Our Story
Built by People Who’ve Been There
We’ve sat on both sides of the hiring table. We built SageScreen because we knew there had to be a better way.
The Problem We Saw
Hiring Was Broken. We Lived It.
Ryan brings two decades of experience as an enterprise architect — across aerospace, fintech, and healthtech. From Fortune 500s to scrappy startups, he’s learned what happens when the right person is matched to the right seat. Projects move faster. Teams stay aligned. Big ideas actually ship.
Alongside Kayla’s 15 years in leadership, they recognized how hard it is to find real talent – especially in startups hiring for complex roles without deep in-house expertise. Those experiences shape SageScreen: a structured, fair, and data-driven approach to screening candidates with confidence.
“We kept asking: why does hiring still feel like guesswork? Why don’t the strongest candidates always rise to the top—and what would it take to change that?”
The answer isn’t more tools. The market is already full of them. The answer is clarity, a way to cut through the noise, surface real indicators, and give hiring teams what they actually need: structured, explainable insight.
So we built SageScreen. Not to replace human judgment, but to sharpen it. Not to automate decisions, but to make them confident and defensible. An AI that runs consistent, adaptive interviews; then steps back and lets people decide.
We’re a small team by design. Two founders, married, building something we genuinely want to use. No pressure to grow at all costs. No black-box algorithms we can’t explain. Just a thoughtful tool, built with care, that does exactly what it promises.
That’s SageScreen. Calm hiring. Clear signal. Human decisions.
Leadership
Meet the Founders
Two people. One mission. A lot of coffee tea! Tea!
Ryan C. Meinzer
Chief Technology Officer
30+ years leading teams and building enterprise systems in aerospace, fintech, and healthtech. A CTO and Enterprise Architect who’s seen what happens when hiring goes wrong and right.
- CTO/Enterprise Architect with Fortune 500 experience
- Built systems handling billions in transactions a day
- Aerospace, fintech, and healthtech expertise
- Founder of XM Tek LLC
Kayla Meinzer
Chief Product Officer
Product Management Leader with 15 years across fintech, marketing, healthtech, and automotive. Kayla has a proven track record of building software products her customers love.
- Consumer & Business Product Leadership
- Candidate experience advocate
- Product strategy and user research
- Co-founder of SageScreen
Our Principles
Hiring decisions should be explainable, auditable, and made by people.
Read Our Values