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Concept — under evaluationRecruitment Assistant
Screening, scheduling, and candidate communication handled consistently — humans make every hiring decision.
Under evaluation: this assistant cannot be purchased. We publish the design and an anticipated price to test whether it deserves to exist. Your reaction at the end of this page is the experiment.
01The problem
Hiring runs on borrowed time: hundreds of applications skimmed inconsistently, candidates ghosted by accident, interviews scheduled over email ping-pong. Good candidates drop out of slow pipelines.
Intended user · A hiring manager or small HR function running multiple roles without a full recruiting team.
02What it needs from you
- The role's actual requirements, must-haves, and nice-to-haves
- Your screening questions and evaluation rubric
- Interviewer availability
03What it produces
- Structured screening summaries against your rubric — every applicant, same standard
- Scheduled interviews without email ping-pong
- Timely, respectful updates to every candidate
- A pipeline view: who's where, who's waiting on whom
04How it would work
01 Screen
Every application is summarised against the same rubric, with evidence quoted — no auto-rejection.
02 Shortlist
A human reviews the summaries and decides who advances. The assistant never rejects anyone on its own.
03 Schedule
It coordinates times directly with candidates against real interviewer availability.
04 Communicate
Every candidate gets a clear status update at each stage — the thing most pipelines fail at.
05Autonomy & approvals
Acts on its own
- Producing rubric-based screening summaries
- Scheduling and rescheduling interviews
- Sending status updates using approved templates
Always needs your approval
- Every advance/reject decision — humans decide, always
- Any deviation from approved communication templates
- Salary or offer discussions of any kind
06Data & privacy implications
- CVs are personal data with retention limits — PDPA applies squarely.
- Rubrics must be reviewed for discriminatory criteria; the assistant applies rules, it doesn't launder bias.
- Candidates should know when they're corresponding with an assistant.
07Synthetic example
Recruitment Assistant
14 new applications for Ops Executive. 5 meet all must-haves (summaries attached, evidence quoted). 3 are near-misses — worth a look: two lack the licence but have equivalent experience. 6 don't meet the stated minimums; I've drafted the standard regret note but won't send until you confirm the shortlist.
Illustrative exchange — written by us, not generated by a live product.
Modelled on the screening and scheduling assistant PFE has used for its own hiring.
08The experiment
S$299–999/month
Anticipated range under evaluation; not an offer. If this assistant existed at that price, what would you honestly do?
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