Vahan.ai, India’s leading AI-powered recruitment platform for blue-collar and gig economy workers, has announced a strategic partnership with Sunlight Manpower Services, a manpower recruitment company with over 15 years of operational experience across India. The partnership was officially signed on January 10, 2026.
The collaboration marks a significant step in Vahan.ai’s ongoing effort to build a scalable, technology-led recruitment ecosystem capable of supporting high-volume hiring across gig, logistics, and emerging industrial sectors. As part of this partnership, Vahan.ai will support Sunlight Manpower’s expansion and deeper integration into Vahan.ai’s national hiring network.
Through this partnership, Vahan.ai is extending its AI-powered hiring platform to enable experienced recruitment operators to scale faster, diversify across sectors, and operate with greater efficiency. By aggregating hiring demand from leading gig, delivery, logistics, and manufacturing employers on a single platform, Vahan.ai allows partners like Sunlight Manpower to access consistent, large-scale demand without relying on fragmented client acquisition.
Sunlight Manpower’s strong execution capabilities complement Vahan.ai’s technology-led approach to recruitment. Together, the partnership enables faster placements, improved recruiter productivity, and more reliable workforce supply for employers—while expanding access to formal employment for job seekers across multiple regions and industries.
The collaboration also reinforces Vahan.ai’s Vahan Leader model, under which local recruitment entrepreneurs and agencies are empowered with AI tools, national employer access, and performance-linked incentives to build sustainable, high-growth recruitment businesses. Today, hundreds of Vahan Leaders across India use the Vahan.ai platform to place tens of thousands of workers every month, demonstrating how AI can act as a force multiplier for human capability rather than a replacement. Following this partnership, Vahan.ai is in advanced discussions with additional recruitment agencies as it continues to expand its partner-led hiring ecosystem nationwide.
Commenting on the partnership, Abhishek Chaturvedi, VP, Vahan.ai, said, “Scaling India’s workforce requires more than just technology – it requires strong partners on the ground who understand local realities. At Vahan.ai, our role is to provide the hiring intelligence, demand aggregation, and AI infrastructure that allows such partners to scale responsibly and sustainably. Sunlight Manpower brings deep operational experience, and together we are building a recruitment ecosystem where AI amplifies human effort, placements happen faster, and access to reliable work expands across sectors.”
Sunlight Manpower Services currently recruits over 6,000 workers across more than 20 cities and towns in India. Vahan.ai has facilitated over 1 million job placements across 920+ cities, working with leading employers across quick-commerce, food delivery, mobility and warehousing. Over the past year, Vahan.ai has also strengthened its foundation through strategic investments from Lemmatree (a Temasek fund), Persol Group and Khosla Ventures, enabling the company to deepen its technology capabilities and widen its sectoral footprint. Sunlight Manpower’s integration into Vahan.ai’s platform will enable the company to expand beyond its existing client base, tap into new sectors such as manufacturing, and improve placement efficiency through AI-led workflows.
Director at Sunlight Manpower said, “We’re thrilled to join hands with Vahan.ai. At Sunlight Manpower Services, our focus has always been on timely, dependable hiring and this partnership helps us raise the bar. With Vahan.ai’s platform enabling smarter, quicker screening and onboarding, we’re confident we can deliver better service to our clients while helping more candidates find the right roles.”