Interview Signal for in-house recruiters: consistent screens and clean handoffs

Interview Signal is a desktop app for the in-house recruiter who screens candidates and hands them on to hiring managers. You build a role from the job description and the hiring manager's intake notes, run phone and video screens with no bot joining the call, and hand over a scorecard where each score carries the candidate's own words, plus a list of what the hiring manager's interview still has to cover. As of October 2026 one recruiter fits Solo ($49 a month) and a recruiting team of three or more interviewers fits Team ($59 per seat per month, or $49 billed yearly). There is no ATS integration: notes shaped for Greenhouse or Lever are pasted by hand.

How does an in-house recruiter use Interview Signal, step by step?

1. Turn the intake into a role. Press "New role" and paste the job description. Type the hiring manager's intake notes into "What the client actually wants": in-house, the hiring manager is the client, and the box outranks the job description wherever they disagree. Pick an "Interview type", such as "HR screen" (motivation, availability, compensation, right to work) or "Balanced", and a "Difficulty", then "Generate the kit" and "Save role". See the kit from a job description and intake meeting questions.
2. Screen. For a phone screen, choose "Phone" under "How are you speaking?" and take the call on your computer, so the app hears the candidate through the computer's sound. For video, run the app beside Zoom, Teams or Meet; nothing joins the call (see audio capture without a bot). "Company or client" is optional.
3. Run the conversation. The guide ticks questions off as you ask them, must-asks stay pinned until asked, follow-ups dig into what the candidate just said, and the scorecard fills with their own words.
4. Hand over. "End interview" opens the review screen with the write-up in the role's template. "Export .docx" makes a Word file, "Copy for Slack" a short paragraph for a hiring channel, "Copy next round" the list for the hiring manager, and "Copy ATS note…" a note for Greenhouse or Lever. See exports.
5. Debrief. On the home screen, click the role to see its candidates ranked by fit, and press Compare to put up to six scored candidates side by side; "Copy as text" gives a table for the debrief note.

Which features matter most to an in-house recruiter?

How do recruiters and hiring managers share the work?

On the Team plan, roles, kits and submittal templates are shared, so a hiring manager with a seat can run their own interview from the role you built. An admin invites each interviewer by email as a member or an admin; see the Team plan guide. In a panel, what crosses between interviewers is who is on the panel and which questions each has marked as asked; transcripts, quotes and scores stay on each person's computer. The weekly coaching report shows coverage across interviewers, built from counts, never transcripts.

What does the hiring manager see, and what stays with me?

• The hiring manager sees what you send: the Word file, the Slack paragraph, the next-round list, or a transcript you choose to save with "Save transcript as .md".
• Transcripts, quotes, candidate names, notes and write-ups are stored on your computer and never uploaded to Interview Signal.
• The candidate's name and the company are stored only on your computer, but are sent to the AI model when it writes the submittal. Audio goes to a speech-to-text provider in short chunks during the call and is not retained, and the server keeps only counts and durations.

Details are in where your data is stored and on the security page.

What does Interview Signal not do for an in-house team?

• No ATS integration. Nothing is read from or written into Greenhouse, Lever or any other system; you paste notes and write-ups yourself.
• Desktop only. Windows 10 or 11 and macOS 13 or newer; no mobile app and no web app.
• Phone screens must run through the computer. A call on a desk phone or mobile handset is not heard.
• No video recording, and no shared library of colleagues' transcripts, by design.
• Agency wording. Labels such as "What the client actually wants", "Company or client", "Submittal" and "Email to client" are written for agencies; in-house, read "client" as the hiring manager.
• A newer product with few public reviews so far, and its consent features are not legal advice; see consent features.

Which plan fits an in-house recruiter?

The pricing page writes Team for agencies, but what it adds is what any recruiting team uses: shared roles, kits and templates, admins and invitations, panels and a weekly coaching report. Free, Pay as you go and Solo have none of these. A seat is one person who runs interviews, so count the hiring managers who will interview in the app. Watch the walkthrough on the Try it page, then download the app.