Why we built LessRounds.

Over the years, hiring has gained more and more interviews. A first phone call. A call with the hiring manager. A task to do at home. A panel interview. A chat about “culture fit”. A final interview with someone senior who has twenty minutes and a flight to catch.

Each interview was added for a reason. Very few were ever removed.

The first interview is usually the weakest.

It has the most candidates, and you know the least about them. It gets the least prepared interviewer, the shortest time slot and the notes least likely to be read. It happens when the recruiter is free, which is rarely when the candidate is. The questions are meant to be the same every time, but each interviewer asks them a little differently.

Yet this interview decides who gets every interview after it.

Candidates notice.

A good candidate who applies to five companies gets five chains of emails to find a time, and is asked “tell me about yourself” five times. The best candidates have other options, so they quietly stop replying. The process was meant to find these people, and instead it drives them away.

Fewer interviews, with people still in charge.

We don’t think AI should decide who gets hired. We think it should do the repetitive parts of hiring: asking the same questions, fitting calls into calendars and writing notes. That leaves people free for the parts that need their judgment.

So LessRounds does one thing. It runs the first interview. Every applicant gets the same careful interview, at a time that suits them, in the language they work in. Every answer is written down. Every score shows the words it came from. Then a person reads it and decides.

When the first interview is done properly, you need fewer interviews after it. You might meet three people instead of eleven, and you already know what to ask them.

What we won’t do.

We won’t judge people by their faces, their rooms or the language they answer in. We won’t send rejections in your name. We won’t hide the reasoning behind a score. We won’t claim our AI is fair just because we say so.

And we won’t charge you for each team member, or just to get started. You pay when a candidate finishes an interview. That’s all.

Fewer rounds. Better hires. That’s the whole idea.