DemandHub was hiring. Every open role pulled in hundreds of applicants, and our team burned entire weeks on fifteen-minute phone screens where the first two questions disqualified most people.

We looked at what was out there. Resume parsers just told us what we could already read ourselves. The platforms that actually interviewed candidates were built and priced for companies ten times our size, with sales calls just to see pricing and animated AI avatars nobody asked for.

So we built what we actually wanted. Every applicant gets a real voice interview on their own schedule, no calls to book, no calendar back-and-forth. The AI adapts its follow-ups in real time and digs deeper when an answer's vague, then scores every response against the exact rubric we care about. We stopped reading resumes and started reading ranked, scored transcripts, and only picked up the phone for the people worth talking to.

It changed our own hiring so completely that we turned it into a product.