Research · MERIT-8™

The evidence behind evidence-based AI interviewing.

A structured, content-only, human-in-the-loop framework for interviewing every applicant at scale — and the methodology that produces explainable, defensible hiring shortlists.

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Paper

MERIT-8™: A Content-Only, Human-in-the-Loop Framework for AI-Assisted Interviewing

Content-only scoring

Why competency is judged on what a candidate says — never accent, appearance, or nerves — and how the scoring pipeline is structurally prevented from seeing anything else.

Eight-agent panel

The MERIT-8™ competency model and how eight specialised agents each assess one dimension, with every rating linked to the moment in the interview that earned it.

Human-in-the-loop by design

The evidence for keeping a named human on every decision, and how the system records who decided and why — the AI recommends, people decide.

Adverse-impact monitoring

How aggregate impact ratios are measured (and demographics quarantined from the scoring path) so fairness is proven, not assumed.