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Your first job, for real.
- 1 job, up to 25 CVs
- Interviews and interview kits included for every candidate
- 3 users
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For founders, HR teams and agencies
287 CVs came in.
You have time for 15 interviews.
CandiLyt reads every CV against your requirements and tells you which 15 are worth an hour — with the line of the CV that proves it. Then it gives you the questions to ask.
First job freeNo sales callKeep your ATS and your inbox
Inbox · Monday Senior Data Engineer
Application: Senior Data EngineerNaukri · PDF
Re: Data Engineer role — my CVGmail · PDF
Application: Senior Data EngineerNaukri · PDF
Referral — Data Engineer (Pune)Referral · PDF
Application: Senior Data EngineerLinkedIn · PDF
Application: Senior Data EngineerNaukri · PDF
CV attached — SDE roleGmail · PDF
+ 280 more this week
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14 h reading CVs14 h in interviews that went nowhere
Four months later: role open again$40,000+ paid for nothing
Today. One role: a week of reading, seven dead-end interviews, and a hire that didn't last.
Proof · sample role with synthetic CVs
Open the shortlist. Click any candidate to see the evidence.
Interview first · 3Call these first
Production-scale pipelinesSupported
owned the feature store serving 40M inferences a day for two years; on-call for the ingestion tier
Cloud platformPartial
AWS in the skills list and a certificate. No project bullet describes building on it.
Handles ambiguityUnknown — for the interview
No CV can show this. Left for the interview.
Dimensional modellingSupported
redesigned the finance mart from 40 ad-hoc tables to a star schema; month-end close went from five days to two
Pipelines at scaleUnknown
Describes daily batch jobs; volume never stated. Ask: largest daily volume handled, and what broke.
Streaming systemsSupported
built the Kafka consumer group that replaced the nightly load; 120k events/min at peak, exactly-once on reprocess
Dimensional modellingPartial
Listed under skills; one bullet mentions "maintained marts" without describing design decisions.
Maybe · 12Worth a closer look
SQL performanceSupported
cut the nightly reconciliation query from 55 minutes to 4 by partitioning and rewriting the join order
OrchestrationUnknown
Airflow appears in the skills list only. Ask: how retries, backfills and dependency failures were handled.
Candidates 05 and 09 are close. Ask both about orchestration at scale.
Unlikely fit · 272Not for this job on paper
Production-scale pipelinesGap
Dashboards and scheduled reports only. No pipeline work described.
What it costs you today
The expensive part isn't the CVs. It's the weeks you lose to the wrong people.
One open role, as it actually goes — for an HR team, and for a founder hiring alone.
14hours
reading 287 CVs at three minutes each, spread over a week between everything else. For a founder, that week came out of product and customers.
7of 15
interviews that went nowhere. Two people in the room, an hour each: 14 senior hours. A founder interviewing alone loses the same hours, and nobody else is closing deals meanwhile.
$40,000+
for one bad hire at an $80,000 salary: three months of pay, a notice period, the restart — and the thing that didn't get built while the wrong person held the role.
The HR week. Monday the CVs arrive. By Thursday you've read half, searched for "Spark" and "Airflow", and booked the two who looked best. Neither had built what their CV said. Friday you're back on page one.
The founder week. You screen CVs at 11 pm because the day went to customers. You interview six people yourself. The one you hire has the right keywords and the wrong experience; four months and $40,000 later you're writing the job post again.
Why your tools don't catch it
A CV is a claim document. Your tools read it as a record.
Keyword search rewards whoever wrote the better CV — and anyone can generate a polished one in a minute. Your ATS stores and tracks candidates; it was never built to tell you who is worth calling.
CandiLyt shows which claims have real work behind them.
Candidate 02 · Cloud platformone requirement, two readings
Keyword searchMatch ✓
"AWS" appears 4 times. Ranked above 200 others.
CandiLytPartial
In the skills list and a certificate. Not one project bullet in five years describes building on it. Ask before you count it.
Candidate 07 · same requirementSupported
"owned the feature store serving 40M inferences a day" — real work, quoted from the CV.
What you get
Three outcomes, one role at a time.
Bring the CVs you already have. CandiLyt does the reading; you do the deciding.
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You call the right 15.
Every CV is checked against your requirements. You see who to interview first, who next, and the quoted line behind each call. Close calls show what separates them.
Shortlist · Senior Data Engineer
Interview first3
Maybe12
Unlikely fit272 · each with the reason
02
Interviews test depth, not basics.
Each candidate gets questions built from their own CV and its gaps, for the HR, functional and final rounds. Interviewers rate each answer and see why a question is asked.
Functional round · Candidate 07 · candidate-specificYou owned the feature store serving 40M inferences a day. What broke first when load doubled, and what did you change?Why ask: ownership is shown; depth under load is not stated.
UnableWeakPartialGoodStrong
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A decision you can defend.
CV evidence, round results and the final call sit in one record — who decided, when, and what was still open. Share it with a client or a co-founder in one link.
Decision record · Candidate 07
Role fitSupported
HR roundClear
Functional roundGood
Final roundStrong
DecisionSelected · 24 Oct · Hiring manager
Honest by design
It also tells you what it cannot tell you.
Close calls show why.
When candidates are close, it shows what separates them.
Unknown stays unknown.
Judgement, communication, handling ambiguity: no CV can show these. They go to the interview instead.
No AI-detector promises.
Nothing reliably detects an AI-written CV, so we don't claim to. CandiLyt shows which claims have real work behind them.
Your numbers
What your last role cost you.
Change the numbers; nothing is saved.
We received CVs, interviewed people, and of those interviews went nowhere. An hour of our team's time costs about .
A founder's hour is worth more; put your own number.
- Reading CVs
- 14.4 h
- Interviews that went nowhere
- 14 h
≈ $1,134
of your team's time, before the bad hire.
CandiLyt for this role: $29 incl. tax
Assumes 3 minutes per CV and 2 people in each interview.
Pricing
Hiring once, or every month?
You pay for jobs. Interviews and interview kits are included for every candidate. No sales call.
Per job
$29 incl. tax
Hiring once. Paid once.
- 1 job, up to 300 CVs
- Interviews and interview kits included for every candidate
- 3 users
- Valid 12 months
Team
$119 incl. tax / month
Save 17%vs 5 single jobs ($145)
Hiring every month.
- 5 open jobs at a time
- Up to 300 CVs per job
- Interviews and interview kits included for every candidate
- 5 users
- Cancel any time
Agency
$199 incl. tax / month
Save 42%vs 12 single jobs ($348)
Many clients, many roles.
- 12 open jobs at a time
- Up to 300 CVs per job
- Interviews and interview kits included for every candidate
- 10 users
- Cancel any time
Enterprise
For high volume and custom needs
- Custom limits
- Security review support
- Contract and invoicing
Hiring one role at a time? Buy a job. Several roles at once? Pick Team or Agency. Everything else is the same.
Questions
Before you ask for access.
Does this replace our ATS or Naukri?
No. Naukri and LinkedIn bring the CVs; your ATS stores them. CandiLyt sits after them and answers the one question they can't: who is worth interviewing first, and why. Keep what you have.
How do the CVs get into CandiLyt?
Three ways, all included: forward emails (Naukri alerts work as they are) to the job's own address, share the job's apply link or QR code, or put the careers widget on your website with one line of code. Or upload the PDFs you already have. See every way a CV gets in.
Can it detect an AI-written CV?
No, and nothing reliably can: detectors flag non-native writers and anyone who used a writing tool, so we don't claim it. CandiLyt shows which claims have real work behind them.
What exactly do we pay for?
Jobs. One job is one opening with its requirements, up to 300 CVs, all interview rounds, kits and the decision record. A single job comes with 3 users, Team with 5, Agency with 10. Nothing is charged per interview or per candidate.
Where does candidate data go?
It stays in your workspace, visible only to the people you add. Candidates are told how their CV is used when they apply, and can ask for deletion. We don't use your candidates' data to train shared models. Details are on the privacy page.
We're an agency — can our client see the shortlist?
Yes. Share a client link that shows the ranked shortlist with the evidence, expires when you say, and can be revoked. Your client sees the reasoning, not your workspace.
Bring one role. See who's worth an hour.
The first job is free. During the pilot, access is by request: tell us about your hiring and we'll open your workspace.