The problem
First-round screening interviews are a huge, repetitive time sink for hiring teams and are scheduled inconsistently across candidates.
How it works
A Pipecat pipeline streams candidate audio in, transcribes with Deepgram, sends text to Claude, and speaks the response back via Cartesia over Daily WebRTC. After the call, Claude scores the transcript into a structured scorecard.
Architecture
Candidate browser (Daily WebRTC)
<-> Next.js /interview/[token]
<-> Pipecat server (Python / FastAPI)
- Deepgram Nova-2 (STT)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 (LLM)
- Cartesia Sonic (TTS)
-> Scorecard -> Admin dashboard + SlackHighlights
- Conducts full 20-minute structured first-round interviews autonomously.
- Scores each candidate across 5 dimensions: Communication, Role Fit, Motivation, Culture Fit, Problem Solving.
- Real-time voice loop: Deepgram STT feeds Claude, Claude responds via Cartesia TTS over Daily WebRTC.
- Structured rubric: Claude evaluates the transcript and emits a JSON scorecard per dimension.
- Admin dashboard to manage roles, view scorecards and replay sessions; Slack notifications push results instantly.