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Product updates Apr 2026 5 min read

April 2026: full assessment suite, plus a brand identity overhaul

Personality, Situational Judgment, and Environment Fit are now all live. Plus a redesigned brand identity setup and the usual round of cleanup.

Decision tree with a question root branching to three outcomes: pass, knockout, pass. Illustrates Truffle's structured screening logic.

April was the month our assessment story stopped being a list of betas and started being a suite. Three assessments, one scoring model, one place in the review panel.

What’s new

Situational Judgment Test

Candidates see real work scenarios and rank response options from best to worst, via drag-and-drop. Employers build scenarios from a library, add custom ones through the scenario accordion, and can accept AI-suggested default orderings per scenario (so you’re not staring at a blank ranking grid for every new role).

Scoring produces a signal tier per candidate. Results show as a review card on the Overview tab and as a detail section on the Assessments tab.

Personality Assessment v2

The IPIP/Big Five flow we launched in March now runs on weighted tier logic. The new summary is risk-framed. It tells you which traits are likely to cause friction in this specific role, not just where the candidate lands on the trait. The detail view was redesigned around expandable trait rows, a zone bar, and a callout-based trait card.

Environment Fit

Out of beta. Binary preference assessment configurable per position. Candidates see “Which sounds more like you?” between two work-style options, and scoring rolls up to aligned vs. gap counts. Results render in the Magic Review card and the Assessments tab with gap callouts.

The suite, in one place

Inside Magic Review, the assessment cards now load in a fixed order: Personality, then SJT, then Environment Fit. The Talent Assessments umbrella entry is moved to live status.

Outside the assessment suite

Brand identity overhaul. Two-column logo layout with an inline color picker. Logo replace, remove, and reset-to-default actions, each with confirmation. A four-state inheritance model between company and position branding, so a position can opt in to company defaults or override per-role without ambiguity.

Knockout filtering fix. Candidates disqualified by knockout questions no longer show up in the Incomplete tab. (They were showing up before. They shouldn’t have been. Now they don’t.)

Recommendation label rename. “Pass” became “Decline.” Clearer intent.

Why this matters

The whole point of structured screening is to know what you’re getting before you spend forty-five minutes on a call. One assessment tells you a thing. Three assessments, scored consistently and surfaced in the same place, tell you a story.

If you’ve been waiting for the moment when you can replace the “screening call” stage of your funnel with a single tab in the review panel, April is that moment.

End of dispatch

Founder, Truffle

Sean began his career in leadership at Best Buy Canada before scaling SimpleTexting from $1MM to $40MM ARR. As COO at Sinch, he led 750+ people and $300MM ARR. A marathoner and sun-chaser, he thrives on big challenges.

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