Emi Labs alternative: a spoken skills check in Spanish or Portuguese
In Latin America, frontline hiring runs on messaging, and Emi Labs is built for that. Its agents attract applicants, pre-screen them, schedule and follow up, mostly in Spanish and Portuguese.
The limit is the channel. A chat can confirm that someone lives nearby and can work nights. It cannot tell you how they sound on the phone with a customer who wants a refund. For call center and retail roles, that is the skill you are hiring for.
The short version
- What it checks: Emi Labs pre-screens with eligibility questions over messaging. Greet runs a spoken scenario where the AI plays the customer.
- Languages: Greet interviews in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as English, French, German, Chinese and Georgian.
- Price: Emi Labs requires talking to sales. Greet is $99/month for 100 sessions.
What Emi Labs is
Emi Labs, based in Buenos Aires and backed by Y Combinator (W19), offers AI agents that attract, pre-screen, schedule, hire and retain operational staff. It works mainly through messaging channels in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets, for large operational employers in retail, logistics and call centers.
It does that well. It knows Latin American frontline hiring, where messaging is how candidates expect to talk to employers, it covers attraction through retention, and it speaks the local languages.
Where it falls short
From its own site and public listings:
- Focused on Latin America. That is a strength locally, and a limit if you hire across regions.
- Pricing requires sales. There is no number on the site.
- Eligibility over skill. Chat-based pre-screening favours yes/no questions over a spoken test of the job.
What Greet does instead
Hear how they handle the call
Greet runs a two-way AI voice interview in the browser, on a phone or desktop, and can also call applicants by phone. The AI speaks, listens and follows up. For a call center role, you hear tone, patience and clarity, not just whether the boxes were ticked.
The AI plays the customer, in their language
You write up to 10 scenarios or questions. A customer in São Paulo whose delivery is three days late. A caller in Bogotá disputing a charge on their bill. A shopper who wants to return a used item. The AI plays the part in Spanish or Portuguese and stays in character, so every candidate gets the same test.
Keep the messaging, add the screen
You do not have to drop the channel candidates like. Send the Greet link in the same message thread, or import a CSV and send unique links. Ask the eligibility basics at the start of the session, then move into the scenario.
Scores and recordings you can check
Choose the assessment blocks for the role, such as communication, problem-solving or English level for bilingual roles. Each session returns a match rate, summary, transcript and recording (Pro and above). Export results as CSV or PDF. Push to Talk helps candidates in noisy homes or stores.
A public price
Pro is $99/month for 100 completed sessions. Enterprise is $200/month for 500. Describe the role in a sentence, let AI draft the session, take it yourself with Play, and send it.
Side by side
| Emi Labs | Greet | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | AI agents over messaging | Two-way AI voice interview, browser or phone |
| What it checks | Eligibility and logistics | Spoken job scenarios with follow-ups |
| Scope | Attract, screen, schedule, hire, retain | Screening, plus role-play training after the hire |
| Languages | Spanish and Portuguese markets | Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Chinese, Georgian |
| Price | Not published; contact sales | $99/month for 100 sessions, $200/month for 500 |
| Getting started | Sales conversation | Sign up, build, share a link |
Which one to pick
Pick Emi Labs if you want one partner to run attraction, scheduling and retention for large operational teams in Latin America, all over messaging.
Pick Greet if you hire for phone, support or customer-facing roles, in Latin America or across regions, and you want to hear each candidate handle a real customer before you book an interview.
Try it on one role
- Pick the call center or store role with the most applicants.
- Write the customer situation new hires find hardest, in Spanish or Portuguese.
- Take the session yourself with Play.
- Send the link to this week’s applicants through your usual channel.
Create your Greet account and run it on one role.
Competitor details come from the public pages below, checked November 2026. Prices change; check the vendor’s site. Greet details are from greetai.co.