What is BrightHire?
BrightHire is an Interview Intelligence Platform designed to transform how hiring teams plan, screen, interview, and decide on candidates. It uses AI copilots and agents to automate repetitive tasks, improve interview quality, and deliver data-driven insights so your team can make faster, fairer hiring decisions. Think of it as having an always-on assistant that helps you build structured interview plans, record and transcribe conversations, generate instant notes, and even coach interviewers to get better over time.
What are the features of BrightHire?
- AI Interview Planning: Quickly create inclusive job descriptions and structured interview plans with an AI copilot that guides you from start to finish.
- BrightHire Screen (AI Interviewer): An always-on, two-way AI screening interview that handles high-volume inbound, giving every candidate a consistent, fair first round.
- AI Interview Notes & Highlights: Focus fully on the candidate while BrightHire records, transcribes, and generates notes and highlights in real time – submit scorecards with one click.
- Interview Insights & AI Assistant: Get instant candidate summaries, topic coverage, and answers from an AI assistant that recalls key context to support data-driven decisions.
- Interview Quality Improvement: Measure interview quality across your team, spot patterns, and receive personalized coaching from an AI agent based on real interview clips.
- Candidate Fraud Detection: Catch suspicious behavior across every stage of hiring with proactive alerts and analysis.
- Seamless Integrations: Works with your existing ATS, video conferencing tools, Slack, Teams, and email so you never have to change your workflow.
- Enterprise-Grade Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2 certified, GDPR and CCPA compliant, with role-based access controls and customizable data retention.
What are the use cases of BrightHire?
- Streamlining high-volume screening: Recruiters overwhelmed by applicant volume can let BrightHire Screen automatically interview candidates, surfacing only the most promising for human review.
- Improving interviewer consistency and quality: Hiring teams use structured plans and real-time guidance to run fair, unbiased interviews – plus receive personalized coaching to improve over time.
- Reducing time-to-hire and candidate drop-off: By automating notes and highlights, feedback gets submitted 28% faster, leading to fewer re-interviews (27% fewer per hire) and a 19% reduction in drop-offs.
- Making smarter, evidence-based hiring decisions: Hiring managers get comprehensive candidate summaries and instant access to interview recordings, so decisions are based on facts, not gut feelings.
- Scaling hiring without adding headcount: Companies like Array, Angi, and Zapier use BrightHire to up-level their sales and engineering hiring while keeping their team lean.
How to use BrightHire?
- Plan: Use the AI copilot to draft job descriptions and design structured interview plans in minutes – just answer a few prompts about the role.
- Screen: Turn on BrightHire Screen for your high-volume roles. It will automatically conduct first-round interviews and deliver candidate reports directly to your recruiting team.
- Interview: During live interviews, keep BrightHire running in the background. It records, transcribes, and shows real-time interview guides so you can stay focused on the candidate.
- Decide: After each interview, review AI-generated notes and highlights, then submit a scorecard with one click. Use the AI assistant to ask questions like “What did the candidate say about their experience with X?”
- Improve: Regularly check your team’s interview quality dashboard. Follow personalized coaching tips from the AI agent to elevate your interviewing skills.
