AI-native hiring
You will never
read 200 CVs again.
Post a role. We syndicate it, screen every applicant, run the assessment, and put three finalists plus the ranked list on your desk in 48 hours.
no credit card·first 50 vets free·cancel any time
from 200 applicants → top 3, vetted
The funnel · R-001
same task. same score.
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Top 3 · ready
Senior Backend Eng
● 94 avg
01
Amara Okafor
strongest signal
94
02
Theo Lindqvist
best on systems
91
03
Priya Anand
sharpest interview
89
● LIVE1,284 roles vetted this week/Median time-to-shortlist: 31h 12m/4,712 finalists delivered/2,047 hiring managers/First 50 free
Hiring at
ascend.
meridian
kindred.co
NORTH/STAR
paloma
quarter.
verso.
How it works
Four steps between posting a role and a shortlist.
Median end-to-end: 31h 12m
01
~30 seconds
You post
Title, level, three must-haves. Thirty seconds. No JD-builder, no template gallery, no AI-suggested copy.
02
14 boards
We syndicate
Fourteen boards, org-schema structured data, aggregator-friendly. Indeed, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Otta, plus the niche boards your team won't admit to using.
03
4 stages
We vet
Triage. Screen interview by AI voice. Role-fit assessment. First-round interview by AI voice. Each step ends in a numeric score and a written note.
04
by Friday
You decide
Three finalists at the top. The full ranked list below them, with notes. You book the meeting. You make the call. We never reach into your decision.
The dashboard
Three at the top. The rest below.
What you see on Friday. Three recommended finalists, the ranked rest underneath, every score with its written note.
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Today · shortlist ready
Senior Backend Engineer
48 VETTED · 12 SHORTLISTED · 3 IN FINAL ROUND · £0.00 OF £50 CAP
Live23h 41m
MR
Marta Reinholt
Berlin · ex-Lyft
91/100
Top systems-design score across the cohort. Eventual consistency, no hand-waving. Direct, picks the right tradeoff.
TOP PICK · OPEN
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Dario Tedeschi
Milan · ex-Spotify
88/100
Strong reliability instincts. Has shipped this exact system before. Lower bandwidth, asks one careful question.
OPEN PROFILE
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Aiyana Yazzie
Remote · MST
86/100
Self-taught path, distinct from the other two. Pragmatic about tooling. Lower formal-CS depth but bright in the moments that count.
OPEN PROFILE
9 more in the ranked shortlist · scores 78 - 85
The honest comparison
Different category. Not feature parity.
Greenhouse and Lever manage your pipeline. We manage hiring outcomes. They're not the same job.
 
The old way (ATS)
picked.
Cost
$1,200 / month per seat
99c per AI-vetted candidate
What you see
200 CVs you read yourself
3 finalists + the ranked rest
Time to shortlist
6 weeks, on a good week
48 hours, every week
Sold to
HR, top-down rollout
Hiring managers, bottom-up
Onboarding
Change-management deck, kick-off
Sign in, post a role, done
First-round
Recruiter screen call
AI voice interview, scored
Verification
ATS integration gymnastics
Verified once, portable
Free tier
14-day trial after sales call
50 candidates free. Self-serve.
What managers say
Hiring managers don't need another tool. They need this one to work.
Posted on Monday. Three interviews booked by Wednesday. Hired by next Friday. We've been trying to do this for a year with two ATS subscriptions.
EL
Engineering lead
Series B fintech, 80 people
It's the first hiring tool I've used where the words 'AI-native' actually describe the product. Not a chatbot bolted to a CRM.
HO
Head of engineering
Seed AI startup, 14 people
We replaced two seats and a recruiter. Same hires, faster. Less of my Sunday spent rejecting people.
VO
VP of sales
Series A SaaS, 60 people
Manifesto · excerpt
Greenhouse manages
200 CVs. We mean
you never see 200.
HR resists “AI hires for you” because it threatens their craft. Hiring managers welcome it because hiring is a tax on their actual job.
Read the full manifesto →
Questions, answered specifically
No HR euphemisms.
Have another? Ask us →
01
What does an AI first-round interview actually look like?
A 20-minute voice conversation. The candidate speaks; we transcribe; we score against the rubric you set when you posted the role. You see the transcript, the score, and a one-paragraph note. Then you decide.
02
What's your relationship to the candidate?
We tell them exactly what's happening. They see what we score, why, and what comes next. We don't sell their data. The vetted profile is theirs to re-use across employers.
03
Where does the candidate quality come from?
We syndicate to 14 boards including the niche ones. Most managers find the quality lift comes from screening every applicant, not from sourcing more.
04
What if your three finalists are wrong?
You see the full ranked list with notes. Pick someone at #7 if you want. We never hide candidates from you. The "three" is a recommendation, not a gate.
05
Do you replace our ATS?
For most teams under 200, yes. For larger teams, we sit alongside. We export every artifact (transcript, score, note) on request.
06
What does 99c per AI-vetted candidate mean?
Each candidate that completes triage, assessment, and the first-round interview costs 99c. Posting the role is free. The first 50 vetted candidates are free.
One last thing
Post your first role.
It's free.
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