Adaptive interview

An interview that listens, then asks.

A fixed question list measures who prepared. An adaptive interview measures who can explain their own work. Talyvro chooses each question from the previous answer — and checks the claims inside it against the record instead of taking them at face value.

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01How it adapts

The next question comes from the last answer.

A candidate says a number. Instead of moving on, the interview asks how the number was established. That single behaviour separates a rehearsed answer from a real one.

Claims that cannot be supported are marked unverified rather than quietly scored.

The interview does not repeat what the screening assessment already covered.

AI interviewQuestion 4 of 10
Candidate said

"We increased checkout conversion by 17% over one quarter."

Follow-up

How did you establish that the 17% was statistically significant?

Chosen from the previous answer · not a fixed script

Extracted evidence
  • Experimentation — claim, unverified
  • Stakeholder management — evidenced
02Four ways to run it

The format follows the role, not the tooling.

Video is not a requirement. A candidate on a weak connection, or one who simply thinks better in writing, is not penalised for it.

Video

For roles where presence and communication are part of the job.

Voice

The same conversation without a camera — lighter on bandwidth and on nerves.

Text

For written reasoning, and for candidates who prefer to think on the page.

Technical case

A scenario from the role, discussed rather than solved against a clock.

03What is measured

Three states, no fourth.

Every competency in the scorecard ends the interview in one of three states. There is no invented middle, and nothing is filled in to make the card look complete.

Evidenced

Supported by a quoted line from the transcript, an answer or a verified record.

Claimed, unverified

The candidate stated it, nothing in the process confirmed it. It stays visible as a question.

Not covered

The interview did not reach it — so the human interviewer knows exactly where to start.

04The handoff

What your hiring manager opens.

A dossier, not a ranking: the scorecard with its evidence, the open questions, an interview guide built from the gaps, and a gate that only a person can pass.

Each criterion links to the exact line it was scored from.

Overriding an AI rating is allowed — with a written reason, on the record.

Candidate dossierSample

Candidate #4471

Stage · human interview
Scorecard
Distributed systems92 · 4 evidence
Data modelling88 · 3 evidence
Domain: fintech95 · 5 evidence
Verified skills61 · 1 evidence
Open questions

Experimentation depth · notice period

Decision gate

AI cannot advance or reject. A named recruiter must act.

05Candidate experience

The person on the other side of it.

Their language

Azerbaijani, English or Russian — the candidate chooses, not the employer.

Their hours

The interview runs at any time, so nobody has to take leave for a first conversation.

Told in advance

That AI is part of the process, what it does, and what happens to the recording.

A person to appeal to

Candidates can ask for human review, and no rejection is issued without one.

06Limits

What it deliberately does not do.

  • It does not score appearance, accent, background noise or how fluent someone sounds.
  • It does not reject. A rating is a recommendation to a person, never an outcome.
  • It does not replace the human interview — it removes the part of it that was reading a CV aloud.

See it run on one of your open roles.

A working session, not a slide deck: we take a real vacancy, define it in the product, and walk through the shortlist and the evidence behind every score.

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