Hiring & applicant screening
Assay places an outbound call to every applicant within an hour of their submission, runs the same six-question rubric, and hands you the top ten percent to interview. The other 90% get a fast, fair, scored response — not a ghosting.
Assay Score
0 qualified meetings
qualified candidates from this requisition · 600 applicants
owner to owner
You didn't start your business to chase phone calls or work a lead list at midnight. Assay handles that part — answering, qualifying, booking — so the work turns into money without turning into your evening.
No 9pm callbacks. No list you never get to. Assay handles first contact end to end — answering, asking the right questions, booking the job — while you stay on the work you're already doing.
A person is a salary that clocks out at five. Assay works every hour for one predictable monthly price — less than the receptionist or rep you'd hire to match it, and it never quits, never calls in sick.
A missed call isn't nothing — it's a customer dialing your competitor thirty seconds later. Assay picks up nights, weekends, and lunch rushes: exactly the hours slipping away right now.
It tells callers up front that it's your assistant, sticks to your script, and hands anything tricky to a real person. Every call is recorded and scored — and all of it is yours to review.
Live in 48 hours. After that, it's the rare kind of technology you get to forget about — because it just works while you don't have to think about it.
The applicants you don't call back find a new job somewhere else. The good ones find it first.
The screening call is structured, identical, and fast. Here's the readout from one of them.
Consistent scoring, your framework
Maria Alvarez · Senior Logistics Coordinator
Phone screen · Friday 2:14 PM · 8m 22s
Assay Hire Score
Top 8% of this requisition
88/100
The default framework is six weighted categories. If you have an existing screening rubric, competency matrix, or ATS scoring schema, Assay ingests it instead — questions, weights, and thresholds intact. We don't force a template on teams who already know what good looks like.
Hot scores (≥80) get a 20-minute slot on your Calendly the same day. Warm (50–79) get a recruiter note and a "keep on file." Cold (<50) get a kind, fast no — never just ghosted. Thresholds are configurable per requisition.
Scores, transcripts, and structured data push directly into your ATS or CRM. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and webhook-compatible systems are supported on Professional and above; custom integrations on Enterprise.
The bias surface area shrinks because the rubric is fixed and the interviewer doesn't get tired by candidate 60.
And here's what the rubric does to your week.
Built to spec. Cannot lie.
| Human SDR | Assay | |
|---|---|---|
| Applicants reached on phone | 94 | 600 |
| Time-to-first-touch, median | 6 days | 38 minutes |
| Recruiter hours spent screening | 120 hrs | 2 hrs · review only |
| Top-decile reached before they offer-accept elsewhere | 38% | 94% |
Pricing
The only difference is volume.
Starter
$699
per month; 7-day free trial
No setup fee
750 minutes; 250 calls
Outbound batch dialer
Assay Score; full transcripts
5-step email drip
Live dashboard
Professional
$4,499
per month; dedicated onboarding
$2,500 one-time setup
6,000 minutes; 2,000 calls
Inbound + Outbound
CRM, Calendar, SMS, Slack
Sentiment analysis
Dedicated onboarding call
Enterprise
$24,999
per month; custom onboarding
$5,000 one-time setup
15,000+ minutes; fully managed
Meta Ads integration
LinkedIn pipeline
Dedicated project manager
1-hour support SLA
Full feature breakdown at /pricing · US and Canada · CCPA compliant · Number porting included
How it works
Connect your ATS
Greenhouse, Lever, Workable. New applicants flow into Assay automatically; you don't lift a finger.
Configure the rubric once per req
Use Assay's default framework or bring your own — competency matrix, ATS schema, weighted scorecard. We map to it; we never override it.
Every applicant gets a screening call within an hour
Same questions, same length, same scoring. The recruiter never has to call number 287.
Top 10% land on your interview calendar
The rest get a scored, kind, fast response. Your employer brand stops bleeding from the ghosting.
Free trial · 100 applicants screened during the trial · cancels in a click.
Start your free 7-day trial →or call our demo agent now: +1 (844) 216-8485
or book a 30-minute demo: calendly.com/getassay/30min
Is my data secure?
All data is stored on US servers. CCPA compliant; 90-day retention policy. Nothing leaves your region.
Can I keep my number?
Yes. Bring any existing business number, or we provision a new dedicated number at setup. US and Canada covered.
How fast is setup?
Live in 48 hours. We configure your agent, script, and integrations; you upload your list and press go.
the honest comparison
Platforms sell you building blocks and a per-minute meter — you assemble the agent, wire the telephony, and reconcile four or five invoices that grow with every call. Assay sells you the outcome: a fixed monthly price with minutes included, and a done-for-you agent live in 48 hours. You trade a variable bill and a dev project for a known number and a booked calendar.