Kestrel

AI first-round interviewer · voice + chat · EN / ES-MX

Every candidate gets a real interview. Every decision is made by a human.

Kestrel runs the whole first round for you: application, resume verification, a 30-minute two-way interview by voice or chat, and a defensible ranked shortlist your hiring manager can read in five minutes.

1 question per turn
follow-ups until situation, own action and result are concrete
0 protected questions
a pre-send classifier blocks age, family, origin, health, religion and salary history in English and Spanish
100% explainable
every score cites the transcript line; no black-box composite
under $1
typical model cost per completed interview on current pricing

How it works

  1. 1

    Candidates apply on your careers page

    Branded page or embeddable widget. Resume parsed on upload; gaps, overlaps and inflated titles are flagged for the interviewer to probe, never used to reject.

  2. 2

    They interview right away, their way

    Voice in the browser, a phone call, WhatsApp, or text chat. English or Mexican Spanish. No account, no app, no timers that punish slow speakers.

  3. 3

    A real interview, not a questionnaire

    25 to 40 minutes: resume walk-through with verification, STAR deep-dives with adaptive follow-ups, role scenarios, and consistency checks woven in.

  4. 4

    Your team decides

    Scorecard with rubric anchors and quoted evidence, verification report, integrity signals, a 5-sentence summary and the three best questions for the human interview. Nobody is declined without a person clicking decline.

Live demo: two employers, three roles

These careers pages are real and run the full interview. Apply with any name and interview by voice in your browser, by phone at +1 877 467 3541, or by chat.

Built to the strictest US standard, and for Mexico

  • AI disclosure and consent before every interview; verbal recording consent captured and logged (Illinois AIVIA, NYC LL144, Colorado AI Act posture).
  • No facial analysis, no voice-tone or emotion analysis, no personality inference. Words are transcribed and the words are evaluated.
  • Mexico LFPDPPP privacy notice, GDPR-ready deletion requests, 12-month default retention, per-tenant isolation at the query layer, audit log for every access.

Integrations: Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, BambooHR, Indeed and LinkedIn feeds, OCC Mundial, a REST API and Zapier-compatible webhooks.