Everyresumelooksthesame.
You'llspendhalfyourweekreadingthemanyway.

500 people apply. Your shortlist of 20 is ready before you open a single resume. Not from keyword matching. From real intent that no resume has ever captured.

Hire fastergo from 500 applicants to 20 worth calling, without reading a single CV
500 applied20 shortlisted
Your ShortlistReady to review
AC
Alex Chen
5/5 answered, 17 min
Complete
JR
Jordan Reeves
5/5 answered, 14 min
Complete
SO
Sam Okafor
5/5 answered, 12 min
Complete
MK
Maya Kim
4/5 answered, 11 min
Complete
Each candidate's full conversation is available to review
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Market research spanning 900+ organizationsInsights from 4,100+ hiring managers surveyed40+ industry practitioners studiedGreenhouse 2026 hiring benchmark data
Market research spanning 900+ organizationsInsights from 4,100+ hiring managers surveyed40+ industry practitioners studiedGreenhouse 2026 hiring benchmark data
Market research spanning 900+ organizationsInsights from 4,100+ hiring managers surveyed40+ industry practitioners studiedGreenhouse 2026 hiring benchmark data
Market research spanning 900+ organizationsInsights from 4,100+ hiring managers surveyed40+ industry practitioners studiedGreenhouse 2026 hiring benchmark data
The Problem

What happens when you hire today

9x

more applications per job since 2022

You’re drowning in applications

Could get a thousand applications in two hours.

— Head of Global TA, Morningstar

AI-polished CVs flood your inbox faster than any team can process. Every qualified candidate looks identical to every unqualified one.

$30-50K

per headhunter placement

Sorting costs a fortune

Manual review gives you no confidence. Headhunters don’t scale.

— Exec Recruiter, 15 years

A bad senior hire costs $150-250K. That’s 3-5 months recruiting, 6 months onboarding, then starting over. Every workaround is a regression.

0%

of recruiter time spent filtering noise

Your team is smaller and the pile is bigger

We have to get through 2.6 times more applicants to make the same hires.

— Global Recruiting Director, Accenture

74% of recruiters manage 11+ roles simultaneously. TA teams have shrunk from 1.8% to 1.2% of workforce while volume exploded.

The intake produces zero signal

The application form has not changed since 2006. Candidates drop the same CV. The form produces no signal. Nobody has restructured the intake.

Hire Faster and Better

From 500 identical CVs to a defensible shortlist

Applications are up 9x. Every CV looks the same. Nobody has restructured the intake to filter the pile down.

THE CHALLENGES

Hiring Managers

68% of you are reviewing resumes yourselves. The pipeline sends identical CVs. You pattern-match for 1.5 seconds each.

In-House Talent Teams

74% manage 11+ roles. You spend 34% of your week filtering noise. AI made every application look the same.

Headhunters

You validate five signals before presenting anyone. That works, but it doesn't scale. A bad hire costs $150K-$250K.

THE BENEFITS

For Hiring Managers

Candidates complete a personalized challenge based on their CV. A smaller, stronger pile reaches you, and every candidate on it has documented evidence for why they are there.

For Talent Teams

The application captures real intent. Non-serious candidates self-select out. When your hiring manager asks why someone made the list, you have the documented evidence.

For Headhunters

Present candidates with structured challenge responses and documented evidence. Walk into client meetings with proof, not promises.

How It Works

From job posting to screening call in half the time

Every step feeds the next. Before you pick up the phone, you already know who is worth calling and what to ask.

Step 1

Structure the screen at the hiring manager level

The hiring manager defines what great looks like for this specific role. What does success look like in 6 months? What separates a good hire from a bad one? These inputs structure every question the candidate will face and every criteria the screener will evaluate against. The screen starts with the person who knows the role best.

Role-specific criteriaHiring manager inputStructured from day one
Step 2

A personalized conversation that narrows your funnel

Not a generic assessment. Not a video interview. A text-based conversation personalized from the candidate's own background. Each question references their previous answer, creating a thread only they can navigate. For someone with real experience, talking about their own work is natural. Candidates who do the work of engaging stand out from candidates who just submitted a resume.

Text-basedPersonalized from CVEach answer builds on the last
Step 3

AI narrows the funnel. You make the call.

Screening runs on CV and conversation data combined. Not keyword matching on polished resumes. The result is a shorter list of candidates who engaged with the role and showed specifics about their experience. No candidate gets auto-rejected. Your team makes every decision.

CV + conversation dataFunnel narrowingHuman decisions
Step 4

Enter every screening call with context

The recruiter has the candidate's conversation data, AI-generated questions that probe gaps, real-time consistency checking, and a criteria coverage checklist. The human reads the room. The AI provides structure. Nothing gets missed.

AI sidebarReal-time insightsCriteria tracking
Step 5

A structured summary so nothing gets missed

After the call, the system produces a structured summary. What was confirmed across the conversation and the call. What gaps remain. What to probe in the next round. Your decision, with the full picture. Exports directly to your ATS.

Structured summaryATS exportGap analysis
Under the Hood

Stop reading 500 resumes. Start with the ones who showed up.

Candidates answer real questions before you ever pick up the phone. When you do call, you already know what to ask.

A personalized conversation that narrows your funnel

Not a generic assessment. Not a video interview. A text-based conversation personalized from the candidate's own background. Each question references their previous answer, creating a thread only they can navigate. Candidates who do the work of engaging stand out from candidates who just submitted a resume.

From 500 resumes to a shortlist you trust

Screening runs on CV and conversation data combined. Not keyword matching on polished resumes. The result is a shorter list of candidates who engaged with the role, showed specifics about their experience, and completed every question. No candidate gets auto-rejected. Your team makes every decision.

Hard to game, easy to complete

Questions are personalized from the candidate's actual experience. Each follow-up references the previous answer. Candidates cannot template their way through. But for someone with real experience, talking about their own work is natural. The format favors depth, not rehearsal.

Your first screening call, augmented

Real-time AI support during the call. Questions generated from this candidate's conversation data, not a generic template. Live consistency checking between what they wrote and what they say. A qualifying criteria checklist that ensures full coverage. The recruiter runs the call. AI provides the context.

Works inside your ATS

Works with Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, or no ATS at all. Response analysis, batch processing, conversational AI. No new dashboard to learn. No data written back to your ATS. Read-only, always.

No candidate database

Analysis runs, then source data is discarded. No candidate profiles stored. No PII liability. When the recruiter reviews the analysis, it lives in their ATS, not ours.

AI note-taking and next-round reports

Every screening call produces a structured summary: what was verified, what gaps remain, and what to probe in the next interview. Notes feed directly into your ATS. No more post-call write-ups from memory.

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