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Voice + video AI interviewer

Lightscreen’s voice + video AI interviewer enables companies to identify and invest in genuinely skilled candidates. It's already being used by high-growth startups and recruiting agencies to screen technical candidates. We provide companies with a voicebot that can run a full-length technical interview, does smart interruptions, and multi-modal cheating detection. The AI provides the company rubric-based, rich candidate evaluation in minutes and can be fully customized to ask questions and evaluate based on the company's needs.
Lightscreen AI
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
Location:Sunnyvale, CA
Group Partner:Dalton Caldwell

Active Founders

Prachie Banthia, Founder

I'm a founder and CEO at Lightscreen AI. Before this, I was in VP Product at AssemblyAI. Before that I was head of product at Sequoia-backed rideOS, which sold to Gopuff for $115M. I started my career as an APM at Google. Stanford MBA. Dog mom.
Prachie Banthia
Prachie Banthia
Lightscreen AI

Gavin Saldanha, Founder

I'm a founder and CTO at Lightscreen AI. I'm a software engineer with a background in ML/NLP. I previously worked in Google Cloud and led the engineering teams at Cauzal AI and Stacked. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley and Master's at Columbia. I published a paper on text generation in collaboration with IBM Watson.
Gavin Saldanha
Gavin Saldanha
Lightscreen AI

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TL;DR

We’re building uncheatable tech screens with an AI voice agent. Engineering teams use Lightscreen to identify genuinely skilled candidates -- a different approach than other screening tools that unlocks greater insight into a candidate's engineering fundamentals and critical thinking skills.

The Problem

  • Engineering managers spend about 40% of their time on hiring, and engineers spend about 10% of their time interviewing candidates
  • Up to 30% of candidates cheat on coding tests. With the increased prevalence of AI tools and remote interviewing, cheating is only becoming more common.
  • New AI technologies have made it easier for candidates to apply to hundreds of jobs, so volume of applications has drastically increased
    • This volume is going to keep growing, increasing the burden on managers and engineers

Our Solution

Lightscreen’s AI interviewer assesses candidates’ skills by working through coding problems with them collaboratively. This unlocks deeper insight into a candidate's engineering fundamentals and critical thinking skills, unlike other screening tools that simply evaluate code.

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Our AI can interview on any technical subject. It avoids hallucinations and eliminates bias by justifying feedback with specific examples, and can scale to any volume of candidates. It identifies cheating by monitoring the full feed of keystrokes, video, and audio from the candidate.

Allow your engineers to focus on building products instead of screening candidates by trying Lightscreen today!

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The Founders

Prachie Banthia previously was VP Product at a Series C speech model company called AssemblyAI that has built the current SOTA speech transcription models. Before that she was at RideOS which she helped sell to GoPuff for $115M, and prior to that worked at Google.

Gavin Saldanha is a veteran ML engineer who has led engineering teams at Cauzal AI and Stacked. Prior to that he also worked at Google - which is where he first met Prachie! He brings extensive experience in scaling and productionizing ML and NLP systems.

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