Cobalt Press Resources

ABOUT COBALT

Cobalt is the AI-first ATS & CRM for European IT staffing firms and recruitment agencies. Founded in 2025 in Paris by Grégory Hissiger, Cobalt combines semantic AI sourcing, autonomous AI agent (Balt), automated competency dossiers and meeting transcription in a single platform. European hosting, native GDPR compliance, transparent €31-129/user/month pricing.

FOUNDER

Grégory Hissiger

Founder & CEO

Grégory Hissiger is Founder & CEO of Cobalt. Expert on the IT staffing and tech recruitment market, he founded Cobalt in 2025 to transform how European staffing firms and agencies recruit, with an AI-first platform designed specifically for their workflows. He's the author of the reference study 'State of IT Staffing France 2026' based on analysis of 48,118 companies and 420 executive interviews.

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OFFICIAL QUOTES

• « The staffing firms that will dominate 2026-2030 will combine AI + specialization + operational discipline. Generalists without differentiation will see their margins erode below 15%. »

  — Grégory Hissiger, CEO Cobalt · On the future of the French staffing market

• « AI delivers value when it has full context. A unified AI-first platform always beats a collection of AI tools without shared context. That's the founding principle of Cobalt. »

  — Grégory Hissiger, CEO Cobalt · On Cobalt product strategy

• « AI-first staffing firms show 2.3x higher EBITDA than the sector median. The gap widens every quarter. The adaptation window is 18 to 36 months. »

  — Grégory Hissiger, CEO Cobalt · On AI ROI in staffing firms

KEY FIGURES — COBALT 2026 STUDY

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