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AI shortlisting for hiring teams

Stop reading CVs.
Start meeting candidates.

Aara reads your job description, screens every single application against it, and hands back a ranked shortlist — with the evidence behind each match pulled straight from the CV.

Coming soonSee how it works
  • FormatsPDF, DOCX and plain text, parsed on upload
  • CoverageEvery applicant scored, not a keyword-filtered sample
  • EvidenceEach ranking cites the lines it came from
  • ControlYou set the must-haves. Aara never auto-rejects

Why Aara

Built for the part of hiring nobody enjoys

Screening is where good roles stall. These are the things that change once Aara is reading alongside you.

A shortlist the same day you post

Screening starts the moment the description is uploaded, so the pile never gets ahead of you.

Find the strong candidate on page forty

Ranking is by fit, never by application order. Late applicants get read as carefully as the first ten.

One bar, applied to everyone

The same rubric runs across every CV, so candidate forty is judged exactly like candidate four.

Know why someone ranked where they did

Open any score and read the exact lines it came from. No black box, no unexplained ordering.

Must-haves that actually hold

Location, notice period, work authorisation, licences. Set them once and they hold across the whole pool.

Hand the shortlist to your team

Share the ranked list with the evidence attached, so the debrief starts from the same page.

How it works

Three steps, one afternoon

  1. 1

    Upload the job description

    Drop in the JD you already wrote. Aara pulls out the role, the must-haves, the nice-to-haves and the seniority, then shows you what it understood before anything gets scored.

  2. 2

    Aara screens every application

    Each CV is read against that brief in full — not scanned for keywords. Experience is weighed for depth and recency, and every claim is tied back to where it appears.

  3. 3

    Review a ranked shortlist

    Candidates come back ordered by fit, each with a score you can open. Adjust a requirement and the ranking updates; the decision stays yours.

How we evaluate

What the ranking is actually made of

A score is only useful if you can argue with it. Here is what goes into one.

Evidence over keywords
A match needs a line in the CV behind it. Naming a tool in a skills list is not the same as having shipped with it, and the two do not score alike.
Requirements, weighted
Your must-haves carry more than your nice-to-haves. Nothing is silently dropped — an unmet requirement is shown as unmet, not quietly averaged away.
Recency and depth
Four years of recent, hands-on work reads differently from a line item from a decade ago. Both appear; they are not treated as equal.
Gaps stated, not hidden
Where a candidate falls short, the shortlist says so plainly. You see the whole picture before you decide who to call.

Aara ranks and explains. It does not reject anyone on your behalf — every candidate remains visible, and the hiring decision stays with your team.

FAQ

Questions worth asking first

What can I upload?

Job descriptions and CVs as PDF, DOCX or plain text. You can also paste a description straight in if it lives in a doc somewhere.

Does Aara reject candidates automatically?

No. Aara ranks and explains, and every applicant stays visible in the list — including the ones at the bottom. Rejections are yours to make.

How do you handle bias?

Scores must trace to evidence in the CV, and the same rubric runs across every applicant. You can also hide name, photo and other identifying fields during review.

What happens to our candidate data?

It stays yours. Your job descriptions and CVs are not used to train models, and you can delete a role and everything attached to it at any time.

Can I change the criteria after seeing the shortlist?

Yes — that is usually the point. Adjust a requirement or its weight and the whole pool is re-ranked, not just the candidates you had already surfaced.

How long does a shortlist take?

It scales with the size of the pool rather than the size of your team. Most roles are screened well inside the time it takes to read the first twenty CVs by hand.

Coming soon

Aara opens soon

We're finishing the first release. There's nothing to sign up for yet — when it's ready, this is where it'll be.