Hellora Is Officially a Certified Microsoft AI Cloud Partner

We are excited to share an important milestone for Hellora.

Hellora is now a Certified Microsoft AI Cloud Partner.

When we evolved from Eqo into Hellora, our vision expanded beyond employee referrals. We set out to build an AI-powered candidate relationship management platform designed specifically for the complex realities of healthcare hiring.

This milestone strengthens that vision - and unlocks something recruiters have been asking for: outreach that actually reaches candidates.

Why This Matters: Your Emails, Not a Generic Domain

Most legacy CRMs send candidate outreach from a generic domain – something like @marketing-crm.client.com. Candidates don't recognize the sender. Spam filters don't either. The result is outreach that lands in spam or promotions folders, gets ignored, or never gets opened at all.

As a Certified Microsoft AI Cloud Partner, Hellora connects directly with a recruiter's own Microsoft Outlook inbox. That means re-engagement and outreach emails go out from the recruiter's actual email address - the one candidates already know and trust.

No generic sender. No spam folder. No promotions tab. Just a real email, from a real recruiter, landing where it belongs: the inbox.

For healthcare recruiting, where trust and responsiveness matter, this difference compounds fast. A message from "Jane at [Hospital System]" gets opened. A message from a marketing-CRM subdomain often doesn't.

Maximizing Reply Rates and Candidate Trust

Deliverability is only the first step. Once an email lands in the inbox, it still has to earn a reply - and that comes down to trust.

Candidates are more likely to respond when an outreach message looks and feels like it came from a real person they could actually talk to, not a mass campaign. Sending from a recruiter's own Outlook address means every reply goes straight back to that recruiter, not into a shared inbox or a no-reply address that goes unmonitored. Candidates get a real conversation, not a dead end.

This matters even more for passive or previously engaged candidates — the ones being rediscovered or re-engaged after months of silence. A cold, generic-looking message is easy to ignore. A familiar sender name, a real reply-to address, and a personalized message tied to their actual background is far more likely to get a response.

Higher trust leads to higher reply rates. Higher reply rates mean recruiters spend less time chasing candidates who never see their messages, and more time in real conversations with people who are actually interested.

Eve, Right Inside Microsoft Teams

Recruiters shouldn't have to leave their workflow to get help from Hellora.

As part of this certification, Hellora and Eve (Hellora's AI assistant) are accessible directly within Microsoft Teams. Recruiters can ask Eve questions, search candidate data, and get outreach support without switching tabs, logging into a separate platform, or breaking their flow.

Instead of hunting through spreadsheets or toggling between systems, a recruiter can simply ask Eve, in plain English, right inside Teams - "Who are our best candidates for this ICU opening?" or "Draft a re-engagement message for candidates who applied six months ago" — and get an answer where they're already working.

For healthcare recruiting teams already living in Microsoft Teams for daily communication, this turns Eve into less of a separate tool and more of a teammate that's always in the room. It's one more way Hellora meets recruiters where they already are, instead of asking them to change how they work.

We are proud of this milestone and excited to keep building the software healthcare recruiting teams deserve.