Every applicant read. Every candidate answered.

A hiring pipeline is not expensive because of the decisions. It is expensive because of the reading, the scheduling and the messages that never got sent. Dutta carries that, and leaves every decision about a person to a person.

The work today

Screening becomes skimming. One opening produces more applications than the hiring manager has hours, so the careful read that the first few get is not what the rest get.

Silence is the default outcome. Most candidates never hear anything. Not because anyone decided that, but because sending the message was somebody’s twelfth priority.

Scheduling is a thread. Finding a slot across a panel takes more messages than the interview takes minutes, and every reschedule starts the thread again.

The reasoning is not recorded. Why a candidate was advanced or dropped is rarely written down, so the process cannot be reviewed later — by you, or by anyone asking.

What Dutta does, in order

As applications arriveReads each one against the criteria you wrote and summarises it against them, with its reasoning shown so you can disagree with it.
Same daySends acknowledgements, so no candidate sits in silence wondering where they stand.
On your shortlistFinds the slot across the panel’s calendars, sends the invitation with the brief attached, and absorbs the reschedules.
WeeklyReports pipeline movement: what advanced, what stalled, and where the drop-off is.

What it reads and writes

An AI employee holds scoped credentials — read, write or send, per system — and nothing beyond its mandate. Permission is granted per system, and revoking it takes effect immediately. For this job that normally means:

  • Applicant tracking system — read and write
  • Calendars — read and write, for panel scheduling
  • Email — draft, and send for scheduling only

Where a person stays in the loop

Dutta prepares, drafts and flags; a person approves anything with a consequence. You name the checkpoints, and for this job they usually are:

  • Every advance, reject and offer decision
  • Any change to the screening criteria
  • Anything written to a candidate about an outcome

Questions

Does it decide who gets hired?

No, and it is deliberately built not to. Our terms prohibit using Dutta for automated decisions about people that require human judgement, hiring outcomes included. It summarises, schedules and drafts; a person decides.

How do we audit it for bias?

Every screen is logged with its inputs, the criteria applied and the reasoning trail, and any run can be replayed. You can review the whole set rather than sampling it.

Does it use its own criteria?

It uses yours, written in plain language, and it changes when you change them. Any change to the criteria is itself something a person approves.

The role behind this job

This work is what the Recruiting employee does on shift. Everything else it handles, and the whole shift it works, is on the role page: an AI employee for recruiting.

Put it on shift

Pricing is per AI employee on shift; humans are unlimited on every plan. See pricing or tell us the process that eats your team’s week.

Other jobs Dutta takes

Invoice reconciliation · Support inbox · Month-end close · Weekly reporting · Overnight monitoring