What is an AI interview? Your questions, answered

An AI interview is a structured first-round screening interview run by an AI agent instead of taking up a recruiter's time on the phone. InterviewAgent.ai calls or video-meets each candidate, asks role-tailored questions, listens to the answers and asks smart follow-ups, then scores each answer against a rubric you set. It hands your recruiters a ranked shortlist with full transcripts and highlights so they can review and decide quickly. The candidate always knows they are speaking with an AI, and a human makes the final call.

No. The agent takes the repetitive first-round screening off your recruiters' plates so they spend their time on the candidates who matter. It scores answers against your rubric and advances qualified candidates to recruiter review with a ranked shortlist, transcripts and highlights. It never auto-hires or auto-rejects anyone. Every decision to advance, interview further or pass stays with a human on your team. See how it works.

Candidates get a fair, consistent first-round interview by voice or video at a time that suits them, with no scheduling tag. Before it begins, they are clearly told they are interviewing with an AI agent and asked for their consent. Every candidate for a role gets the same structured questions, so no one is judged on small talk or who happened to catch the recruiter on a good day. They can answer in their own words, and the agent asks natural follow-ups to give them room to show what they know. See the features.

The agent scores each answer against the rubric you define for the role, which makes screening consistent and comparable across candidates. It is decision-support, not a verdict: it surfaces strong and weak answers with the transcript behind every score so your recruiters can check the reasoning. We do not claim perfect accuracy, and we do not use face reading or personality pseudoscience. Humans review the shortlist and make the final decision.

Fairness is the point of running a structured screen. Every candidate for a role is asked the same rubric-based questions and scored on the same criteria, which removes a lot of the inconsistency of ad hoc phone screens. We run bias-audit and fairness checks on the scoring, provide reports you can share, and we do not score appearance, accent or personality. A human reviews the shortlist and makes the final hiring decision, so the AI never has the last word.

InterviewAgent.ai is built as a decision-support tool with compliance in mind. Scoring is structured and rubric-based, we run bias audits and provide fairness reports aligned to EEOC guidance and NYC Local Law 144, and candidates receive clear AI disclosure and give consent before the interview. On Growth and above you get bias-audit reports, and Enterprise adds a full compliance pack with audit trails. You should still confirm your own obligations with your legal and compliance teams. See how scoring works.

Candidates are told up front that they are interviewing with an AI agent and asked to consent before anything is recorded or scored. We use encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege access, and your candidate data stays yours and is not sold or used to train models for other companies. Connections to your ATS are scoped and revocable. Security and access are reviewed with you on larger plans.

The agent slots into your existing process rather than replacing it. You define the role and the rubric, the agent runs the first-round screens, and scores, transcripts and the ranked shortlist export to your ATS so your books stay the single source of truth. There is no rip and replace. It complements sourcing and skills testing, so the agent screens the candidates your pipeline already brings in.

You pay a flat monthly fee based on interview volume and seats. Starter is $149 per month for up to 100 interviews, Growth is $399 per month for up to 500 interviews with ATS export and bias-audit reports, and Scale is $999 per month for up to 2,000 interviews with integrations and custom rubrics. Enterprise is custom for unlimited volume. There is no free plan and no percentage of salary, just a predictable monthly fee. See pricing.

It completes the stack. Sourcing tools bring candidates in and skills tests check hard skills, and InterviewAgent.ai handles the first-round screening interview in between, so your recruiters meet a ranked, scored shortlist instead of a raw list of applicants. It is purpose-built for high-volume roles in retail, sales, customer service, healthcare, hospitality and BPO, where teams interview far more people than they can screen by hand. See use cases.

First-round phone screens are where high-volume teams lose the most hours, often 15 to 20 minutes per candidate before anyone qualified reaches a hiring manager. By running those screens automatically and scoring them against your rubric, the agent lets recruiters skip straight to reviewing a ranked shortlist. Results depend on your roles and volume, and recruiters still review and decide on every candidate that advances.

Choose Start hiring and confirm your work email, then set up your first role and rubric. The agent starts running structured first-round interviews with candidate consent and AI disclosure, scores each answer, and builds a ranked shortlist with transcripts and highlights for your recruiters to review. There is no rip and replace and no long setup, you are live in minutes alongside the process you already use.