Responsible AI
AI is good at asking the same questions carefully and writing down what it heard. It shouldn’t decide who gets a job. Here is how LessRounds keeps that line, and where its limits are.
Seven commitments
LessRounds sorts candidates by score and sets aside those below your pass mark. It never tells a candidate they were rejected, and anyone set aside can be moved back in one click. Who goes to the next round is decided by someone on your team.
A score without a reason is an opinion. Each skill score comes with the reasoning and the quote from the interview it rests on, so a reviewer can check it in seconds and disagree when it’s wrong.
Scoring reads the transcript. It does not analyze faces, expressions, clothing, rooms, voices or emotions. Video is recorded so your team can watch it, not so a model can judge it.
The scoring instructions tell the model never to mark anyone down for which language they use, for mixing languages, for script or for grammar. If communication in English matters for the job, add it as a skill so it’s scored openly.
Before starting, every candidate is told the interview is run by AI, that it’s recorded and evaluated, and that it happens in one sitting. They agree before it begins.
Each candidate’s interview is frozen when they start, so changes never apply halfway. Scripted mode goes further and asks every candidate the same questions, word for word.
We don’t use interviews to train AI models, and our AI provider doesn’t train on data sent through its API.
Automatic set-aside
We don’t want this to be a surprise, so here are the rules as the software applies them.
No AI system is, and neither is a phone screen. What we can do is limit what the model sees to the words of the answer, remove language and grammar as silent factors, show the evidence for every score, and keep a person in charge of every decision. We’d rather describe those controls than claim a guarantee nobody can give.
Transcription. Background noise, a weak microphone or a patchy connection can drop words, and a missing word can lower a score. That’s why evidence quotes matter: if a quote looks garbled, watch the recording.
At first, yes. Look through a sample of set-aside candidates for your first interviews. If good people are landing there, lower the pass mark or adjust the skills.
In some places. New York City, Illinois and the European Union all have rules on AI in hiring. They generally require telling candidates AI is used and what it evaluates, and some add consent, bias audits or deletion rights. LessRounds tells candidates and asks for consent before every interview, but you’re responsible for meeting the rules where you hire. This isn’t legal advice.
Yes. They can ask you, as the employer, or email privacy@lessrounds.ai. See the candidate privacy notice.
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