{"id":95916,"title":"Nova: The world’s most human-like AI interviewer","tagline":"Never screen a resume or do a first-round interview manually","body":"**TL;DR:** [Nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch\u0026utm_campaign=yc_post) speeds up your hiring by automating resume screening, interviews, live coding, and instant decision-ready reports - with the most human-like AI.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc\n\n---\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou open your ATS. 300 applicants.\n\nYou start screening. After 10 resumes, everything looks identical.\n\nYou move to interviews.\n\nNo-shows. Rambling candidates. Zero panel bandwidth.\n\nAnd when interviews _do_ happen, **90% get rejected**, wasting everyone’s time.\n\nHiring shouldn’t mean spending most of your time on candidates who are **not a fit**.\n\n---\n\n## **Meet Nova: the digital twin of your best recruiter \u0026 interviewer**\n\nNova is really the digital twin of your best recruiter and interviewer, available 24/7.\n\nShe -\n\n1. screens candidates,\n2. makes sourcing calls \u0026 outreach,\n3. runs full voice/video interviews (with advance proctoring)\n4. do interactive coding round like an expert engineer\n5. provide detailed report with recommendation\n\nHere’s a real snippet of her interviewing a tech candidate:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jNqugi34uOU?si=WyrdbA9V1gu9thF6\n\nNova takes over your **whole Level-1 process** so you can only focus on highly vetted candidates\n\nAnd she doesn’t stop there.\n\nShe also finds candidates for you, reaches out via InMails, email sequences, and even phone calls and books the first-round interview directly with herself 😉\n\nInbound, outbound, or referral, Nova owns everything until you receive a detailed, **decision-ready report** for every candidate, without spending a single minute. 👇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95916\u0026key=user_uploads/213135/784f0317-e896-4f96-87b1-fe4dfc08d939)\n\n\\\nAnd **candidates love it**. Here’s what they say 😄\n\n\u003e I was immensely impressed with the kind of questions and the way the tool responded!\n\nLeo Parker, DevOps Engineer\n\n\u003e The AI voice was quite friendly and human like, which really helped in setting the environment. For example, the pauses and use of ‘Uh’s made feel very natural.\n\nIsabella, Software Architect\n\n---\n\n## **How Nova screens like your best Interviewer?**\n\nAll you need to get started is give her the JD but **you control everything**:\n\n**Skills, depth, difficulty**, interview type, tone, and structure.\n\nNova makes the screening process exactly how you want it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95916\u0026key=user_uploads/213135/23d75b86-2360-4c0d-a7a6-95ba6a363884)\n\nAnd she gets smarter.\n\nNova learns from your company’s own data: job descriptions, past interviews, ATS notes, performance signals, employee lifecycle insights.\n\nShe turns all of that into **hiring insights** and screen with the judgment of your best people.\n\n## The Impact\n\nMost customers have reduced time-to-first-interview report from **4–5 weeks to under 48 hours**.\n\nHere’s what Sprinto, a hyper-growth SaaS startup had to say\n\n\u003e Nova has been a game changer for our recruitment operations over the last six months. We initially started using it to automate resume screening and shortlisting, and the difference was visible almost immediately. \\\n\u003e \\\n\u003e What used to take hours of manual effort now happens with remarkable accuracy and consistency.\n\u003e\n\u003e Just for the first-round screening alone, we saved well over 100 hours of recruiter time, and that time was redirected toward more meaningful work.”\n\u003e\n\u003e **Shankar Singh, Head of Recruitment, Sprinto**\n\n## **Use Nova to hire your next best talent today**\n\nSee how human-like AI can speed up your hiring:\n\n[https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch\u0026utm_campaign=yc_post)","slug":"Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer","created_at":"2025-12-02T15:44:19.920Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:23:18.628Z","total_vote_count":47,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":26877,"name":"Peoplebox.ai","slug":"peoplebox","url":"https://www.peoplebox.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d90945bbd65aa37022870fefcb46d282f82e8624.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"B2B","tags":["SaaS","B2B","Recruiting","HR Tech","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26877"}}