Rotterdam, May 28, 2026 – VONQ, the agentic recruitment automation platform, today announced its recognition as a Strategic Leader in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition, marking the fifth consecutive year the company has been positioned as a Strategic Leader.
This positioning reflects how VONQ continues to act as a trusted partner for global enterprise and staffing organizations and leading Applicant Tracking System (ATS) providers with a single platform that powers hiring from AI job descriptions to agentic interviewing and scoring of job applicants.
Why VONQ Continues to Lead
Built for scale and headless from day one, the company continues to work with their customers as “design partners” to deliver new AI services.
EQO® wasn’t built in a hackathon. It was built on 15+ years of infrastructure: headless from day one, outcome-based by design, and already embedded inside 85+ ATS platforms. HAPI, VONQ’s API layer, is the largest headless job marketplace in HR tech, wired into thousands of integrations and distributing over 2 million jobs every month across 5,000+ channels. When VONQ’s customers asked for AI, the pipes were already there. EQO is what happens when you build AI on top of real infrastructure instead of starting with a demo.
Today, VONQ’s platform orchestrates complex, multistep workflows, combining AI tools and deep agents to enable hiring from job descriptions to the shortlisting of candidates.
This combination of enterprise-scale execution, ecosystem reach, embedded AI, and trusted partnerships reflects the qualities recognized in the Fosway 9-Grid™ and positions VONQ as a strategic technology partner for organizations rethinking how they attract, evaluate, and hire talent.
“Five years as a Strategic Leader reflects a deliberate build, with customers who shaped it and partners who trusted it. EQO® orchestrates the full top-of-funnel: job description to ranked, interview-ready shortlist, inside the ATS. No extra tool. Better candidates. Full control.” – Ritu Mohanka, CEO, VONQ
“The talent acquisition market in Europe is more cautious, fragmented and increasingly shaped by AI-driven change,” said Sven Elbert, Head of Analyst Services at Fosway Group. “Organisations are looking for solutions that improve recruiter productivity, candidate quality and hiring outcomes, while supporting appropriate governance and control. VONQ’s continued position as a Strategic Leader reflects its strength in talent attraction and engagement, its embedded ecosystem reach, and its continued innovation in applying automation and AI to complex top-of-funnel hiring challenges.”
About the Fosway 9-Grid™
Fosway Group is Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst. The Fosway 9-Grid™ is a five-dimensional market analysis model that helps organisations compare solutions based on Performance, Potential, Market Presence, Total Cost of Ownership and Trajectory.
The Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition provides a unique assessment of the principal talent acquisition options available to organizations in EMEA. The analysis is based on extensive independent research and insights from Fosway’s Corporate Research Network of over 250 organizations, including BP, HSBC, PwC, Sanofi, Shell, and Vodafone.
Visit the Fosway website at www.fosway.com.
About VONQ
VONQ is the next-generation agentic AI recruitment technology company, helping companies hire smarter, fairer and faster. By making recruitment more predictable, efficient, and outcome-driven, VONQ connects employers and candidates through intelligent job distribution, programmatic advertising, and AI-powered candidate screening. With over 20 years of market expertise and deep integrations with 85+ ATS partners, VONQ supports more than 350 enterprise employers, global staffing firms, and technology partners across Europe, North America, and APAC, including Employ, Adecco, SoftwareOne, PwC, and Randstad, and is recognized as a Strategic Leader in the Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition. VONQ is headquartered in Rotterdam with offices in Groningen, Düsseldorf, and London. www.vonq.com.
