Screen five hundred candidates by Friday.
AI recruiting calls place the first screening call to every applicant on a list, ask the qualifying questions you set, and record each answer as a typed field. Recruiters get a ranked spreadsheet with a recording and transcript per candidate instead of a week of voicemail tag.
High-volume screening is set up with us rather than self-serve — we build the first run with you. Calls are billed per talk minute, and a screening call is short.
Mon–Fri · 17:30–20:00 · candidate’s timezone
412 of 480 · 86%
Or just ask for it
Screen the pile by asking for it screened.
A ranked sheet comes back, not a week of voicemail tag.
InboxScreening done — 214 of 240
Screen the warehouse applicants. Ask about right to work, forklift licence, earliest start, shift preference and expected pay.
214 reached. All five answers are typed fields, so the export sorts — 61 have the licence and can start within two weeks. Recording and transcript on every candidate. 26 unreachable after two attempts.
@Octo how’s the screening run going?
On it 🔧(runningget_campaign_results…)
96 done, 62 answered. Pacing is capped so we’re not hammering one number. (edited)
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tag anyone with the licence as “shortlist”
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Why the first call never happens
Nobody has four hundred phone calls in them.
The first screening call is the cheapest filter in recruiting and the one that gets skipped, because it does not scale with the number of recruiters you have.
The list is too long
Four hundred applicants and a two-person team means most are screened from a CV or not at all.
They are at work
Candidates answer in the evening, which is exactly when your recruiters have stopped.
The answers live in someone’s notebook
Even when the call happens, the result is a scribble rather than a field you can sort a shortlist by.
And good ones go elsewhere
The cost of the delay is not abstract. The candidate you would have hired accepted something else on Wednesday.
This is a wedge we set up with you rather than something to switch on alone — the first run is built together.
How it runs
Questions, windows, shortlist.
Turn the screen into fields
The questionnaire is the extraction schema.
Define what you need to know as typed fields with fixed answers where it helps. That set of fields is both what the agent asks and what the spreadsheet gives you back.
Set the calling window
Evenings, in their timezone.
Days, hours and timezone, applied per candidate. Nothing dials outside them, and the window does not drift when the clocks change.
Sort the spreadsheet
With the recording one click away.
Every candidate comes back with your fields filled in, an outcome, a recording and a transcript. Sort, filter, and export what your ATS should import.
What is actually happening
The parts a recruiter cares about.
The questionnaire is typed, not transcribed
Up to twenty fields per campaign, each with a type, and a field can be a fixed set of allowed values. Notice period comes back as a value you can sort on rather than a sentence somebody has to read.
up to 20 typed fields · fixed-choice answersEvening windows in the candidate’s timezone
Allowed days, time windows and an IANA timezone per campaign, converted with the real calendar rather than a fixed offset — so a 6pm–8pm window is still 6pm–8pm the week the clocks change.
allowed days · windows · DST-correctRetries never reach the wrong person
Every call is classified into one of thirteen outcomes, and the retry policy names which are worth another attempt. Wrong person and not interested are distinct outcomes from no answer, so neither gets rung back.
13 outcomes · retry only on the ones you chooseA recording and transcript per candidate
Attached to the candidate as a contact, so the recruiter who takes the shortlist forward can hear the screen rather than repeat it.
recording · transcript · against the contactExport to CSV — and that is the handoff
Your fields become the columns for your ATS import. There is no ATS write-back and no calendar booking; saying otherwise would be the kind of claim that gets found out in week one.
CSV export · no ATS write-backWhatsApp where a call is the wrong move
For international recruiting, approved WhatsApp templates reach candidates who will not answer an unknown number — the same list, a different channel.
WhatsApp templates · international listsQuestions
The things people actually ask.
- What does it actually ask?
- Whatever you decide, as a set of typed fields — interested or not, notice period, rate expectation, work authorisation, distance from site. A field can be a fixed list of allowed answers, so the result is a value you can sort on rather than a sentence to interpret.
- Does it book interviews into our calendar?
- No. There is no calendar or ATS write-back, and we are not going to imply otherwise. It captures a preferred time as a field and exports it — your recruiter or your ATS does the booking.
- Will it call candidates at a reasonable hour?
- It calls inside the days and windows you set, in the timezone you set — which for candidates usually means evenings, since most are at work during the day. The conversion is DST-correct, so an evening window stays an evening window.
- What happens when a candidate does not answer?
- Retries fire only on the outcomes you nominate — typically no answer and busy. Someone who said they were not interested is not called again, because that is a different outcome from not picking up.
- Can a recruiter hear the call?
- Yes. Every call keeps a recording and a transcript against the candidate, so the recruiter picking up the shortlist can listen to the ninety seconds that matter rather than re-running the screen.
- We recruit internationally. Does that work?
- Calls work wherever you have numbers, and WhatsApp templates are available for markets where a phone call is the wrong first move. Rates vary by country.
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High-volume screening is set up with us rather than self-serve — we build the first run with you. Calls are billed per talk minute, and a screening call is short.