How it works

Post. Screen. Hire. That's the whole thing.

Raffi handles the part that grinds you down — reading résumés, scheduling phone screens, asking the same five questions 200 times. You handle the part that matters — meeting the qualified ones and making the offer.

TL;DR

Raffi runs hiring as a 3-step loop: Post the role (30 seconds, JD parser builds the hiring bar and screening questions), Screen every applicant with a 10-15 minute conversational AI interview by phone or browser, and Hire by reviewing the ranked top 3-5 with full transcripts and side-by-side comparison. No résumé piles, no scheduling tag, no hire fees.

The first-round recruiter-screening phase historically consumes 25-40% of total time-to-hire (Aptitude Research) — the single largest delay step in most funnels. Teams that automate that layer cut time-to-hire by 30-50% (LinkedIn 2024 Future of Recruiting), with 65% of US employers now reporting AI use somewhere in the hiring funnel (SHRM 2024 Talent Acquisition Benchmarking). Raffi is that automation layer, but conversational — not a one-way async video form candidates abandon at the 60% mark.

72-second walkthrough

Or, in motion.

The same Post → Screen → Hire flow, shown end-to-end. Watch this if you'd rather see Raffi than read about it.

01Post

Post a role in 30 seconds.

Drop in a job description — paste it, share a link, or use our free JD Generator if you don't have one yet. Raffi parses the role into a hiring bar, generates role-specific screening questions, and posts it to your ATS (Workable supported, more coming).

  • JD Generator: turn a 1-line brief into a polished JD
  • Workable + Google Calendar + Atlas chat integration
  • Auto-generated screening questions based on the role
  • Custom hiring bar: must-haves, nice-to-haves, deal-breakers
02Screen

Raffi calls every applicant — 10–15 min, conversational AI.

Voice-first, real-time. Raffi cross-references each candidate's CV, asks role-specific behavioral questions (STAR method), and scores them against your hiring bar. Candidates self-book 24/7 in any timezone, in 30+ languages.

  • Conversational AI, not a form — handles follow-up questions naturally
  • Anti-cheat scoring detects coached or AI-assisted candidates
  • Full transcript + recording for every interview
  • Score breakdown: technical fit, communication, culture fit, experience relevance
03Hire

Meet the top 3–5. No hire fees, ever.

Wake up to a ranked shortlist with transcripts, recordings, and a fit summary. Reveal contact info on the candidates you want to talk to, schedule your final round in two clicks, and make an offer. The candidate is yours the moment you reveal them — no placement fees, no percentage of salary, no hire fees.

  • Ranked shortlist with fit scores, strengths, gaps, and full transcripts
  • Reveal contact: email only $0.30, email + mobile $1.50, full profile $50
  • Side-by-side compare top candidates before deciding
  • Calendar integration — schedule final rounds in two clicks
  • Hire whoever you want — no extra charge, no claw-back

Why a conversation, not a form.

The most common AI-hiring tool today is a one-way async video interview — candidate hits record, answers four questions to a webcam, sends the file. Completion rates sit around 60% per Talent Board's 2023 Candidate Experience Report (CandE Awards research), and the NPS gap between async-video and recruiter-led screens is 20-30 points. Raffi runs a real-time voice conversation instead — STAR-method behavioral questions, follow-up probes when an answer is vague, and a natural-language flow that completes at 95%+ on every job we've shipped. The candidate experience is the differentiator; the data shows up downstream as higher offer-accept rates.

Fairness, by design.

Every Raffi interview opens with the candidate being told they're talking to AI. We A/B tested transparency vs. ambiguity in 2025; transparency wins on every metric — candidates are calmer, answer more honestly, and complete the interview more often. The structured rubric is set before the first interview runs, so every candidate is asked the same role-specific questions and scored on the same criteria. That's the legal baseline for a defensible hiring process under EEOC Title VII guidance, NYC Local Law 144, and the EU AI Act. Raffi runs the bias audits for you; the human stays in the loop on every hire decision.

What you see on the other side.

The review queue shows you each candidate's overall score, the rubric breakdown (technical fit, communication, culture fit, experience relevance), the full transcript, the audio, and a two-paragraph fit summary. You can side-by-side compare any two candidates with one click. When you decide who to push forward, reveal contact info on just those candidates ($0.30 email, $1.50 email + mobile, $50 full profile) and schedule the final in two clicks — Google Calendar integration handles availability. Most hires close from posting to signed offer in 7-14 days, against an industry-average time-to-hire of 36-44 days reported by SHRM.

What Raffi is not.

Raffi is not your recruiter — it's the screening layer your recruiter no longer has to grind through. It doesn't make the final hire decision; it gives your team the ranked evidence to make that decision on. It doesn't run live technical interviews — those still belong to a human or a take-home. And it doesn't take a placement fee. The candidate is yours the moment you reveal them; if you decide to make an offer, no extra money changes hands. That's the SaaS promise.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does it take Raffi to interview an applicant?
Each conversational AI interview runs 10-15 minutes — long enough to get past surface-level small-talk, short enough that 95%+ of applicants complete it. Candidates can take the interview by phone (US-toll-free + 30+ international numbers) or in the browser. They self-book in any timezone, and Raffi runs them in 30+ languages.
Does Raffi replace my recruiter?
No. Raffi replaces the screening layer between job posting and offer — the part where you read 200 résumés and run 30 phone screens. Your recruiter still owns hiring strategy, final interviews, offer negotiation, and the human relationship with finalists. Raffi just stops them from drowning in the funnel before the good candidates surface.
What ATS does Raffi integrate with?
Workable is live today. Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever are on the integration roadmap. If you don't run an ATS, Raffi can act as your lightweight applicant-tracking layer — review queue, candidate profiles, scorecards, scheduling, and final-hire workflow all built in. Google Calendar integration ships in every plan.
How does Raffi prevent candidates from cheating with AI?
Raffi's anti-cheat layer scores every interview on real-time signals: answer latency, microphone-environment consistency, off-camera eye movement, prompt-pattern matching against known AI-generated phrasing, and a probing follow-up the candidate can't pre-script. Per Karat's 2025 industry data, roughly 30-40% of remote technical interviews show AI-coaching signals — Raffi flags them with a risk score on every transcript so hiring managers can decide.
What happens when the interview is done?
Raffi transcribes the recording, scores against your rubric (technical fit, communication, culture fit, experience relevance), and posts to your review queue with the full transcript, audio, and a side-by-side comparison against everyone else in the funnel. You wake up to a ranked top 3-5. Reveal contact info on the ones you want to talk to, schedule the final, make the offer.
Can I customize what Raffi asks?
Yes. Every job has a custom hiring bar (must-haves, nice-to-haves, deal-breakers) plus role-specific screening questions Raffi generates from the JD or you write directly. You can also override the conversational opening, the rubric weights, and the post-interview email — full control on every layer, with sensible defaults so you don't have to configure anything to ship.