Sanaf, the AI employee

An AI recruiting coordinator

Good candidates leave because the process took three weeks, and the three weeks were mostly scheduling. This job writes the description, screens against what you asked for, coordinates the interviews and keeps candidates informed. It does not decide who gets hired.

What it does

Concretely

  • Creates job descriptions from the role you describe.
  • Screens applications against the criteria you wrote down, and shows its reasoning.
  • Coordinates interviews across the calendars of everyone who has to be there.
  • Communicates with candidates so nobody waits a week wondering.
  • Organizes interview feedback into one place before the decision meeting.

Is this an AI recruiter?

It coordinates recruiting; it does not recruit in the sense of deciding. The distinction is worth being precise about because the hiring decision is exactly the part that should not be automated, and any tool that offers to make it for you is offering something you should refuse. What it takes is the coordination, which is most of the elapsed time and none of the judgment.

Every screening judgment is visible

The rule this job is hired under is that it organizes and communicates and does not decide who gets hired. When it screens an application it shows what it matched against and why, so a person can see the reasoning and disagree with it. A screen that silently discards candidates is the failure mode here, and it is not one you can detect after the fact.

The delay is the scheduling, not the deciding

Most hiring processes are slow in the gaps: between applying and a first reply, between a first interview and a second, between a decision and an offer. Each gap is somebody waiting for a calendar. Closing those gaps changes who accepts your offer, because the best candidates are the ones with other processes running in parallel.

Candidates hear back

The part of hiring that damages a reputation is silence, and silence is almost never deliberate. It is a queue nobody had time for. Keeping candidates informed is on this job description, which means it happens on the days when the hiring manager is busy, which is the only test that matters.

Questions

Frequently asked

Can it reject a candidate on its own?
No. It screens against your criteria and shows what it found, and a person makes every call. Rejection is a hiring decision, and hiring decisions carry legal and ethical weight that does not belong to software.
Does it work with our applicant tracking system?
Greenhouse is a common connection, alongside your email, calendar and spreadsheets. It works inside the system you already run rather than becoming a second place where candidate state lives, because two sources of truth in hiring is how someone gets contacted twice.
How do we stop it from screening in a biased way?
By writing the criteria down and reading its reasoning, which it shows for every screen. That is a real answer rather than a guarantee: the criteria you give it are yours, and visible reasoning is what makes a bad criterion findable rather than buried.