HOLDFAST TALENT — CANDIDATE EVALUATION SYSTEM STATUS: PRE-LAUNCH
HOLDFAST TALENT

Hire on evidence,
not vibes.

Holdfast Talent brings audit-grade rigor to candidate evaluation. Candidates work on a real task with an AI assistant, we record the session, and every score cites what they actually did. Built by people who audit for a living; a person makes the call.

Onboarding a small number of hiring teams directly, one role at a time.

EXHIBIT A — EVALUATION REPORT
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Sample output

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FINDING
EVIDENCE
CONFIDENCE

See a full sample report on the Assessment page.

EXHIBIT B — WHY THIS EXISTS

Resumes and interviews are mostly theater.

Thirty minutes of rehearsed answers and a bullet-pointed PDF tell you almost nothing about how someone actually works. You're left deciding on a hunch and hoping it holds.

THE USUAL WAY

  • Rehearsed answers to predictable questions
  • Resume claims, unverified
  • Notes that vary panelist to panelist
  • Decision made on gut feel, justified after

HOLDFAST TALENT

  • Grounded in what the candidate actually did
  • Every claim checked against the record
  • One consistent standard, every candidate
  • Decision backed by cited evidence
EXHIBIT C — WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

Not a resume screener. AI is part of the work, and it's on the record.

Candidates do a short, realistic task with an AI assistant, the way they would on the job. The full rubric is walked through during pilot onboarding. What you should know now:

Built by auditors

Our background is ISO compliance auditing — finding evidence, weighing confidence, writing findings that hold up. That discipline shapes how the assessment and the report are designed.

Evidence, not adjectives

Every score quotes the recorded session: what the candidate asked, what they checked, what they delivered. No unexplained scores, no vibes dressed up as data.

One standard, every candidate

The same task and rubric for everyone, not a different read depending on which panelist happened to be free that day. An AI drafts the report; a person reviews it and decides.

EXHIBIT D — WHO IT'S FOR

Built for teams hiring without a recruiting org behind them.

If you're the one screening candidates between everything else on your plate, this is for you.

Founders hiring their first engineers

No time to run five interview rounds. A clear, defensible decision without the overhead.

In-house recruiters at SMBs

Screen more candidates consistently, without leaning on interviewer availability.

Hiring managers who've been burned before

A great interview and a bad hire happen more often than anyone admits. This narrows the gap.

EXHIBIT E — PILOT PROGRAM

Run it on your next open role.

We're onboarding a small number of hiring teams directly — no self-serve signup yet. Tell us about the role and we'll walk you through everything on a call.

See how it works and a sample report on the Assessment page. The full rubric is walked through 1:1 during pilot onboarding.