How Avlo works

Every stage sharpens the same picture.

Avlo runs your whole pipeline — screening, clarification, assessment, video interview, scheduling and live interviews. Each stage writes back to one candidate file, so the picture gets sharper as the candidate moves. By offer day you're deciding on a full evidence base — not a CV and a hunch.

Pipeline · Head of Architecture
2 Highly rec 3 Rec 1 Clarifying 2 Not rec
Marcus Obi
Enterprise architect, 14 yrs, cross-domain governance lead. Direct match.
Highly rec
Saoirse Devlin-Murphy
Strong ADR authorship; scope of formal design authority unclear from a brief CV.
Clarifying
Priya Nair
Solid platform architect; step-up on enterprise breadth worth exploring.
Rec
Ryan Collier
Backend lead, no architecture ownership evidenced. Core requirement not met.
Not rec
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Screen · every application

Read against the role, not a keyword list.

Avlo reads every CV against your role's actual requirements and returns a reasoned verdict — strengths, gaps and a suitability level — in seconds. No more 3–4 hours a day on CVs that were never going to fit.

Written rationale, not a black-box score
Strengths and gaps surfaced individually
Clarifying Recommended ↑ via clarification
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Clarify · don't reject

The borderline ones get a question, not a rejection.

Where a CV is ambiguous, Avlo asks a short, fair follow-up over WhatsApp or email — transparent that a human makes the decision — then re-evaluates the moment the candidate replies. The false negatives a keyword filter would have binned earn their place back.

Brief, accessible questions — answers of a sentence or two
Verdict re-runs automatically, with a “via clarification” trail
✦ Optional steps
Assess · Written exercise
Against your competency framework
Architectural decision-making Clear evidence
Distributed systems at scale Clear evidence
Stakeholder governance Clear evidence
Enterprise design authority Partial evidence
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Assess · on your competencies

A written exercise built for the role — and the candidate.

Avlo generates a structured assessment per role, personalised to each candidate's background, and reads the response against your competency framework — surfacing where they're above bar and where the evidence is still thin.

Bulk-sent from your pipeline in one action
Evidence by competency — not a single headline mark
Video interview · candidate view
Question 2 of 5 ≈ 2 min
✦ Architectural influence
Walk us through a cross-domain architecture decision you led — the trade-offs, and how you brought other teams with you.
Recording in your own time REC 0:42
Re-record Submit answer →
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Interview · async video

A video round, in their own time.

Avlo invites candidates to record answers to role-specific questions whenever suits them — no live interviewer, no scheduling to coordinate. Responses are transcribed, scored and added to the candidate's file.

Questions generated from the role and the candidate's CV
Auto-transcribed and scored, straight into the file
Schedule · Candidate booking
Pick a time that suits you
Tue 14 May
14:00 – 14:45 · with David Okafor
Selected
Wed 15 May
10:30 – 11:15 · with David Okafor
Thu 16 May
16:00 – 16:45 · with David Okafor
✦ Slots built from the hiring manager's availability
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Schedule · no back-and-forth

Hiring-manager availability in. A booked interview out.

Avlo collects the hiring manager's availability, turns it into slots, and lets the candidate self-book. Confirmations, calendar invites and reschedules all run themselves — no three-way email thread, no chasing.

Candidate self-serve booking link
Auto confirmations, reminders and decline flow
Interview · live brief
Transcribing live
Auto-generatedArchitecture governance under contested conditions
David: Tell me about a time two domains disagreed on a standard — how did you resolve it?
Saoirse: At Intercom we had a messaging-vs-billing conflict over event ordering. I convened an ADR review, set the decision criteria up front…
✦ Draft feedback ready for your review · within the hour
6
Interview · live

Auto-generated questions. A debrief drafted within the hour.

Avlo generates role-specific questions and transcribes the conversation, so your interviewer can focus on the discussion — not note-taking. Draft feedback, attributed to what was actually said, is ready for review within the hour.

Questions generated from the role and the candidate's file
Transcript captured automatically — every score traceable
Intelligence · Saoirse Devlin-Murphy
Not recClarifyingRecommendedHighly rec
● Confirmed strengths
Architectural decision-making & standards ownership
Distributed systems at scale
● Open questions
Formal design-authority accountability
Right-to-work confirmation
CV screenClarifying
ClarifyRecommended
AssessRecommended
InterviewHighly rec
Background & experience

Saoirse is a senior engineer and architect with just over 11 years' experience, most recently a principal-level lead at Intercom. The picture opened cautiously at a brief CV screen, then firmed as clarification confirmed her cross-domain governance and final design authority sign-off…

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Intelligence · always current

One picture that moves as the candidate does.

Every stage feeds the same intelligence layer. Avlo weights the signals into a single live verdict — radar, suitability and a dated audit trail — and writes a plain-English narrative of how and why it moved. By offer day, nothing about the decision is a guess.

Role-weighted radar, confirmed strengths and open questions
A written account of the candidate, not just a score

Seven stages. One candidate file. A decision you can defend.

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