What is Basanite

AI interviewer agents to help you make better hiring decisions.

Today’s typical processWith Basanite

Phone screen

rehearsable

Coding test

AI passes it

First tech interview

wrong signal

Final rounds

Offer

Basanite agent interviews your applicants adaptively from their own CV and briefs your team with evidence on each one.

Basanite co-pilot guides your interviewers live, then ranks each candidate with evidence attached.

Fewer interview rounds, better hiring accuracy.

The problem

The CV and the interview stopped telling you the truth.

A polished CV used to mean effort. A clean coding screen used to mean skill.Both are cheap to fake now.

Résumés wrote by AI to beat your filter.

Once: a real signalNow: noise you can’t read

The old signals still look like signals. They just don’t track the work anymore.

48%

of technical candidates were caught using AI to cheat on assessments.

Fabric HQ · N=19,368

61%

of those who cheated passed the screen anyway.

Fabric HQ · N=19,368

1 in 4

candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028.

Gartner

The reframe

The same tool that broke hiring is the thing worth hiring for.

An engineer who can direct an AI agent to ship real work is a genuine multiplier — not something to screen out, but the capability you actually want.

Delegate

Knows which work to hand to the agent, and how to brief it well.

Verify

Checks what the agent produces before any of it ships.

Override

Recognises when the agent is wrong and takes back control.

Can they work without AI?

What can they genuinely do, and how well do they do it with AI in the room?

The dimensions

We measure how tech people think with AI

Problem framing

Can they turn a vague brief into a workable spec?

Context handling

Do they give the model what it needs, or hope for the best?

Verification

Do they check the model’s output, or ship it?

Iteration

When the first answer is wrong, what do they do next?

Tool fluency

Do they know which tool fits which subtask?

Judgment under uncertainty

When the model is confidently wrong, do they catch it?

Coachability

Can they take feedback mid-task and adjust?

Communication

Can they explain what they did and why?

Problem framing
Can they turn a vague brief into a workable spec?
Context handling
Do they give the model what it needs, or hope for the best?
Verification
Do they check the model’s output, or ship it?
Iteration
When the first answer is wrong, what do they do next?
Tool fluency
Do they know which tool fits which subtask?
Judgment under uncertainty
When the model is confidently wrong, do they catch it?
Coachability
Can they take feedback mid-task and adjust?
Communication
Can they explain what they did and why?

Coding tests assume the candidate works alone. That world is gone.

76% of technical candidates now use AI mid-interview. The question that predicts on-the-job performance has shifted from “can they code without it?” to “how well do they think with it?”

Eight dimensions. One rubric. Defensible scoring.

Read the methodology →

The impact

What you get back

17 hours

of senior engineering time saved per hire.

Replaces the screening + first technical round.

30 days

cut from time-to-hire.

From 10 weeks to 6, on average.

£10–15k

in mishire risk avoided, per hire.

46% of new hires fail in 18 months. 89% of those failures are signals coding tests don't measure.

1 report

behind every hiring decision.

Eight dimensions, scored on the same rubric, every time. Defensible to your board, your team, and the candidate.

See your number

Engineers hired a year

1200

Average base salary (£)£

£25,000£250,000

Basanite recovers ~£408,000 of your hiring inefficiency.

Math: Ashby 2026, Leadership IQ, SHRM 2025. See the assumptions ↓

The process

How Basanite works

basanite.io/roles/new

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Role: Backend engineerSeniority: SeniorCapability profile

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Basanite accepts the same JD you would post on LinkedIn or Greenhouse. Our extraction agent pulls out role shape, seniority, and required capability profile.

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For hiring teams

Your hiring decision, with better evidence

◆Basanite agent runs your round. An adaptive voice interview built from the candidate’s own CV, followed by a written briefing for your team.
◆Basanite co-pilot sits with your interviewers in your rounds. It suggests what to probe next, then writes up the session for you.
◆The tenth candidate gets the same rigour as the first. No drift from interviewer fatigue.
◆Scores are anchored to what the candidate actually said. Every number opens to the quote behind it.
◆Fewer rounds, and your engineers stay on the projects that need them.

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For candidates

Be genuinely seen

◆A conversation, not an interrogation. Questions grow organically from your own experience
◆No trick questions, no expected answers. We are looking for how you actually think, not how well you prepared
◆Saying “I don’t know” with genuine awareness is treated differently from a confident but hollow answer
◆You receive a personal feedback report, regardless of outcome

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The team

Built by people who have felt the problem

Engineers and AI researchers from Manchester, building the hiring tool we wish existed.

Aditya Shah

Co-founder

◆Data Analyst and Technology Modeller at Virgin Media O2 (13 month placement)
◆Serial entrepreneur, previously funded startup in edtech
◆Computer Science, University of Manchester

Lynn Zhao

Co-founder

◆BSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Manchester
◆AI Safety Fellowship at BlueDot Impact, OpenAI, Cambridge
◆UniHack 2025 Digital CleanUp 1st place

Hire the right person, faster

AI interviewer agents to help you make better hiring decisions.

The CV and the interview stopped telling you the truth.