AskNaru for hiring teams

Screen for real ability, with evidence.

Nura, our AI interviewer, runs a natural, role-specific first-round interview, then AskNaru hands your team a report where every score links to the exact artifact, action, and transcript moment. Decision support your hiring managers can actually audit.

Human-reviewed decisions Candidate-consented Never an automated rejection
Frontend Engineer · SDE-2rubric fe-sde2-v4 · session #9137
Recommend to progress
Passed 9 / 10 tests, diagnosed a concurrency bug without assistance.
useSearch.ts 00:31:08
competency · problem_solvingconfidence 0.88
Did not consider idempotency until prompted.
validate next roundscore 3 / 4
EVIDENCE-BACKEDHuman-reviewed report

Structured interview engine

Manages the agenda, timing, difficulty, recovery, and follow-up policy, so every session is structured and comparable, not improvised.

Real-time conversational voice

Natural speech with barge-in and turn-taking. Nura reacts to what the candidate says and does, and probes exactly where it matters.

Versioned rubrics

Role, level, and company-specific rubrics, versioned and job-related. Change a rubric and every future score is tied to the exact version used.

The evidence engine

A structured evidence graph, not a transcript and a number.

AskNaru's database retains a full evidence model. Each item ties a claim to its source, artifact, and timestamp, then to a competency, a score, and the evidence that supports or contradicts it.

  • Calibrated to your barCompany, role, level, and rubric version, mapped to the employer's actual expectations.
  • Traceable to the momentSemantic events, not raw keystrokes. A reviewer can jump straight to what happened.
  • Confidence and human overrideReviewer agreement, override, and reason are captured alongside every score.
session_evidence.json
{
  "role": "frontend_engineer",
  "target_level": "sde_2",
  "rubric_version": "fe-sde2-v4",
  "timeline": [
    {
      "timestamp": "00:31:08",
      "source": "editor_and_tests",
      "event": "fixed stale-closure bug",
      "artifact_ref": "useSearch.ts:14",
      "competency": "problem_solving",
      "score": 3,
      "confidence": 0.88,
      "reviewer_override": null
    }
  ]
}
Role adapters

Each adapter reads the evidence a role actually produces.

A generic model watching a shared screen misses what matters. Each adapter instruments the real work of the role.

Adapter · Developer

Instrumented coding workspace

No screen recording required. A browser IDE with a secure, isolated runtime captures structured telemetry far more reliable than pixels: code snapshots and semantic diffs, hidden-test results, compiler and runtime errors, terminal and debugger actions, time between attempts, hints, and approved assistance, with spoken reasoning linked to the code that changed.

Browser IDE + sandboxHidden testsCompiler errorsSemantic diffsDebugging timelineAssistance signals
Adapter · Design & Product

Portfolio & work-sample interviewing

Original portfolio files are uploaded before or during the session. Live frames are sampled with event-triggered high-resolution capture and OCR for dense case studies. Claims are linked to the exact artifact and transcript moment, and inconsistencies between what is said and what is shown become follow-up questions.

Artifact-linked claimsEvent-triggered captureOCR of dense diagramsCursor / viewport context
Adapter · System design

Instrumented diagram canvas

Candidates design on a canvas that records the reasoning, not just the final picture: components and relationships created and removed, assumptions, responses to new scale constraints, bottleneck analysis, and trade-offs, all preserved as evidence.

Component logAssumptions capturedScale-constraint responsesRevision history
Adapter · Communication

Structured, job-related probing

The behavioural layer uses structured voice probing with transcript evidence and consistency checks against a job-related rubric. It never infers emotion, personality, honesty, or competence from gaze, facial movement, or accent. Those pseudo-signals are excluded by design.

Structured probingConsistency checksJob-related rubricNo emotion / accent scoring
The report

What your hiring team actually receives.

A report designed to be read by a human and defended in a debrief, not an opaque verdict. It recommends progression. It never says “definitely hire.”

  • Progression recommendationStrong Yes, Yes, Borderline, or No, with the reasoning behind it.
  • Competency scores mapped to JD & levelDeterministic test and execution results where applicable.
  • Claims linked to evidenceEvery conclusion cites a transcript, action, or artifact, with confidence.
  • Questions to validate nextWhat the human interviewer should confirm in the next round.
Candidate readiness report
sde-2 · fe-sde2-v4 · reviewed by human
Progress

“The candidate passed 9 / 10 tests, diagnosed a concurrency issue without assistance, and explained the trade-off correctly. However, they did not consider idempotency until prompted. Recommended to progress, with distributed-systems experience to validate in the next round.”

problem_solving0.88
system_design0.74
communication0.80
Scoring principles

Rules that keep the scores honest.

01

Facts before judgment

Deterministic tools, tests, execution, complexity checks, and static analysis establish what is true before the AI judges reasoning.

02

Multiple valid approaches

There is rarely one right answer. Different sound solutions can each receive full credit against the rubric.

03

Every score cites evidence

No conclusion stands without supporting evidence and a stated confidence level.

04

Job-related, versioned rubrics

Rubrics are role-specific, level-specific, and versioned, never a generic, opaque readiness number.

05

No pass-probability theatre

No claims about the odds of a hire succeeding until enough consented, company-specific outcome data exists.

06

No pseudo-signals

Emotion, personality, honesty, and competence are never inferred from gaze, facial movement, or accent.

Where AskNaru fits

An AI first round that makes the human rounds better.

AskNaru does not replace your process. It strengthens the front of it and hands richer evidence to the people who decide.

1 AI screening

Resume & JD-specific interview

  • Fundamental technical & behavioural questions
  • Dynamic follow-ups on real answers
  • Communication & knowledge-depth signal
2 Role-specific practical

Work-sample in the right workspace

  • Developers: coding, testing & debugging
  • Designers: portfolio & work-sample walkthrough
  • Product: case exercise & structured reasoning
3 Human round

Your team makes the call

  • Final technical / domain validation
  • Team fit, leadership & candidate selling
  • The hiring decision stays with you

See the evidence on your own roles.

We'll configure an adapter and rubric for a role you're hiring, run a shadow pilot alongside your current process, and show you the report your team would work from.

Founding-partner program · design, product & engineering hiring teams · India & remote