From 2,847 applicants to six confident hiring decisions.
Every applicant completes the same structured interview before recruiters or hiring managers invest their time. Using our proprietary MERIT-8™ framework, FirstPanel evaluates communication, problem solving, technical capability, leadership and role fit to produce an explainable, evidence-backed shortlist.
Your team spends less time screening, more time interviewing exceptional candidates, and every hiring decision remains firmly in human hands.
Hire faster. Hire more consistently. Hire with confidence.
Zoom + Teams native · syncs with your ATS · live in days
Every applicant deserves to be heard.
- Warm, adaptive conversation — voice, video or text, 40+ languages
- No calendar tetris — candidates interview 24/7 when it suits them
- Evidence-based feedback for every applicant, not silence
Your managers spend time with the candidates who matter.
Instead of reviewing hundreds of résumés and conducting endless screening calls, your team receives a ranked shortlist backed by structured interviews, competency evidence and explainable AI recommendations.
Hiring managers focus on what humans do best: building relationships, testing judgement and making the final hiring decision.
- Ranked shortlist with interview recordings, transcripts and highlight reels
- Every recommendation is linked to the interview evidence that supports it
- AI informs every decision. Your people make every hire.
Plug in Monday. Shortlist Friday.
One-hour setup
Connect your ATS and calendar. Applicants flow in automatically. Nothing changes for your team.
AI runs every first round
Live adaptive interviews in Zoom or Teams. Eight MERIT-8™ agents score eight competencies against your rubric — every rating linked to evidence.
Managers meet the top few
Ranked shortlist, transcripts, highlight reels. Your people run the final interview and make the call.
Your best interviewer. At any volume.
Adaptive interviews
Probes vague answers, digs into specifics, adjusts in real time. 40+ languages, voice or video.
Zoom & Teams native
Candidates join a normal call. No app to download, no friction, no drop-off.
Scores with receipts
Every rating links to the transcript moment that earned it. No black boxes.
Fraud defense
Deepfake detection, identity checks, proxy-interview flags. The candidate you shortlist is the one who shows up.
MERIT-8™ methodology
An original FirstPanel Research consensus methodology: eight competencies, eight AI agents, one defensible Role-Fit Index. Read the methodology →
Pipeline analytics
Time-to-shortlist, conversion, score distributions, drop-off. One dashboard TA leadership actually opens.
From job post to shortlist — explore it live
Every data point, one view
MERIT-8 competency profile, evidence-linked scores, Integrity Sentinel, compliance record — for each candidate.
Your policies, your rules
Post jobs, set agent weights and interview goals, encode HR policies (the compiler blocks unlawful criteria), brand the experience, manage billing.
MERIT-8™, published
The full MERIT-8™ research paper: agent architecture, fairness engineering, and the G7 regulatory compliance matrix.
Every decision. Defensible.
AI screening is regulated now — EU AI Act, NYC bias audits, more coming. FirstPanel is built to pass the audit before you’re asked.
It shortlists; humans review, override, decide. Every override logged.
Transcripts, rubric mappings, reviewer actions — defend any decision six months later.
Ongoing adverse-impact monitoring. Independent audit support for NYC LL144 and equivalents.
Prohibited analysis stays off per jurisdiction. Candidate disclosures generated automatically.
Fits the stack you run today
Hiring, with its humanity intact.
FirstPanel gives every candidate a fair hearing and gives your team its time back — the speed of AI with a person always in the decision. That's a hiring process people actually feel good about.
Start your free pilotGive your managers their calendars back.
Watch FirstPanel screen a live requisition with your own rubric. Demo to first shortlist: two weeks.