It starts with one sentence
You do not set up Evander before you can use it. You describe the role the way you would tell a colleague, in the app or in an assistant you already use:
"We need a founding engineer. New York, $180–220k plus equity, TypeScript and Postgres."
From that sentence Evander writes the job post, sets up the interview stages and drafts a scorecard for each stage. You read them, change what is wrong, add a short screening brief that says what a strong applicant looks like, and publish. The job goes live on your hosted careers page, in XML and JSON feeds for job boards, and with the markup Google Jobs reads.
The whole flow
| Step | What Evander does | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Describe the role | Writes the job post, interview stages and scorecards. | Say what you need in a sentence. Edit the drafts and write the screening brief. |
| 2. Publish | Puts the job on your careers page and in the job feeds, with an application form and privacy notice. | Press publish. Share the link. |
| 3. Screen | Reads every application and checks it against each requirement in your brief, linking each check to the evidence in the resume. | Read the few strong ones. Overrule any score you disagree with. |
| 4. Hear about the strong ones | Posts the strongest matches to Slack or email, with the reasons. | Say who you want to meet. |
| 5. Schedule | Sends a booking link or books the interview in Google Calendar or Outlook, and reminds interviewers to fill in their scorecards. | Hold the interview. Fill in the scorecard. |
| 6. Follow up | Drafts replies, invitations and rejections, reminds interviewers about missing scorecards, and lists what is stuck. | Approve or edit what goes to a candidate. |
| 7. Decide | Puts every interviewer's ratings side by side for the debrief and prepares the offer for approval. | Decide who gets hired. Approve the offer. |
What stays with a person
Evander is built so that the software does the busywork and a person makes the calls. Three rules keep a person in charge:
- Software rejects only by a rule you wrote. A rejection proposed by an assistant or an automation waits for a person's approval. A screening rule you set up yourself, such as "reject applicants missing a must-have", rejects on its own, but only while no person has reviewed that applicant. Each such rejection is logged with the rule and the checks and can be undone, and its email waits for your approval unless you set the job's rejection mail to automatic.
- Nothing reaches a candidate unseen from an assistant. An email an assistant wants to send to a candidate is a proposal until a person approves it, in Evander or in Slack.
- Nobody is hired by a score. Scores rank and explain. Who moves forward and who gets an offer is your decision, and you can overrule any score.
Where you work
You can do all of this in the Evander web app. You can also do it without opening it: every action is available to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code through the Evander MCP server, alerts and approvals arrive in Slack, and email goes out from your own Gmail or Outlook mailbox. For many small teams the assistant they already use becomes the main way they run hiring.
The same flow, asked from an assistant
Each step above can be one request in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor once the assistant is connected. What reaches a candidate waits for you.
| Step | What you ask | What waits for your approval |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Describe the role | "Post a founding engineer role: New York, $180–220k plus equity, TypeScript and Postgres." | Nothing; a job you or the assistant opens can be closed in one click |
| 2. Write the brief | "Write a screening brief. Must-haves: shipped a product end to end, startup experience." | Nothing |
| 3. Screen | "Who are the five strongest applicants, and why?" | Nothing; this only reads scores and evidence |
| 4. Invite | "Send Priya a booking link for the technical interview." | The email to Priya |
| 5. Follow up | "Which scorecards are missing, and from whom?" | Nothing; reminders go to your own team |
| 6. Close the loop | "Draft rejections for everyone below 40. Show me first." | Each rejection and its email |
| 7. Decide | "Show me the debrief for Priya." | The offer, before it is sent |
More prompts are in how to run hiring from Claude or ChatGPT, and what an assistant should never do alone is in the permission table.
Rules in plain English
When a step repeats, you write it as a sentence, for example "When someone moves to onsite, send a booking link and the prep doc, and remind interviewers after 24 hours." Evander turns the sentence into a workflow you can read and edit. A new workflow first runs in shadow mode, where it only records what it would have done, and every run is logged.
What Evander does not do
- It does not find candidates for you. It handles the people who apply, are referred or are submitted by recruiters; it is not a sourcing database.
- It does not replace your judgment about a person. It removes the reading, scheduling and chasing around that judgment.
- It is not built for companies of more than about 500 people, or for teams that need custom report builders and long procurement processes. Tools such as Ashby and Greenhouse are stronger there; see the comparison for startups.
Try it on one job
The fair test of any hiring software is one real role. That is the idea behind the One-Job Experiment: one startup, one open role, and a public record of what the software did and what people still had to do.
Questions
How long does it take to post a job with Evander?
You describe the role in one sentence and Evander drafts the job post, interview stages and scorecards. After you have read and edited the drafts you publish, and the job is live on your careers page and in the job feeds.
Do I have to configure Evander before I can use it?
No. There is no setup project. The first job creates the pipeline and scorecards from your description, and you connect Gmail or Outlook, a calendar and Slack when you want Evander to send, schedule and notify.
Does Evander decide who gets hired?
No. Evander screens, ranks, drafts, schedules and reminds. A person decides who moves forward, who is rejected and who gets an offer, and can overrule any score.
Can I run the whole hiring process from Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes. Every action in the Evander web app is also a tool on the Evander MCP server, so a connected assistant can post the job, show the strongest applicants, schedule interviews and draft emails. Emails to candidates and other sensitive actions wait for a person's approval.
Does Evander source candidates?
No. Evander handles applicants, referrals and candidates submitted by recruiters. It does not include a sourcing database.