AI Recruiter for First-Round Interviews

Interview every applicant.
Only talk to the best.

SonicHire runs your first-round voice interviews, scores every answer against your rubric and hands you a ranked shortlist. You make the final call.

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  • We build your first role with you
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Voice Interview

Review

12 Aug 2026

Already screening candidates
for teams like yours.

  • 5 Rivers Energy
  • CoRecruit
  • SRJ
  • neuron
  • gofleet
  • ZenDuit

I had 88 shortlisted candidates. That’s 44 hours of calls. So I sent them all through SonicHire.

Now I just get emails with scores. Feels like magic.

Omar Qureshi

Omar Qureshi

CEO & Co-Founder at Neuron

Neuron gives sales teams verified B2B contact data.

The Real Problem

That initial 15-30 minute interview is a killer.That initial 15-30 minute phone screen is a killer.

A calendar full of booked interview slots
  • You're booking call after call just to find out who's qualified.

  • Most of those calls go to people who never move forward.

  • Add email tag, no-shows, and rescheduling, and one role eats weeks.

And inviting fewer applicants? That risks cutting someone great.

A calendar full of booked interview slots

The Fix

SonicHire replaces the first interview. Not you.

We filter for your top performers. You get your hours back, and you still make every hiring decision.

Post the role. Invite candidates. Let the AI conduct the interview. Get your shortlist back, ranked and ready.

Interview Transcript

Can you briefly introduce yourself?

I'm Alex. I've worked as a customer support specialist

Past three years, I'm helping customers solve issues .

From Live Interview
  • A Real Voice Conversation

    Candidates get a natural voice interview, not a form, not a video-avatar gimmick, completed on their own time through a browser link. It asks questions, listens, and adapts its follow-up questions based on how you design the interview.

  • Scored Against Your Rubric

    You set the weighting: communication, experience, resilience, whatever matters for the role. Generate a rubric straight from your questions, or build one from scratch. Every candidate is scored the same way, every time. No mood, no bias, no Friday-afternoon fatigue.

  • A Ranked Shortlist

    You open a dashboard, not a spreadsheet of scattered notes. Transcripts, recordings, and scores are ready as soon as the interview ends, by the time you check, it's already done.

  • Every Attempt, Logged.

    Every interview attempt is recorded, so if a candidate tries again, you see exactly how their answers changed. Reattempts aren't a free-for-all either: candidates have to request one, and you approve it. You stay in control of what counts.

  • Built for the Whole Hiring Team.

    Loop in a hiring manager or teammate without forwarding a messy email thread. Leave notes right on a candidate's transcript, tag someone in, and keep the conversation next to the interview itself, not scattered across Slack and email.

A good answer isn't the same as a good hire.

Some roles need proof, not just a conversation. With SonicHire you can also send candidates a test or questionnaire you design. Their webcam stays on while they take it, which keeps it honest, and you see their results next to their interview.

I had 45 candidates to interview. Instead of scheduling 45 separate calls, I was able to go through all 45 in less than 30 minutes.

It saved me hours every hiring cycle. It was life-changing.

Josh Kirkham

Josh Kirkham

VP of Operations at CoRecruit

CoRecruit automates admin work for recruitment firms.

Hear from Josh Kirkham, VP of Operations at CoRecruit

How It Works

Four Steps. Live Today. No Setup Headaches.

Post the role. Invite candidates. Let the AI conduct the interview. Get your shortlist back, ranked and ready.

What do you enjoy about working in sales?
Job DescriptionSales Executive role

Step 1

Build the role

Paste your job description and AI drafts your interview questions and scoring rubric. Edit anything, or build from scratch.

Invite

Step 2

Invite candidates

Send links yourself, or turn on automations to invite everyone who meets your criteria. Candidates pick their own time. No scheduling back-and-forth, no calendar Tetris.

Step 3

Candidates complete their interviews

A natural voice interview, done on their own time through a browser link. Follow-up questions adapt to what they actually say. Your calendar stays clear.

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    AI Score61/100
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    AI Score30/100
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Step 4

Review the shortlist

Scored, ranked, and ready. Listen to recordings, read transcripts, loop in your team, and decide who moves forward.

No video avatar. On purpose.

  • Voice interviews on the candidate's own time. No Zoom calls or meeting links.

  • No AI face staring back at them. Less pressure, more natural answers.

  • Nothing to download or install.

Candidate

Interview Completed

1 Interview

Completed interviews count.
No-shows don't.

  • Interviews under 1 minute don't count.

  • Unlimited team members on every plan.

  • Plan interviews reset monthly. Top-ups roll over.

  • No per-seat pricing.

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Monthly or annual. Your call.

  • Save 10% with annual billing.

  • No minimum hiring commitment.

  • Need more? Top up anytime.

  • Cancel anytime, effective at the end of your billing period.

We built SonicHire because we had the problem first

Built from our own hiring

SonicHire started after a single SDR role drew 17,177 applicants and 5,531 video submissions. We’ve run our own hiring on it since April 2026.

Same bar for every candidate

Every candidate gets the same questions and is scored against the same rubric. SonicHire never rejects anyone. A person makes every call on who moves forward.

Candidate data handled carefully

Candidates consent before their interview starts. We keep transcripts and recordings so you can review every answer, and we never clone voices. Available in the US and Canada.

Questions

Straight answers.

Got questions? We’ve got answers.

It sounds like a real conversation. Natural pacing, follow-up questions based on what the candidate actually says, no script-reading. The interviewer is always a voice, never an animated face.

Most will, and we'd rather see how. Blocking AI tests a skill the job no longer needs. Ask candidates how they'd use AI to do the work, and their answer separates people faster than any proctoring tool.

The safeguards are there if you want them: every attempt is recorded, retakes need your approval, and the full transcript is one click away.

Your plan's interviews reset at the start of each month, so they don't carry over. Top-ups do carry over, and they stay on your account while you're subscribed, up to three times your monthly plan allowance. If you cancel, whatever's left is usable through the end of the period you've already paid for.

Your choice. Go month to month and cancel any time from your account, effective at the end of your billing period. Or commit to a year up front and save 10%. No setup fee and no minimum hiring commitment either way.

Top up at any time at your plan's top-up rate. Top-up interviews land in your balance immediately and, unlike your monthly allowance, they don't reset. If you're running over most months, moving up a plan will cost you less.

It depends on the ATS. We connect directly with some. With any ATS or job post, you can add your SonicHire intake link: applicants answer your must-have questions and are invited automatically when they meet them. Tell us which ATS you use and we'll show you the best setup.

It doesn't use one of your interviews. Anything under a minute costs you nothing, so no-shows and quick drop-offs never count against your balance.

The AI runs the interview and scores every answer against the criteria you set. It never decides a candidate's outcome. You write the questions and the criteria, you choose who gets invited, and you decide who moves forward. If a candidate is told they're not moving ahead, that's a decision you made and sent. Turn on auto-invites and anyone meeting your criteria is invited automatically; you can still invite anyone else yourself.

Minutes. Paste your job description and AI drafts your questions and rubric, or build them from scratch. Edit anything. No implementation team required.

Get that first interview off your plate.

Start free. Build your first role and see your first ranked shortlist today.

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