AI screening with human hiring decisions
Faster, fairer
technical hiring
for engineering teams.
Cleverate uses AI to verify candidates, run structured chat interviews, and score skills — then hands over to your humans for the final interviews and hiring decisions. No bias. No guesswork. No time wasted on weak CVs.
Built for Python, backend, DevOps and data teams. Designed for agencies and in-house recruiters.
Sample candidate
Senior Python / Backend / DevOps
Verified by Cleverate in 18 minutes
Score
87
Workflow
How Cleverate screens candidates
From CV to short-listed, verified candidates. Every step is logged, explainable, and designed to be hand-off ready for human recruiters.
CV ingestion
Candidates email their CVs to a unique Cleverate address. We capture the raw email, attachments and metadata – nothing gets lost.
CV parsing & enrichment
We extract skills, experience, dates, stack and seniority using LLMs plus deterministic rules. The result: a structured candidate profile and skill matrix.
Code & repo checks
If the candidate shares GitHub or other repos, we analyse ownership patterns, commit history and code quality. Forks and copy-paste projects are flagged.
Consistency analysis
We cross-check CV claims against repos, timelines and (optionally) LinkedIn. Date mismatches, inflated titles or duplicated descriptions are surfaced as risk signals.
AI-guided chat interview
Candidates complete a short, structured chat interview. We score technical depth, reasoning, communication – and detect AI-generated answers using timing signals.
Human hand-off & hiring
Recruiters receive a transparent report: scores, skill matrix, risk flags and interview transcript. From here, humans take over: culture fit, final interviews, offer and onboarding.
Cleverate doesn’t replace human hiring decisions. It removes the noisy, repetitive screening so your team can focus on speaking to the best-fit candidates sooner.
For hiring teams & agencies
Cleverate gives you a verified shortlist, not a stack of CVs. We reduce noise so your recruiters can focus on real conversations.
- Faster shortlists – get pre-screened candidates in hours, not weeks.
- Evidence-based profiles – skills mapped to projects, years of use and interview performance.
- Reduced bias – scoring focuses on skills, not where someone worked or studied.
- Plug-and-play – use us as a partner, a shortlist service, or a white-label engine.
For candidates
Good candidates get lost in noisy hiring processes. We give them a way to stand out on skill, not keywords.
- Structured chat interview that lets them explain real projects and decisions.
- Fair evaluation – the same questions, the same scoring logic, for every candidate.
- Reduced guesswork – they know what’s being measured and why.
Flexible commercial models
Start with a single shortlist, or plug Cleverate into your hiring process as a subscription or licensed assessment platform.
Recruitment
Contingency & fixed-fee
High-quality tech hires with AI-verified candidates.
- • Contingency: 20–25% of salary
- • Fixed-fee: £3,500–£8,500 per hire
- • On-demand shortlists from £499
Subscription
Unlimited hiring plans
Startup, Scale-Up and Enterprise tiers with predictable monthly pricing.
- • From £1,250/month for startups
- • Unlimited hires for scale-ups and enterprise
- • Dedicated AI workflows & reporting at the top tier
SaaS & Licensing
Assessment & white-label
Turn our engine into your unfair advantage.
- • AI technical assessment from £299–£999/mo
- • White-label AI assistant for HR/ATS products
- • Custom B2B and API integrations
Detailed pricing and pilots are available on request. We’re happy to start small and scale with your hiring volume.
Human-centred AI hiring
Cleverate is designed around a simple principle: AI handles the volume. Humans make the decisions.
What AI does
- • Reads CVs and extracts skills, projects and signals.
- • Runs structured chat interviews and scores answers.
- • Flags inconsistencies, risk and likely AI-generated content.
- • Treats every candidate with the same criteria.
What humans do
- • Review shortlists and reports.
- • Run live interviews and culture-fit assessments.
- • Decide who to hire, promote or pass on.
- • Build long-term relationships with candidates.
We automate the process, not the relationship. AI reduces noise and bias; your recruiters keep full control of the outcome.
Transparency & fairness by design
- • Consistent evaluation criteria for every candidate.
- • Objective skill scoring backed by evidence from their CV and interview.
- • Clear reports for clients and candidates — no black-box rejections.
- • Human oversight built into every step of the process.
Join the Cleverate early access program
We’re onboarding a small group of engineering teams and recruitment agencies who want faster, fairer and more data-driven hiring. Leave your details and we’ll get back to you.
- • Early access to AI verification and interview tools.
- • Preferential pricing for launch partners.
- • Direct input into features and integrations.
We’ll never sell your data. We’ll only contact you about Cleverate and relevant product updates.