AI screens resumes, runs assessments built for each role, and interviews candidates across 20+ job profiles. Your team sees only the people who've already cleared the bar.
Every SDR or engineering role gets 250+ applications. Finding the six worth interviewing costs days of manual review, dozens of email threads, and pulls your best people off actual work.
The real cost of getting it wrong.
Source: 2026 India hiring cost benchmarking, mid-level roles (₹15–25L CTC band)250+ applications, 240 of them noise. Finding the 10 that matter takes hours every single role — across every team.
Four interviewers, twelve candidates, every time zone — email threads pile up, afternoons vanish, and your best candidate takes another offer.
Every interviewer asks different questions and applies a different bar. You end up guessing, not measuring.
Not about processing more applicants. About finding the right one, with the evidence to back it up.
Every application lands in one pipeline automatically — job boards, referrals, direct applies. Nothing sits in an inbox or a spreadsheet.
One pipeline, every source. Nothing falls through.
300+ applications scored against your JD in context — not keyword matching. Noise filtered before it reaches your team.
300+ → shortlist in under an hour. Your team starts with candidates worth their time.
Questions built for the role — not a generic quiz. Adaptive technical rounds, coding assessments (60+ languages), and structured behavioural probes.
20+ job profiles — one consistent bar, every candidate, every role.
Every interview becomes a structured, scoreable conversation — adaptive, and available whenever the candidate prefers.
6 dimensions scored — no interviewer bias, no scheduling overhead.
Your team gets a ranked list with scores, transcripts, and reasoning — not a pile of CVs. Move fast or move on, both with confidence.
Every decision is documented. Audit trail built in, no spreadsheet required.
Whether you're a founder closing your first 10 hires or an HR lead scaling a team, Kestrel removes the parts that shouldn't need you.
Seed to Series B founders spend 30–40% of their time on hiring at crunch moments. Kestrel runs the top of the funnel so you only show up for the conversations that actually need you.
Up to 5× faster shortlistManual screening, chasing feedback, rescheduling interviews — Kestrel automates the repeatable 80% so you can focus on the candidate relationships that close offers.
Up to 3× more roles per recruiterTechnical screen, portfolio review, take-home — Kestrel runs the early rounds so you only sit down with candidates who've already cleared a real bar.
Up to 4× fewer wasted interviewsNo seat taxes. No module unlocks. Pay for the hiring you're doing.
Run your first role end-to-end. See what changes when hiring has a bar.
Everything in Starter, plus AI interviews and a ranked shortlist.
Volume discounts, custom pipelines, dedicated support, and SSO.
All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.
An ATS tracks candidates. Kestrel evaluates them. We sit on top of your existing workflow and add AI screening, role-specific assessments, and structured interviews — so you get a ranked shortlist, not just a database of applicants.
No. The AI interview replaces the early rounds that waste your senior team's time — the initial screen, the technical quiz, the intro call. Your panel runs the final stage with evidence already in hand.
Yes — and we're transparent about it. Candidates are told upfront. In our data, over 85% say the experience felt fair and thorough. A good process builds trust regardless of who's running it.
Under 15 minutes. You paste in the JD, pick the job profile, adjust the pipeline stages if needed, and it's live. The first candidates can be scored the same day.
Our stats — ~2 min scoring time, ~91% AI confidence, <48 hr shortlist — come from aggregated data across Kestrel deployments in 2025–2026 on roles with 50+ applicants. The cost figure (₹7.5L–18L per bad hire) is sourced from 2026 India hiring cost benchmarking reports covering mid-level roles in the ₹15–25L CTC band.
15 minutes, no deck. We'll show you the full pipeline on a live role and you'll leave with a shortlist or your next steps.