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LessRounds

An AI interviewer that holds the first interview with each job applicant. You share it as a link. Fewer rounds. Better hires.

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Hire without spending your week on interviews.

At a startup, the founder usually does the hiring too. LessRounds runs the first interview for you, so you only get on calls with people who’ve already shown they can do the job.

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Suggested setup
Interview
Video, AI-led
Length
About 20 minutes
Language
English
Link
Public link
Pass mark (minimum score)
70

Skills scored, and how much each counts

  • Ownership · Advanced30%
  • Role skills · Advanced35%
  • Communication · Intermediate20%
  • Comfort with ambiguity · Intermediate15%

The problem

First calls with candidates eat your week.

Your first hires matter more than any later ones. But they’re usually hired by someone who is also doing three other jobs. So first interviews get rushed, skipped, or squeezed in between customer calls.

Ten 20-minute calls take up a whole afternoon, and most of them end with “thanks, we’ll be in touch.”

How LessRounds helps

What you get.

Ready in ten minutes

Sign up with a code sent to your email, paste your job description and publish.

100 free credits to start

Enough for about 20 interviews, with no time limit on using them.

Your co-founder can review too

Invite your team. There’s no charge per user.

It asks follow-up questions

Follow-up questions check whether an impressive first answer is backed by real detail.

Sample interview

Questions to start from.

Use them as written, or let the AI draft its own from your job description.

  1. 01Tell me about something you built or ran from start to finish, with nobody telling you what to do.
  2. 02What’s a decision you made with too little information? How did it turn out?
  3. 03Why a small company, and why now?

Screening questions

Checks before the interview.

Short form questions candidates answer before the interview. Answers show on each candidate’s page. They aren’t scored.

  • Where are you based? (Short text)
  • Are you comfortable with an early-stage salary and equity mix? (Yes / No)

Questions

We only hire a few people a year. Is it worth it?

Probably. You start with 100 free credits, enough for about 20 interviews, and they don’t expire. After that you pay $5 per interview, with no subscription. Use it for the jobs where you get more applicants than you can call.

Won’t senior candidates be put off by an AI interview?

Some might, so use your judgment. You could send the AI interview to people who apply through the job ad, and still call senior candidates and people recommended to you directly.

Keep reading

  • PricingFree for ten interviews a month.
  • How it worksFrom job description to shortlist.
  • Remote hiringInterviewing across time zones.

Try LessRounds free today.

Start with 100 free credits, enough for about 20 interviews. No credit card or sales call needed.

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