The Cognitive is AI recruiting software that runs your hiring funnel end to end: AI sourcing finds matching candidates with verified contact details, a live two-way AI interviewer with a human voice screens them in depth - asking follow-up questions, challenging vague answers, adapting in real time - and evidence-scored shortlists land on your desk in 24 hours. Technical, behavioral, and managerial rounds. 24/7, any timezone.
AI sourcing is candidate search in plain English: describe the role and get matched profiles with verified personal emails (5 credits) and direct phone numbers (10 credits), charged only on successful reveal. Sourced candidates push straight into AI interviews - one pipeline, no exports.
Each interview is a live, two-way conversation of about 20 minutes with a human face and voice: adaptive follow-ups, pushback on vague answers, and evidence-based scorecards where every score links to a quote and timestamp. Candidates self-schedule inside the window you set - any hour, any timezone - which is why completion rates run 90%+ versus 40-60% for one-way recorders.
The bottleneck in a 45-60 day hiring cycle is human screening and coordination. When every applicant gets an AI interview within days of applying and reviewers only meet pre-evaluated candidates, teams report time to hire dropping to about 10 days and 15-20 staff hours reclaimed per week.
AI interview plans: $99/month (15 interviews), $299 (45), $499 (100), $999 (225). AI sourcing credits from $49/month. Every account starts with a free trial: 5 AI interviews plus 20 sourced candidates, no credit card.
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The Cognitive is the AI recruiting platform that sources, interviews, and shortlists. AI sourcing finds candidates with verified emails and phone numbers, a live two-way AI interviewer with a human voice runs deep adaptive video interviews, and your team receives evidence-scored shortlists in 24 hours. Humans make every hiring decision - the AI removes the volume.
The AI interviewer joins a live video call with the candidate using a realistic human face and natural voice. It asks role-specific questions, listens to each answer, generates context-aware follow-ups in real time - pushing back on vague answers and probing deeper on strong ones - and scores every response against the same rubric. Hiring teams get the full recording, searchable transcript, and an evidence-based scorecard with quotes and timestamps.
Describe the role in plain English and the AI searches talent profiles for matches - including passive candidates who never applied. Verified personal emails cost 5 credits and direct phone numbers 10, charged only when the reveal succeeds; searching is unlimited. Engagement is built in: automated outreach sequences, an AI voice agent that calls candidates for you, and manual-call fallback with full context when someone doesn't pick up. Sourced candidates flow straight into AI interviews.
Two products, priced transparently. AI Interviews: from $99/month for 15 live interviews (up to $999/month for 225, custom above that; per-interview overage by tier). AI Sourcing: credit plans from $49/month for 500 credits. Annual billing saves 17%. The free trial includes 20 AI-sourced candidates plus 5 free interviews - no credit card required.
The AI replaces the volume, not the judgment. It conducts deep, consistent interviews at any scale - the 50th interview is as sharp as the first - and organizes the evidence. Your team reviews scorecards, meets only proven candidates, and makes every hiring decision. Teams typically reclaim 15-20 hours per week of interviewing time.
Every candidate for a role gets the same core questions, scored against the same rubric, with every rating traceable to exact quotes and timestamps - removing the interviewer variance, fatigue, and mood effects that make human screening inconsistent. No system should claim to be perfectly bias-free; The Cognitive's claim is consistent, evidence-tied, and auditable, with humans making all final decisions. See /trust/bias-and-fairness for the full controls.
A real conversation at a slot they pick themselves - evenings, weekends, any timezone - from the window the recruiter opens. No coordination emails: they choose a slot, get a join link, and interview. The AI greets them, asks role-specific questions, responds to their answers, and never rushes or has a bad day. If the employer enables it, rejected candidates even receive a feedback email with strengths and gaps - rare anywhere in hiring. Try the exact experience free at /try-interview.
Yes - The Cognitive maintains 40+ integrations, including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, and Bullhorn, plus any system supporting webhooks or APIs. Candidates sync in from your chosen stages, interviews run automatically, and evidence-scored results sync back. See /integrations.
50+ role templates across engineering, product, sales, marketing, healthcare, finance, and operations - from call center agents to VP-level hires - and 16 industry playbooks including tech, healthcare, BPO and staffing, fintech, retail, and hospitality. Interview tracks are fully configurable per role: technical, behavioral, and managerial rounds.
Sourcing platforms (hireEZ, SeekOut, Gem, Juicebox) find candidates but don't interview them; interview and screening tools (HireVue, Truffle) evaluate but don't source. The Cognitive does both in one pipeline - and its interviews are live and two-way with adaptive follow-ups, not one-way recordings. Honest head-to-head comparisons: /compare.