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Hire with confidence.
Know your candidates better.

AI-augmented interviews for more informed hiring, faster time to hire, and better candidate understanding.

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What is Basanite

An AI interviewer for your early rounds.

Today’s typical processWith Basanite
Phone screen
rehearsable
Coding test
AI passes it
First tech interview
wrong signal
Final rounds
Offer

Basanite interviews your applicants adaptively from their own CV and briefs your team with evidence on each one. Fewer interview rounds, better hiring accuracy.

Backed & recognised by

Y Combinator
Top 10% of S26 applicants
Redwood Founders
Backed by Redwood Founders
The University of Manchester
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
Stripe
Partnered with Stripe VC

The dimensions

We measure how engineers 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?

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.

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The impact

What you get back

01
17 hours

of senior engineering time saved per hire.

Replaces the screening + first technical round.

02
30 days

cut from time-to-hire.

From 10 weeks to 6, on average.

03
£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.

04
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

1200
£
£25,000£250,000

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

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

The four levers

Where the savings come from

Today
With Basanite
  • Effective spendThe hire itself
  • Recruiter hoursScreening & phone screens
  • Engineer hours~17 hrs/hire on early rounds
  • Vacancy days~30 days a role stays open
  • Mis-hire risk46% fail within 18 months
  • RecoveredBasanite savings

And it bends to your role, not the other way around. Custom dimensions, custom rubrics, and custom workbench tasks for engineering, data, ML, security, or wherever you take it next.

The process

How Basanite works

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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

  • ◆An interview briefing that gives your team deeper insight into every candidate, enhancing the rest of your interview process rather than just adding another screen
  • ◆Decision-validation that improves hiring confidence while shortening your time-to-hire: fewer rounds, and your engineers stay on the projects that need them
  • ◆Every candidate receives identical assessment quality. The tenth candidate is evaluated as rigorously as the first
  • ◆Dimension scores grounded in specific candidate quotes, not opaque numbers
  • ◆Hirer report designed as a briefing document: what to probe further in the final human interview
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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

Aditya Shah

CEO

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

Drew Robertson

CTO

  • ◆SWE Intern at The Trade Desk, Rothschild and Co, Cisco
  • ◆ICHack26 1st place, Bloomberg Bpuzzled 1st place
  • ◆Computer Science, University of Manchester
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Lynn Zhao

Lynn Zhao

CPO

  • ◆BSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Manchester
  • ◆AI Safety Fellowship at BlueDot Impact, OpenAI, Cambridge
  • ◆UniHack 2025 Digital CleanUp 1st place
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8
metacognitive dimensions
2
rounds: think + do
100%
quote-grounded scores
Fewer
rounds, better accuracy

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