Braintrust AIR actually talks to candidates. It conducts fully conversational video screenings that feel like real interviews—not chatbot interrogations. You feed it a job description. It generates competency-based questions and evaluation criteria, then handles the entire screening process while you focus on finalists.
Here's how setup works: customize questions if you want, create a unique interview link, send it to candidates. Braintrust AIR takes over from there. Candidates get a conversational video experience instead of filling out forms or answering static prompts. Every session gets recorded. It's instantly turned into detailed scorecards with objective scoring meant to cut out bias.
For recruiters drowning in applications for high-volume roles, the math matters. You can screen 20 candidates in the time one traditional interview used to take. That's an 80% cost reduction per interview—over 50% faster time-to-hire according to their numbers. Some companies apparently see ROI within two weeks.
Braintrust AIR includes fake candidate detection (which shouldn't be necessary but probably is). Automated scheduling handles coordination headaches. Everything stays structured with those competency-based questions, so you're not just winging it differently with each candidate.
Teams get the speed boost. Solo recruiters managing specialized searches get their sanity back. The AI doesn't make hiring decisions though—it just does the grunt work of early screening and surfaces candidates worth your actual time. A free plan exists, which is rare for enterprise-feeling tools like this.
