Inc., 27 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016. [3]

Ropes offered two products, Scout for automated filtering of fraudulent candidates and Assessments for job-specific skills testing with verifiable proof, and published a "2026 Candidate Fraud Report." [6]

Business address: 27 E 28th St, New York, New York, 10016. [7]

Customers

Ropes named Randstad Digital, Swoon, Eclaro, Mitchell Martin, ConsultNet, Medical Solutions, Improving, Curate Partners, Take2, INSPYR Solutions, KellyMitchell and Game7 Staffing as customers. [4]

Growth & traction

Ropes cited a Swoon testimonial reporting "we've used Ropes to test over 200 candidates" of which "70 turned out to be fraudulent," and that Swoon "has increased our interview to hire ratio by over 21%." [5]