No applicant goes unread with Yardstick
Yardstick AI reads everyone in your ATS, past applicants and referrals, and returns a ranked shortlist.
The problem
Most applicants are never read by a person
The hours run out before the applications do. Yardstick does the reading and writes down why, so the shortlist is something a person can check, argue with and sign.
Finding them
Four hundred applications get read in the order they arrived, until the calendar runs out. One brief searches every source you have connected and ranks what comes back.
Defending the shortlist
Different readers, different bars, nothing written down. Each name here arrives with the case that ranked it, so the decision can still be explained six months later.
Sourcing
Search that starts with a sentence, not a filter
Write the role the way you would describe it to a colleague. Yardstick reads it, searches everything you have connected, and comes back with people ranked and reasoned.
BRIEF
Senior backend engineer, Go and Postgres.
214 people
Amelie Ross
Carried the on-call rota for a Go payments team
3 sources
A brief in plain language
No boolean, no filter stack. A paragraph is enough, and you can argue with the result in the same words you wrote it in.
Amelie Ross
94
Carried an on-call rotation for two years
Led a Postgres migration
Checking two more sources
Evidence on every row
Every claim links to the thing it came from: the repo, the case study, the reference, the answer given.
Always ranked
Each name arrives with the case for it written out, so you can disagree with the ranking rather than guess at it.
One search
One brief runs across each source you have connected, and every result says which of them it came from.
Bias controls per role
Set what may and may not weigh on each opening, so your team can make the right call faster.
Straight into your ATS
Shortlists, notes and evidence land in the system your team already works in. Nothing lives only here.
Built for roles with more applicants than hours
High-volume openings, where the shortlist has to stand up to questions and reading every application properly is not on the table.
Case studies
How teams are using it
Research
Built on what predicts performance
Decades of hiring research agree: people judged against the same written criteria turn out to be better hires than people picked on a quick read. Yardstick turns your brief into those criteria and holds every applicant to them.
We write up how Yardstick puts this research to work, and where it falls short.
Compliance
What legal will ask
No. Yardstick ranks and recommends. Every decision to advance or decline is made and recorded by a named person on your team.
