Eyal Bar Oz

“Product People Are the Biggest Winners of the AI Revolution”

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[In the photo: Eyal Bar-Oz. Credit: PR]

Webiz sits precisely at the intersection where the tech industry is changing: between development services for large companies undergoing transformation, and a new generation of entrepreneurs building products on their own using AI. The company’s CEO, Eyal Bar-Oz, lives in both worlds — managing global teams on one hand while launching products himself on the other. “There are many changes in the industry… I personally launched four products. What used to take six months of work, I now do alone.”

According to Bar-Oz, artificial intelligence is creating a sharp divide between new startups and large enterprises. Startups, he says, hardly need development teams anymore. “Startups and new companies barely outsource developers, because the product is built from scratch using AI tools. Today you can reach a POC independently.”

Large organizations, however, require more manpower than ever. “In big companies with legacy systems you can’t replace everything with AI. You need to maintain the existing while introducing the new. Transformation requires more people.”

The result, he predicts, will be an explosion in the number of companies. “We will see far more startups — 100 times more. Anyone can start one. It will allow more countries to become startup nations.”

The developer role is changing — and the winners

The most dramatic shift is happening inside the profession itself. Coding is no longer the center. “Being only a coder is no longer relevant.”

Front-end development, he argues, is already fading: “Today you can build it with vibe-coding tools. We see far fewer front-end hires. In a few years it won’t be relevant.”

In its place emerges a new role — the AI-era full stack. “Full stack today means understanding product, infrastructure, data, project management and DevOps. Being a wrapper.”

The biggest beneficiaries, he says, are product professionals. “Product people are the biggest winners of the revolution — the Steve Jobs types.”

Developers, in turn, will have to evolve into that role: “It will be interesting to see how they bring out the product person within themselves.”

Despite the rise of individual productivity, Bar-Oz sees renewed logic in the return to the office. “Collaboration creates human value. That’s the advantage of humans over AI. The power of the team is stronger than the individual.”

As for SaaS, he rejects claims the model is dying. “SaaS isn’t dead. There’s security, backup and storage… the market volatility reflects uncertainty, not existential risk.”

The academy: teaching people to build alone

Against this backdrop, Webiz is launching a new international training academy. The courses are no longer traditional programming studies but training a single person to create a product.

“AI-era entrepreneurship — from A to Z in a month — so you can reach a POC alone, without a designer, without product, without a developer.”

Demand comes directly from what the company observes in the market. “We see startups doing the process independently, so we want to teach it.”

The curriculum focuses on data, product thinking and AI tools. “The world needs to learn much more than before. If people don’t adapt, they won’t survive.”

The academy will operate in Israel and Georgia, Webiz’s main activity hub. “We’re launching our first course in Georgia next month… People are very confused right now, and the courses also provide mentoring.”

Ultimately, Bar-Oz describes a tech industry that is not shrinking but splitting: more solo entrepreneurs on one side, massive organizations needing more workers on the other — and in between, one person with an idea and AI tools.

New AI Platform Automates Recruitment Processes and Introduces a Collaborative Compensation Model

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[In the photo: Eyal Bar Oz, CEO of Hrmony. Courtesy]

Hrmony has launched an AI-based recruitment platform designed to streamline and accelerate hiring processes in technology companies, while reshaping the prevailing working and compensation models in the recruitment industry. The platform is aimed primarily at independent recruiters and companies, offering more precise matching between job requirements and candidates, alongside a collaborative model that is not solely based on placement fees.

The platform uses AI algorithms to analyze job requirements, screen candidates from global databases, and match skills, experience, and operational needs. According to the company, automated screening significantly reduces the time spent reviewing résumés and allows recruiters to focus on more advanced stages of the hiring process. Hrmony is connected to international candidate pools, including technology talent databases, providing access to candidates worldwide.

In addition, the system enables collaboration between recruiters. A recruiter can invite others to participate in a hiring process, suggest candidates, or provide targeted assistance, and receive compensation based on predefined terms. This model is intended to reduce dependence on a single successful placement as a source of income, while creating a flexible professional network that expands candidate supply and shortens response times.

The launch comes against the backdrop of broader shifts in the global labor and high-tech markets. Technology companies are hiring more cautiously, demanding faster and more precise matches, and reducing the resources allocated to lengthy recruitment processes. At the same time, experienced candidates expect short and efficient hiring cycles and are more likely to drop out of cumbersome processes in favor of other opportunities. Recruiters, for their part, are seeking more advanced technological tools and diversified compensation models.

According to Eyal Bar Oz, co-founder of Hrmony, “Companies are no longer willing to invest the same resources in recruitment and are looking for highly precise and concrete matches. The platform makes hiring processes faster, more accurate, and more dynamic, in a way that is more cost-effective for both companies and recruiters, while improving the candidate experience.”

Beyond candidate screening, Hrmony consolidates recruiters’ core working tools into a single system, including job and candidate management, sourcing, scheduling, interviews, task management, and collaboration. The goal is to replace the parallel use of multiple separate tools—a practice that increases costs and creates operational friction.

The company emphasizes that artificial intelligence is not intended to replace human judgment, but rather to serve as a horizontal intelligence layer that provides insights, recommendations, and identification of collaboration opportunities, helping recruiters work more efficiently and adapt to the evolving realities of the labor market.