Field notes

Notes from building the engines.

Specific, verified, occasionally unglamorous — how we actually got these ten engines to hold up against real candidates.

2026.08.12
Why voice AI drifts in a structured interview
A frontier real-time voice model isn't broken when it repeats a question — it's doing exactly what it was built to do. Here's why that's a problem for hiring specifically, and what holding it to a script actually requires.
VOICE ENGINE
2026.07.29
What we learned testing outside software engineering
Voice interview AI is almost always demoed on software engineers. We ran it on aerospace, agriculture, healthcare, and administrative roles on purpose — here's where a resume-anchored system actually breaks.
VERIFICATION
2026.07.03
Scoring an answer without a keyword list
Keyword matching is easy to build and easy to game. Here's how the Interview Evaluator weighs substance and structure instead — and why it shows its reasoning, not just a number.
EVALUATOR ENGINE