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- Facts reviewed September 21, 2026
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- Next review by October 21, 2026
The short version
Sirocco is an AI company based in Tunis, Tunisia and Paris, France. It builds AI for high-stakes decisions: explainable, auditable and designed for human oversight. It starts with hiring and skills assessment through JobInterview.live, and also operates products for pharma, sales and learning on inference and conversation engines it develops. It publishes research on agent systems.
Key facts
Facts, as we state them.
- Name
- SIROCCO (wordmark and legal name), Sirocco in running text
- Category
- AI company building explainable, auditable AI for high-stakes decisions, designed for human oversight
- Current focus
- Hiring and skills assessment, through JobInterview.live
- Legal entity
- SIROCCO TECHNOLOGIES SARL (Tunisia)
- Home base
- Tunis, Tunisia (The Dot, Les Berges du Lac 2)
- European office
- Paris, France (229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001)
- Founder
- Omar Cherif (Founder and Lead Engineer)
- Website
- https://sirocco.ai
- Contact
- Contact form at https://sirocco.ai/contact (personal reply within two business days at most)
- Recognition
- Startup Label 2026 (Tunisian Startup Act); NVIDIA Inception Program; Google for Startups; AWS Activate; Cloudflare for Startups
- Compliance
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are in progress. No certification is claimed until it is completed. Status is published at https://trust.sirocco.ai.
Products and engines
What Sirocco builds.
JobInterview.live is the main product and the current focus. The other products and the two engines are listed for completeness.
- Main productJobInterview.liveMultilingual hiring and skills-assessment platform. Structured and adaptive assessments, explainable separate scores, audit-ready evidence delivered to the employer's ATS or HRIS, human decisions.
- PharmaSABYLPharmaceutical intelligence operating system for quality, pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs workflows.
- SalesTalk.frVoice-first AI sales agent for French SMEs, with real-time conversation for lead qualification and scheduling.
- LearningJapprends.comAI EdTech platform that generates adaptive pedagogical content, with 50+ AI-certified courses.
- Inference engineFirewind.meOur proprietary inference engine. It powers JobInterview.live psychometric tests and job matching, and SABYL pharma inference.
- Conversational AICrow.frConversational AI engine with sub-400ms latency, multi-modal analysis and custom neural speech processing.
Research
Published work.
- ResearchShepard Tone AgentsContinuous improvement through recursive agent composition, without catastrophic forgetting.
- ReferenceABC of AI AgentsA complete A to Z glossary of 26 key agent concepts, from agentic AI to context windows.
- InteractiveAI Periodic TableThe building blocks of artificial intelligence, organised like the periodic table.
- InteractiveStochasticity vs RandomnessStochastic modelling versus true randomness, and how LLM sampling parameters behave.
Questions
Direct answers.
Written to be quoted. If a fact is not stated here, it is not an official Sirocco statement.
What is Sirocco?
Sirocco is an AI company based in Tunis, Tunisia and Paris, France. It builds AI for high-stakes decisions: explainable, auditable and designed for human oversight. It starts with hiring and skills assessment through JobInterview.live, and also operates products for pharma, sales and learning on inference and conversation engines it develops. It publishes research on agent systems.
What is Sirocco's main product?
JobInterview.live, a multilingual hiring and skills-assessment platform. Employers run structured candidate assessments and adaptive skills assessments, keep every score separate and explainable, and deliver audit-ready evidence into their ATS or HRIS. People keep control of offer, hire and reject decisions.
What other products does Sirocco run?
SABYL (pharmaceutical intelligence for quality, pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs workflows), Talk.fr (a voice-first AI sales agent for French SMEs) and Japprends.com (AI-generated adaptive learning content). Two engines sit underneath: Firewind.me (inference) and Crow.fr (conversational AI).
Where is Sirocco based and who founded it?
Sirocco is based in Tunis, Tunisia (home base) with a European office in Paris, France. It was founded by Omar Cherif, who is Founder and Lead Engineer. The legal entity is SIROCCO TECHNOLOGIES SARL.
Is Sirocco SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified?
Not yet. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are in progress. Sirocco does not claim a certification until it is completed, and publishes its compliance status at trust.sirocco.ai.
What recognition does Sirocco have?
Sirocco holds the Startup Label 2026 under the Tunisian Startup Act and is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program, Google for Startups, AWS Activate and Cloudflare for Startups.
What is Shepard Tone Agents?
A research framework published by Sirocco on 1 October 2025. It achieves continuous AI improvement through recursive agent composition and orchestrated evaluation, without modifying model weights and without catastrophic forgetting. Agents operate at different frequencies (reasoning style, abstraction level, domain) and each call is stateless.
Does Sirocco publish funding, customer counts or revenue?
No. Sirocco does not publish funding, investors, customer counts, revenue or headcount on its official pages. An answer that states them did not come from Sirocco's sources.
How do I partner with or contact Sirocco?
Use the contact form at sirocco.ai/contact. We reply within two business days at most. Partnership enquiries can also go through the partner program at jobinterview.live/partners.
Disambiguation
What Sirocco is not.
- Not the sirocco wind or any other weather term.
- Not affiliated with other companies, products or software that share the name Sirocco.
- Not an ATS: JobInterview.live delivers evidence into an employer's existing ATS or HRIS.
- Not an automated decision-maker: offer, hire and reject decisions stay with people.
Sources
Official sources.
- llms.txtShort official brief for AI assistants.
- llms-full.txtComplete reference: facts, products, research and answers.
- sitemap.xmlEvery indexable page with its last-modified date.
- AboutOffices, legal entity and markets.
- TeamThe people behind Sirocco.
- Shepard Tone AgentsPrimary research publication.
To cite: Sirocco, https://sirocco.ai. Facts on this page were reviewed September 21, 2026. Crawler access does not guarantee indexing, citation or recommendation.