Automate candidate screening. Create a quiz and set evaluation prompts for each question. Equip AI will evaluate candidates' text, audio or video responses and rank them. Effective for recruiters. Convenient for candidates.
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!
@jayanth_neelakanta Absolutely love this approach, Jayanth! As a CPO, I’ve seen first-hand how traditional hiring processes often filter out great talent just because their resume doesn't "look the part." The idea of leveling the playing field with AI Interviews is powerful, specially when it comes to giving candidates from unconventional backgrounds a fair shot.
I also appreciate the honesty in calling it a GPT-wrapper, transparency like this builds trust. Looking forward to exploring how Equip can complement human judgment with scalable, skill-based insights. Kudos to you and the team for building something so purposeful!
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 🤩
As a former overachiever with pre-exam jitters, I'm nervous but excited for our first Product Hunt launch! Okay, here it goes...
Why We Built AI Interviews
We kept hearing the same frustration from recruiters: screening hundreds of candidates is incredibly time-consuming, yet impossible to skip. Traditional methods either lack depth or are too resource-intensive. Recruiters were stuck choosing between efficiency and quality - UNTIL TODAY.
The problem isn't just candidates using deepfakes anymore. Now fake employers are using them to scam job seekers too - creating convincing "HR reps" for fraudulent interviews.
I've been using Equip.co for a long time, and it has consistently impressed me with its ease of use and intuitive design.
The platform makes creating and managing assessments seamless while maintaining strong anti-cheating measures.
Their large question bank and customizable test options save a lot of time in the hiring process.
Customer support is fast and always willing to add helpful features when needed.
Overall, Equip has been a reliable and scalable solution that I fully trust for assessments.
Thanks for being a long-time champion of the product and taking the time to share such kind words with us! BTS from our office after reading your review:
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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!
@jayanth_neelakanta Wow! This looks super promising, will try to hire my next candidates from Equip, Congrats on the launch!
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@porush_puri eager to hear how it works out for you. Feel free to connect with our team anytime using the live chat option on our website. Thank you.
@jayanth_neelakanta Absolutely love this approach, Jayanth! As a CPO, I’ve seen first-hand how traditional hiring processes often filter out great talent just because their resume doesn't "look the part." The idea of leveling the playing field with AI Interviews is powerful, specially when it comes to giving candidates from unconventional backgrounds a fair shot.
I also appreciate the honesty in calling it a GPT-wrapper, transparency like this builds trust. Looking forward to exploring how Equip can complement human judgment with scalable, skill-based insights. Kudos to you and the team for building something so purposeful!
Equip AI Interview
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 🤩
Rustic AI
Great concept, looking forward to using it for our hiring
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Hi Robbin. Thanks for being an early believer. Please share your experience with us when you implement it.