One URL goes on every channel applicants find you through. Candidates record from a phone in ten minutes. You review the whole pipeline side by side in one sitting. The throughput problem of live screening, fixed at the format level.
One-way video interview software running first-round screening for hiring teams that retired the phone screen
One recruiter, one calendar, one slot at a time is a fixed throughput model. The funnel doesn't care. Async recording is the format change that breaks the constraint.
Six emails to find a slot. A calendar invite. A reschedule. A no-show. Then twenty-five minutes on a call to learn whether the candidate's resume was honest. Repeat thirty times for one open position. The throughput is fixed at one recruiter, one calendar, one slot at a time, and the funnel doesn't care.
After a week of phone screens you have notes scattered across five docs, vibes-based recall on six candidates, and no way to put them next to each other. Side-by-side comparison is the part live interviews can never give you. The format makes structured evaluation impossible by design.
They replace scheduling with a folder of twenty-minute videos. You still watch every one, take notes, try to remember what the third candidate said about distribution centers. The product solved the calendar problem and pushed the review problem back across the table.
Position Link is the operational unit. One URL goes onto every channel applicants land on. Every candidate gets the same interview. Every response feeds into the same ranked review queue.
Paste your job description and Truffle drafts role-specific screening questions, suggests qualification gates, and proposes a starter rubric. Edit the wording, swap question types, adjust thinking time and retake limits. Add a branded welcome video so candidates know who they're recording for. Save as a Position. Every applicant gets the same interview, on their schedule.
Drop the Position Link on your careers page. Paste it into LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and your job board ads. Send it via SMS or email through your ATS. Auto-invite when an applicant hits a stage. Bulk-invite hundreds at once via CSV. The same link works on every channel, scales with the funnel, and feeds into the same review queue.
Candidates click the link, see what to expect, run a mic and camera check, and record from any modern browser on phone, tablet, or laptop. No app to download. No account to create. No login. Practice questions to warm up. Configurable retakes per question to lower anxiety. SMS and email reminders nudge at twenty-four and seventy-two hours. Most teams see completion rates in the sixty to eighty percent range when reminders are on.
Open Magic Review and the responses appear ranked, side by side, with thirty-second Candidate Shorts compressing each interview to its sharpest moments. Keyboard shortcuts move you through the list. Advance, hold, or pass with a single keystroke. Most teams clear a full position in the time one phone screen used to take. Side-by-side comparison is the part live calls couldn't give you and the part this format does.
One URL goes on every channel where applicants land. The calendar negotiation, the time-zone math, the no-show rebookings. Gone. The link distributes the interview at the speed of paste. Scaling top-of-funnel is a copy operation, not a hiring-coordinator hire.
Most candidates apply on a phone and start recording on the same phone within minutes. No app download. No login. No account. Practice questions before the live recording. Mic and camera check inside the browser. The friction that makes async tools die in production isn't here, because every constraint was designed against it.
Reminders fire at twenty-four and seventy-two hours over SMS and email. Retakes per question lower the abandonment rate without diluting the signal because every retake is recorded under the same conditions. Practice rounds let candidates warm up. The tools that drive completion are operational settings, not luck.
Phone screens force you to compare from memory across a week. Async recordings let you put the third candidate's answer next to the seventh's, on the same question, in the same view. Magic Review compounds that with ranked ordering and Candidate Shorts. The format change is the comparison advantage.
Posting opens, seasonal hiring waves, campus drives, layoff-era pile-ons. CSV Bulk Invite blasts the Position Link to thousands of candidates with custom branding and individualized SMS plus email. The pipeline that used to require a coordinator and a week now runs in twenty minutes from a spreadsheet.
Self-Serve at $149 per month, $99 per month with annual billing. Unlimited positions. Unlimited team members. No per-seat fee. The pricing doesn't punish growth and the platform doesn't bog down at volume. Same Position Link mechanic at every scale.
Most async video tools fail on completion rates, distribution, or review ergonomics. The features below are the ones that determine whether the format actually beats the phone screen at volume.
One shareable URL per role. Drops onto careers pages, job boards, ATS auto-invite triggers, SMS, email, and direct outreach. Every applicant lands in the same recording flow. Custom branding, custom welcome video, custom completion redirect.
Records on iOS, Android, and desktop browsers. No app to download. No account to create. No login. Works in cellular conditions and survives spotty connections. Most candidates record from the same phone they applied on.
Candidates warm up on a practice prompt before the live recording starts. The mic and camera check happens inside the browser, with troubleshooting hints if the stream fails. The first real answer isn't also the first time the candidate sees the recording UI.
Set zero, one, or unlimited retakes per question. Most positions sit at one retake per question, which lifts completion materially and still gives you genuine signal because every retake records under the same time and visibility constraints.
Reminders fire automatically at 24 and 72 hours after the invite if the candidate hasn't completed. The two-message cadence is the single biggest lever for completion rate in async video and it ships on by default.
When an applicant hits a stage in your ATS, Truffle auto-sends the Position Link via the channel you configured. Native integrations with Ashby, Workable, Breezy HR, Bullhorn, JazzHR, Recruitee, and Teamtailor. Match scores write back when the response lands.
Upload a list, send the Position Link to all of them at once with personalized SMS plus email. Built for seasonal hiring waves, campus drives, and high-volume reqs where the funnel arrives in a single batch instead of trickling in.
Logo, primary color, welcome video message, completion screen, and post-recording redirect on every Position Link. Per-position overrides for executive search, agency rebrands, or campus partners. The candidate sees your brand, not Truffle's chrome.
Compare the same question across multiple candidates in one screen. Listen to candidate three's answer, then jump straight to candidate seven's response on the same prompt. The structural advantage of recorded responses over live conversations.
Move through the ranked shortlist with A (advance), H (hold), R (reject). Single-keystroke decisions on a ranked list with Candidate Shorts inline. The keyboard pattern is faster than any phone-screen workflow.
Reviewers leave structured ratings independently. The consensus view aggregates ratings, notes, and reasoning across reviewers. Unlimited team members on every plan. Read-only sharing for hiring managers without an account.
Mix written responses, video responses, multi-choice, and coding-style prompts in one Position. Match the question type to the signal you actually need from each role. Pull from a library of proven question patterns or write your own.
Recruiting teams swapped their phone screens for async recording, kept the signal, and got their week back. The reviews below are from teams running Position Links across job boards, careers pages, ATS triggers, and bulk invites.
"Truffle helps us move through high-volume intern hiring with clear visibility into each student's fit. The scorecards make collaborative evaluation across our team straightforward."
"As a marketing agency owner, I don't have time to screen every candidate. Truffle has saved hundreds of hours of candidate screening time and given me real reviews I can act on."
"We use Truffle to hire field sales reps. The one-way video interview responses, paired with built-in scorecards, help us quickly spot who might be a great fit for us."
"Not only has Truffle reduced the time spent on screening candidates, the team has been great to work with. Candidate support and technical assistance whenever we need it."
"Truffle is an affordable, user-intuitive platform. Candidates have said they found the recorded responses flow straightforward, even on mobile."
"Useful tool for working through a high volume of candidates quickly. The AI summaries and match scores cut hours of manual review every week."
The completion-rate gap between async tools is settled by reminders, retakes, practice questions, and mobile UX, not by webcam snapshots. Truffle does not run tab-switching detection, copy-paste tracking, location monitoring, or device fingerprinting. AI Check, randomized question pools, and time limits give you confidence in the response without making candidates feel watched.
AI Check flags responses that show patterns of AI assistance, like off-screen reading, generated answers, or copy-paste from a chat window. Every flag includes the reason. Your team decides what to do with the signal.
Pattern signal with reasoning. You decide.
Auto-disqualify with no explanation
Question order varies between candidates so a leaked question set loses its value. Combined with thinking time controls and per-question time limits, candidates have to actually engage with the prompt in front of them.
Per-candidate randomization on by default
Identical question order for everyone
Per-question time limits cap recording length. Thinking time is configurable from 15 seconds to unlimited. Together they make it harder to over-prepare or paste a generated answer in real time.
Configurable per role
One global setting or none
Retakes are recorded under the same conditions every time, so even when candidates use them you see how they actually communicate. You control retakes per question. Most teams allow one.
1 retake per question, recorded the same way
Unlimited retakes or none
Every candidate is scored against the same rubric you set at intake. AI surfaces evidence per criterion. Reviewers see the rubric, the response, and the reasoning side by side. Applying the same structured criteria to everyone is the recommended way to reduce the inconsistency that drives unconscious bias in gut-feel phone screens.
Consistent criteria, evidence per score
Generic scores with no audit trail
Truffle does not run webcam snapshots, device and location monitoring, copy-paste and tab tracking, or any other invasive AI proctoring. The goal is to surface signal from the candidate's response, not to surveil them. Candidates get a branded experience that respects their device preference.
No covert proctoring. Signal-first.
Webcam snapshots, tab tracking, location
Drop the Position Link onto your careers page, link it from job board postings, auto-invite via your ATS when an applicant hits a stage, or bulk-invite via CSV. Native integrations with Ashby, Workable, Breezy HR, Bullhorn, JazzHR, Recruitee, and Teamtailor. Plus Zapier and a webhook API for custom workflows.
Truffle ATS integrations push match scores, AI summaries, transcript clips, assessment scoring, and Candidate Shorts back into the applicant tracking system you already use. Trigger screenings from a stage. Route candidates by score with built-in automation solutions. No manual export.
Custom branding on every Position Link: company logo, primary color, welcome video message, and completion screen. Candidates see your company, not a third-party tool. Per-position overrides for executive search, agency rebrands, or campus hiring.
Beyond ATS sync, Truffle ships a Zapier integration to 7,000+ apps, REST API access, and webhooks for custom AI agents. Wire screenings into Slack alerts, Google Sheets exports, Notion candidate trackers, or your own internal tools.
Use one-way video on its own when the format change is the fix. Layer in resume screening or pre-employment assessments when you want a fuller candidate profile across one ranked shortlist.
If you're shopping for the AI scoring and audit-trail side of the same product, the AI video interview page covers per-criterion reasoning, transcript citations, and the compliance framing for NYC LL144 and the Illinois AIVIA.
Learn more Resume screeningUpload resumes individually or in bulk. AI Match runs the same rubric you defined for the video interview, ranks applicants against your requirements, and only the candidates that clear the bar get the Position Link.
Learn more Talent assessmentsPersonality (Big Five), Situational Judgment, and Environment Fit assessments measure capability and work-style alignment that recorded interviews can't fully capture. Layer them after the video step or use them on their own.
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One-way (or async) video interview software replaces the live phone screen with a recorded format. You build a Position with screening questions and a rubric, share a Position Link, and candidates record their responses on their own schedule from a phone, tablet, or laptop. You review when you have time, with side-by-side comparison across the shortlist that live calls don't allow.
Whatever channel you configured. If you posted the Position Link to a careers page or job board, the candidate sees it the moment they finish the application. If your ATS triggers an invite when the applicant hits a stage, Truffle auto-sends an SMS plus email with the Position Link and the rubric expectations. If you sent a bulk invite via CSV, the recipient gets the same SMS and email, personalized with their name and your branding. The candidate clicks the link and they're in the recording flow.
Yes, when the operational settings are tuned. A typical Truffle Position runs ten to fifteen minutes for the candidate, allows one retake per question, includes a practice round, and sends reminders at twenty-four and seventy-two hours. Teams with those settings see completion rates in the sixty to eighty percent range. The single biggest lever is the reminder cadence: positions without reminders sit twenty to thirty points below positions with the default cadence on. Branded welcome videos and per-position custom intros lift the rate further.
Three to five questions, totaling ten to fifteen minutes for the candidate, is the productive zone. Below that you're not getting enough signal to compare. Above twenty minutes, completion drops sharply and the marginal answers add little. The standard pattern is one warm-up question, two role-specific behavioral or scenario prompts, and one reverse-pitch closer (why this role for you).
Any modern browser on iOS, Android, or desktop. No app download. No account creation. No login. The recording flow runs entirely in the browser. Most candidates record from the same phone they applied on, in the room where they applied, within minutes of clicking the Position Link. The mobile-first design isn't a feature, it's the default assumption about where applicants are.
Yes. Custom logo, primary color, welcome video, post-recording completion screen, and post-completion redirect on every Position Link. Per-position overrides for executive search, agency rebrands, campus partners, or industry-specific candidate groups. Reminder copy, sender name, and SMS plus email content are also configurable. The candidate sees your brand throughout. Truffle's chrome stays out of the way.
Configurable from zero to unlimited retakes per question. Most positions sit at one retake per question. Retakes lift completion rates because they reduce candidate anxiety: the first answer feels lower stakes when there's a second attempt available. They don't dilute signal because every retake records under the same time and visibility conditions. Zero retakes makes sense for live-feel screenings. Unlimited makes sense for low-stakes intake reqs.
The Position Link is a normal URL. Paste it as the application destination on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and any job board that accepts external apply links. Embed it as a button on your careers page. Drop it into outbound sourcing emails. Hand it to a referral as a sharable link. There's no lock-in to a specific applicant tracking flow, because every channel works through the same URL.
Native integrations with Ashby, Workable, Breezy HR, Bullhorn, JazzHR, Recruitee, and Teamtailor send a Position Link automatically when an applicant hits the stage you configured. The candidate gets a branded SMS plus email with the link, the rubric expectations, and your custom intro. Match scores, AI summaries, and Candidate Shorts write back to the ATS when the response lands. Plus Zapier and a webhook API for ATS systems outside the native list.
Upload a CSV with names, emails, phone numbers, and any per-candidate variables you want personalized. Truffle sends the Position Link via SMS plus email to everyone on the list with their name, your branding, and the cadence you configured. Built for seasonal hiring waves, campus drives, layoff-era candidate pools, and any scenario where the funnel arrives in a single batch. Pair with Magic Review's side-by-side comparison and a full ranked shortlist clears in an afternoon.
About three minutes for the first one. Paste the job description, accept or edit AI-suggested questions, write the rubric, add branding, share the Position Link. Subsequent positions reuse the rubric library and question patterns so the second one takes around one minute.
Live video requires real-time scheduling, one recruiter per call, and produces unstructured data you can't compare across candidates. One-way video removes the scheduling step entirely, runs at the candidate's pace, and produces structured recordings that go side by side in Magic Review. Live conversations are useful for final-round culture fit. One-way is the right format for the screening step that comes before that.
AI Check flags responses with patterns of AI assistance (copy-pasted ChatGPT phrasing, off-screen reading, generated cadence) as a context signal, not a verdict. Randomized question pools per Position prevent pre-recorded answer banks from circulating. Time limits per question reduce the room for off-screen scripting. We do not run webcam snapshots, tab-tracking, copy-paste detection, or location monitoring. Integrity through design constraints, not surveillance theater.
$149 per month on the Self-Serve plan, $99 per month with annual billing. Unlimited positions, unlimited team members, all features included, no per-seat fee. 7-day free trial, no credit card required. Custom plan available for teams that need dedicated CSM, contract negotiation, or higher volume tiers.
