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Describe a role. See who can actually do the work — scored, ranked, and yours to defend.

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Demo: NorthAssay reads a role brief, reasons through it step by step, drafts a tailored assessment, and scores candidates with rationale into a ranked shortlist.

  1. Brief

    Senior Backend Engineer · Go + Postgres · leads a small team

  2. Analyzing the role

    Senior backend role. Go and Postgres, leads a small team. Weighting system design and ownership over syntax trivia.

    GoPostgres / SQLSystem DesignTeam Leadership
  3. Designing the strategy

    Three instruments: MCQ for fundamentals, a written prompt for judgment, a video interview for communication.

    Core fundamentals

    MCQ · Senior · 8q

    System design judgment

    Written · Senior · 3q

    Communication

    Video · Senior · 4q

  4. Crafting questions

    Drafting a written prompt tuned to this role, not pulled from a template library.

    Written prompt

    Scale a write-heavy service to 10× traffic. Walk through your data model, indexing, and the failure modes you’d watch.

  5. Scoring with rationale

    Scoring each answer with self-consistency: rationale, strengths, and gaps, plus a confidence level.

    PNPriya N.high8/10

    Concrete trade-off reasoning, idiomatic Go. Caching strategy left implicit.

    Trade-off reasoning Idiomatic Go Caching depth
    Override anytime. Your call is final.
  6. Ranking the shortlist

    Ranked and ready for review. You make the final call.

    • PNPriya N.92
    • SKSam K.88
    • MLMei L.81
Brief

Describe another role…

A real orchestrator run — brief in, scored shortlist out

Tuned to the role, never pulled from a template

  • Go
  • Postgres
  • System Design
  • Communication
  • React
  • Python
  • Team Leadership
  • SQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Data Modeling
  • Incident Response
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • GraphQL
  • Observability
  • Product Sense
  • Security
  • Go
  • Postgres
  • System Design
  • Communication
  • React
  • Python
  • Team Leadership
  • SQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Data Modeling
  • Incident Response
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • GraphQL
  • Observability
  • Product Sense
  • Security

Transparent

Every score shows its work.

Strengths, gaps, and a confidence signal on each answer — not a black-box number.

Yours

Your data stays yours.

Export as JSON or CSV anytime. We don’t train shared models on your data.

Advisory

You make the call.

Every score is advisory and fully overridable. The hiring decision stays yours.

The platform

Built to make a hiring decision you can defend.

One plain-English brief becomes a complete assessment — four instruments, assembled and scored by the orchestrator.

01 · Technical screening

Technical screening

Fast, calibrated checks on the fundamentals the role demands — auto-scored.

technical screening · fundamentals

Question 3 of 8 · Senior

A relational service is write-bound at peak. What is the most durable first move?

  • Add a read replica and route all reads to it
  • Shard by tenant and buffer writes ahead of Postgres
  • Increase the connection pool size
  • Vertically scale the primary indefinitely
02 · Communication & vision

Communication & vision

A real-time AI interview that probes how they think and explain — recorded, transcribed, scored.

interview · live rec
AI Interviewer
Amara O.

AIHow would you scale a write-heavy service to 10× traffic?

End
03 · Problem solving

Problem solving

Open-ended prompts that surface judgment and trade-offs, scored with rationale.

problem solving · response14:22 left

Question

Scale a write-heavy service to 10× traffic. Walk through your data model, indexing, and the failure modes you’d watch.

I’d shard by tenant and put a write-ahead buffer in front of Postgres, then batch-flush on a fixed interval

312 words Scored on submit
04 · Scoring & evaluation

Scoring & evaluation

Every answer scored with strengths, gaps, and confidence — into a ranked shortlist.

scoreboard · ranked 3 scored
PNPriya N.high8/10

Concrete trade-off reasoning; idiomatic Go under time pressure. Caching strategy left implicit.

Trade-off reasoning Caching depth

Ranked shortlist

  • PNPriya N.priya.n@example.comHired92
  • SKSam K.sam.k@example.comReviewed88
  • MLMei L.mei.l@example.comAwaiting81

Integrity

Catch the red flags. Trust the score.

Identity checks and integrity signals run alongside every assessment — always advisory, never automated.

  • Identity checks: photo on file, declined, or self-asserted.
  • Integrity signals: tab-away, paste, screenshot, and rapid answers.
  • Always advisory, never automated. The decision stays yours.
session · integrity
SKSam K.
Link · flagged
  • Tab away×2
  • Paste detected×1
  • Screenshot attempt
  • Answered in 2s

Advisory only. Flagged for review, you make the call.

Video interviews

Real AI video interviews, on by choice.

A real-time AI interviewer — recorded, transcribed, and scored. Opt-in per role.

interview · live
Sr. Backend Engineer rec12:48
AI Interviewer listening
Amara O. listening

AIHow would you scale a write-heavy service?

AmaraShard by tenant, then add a write-ahead buffer…

End

Share

Send an assessment with a link or a code.

Invite candidates the way that fits the role — by email, an open link, or a 6-digit access code.

  • Invite by email, an open link, or a 6-digit access code.
  • Add an optional selfie check on open links.
  • Suspicious joins are flagged automatically.
share · access

Add people

amara@studio.dev devon@kit.io priya@…

People with access

PNSKML
3 invited · 2 via link

Anyone with the link

No sign-in. Not identity-verified.

northassay.com/assessment/9f2c-7b1e
Require an identity photo

Anyone with the code

Share the link and a 6-digit code.

Access code

408 215

New code

How it works

A sentence to a shortlist in three steps.

01

Describe the role

A sentence is enough.

Senior Backend Engineer · Go + Postgres
02

Review the draft

Edit or regenerate anything.

MCQ · 8qWritten · 3qVideo · 4q
03

Watch it fill

Invite, then read the shortlist.

  • PN92
  • SK88

The questions you’re already asking.

“Another AI tool that over-promises?”
Fair. It drafts and surfaces signal. You decide, and you can override any score.
“Will candidates feel like they’re talking to a bot?”
Neither do we. Assessments are clearly authored. The video interview is opt-in and upfront.
“What happens to my data and rubrics?”
Yours. Export as JSON or CSV anytime. We don’t train shared models on your data.

Pricing

Free while we build it.

NorthAssay is in open beta, so all of it is free — every assessment, every video interview, every score. No tiers, no seat limits, no credit card.

We’re building it with the first recruiters running real hires on it. That’s the trade: you get the whole product, we get your feedback.

Paid plans will come once it’s earned them. When that happens, we’ll tell you first — and the people who showed up early won’t be the ones who get penalized for it.

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