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Playbook · Skill-based hiring

Screen on real skills, not on who skims best.

Connect your ATS, and we add skill-based evaluations to it automatically. Every applicant scored on real skills as they apply, ranked with the evidence. Your recruiter still decides who moves forward, now with proof instead of a hunch.

The real problem

A role gets 400 applicants. You read the first 40 and screen on keywords.

When applications spike, the top of the funnel gets the thinnest attention. A recruiter skims CVs under pressure and matches on keywords, so strong people who phrased it differently fall out early. The shortlist that comes back has a hunch behind it, not evidence. When the hiring manager asks why these five, no one can answer.

With the playbook

Scored on real skills

  • Every applicant scored as they apply
  • Ranked on real skills, not keywords
  • Evidence behind every name on the list
Today

Skim, keyword-match, hope

  • Only the first CVs get a real read
  • Strong people drop out on wording
  • No evidence to defend the shortlist
Reveal With the playbook versus Today

What you get

Two agents read every applicant. You read the shortlist.

Agent 01

Screening Agent

Scores every applicant against the open role on real skills, experience, and qualifications, the moment they apply. No one gets skipped because they landed in the second hundred.

Agent 02

Culture Scorer

Reads values and working-style fit, kept separate from skills so the two never blur. You weigh them yourself, with the evidence attached to each score.

Where it lands

Back in the tools your recruiters already use.

The ranking lands back in your ATS (e.g. Recruitee), where your recruiter reads it and decides who moves forward. Nothing new to log into.

How it's deployed

A 4–8 week pilot. We go in, build the agents, and leave them running.

We connect the agents to your ATS and calibrate the scoring against a sample of your real roles. Your recruiters keep working exactly where they already work. When the pilot ends, the agents stay, scoring your pipeline inside the tools you already use.

  • 4–8 week pilot

    Timeline

  • Your ATS (e.g. Recruitee)

    Lands in

  • A live role, sample roles, an ATS key

    From you

  • The agents, integration, calibration

    From us

Why you can trust it

Evidence you can put in front of a hiring manager.

  • Deterministic, the same applicant and the same role give the same score.
  • Traceable, every score links back to the verified skills behind it.
  • Explainable, the reasoning is right there on the page, in plain language.

Every score is grounded in our Skills Intelligence engine, with the evidence attached. So when a hiring manager asks why this candidate ranked here, you have a real answer, not a black box. The judgment stays with the human. The guesswork is gone.

Deterministic
Same applicant, same JD, same score
Traceable
Every score links to its verified skills
Explainable
The reasoning is on the page, not in a model

Add managed services

Short on hands to run the funnel yourself?

When you need a specific cohort screened by a specific date and the team is stretched, we run the playbook as a managed service. Same agents, same evidence trail. You still decide who gets hired, we just carry the workload to the shortlist.