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DawnStep

DawnStep surfaces the right candidates.

Step up your hiring.

DawnStep screens every applicant, runs the first interview, and writes the debrief — so your team spends time on the candidates who matter, not the ones who don't.

New

42

AI interview

9

Liu W.

88

Sam O.

79

Client round

3

Nadia H.

94

Jordan P.

91

Here's what that actually looks like

Your pipeline, already triaged when you log in.

Every applicant scored. Every strong candidate interviewed. Every weak one auto-rejected. The kanban you open is the one that matters.

Senior Backend Engineer — 173 applicants

New

148

Aditi R.

72

Marco T.

58

Auto-rejected

Priya K.

84

AI interview

22

Liu W.

88

Strong hire

Sam O.

79

Client round

3

Nadia H.

94

Rising ⭐

Jordan P.

91

The hiring loop, rewired

Every hire gets stuck in the same three places.

DawnStep unblocks all three — before your team opens the kanban in the morning.

Hundreds of applicants, one inbox.

DawnStep scores every applicant against a rubric built from your job description, so the shortlist writes itself.

Screening calls that never happen.

Buster runs a structured 30-minute interview with every candidate — in parallel, any time zone, three languages.

Debriefs written from memory.

Every interview produces a scored transcript, a per-competency breakdown, and cited quotes before your team meets.

What's inside

A hiring stack, not a hiring toy.

Every surface your team touches — built for the speed you want, the auditability procurement wants, and the rigour your best engineers expect.

Buster, the AI interviewer

A 30-minute structured interview with every applicant.

Buster runs multi-turn conversations in English, Vietnamese or Thai, with ten voice personas to choose from. Proctoring is built in — gaze tracking, tab-switch detection, a clean integrity score. You get a full transcript, a weighted rubric score, and a per-competency breakdown with cited quotes.

  • Multi-turn, adaptive questioning
  • Three languages, ten voices
  • Live proctoring with integrity score

Buster · Sarah voice · EN

Minute 12 of 28 · integrity 98

“Walk me through how you'd design a retry strategy for the payment webhook we talked about — what happens on the third failure?”
“I'd use exponential backoff, then switch to a dead-letter queue the moment we cross five attempts. For the webhook specifically, idempotency keys matter more than backoff timing...”
Score87 / strong hire
Competency: Systems · Strong
Auto-triage

Buster clears the pipeline while you sleep.

Candidates below 60% are auto-rejected with a personalised email. 60–75% move to Screening for a lighter-touch follow-up. Your standout candidates skip the queue and land straight in front of your hiring manager. Every move is logged, auditable, and reversible.

  • Rules respect your existing workflow
  • Buster-proof override for high-signal candidates
  • Full audit trail per action

Buster · last 24h

Aman S.

Auto-rejected · score 42

Woof ✓

Nadia H.

Moved to screening

Woof ✓

Priya K.

Flagged buster-proof by Vikram

Woof ✓

Liu W.

Invited to AI interview

Woof ✓
Rubric-driven scoring

The rubric writes itself — and evolves with you.

DawnStep reads the job description and proposes a weighted rubric (four to eight criteria, normalised to 1.0). Edit any criterion, mark the non-negotiables as essential, and DawnStep re-scores every past interview against the new bar. No more stale criteria, no more inconsistent hiring bars across the team.

  • Auto-generated from the JD
  • Essential-criteria gating
  • One-click recalibration across past interviews

Rubric · Senior Backend Engineer

Auto-generated
System design★ essential30%
API & data modelling25%
Production discipline20%
Communication15%
Ownership10%
Enterprise-ready

SSO, Teams and audit logging — on day one.

Bring your own Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace or OIDC provider — admins configure it in the UI, secrets are encrypted at rest. Teams meetings and transcripts are pulled natively. Every Buster action, recruiter decision and rubric change is captured for your internal audit.

  • Multi-provider SSO (Entra / Google / OIDC)
  • Teams meeting + transcript integration
  • Encrypted per-tenant configuration

SSO providers · AcmeCorp

Microsoft Entra ID

Default · 241 users

Google Workspace

Enabled · 18 users

Okta (OIDC)

Configured · test passed

Secrets encrypted at rest · FernetAudit log enabled

How it works

Three steps. No implementation team required.

01

Connect your stack in an afternoon.

Sign in with Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace or any OIDC provider. Verify your sending domain in SES-backed email. Paste a job description. You're ready.

02

Invite every applicant to an AI interview.

The rubric auto-generates from the JD. Buster emails candidates, runs a 30-minute proctored interview, and scores each transcript against your weighted criteria.

03

Open the kanban already triaged.

Weak candidates are auto-rejected with a personalised email. Strong ones land in Client Round with a scored debrief. Your team only meets the candidates that matter.

The shape of the shift

What changes when every candidate gets interviewed.

0%

of applicants interviewed

Not just the top of the pile — every single one.

0×

more candidates screened per recruiter-hour

Buster runs the first pass in parallel while your team sleeps.

0%

less time from application to offer

Based on a typical 200-applicant requisition.

0

screeners to hire

The AI interviewer is the screening team.

Directional figures based on early DawnStep pilots. We'll replace them with signed, named customer numbers as our first cohort closes their first hires.

Built for every side of the table

Hiring is a team sport. DawnStep is the coach.

Recruiters

Stop living in the applicant inbox.

Every morning your kanban is already sorted. Buster handled the rejections. You spend the day on the ten candidates your hiring manager actually wants to meet.

Hiring managers

Walk into every interview pre-briefed.

Before the call, you have a scored transcript, competency strengths, gaps, and three direct quotes. No more reading the CV in the elevator.

Candidates

Everyone gets a real conversation.

Every applicant lands an interview — not a keyword filter. Feedback is specific, honest, and bilingual where it matters.

See it on your own pipeline

Bring a live requisition. Leave with a shortlist.

30-minute demo. Real job description, your screening criteria, your candidates. By the end of the call you'll know whether DawnStep fits your hiring loop.