Equip AI Interview - Ask any question. Natural language response. Instant results

Hey Product Hunt Community!

I’m Jayanth, the founder of Equip. We are a skill assessment platform for recruiters. With our online assessments, we help you identify the best-skilled candidates for a particular role. We are a tiny team (just 5 of us!) but have assessed 170,000+ candidates in the past 3 years.

While objective questions like MCQs make it easy to rank candidates, a lot of the nuance of natural language responses is lost if you just select an option in a question. When you interview a candidate, you don't just give them 4 choices, do you?

To improve the screening process, we built AI Interviews. If you are evaluating several people (for hiring, but also for a competition say), you can add the same question you'd have asked them on a call and prompt the AI to evaluate like you'd have. For eg, if your question is "What's your favorite pizza topping?", your prompt can be "Award negative points if they mention pineapples".

What's more, you can specify whether the candidate must answer via text, audio or video. Our AI will handle everything at its end. I'll be honest; at least as of now, we are a GPT-wrapper. So, our AI is as intelligent as ChatGPT, Claude, etc. That is, it is more intelligent than you and me :P

Many candidates, and even some recruiters, complain that using AI in the initial stages of hiring is inhuman. Tbh, if I was a candidate, and if an AI interview was the first round, I'd be frustrated too. But, think about it. We are perfectly fine with student exams being automatically evaluated by marking bubbles on an OMR paper. We understand it is a practical matter and because the technology exists thousands of students can attempt the exam and get results cheaply, reliably and instantly.

My hope is that our AI Interviews achieve the same kind of effect. Many candidates are rejected way too early because their CV doesn't look good. If a recruiter has to process thousands of CVs, we can't blame them for missing the needle in the haystack. With AI Interviews, the playing field is leveled. Every candidate gets a chance to showcase their skill, knowledge and experience.

The Equip team itself is a set of misfits, with many of our current roles not reflecting our educational or previous work experience. We are doing alright, you know? I mean, we built this together and we got someone like you to read about it!

Have you tried the demo test? Check it out and let us know what you think!

Hello Product Hunt! This is our first launch here. I was involved with testing the product thoroughly before we made it available to our users. When I took the demo test for the first time, I was mind-blown at how good and fast the results were! I hope all of you who try it today get to experience the same joy 🤩

Great concept, looking forward to using it for our hiring

Building Equip AI Interview meant solving the real problem: thousands of candidates uploading large videos on unreliable connections without losing their work. We implemented chunked uploads with automatic retry logic. It’s reliable, secure, and works even when your internet doesn’t. Have you tried the demo? What features would make AI interviews work better for your hiring process?

This is an intriguing approach to skill assessment! 🎉 How does your AI handle subjective questions that might require nuanced understanding?

This looks really promising 👏

Love how Equip AI Interviews delivers scoring that actually makes sense, and doesn’t leave you guessing how a candidate landed a number especially when you can click to see why that score happened via clear AI logic. That kind of transparency gives hiring teams context and confidence.

“Bring your own questions” is a strong move. It keeps interviews flexible and aligned to each company’s voice. Plus, instant results seconds not hours is exactly what teams who run at pace need.

Really love the direction here.

Looking forward to seeing translation roll out and even more language support.

Well done!

This looks amazing! love the fact that it covers a bunch of languages :)

This is such a great tool to deal with massive applications influx. I’ve known Jayanth for a decade now. He is been building great products since forever and I have seen Equip grow consistently.

Most developers dislike leetcode style coding problems in interviews because they don't always test the skills which are relevant to the job. With our AI interviews you can ask questions which really tests the candidate's knowledge. Maybe a scenario based question like, "You are a backend developer, and have a few EC2s running Flask (with gunicorn and nginx) behind a load balancer, and use RDS for you database. You suddenly start to see 504 errors on your website. What are the steps you take to investigate where the problem is happening?" And the candidate's response is automatically evaluated by AI!

Now that is going to be much more useful than questions based on trees which you may never use!

This isn't restricted to tech roles! Any kinds of questions, for any roles, and it works!

one of the biggest challenges in hiring is consistency, two candidates often have completely different interview experiences depending on who’s asking the questions. with ai interviews, every candidate gets the same structured assessment, scored objectively. so you’re comparing real performance, not gut feel. if you’re scaling a team, this ends up saving you time and giving you better signal. makes scaling teams so much easier.
super lucky to be a part of building this. curious to hear what the ph community thinks 🙌

And srsly love that it ranks text, audio and video replies automatically? Finally makes screening fair for candidates & fast for us recruiters. Brilliant solution imo!

Great launch! 👏 Love the idea of customizing NL evaluation criteria and it is super useful. Really good work!

Congratulations

Congratulations on the launch! You surely have a great product, we have used it for 2-3 years. Keep 🚀ing!

Congrats on the launch @jayanth_neelakanta @siddharthsampath @faizanjan_

Congrats on your launch 🎉🎉

Awesome tool ❤

Looks useful, congrats on a launch 🔥