For hiring teams
We bring top assessed candidates for your role, with a level on every skill.
Pay only when you hire. No credit card. No sales call.
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Pay only when you hire.10% of base salary. No credit card, no sales call.
Your interviews, evidence and next steps. Together.
Built for both sides
Nobody pings anybody. ROUND.1 does the work between the two sides: the interview, the reminders and the introductions. Every introduction starts with a yes from both.Nobody pings anybody. ROUND.1 handles the interview, the reminders and the introductions.
For the candidate
You get your level on each skill back, free, with your own words behind it.
Nobody cold-calls you about roles. Companies will reach you only through ROUND.1, with your levels first and your name only when you say yes.
For the company
Your role meets candidates who already took the interview, each with levels and their own words behind them. Or upload your own applicants: they take the same interview, and you see them the same way.
You do not chase applicants or book first rounds. Everyone you shortlist from our pool has confirmed your company and role before their name reaches you.
Assessment first
Before the yes: levels and the quotes behind them. No name, contacts, CV, photo, recording or transcript.
After the yes: the name, contacts, CV, an optional note, the recording and the transcript, for your company only.
After a decline: a decline, with no name and no reason.
“When a client would not renew, I set up a weekly call and we rebuilt the plan.”
“I tracked usage every month, so I could raise a renewal before the client asked.”
How it works
Share the role in a short chat, then see each candidate’s levels and the words behind them, before their name.
Create a company accountYour name stays hidden until you accept an introduction. Blocked companies never see your profile.
Blocked companies
Your current employerAdd a company
Next, a 20-minute conversation with the AI interviewer.
Chat, upload a job description or paste a link. We draft the rest.
Answer a short chat, attach a job description or paste a link. We draft the job description and requirements. You add the pay range and publish.
A level on each skill, with their own words.
Candidates who already took our AI interview reach your role after a person on our team checks each batch. You see a level on each competency the interview measured, with the candidate’s own words behind it. No name yet. Candidates you upload take the same interview for your role.
Each one confirms. Then the name and recording open to you.
Each one sees your company and role, and confirms they are still looking. On a yes, the name, contacts, CV, recording and transcript open to your company.
Run your own rounds, or add one from us. Record the hire.
Run your next rounds your way, or order a further interview round from us. Record the hire in ROUND.1.
Pricing
10% of the hire's annual base salary, charged on hire. If the hire does not last 90 days, ROUND.1 finds a replacement at no new fee.
No subscription and no charge per interview. The fee applies to every hire, including candidates a company uploads. Candidates never pay.
Trust
Scores are provisional while we calibrate our assessment. Read each level next to the quote behind it.
The AI interviewer asks the questions. The company decides whom to shortlist. The candidate decides whether their name goes to it.
Block any company, or decline any shortlist without a reason.
Questions
Still curious? Write to [email protected]
At launch we interview account executives and customer success managers, project managers in digital delivery, and AI builders, in English. Mandarin Chinese is only for candidates you upload, on a role you set to Mandarin. Cantonese isn't offered.
Yes. Upload their CVs on your role and email each one the intake questions. Once they answer, send the interview invite. They take the same AI interview as our candidates. If you pass over one, they hear of your decision only if you choose to tell them.
Joining is free. You pay 10% of the hire's annual base salary, charged on hire. If the hire does not last 90 days, ROUND.1 finds a replacement at no new fee. Agencies charge 15–25%.
A video call with an AI interviewer, about 20 minutes, 30 at most. Our AI interviewer speaks 42 languages. Interviews open in English and Mandarin first; Mandarin is for applicants you upload to a role you set to Mandarin. Three questions are the same for everyone, then questions on each skill the role needs. Each applicant gets one attempt, and if the call drops they can rejoin within 30 minutes. They need a computer with a camera and microphone, in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge.
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For companies
Describe your first role in a short chat. Pay only when you hire.
Create a company account