How assessment works

One requirement.
Its supporting words.

An assessment should make its reasoning open to review, including what the conversation did not establish.

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A shared purpose. Individual paths.

Your intentIndividual conversationsEvidence
01 / The brief

Define what the work needs.

Role requirements come from the brief. Your team adds context and deal-breakers, checks the brief and publishes. aikho then prepares the interview and the way each requirement will be rated. You can read its plan at any time.

The purpose is to assess relevant experience against the role. The interview can follow up differently with each candidate while keeping those requirements as its standard. A conversation’s path can change without changing the work the role needs.

02 / The rating

Keep the interpretation beside the evidence.

Each requirement gets one rating with the candidate’s supporting words. Your team can read the conversation rather than taking the assessment on trust. The interview carries most of the weight in the overall view; the CV adds career context when available.

The stored example below shows one skill rating. It is not an overall candidate result. The site does not publish the numerical scale, a pass threshold or the weighting between sources. Read the band alongside the actual account and its limits.

03 / The gap

Not explored is different from failed.

If a topic did not come up, aikho reports that the interview did not establish it. That absence is not counted as a failed requirement. The evidence should help your team identify what still needs checking.

A requirement rule may act on an established failure, never on missing or uncertain information alone. Optional low-score closure has separate conditions. Human oversight explains those actions and the decisions that remain with your team.

04 / The limit

An interview is still someone’s account.

It does not spot lying. A convincing story that holds up under questioning sounds convincing. Check references before you hire, as you always would.

aikho assesses candidates and explains its results. Suggestions are selected using defined scoring rules. Your team decides whom to shortlist and hire. Neither a strong interview nor a detailed CV independently verifies a claim or guarantees future performance.

The evidence, up close

Read what
the rating rests on.

A stored demo. One skill. The candidate’s own words.

Explore the full exchange

Senior Data Analyst · one skill

aikho

Could you tell me about a specific time at Northstar where you had to make a tough call on how much analytical precision was needed versus moving quickly with the product squad?

Alex, demo candidate

I paused the rollout. The apparent improvement was partly a change in who signed up.… I explained that uncertainty to the product lead and proposed a randomized test.… That cost a week, but avoided rolling out on misleading evidence.

Judgement under pressureExceeds

Held strict analytical integrity against high-stakes launch pressure without stalling squad momentum. Formulated bounded risk decisions… and staged rollouts rather than demanding absolute certainty or conceding to misleading metrics.
Demo · fictional role, simulated candidate, quoted word for word. One skill, not an overall score.

A closer look

Your questions.

Is a skill rating an overall candidate score?

No. A skill rating describes one requirement against the role, with its supporting evidence. The overall view brings more information together, with the interview carrying most of the weight and the CV adding background when available. The stored demo is labelled as one skill.

What should our team check next?

Read the supporting answers and places the interview did not explore far enough. Use your own conversation to examine what matters for the role, and check relevant claims through references or other appropriate checks. The assessment does not independently verify the candidate’s account.

Plan. Talk. Discover.

Start with what
you need to know.

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