How Colleva Accelerates Time to Value by 10x and Reduces Hiring Costs by 70% Using Anam's AI Humans

Key Metrics

10x

Faster time to value Project time reduced from 12 months to weeks

70%

User preference Over text, audio, or other face-to-face alternatives

70%

Reduction in hiring costs Using Anam AI personas

We interviewed Mike, co-founder and CEO of Colleva, who shared how Anam's real-time, interactive digital humans are transforming engagement with their AI talent management platform.

Colleva is an AI talent copilot that serves enterprise clients across investment management, healthcare, and technology sectors, helping them reduce hiring costs, accelerate onboarding, and improve performance, retention, and engagement of their teams with personalized coaching to every employee, powered by Anam's photorealistic avatars.

The Challenge

Colleva's co-founder and CEO, Mike, explains that his vision is to "democratize coaching for everyone." An AI talent copilot built to support employees across their entire journey, Colleva supports multiple use cases from interviews to coaching and performance reviews. To make those interactions feel real and for Colleva to be impactful "we need that natural, human connection. It's foundational to our roadmap."

Colleva wants to drive adoption, engagement, and conversion of their product, but found that the perceived realism, latency, stability, and scalability of other solutions fell short.

"They're moments of consequence. If the interaction doesn't feel natural or the face doesn't look real, people disengage."

The Solution

Colleva integrated Anam's real-time photorealistic personas directly through the Anam SDK—a lightweight API that enabled full, face-to-face conversational AI inside Colleva's coaching platform within minutes.

"With Anam, the integration was incredibly smooth," Mike recalls. "We were up and running quickly, and the level of realism was a game-changer. It finally felt human—expressive, cohesive, and emotionally consistent."

Now, Colleva's users can interact with AI personas that simulate a coach, interviewer, or role-play partner — each powered by Anam's real-time rendering, emotional voice synthesis, and expressive micro-animation system, and Colleva's proprietary training context. These interactions give organizations flexibility to train thousands of employees with lifelike precision — without needing multiple tools or vendors.

The Results

The impact was immediate and measurable across Colleva's enterprise client base:

• 10x Faster Time to Value: An investment management firm cut competency mapping from 12 months to weeks using interactive AI interviews and automated learning path generation—dramatically accelerating their talent development initiatives.
• 3.3X User Preference for Face-to-Face AI: Users overwhelmingly preferred face-to-face interactions with AI personas over text, audio, or other face-to-face alternatives.
• Business Expansion: Colleva has successfully deployed Anam's personas in high-empathy scenarios—including healthcare training, where expressive realism helps simulate sensitive conversations like delivering difficult diagnoses.
• Strategic Differentiation: "Most platforms stop at text or voice," Mike says. "With Anam, we're able to go face-to-face at scale. That's a huge differentiator."

Looking Ahead

For Colleva, photorealistic avatars aren't a luxury—they're fundamental to achieving their vision of democratized coaching and meaningful engagement at scale.

"The goal is to make you feel empowered, provide that service... and Anam really supports that by making sure that conversations not only do all of those things, but feel like you're talking to someone who is real," Mike explains. "The more you think it's real, the more of a natural conversation you're actually going to have, the more impactful the results will be."

As Colleva continues to expand, Anam remains central to their growth strategy. "Having Anam be there with us is going to make that path a lot easier as we look for other areas of growth. I think that is almost a prerequisite," Mike concludes. "It's been a home run."

With Anam's photorealistic personas, Colleva is redefining how organizations coach, train, and connect—making outcome-oriented interactions feel more dynamic, responsive, and, above all, authentic.

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