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Research on hiring intelligence

Short notes from our team on interview evidence, signal coverage, and decisions that compound. We're publishing selectively while we build — more is on the way.

Process design5 min

The hiring work happens before the interview

AI will speed up scheduling, screening, and notes. It will not fix your real bottleneck, because the days do not leak out of scheduling. They leak out of the work nobody did before anyone sat down to interview.

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AI in hiring5 min

Faster hiring is not better hiring

AI will speed up your hiring. Whether that helps depends entirely on which part you speed up. Accelerate the wrong stage and you damage your brand and your decisions at the same time.

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Metrics4 min

Time-to-hire is a vanity metric

Yes, AI will shrink your time-to-hire. That is exactly the problem. The fastest way to fill a seat is to hire the first person who walks through the door.

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Bias & compliance6 min

AI screening does not remove bias. It can scale it.

The pitch is that AI screening is objective where humans are biased. The evidence says an unguardrailed screen does not remove bias, it industrializes it.

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AI in hiring8 min

Can AI help you find better job candidates?

AI won't find you better candidates by sourcing harder. Here's where AI actually improves hiring decisions, backed by data on interview validity and the cost of a bad hire.

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More research notes coming soon

We'll add deeper studies on calibration, decision audits, and structured-hiring benchmarks as we run them with design partners.

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