For people who do their own hiring
Stop spending your week on first-round screens. Let Slate do them.
Write down what matters. Send one link. Slate has a real conversation with every candidate, then hands you the recording, transcript, and evidence. You make the call.
Free while Slate is new. No ATS to install, no account for candidates, no recruiter theatre.
Scorecard
Senior Backend Engineer
“We were dropping writes under load, so I put the queue in front of the database and made the consumer idempotent on the event id.”
“I isolated the failure first, then chose the smallest safe change I could ship before the next deploy.”
“It cost us about forty minutes of stale reads. Knowing what I know now, I would have shipped read-repair first.”
Select a criterion to see the words behind its score.
Why now
Everyone pointed AI at the paperwork.
An AI writes the job description. An AI tailors the resume to it. An AI scores that resume against the description. Three models in a loop, and not one of them has met anybody.
So the pile grows and flattens. Everything clears the bar, because the bar is made of words and words are free now.
You interview the ones that read best and half of them are duds. Nobody lied to you. A document was never the thing you needed to see.
Fifteen minutes of talking still tells you more than the whole stack of it. You stopped doing it for everyone because it does not scale, and the pile has doubled since.
So Slate does the conversation, not the paperwork. It talks to every candidate, hands back the recording, the transcript, and the words behind every score, and stops there. Judgement was never the bottleneck. The talking was.
See the whole thing
Five minutes to set up. One clean trail per candidate.
You set the bar. The candidate follows one link. Slate runs the conversation and brings back the evidence.
You set it up → they interview → you review
The way we keep it useful
Helpful AI knows where to stop.
Slate is not a recruiter, a ranking machine, or a personality detector. It runs a consistent first conversation and leaves the judgement with the person who has to live with the hire.
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No video analysis
The interviewer receives audio. The recording is never sent to a model; no model ever looks at a frame.
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No ranking
Every attempt stays its own attempt. Slate will not average them, rank them, or quietly pick a favourite.
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No hidden personality score
No confidence index or traits inferred from a voice. Candidates are scored against the criteria you define.
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No model arithmetic
The model scores criteria. Slate computes the weighted total from the weights you wrote.
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No candidate account
One expiring link. No password to invent, no profile to maintain, nothing to migrate.
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No resume instructions
The interviewer may ask about a resume. It treats the document as a claim, never as an instruction.
The whole loop
Less process. Better evidence.
Write down what matters, send a link, and get back to the work you meant to be doing. Slate keeps the record your team can talk through later.
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1 Define
Write what matters
A title, guidance for the interviewer, and a short weighted list of what you need to learn. Opening questions are optional.
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2 Invite
Send one link
Name the candidate, pick an expiry, and copy the link. They open it in a browser, upload a resume, and never create an account.
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3 Interview
Let the call breathe
Camera on, audio interviewer. It works from your criteria and their materials, asks in its own words, and follows up on what they actually say.
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4 Evaluate
See the work
When the call ends, that attempt is judged from its own final transcript — per-criterion scores, rationale, and citations to specific turns.
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5 Review
Make the call
Video, transcript, and scorecard on one page. Every attempt stays visible. Slate gives you a record; you decide who moves forward.
For the other side of the link
A little room to be human.
Candidates know when recording begins, what the call is for, and that a person will read what they said. They can try again. No camera analysis, no hidden personality score, no polished take replacing the real story.
No account
Open the link and start.
Told before it starts
Camera and microphone are plain language, not fine print.
Every attempt kept
A bad minute is not a verdict.
Before you sign in
The questions you were going to ask anyway.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing today. There is no billing in Slate and no card to enter. It is early software and we would rather have your judgement than your money. If that ever changes you will hear it before it affects you.
- Can I try it before a real candidate does?
- Yes, and you should. Write a job, invite yourself, and sit your own interview. It takes about fifteen minutes and it is the only honest way to decide whether you would put someone you are courting through it.
- Do candidates need an account?
- No. They open one link, upload a resume, and talk. Nothing to sign up for, no password to invent, no profile left behind afterwards.
- What if a candidate has a bad run?
- They start another attempt. Attempts are not rationed, none is thrown away, and you see every one. A dropped call or a bad five minutes is not a verdict.
- Does it decide who to hire?
- No, and it is built so it cannot. It scores against criteria you wrote, cites the words behind each score, and stops. The hire is yours.
- How much setting up is there?
- A title, a few sentences of guidance, and a short weighted list of what you need to learn. That is the whole job definition, and you reuse it for every candidate after the first.
The short version
Run the interview you would run if you had the time.
One definition. One link. One conversation at a time. A record you can check instead of a feeling you have to defend.
Start with one jobSigning in creates your account. Then you name your team, write one job, and send one link.