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The first round should be something you read, not something you phone
Alert Hire is built in Sydney by Alert AI Pty Ltd for recruitment agencies that spend their mornings on first-round calls, and would rather spend them with clients.
Why this exists
Screening the applicants is the easy part now: LinkedIn, SEEK and every ATS will cut eighty applications down to sixty for you. What comes next is not easy. A consultant phones each of the sixty to ask the same things, right to work, notice, salary, and a couple of questions about the work, twenty minutes a call, before five are put forward. That is most of a week.
Alert Hire does that round in writing. Every candidate on the shortlist gets their own interview link, answers the key checks and the role’s questions in their own time, and the recruiter reads a ranked summary of each with the reasoning attached. Candidates are not left waiting a week for a call, and consultants get that week back.
Who builds it
Alert AI builds AI systems that take over whole workflows for Australian businesses: accounts payable, compliance checks, sales follow-up, the kind of work that used to mean another hire. Alert Hire applies that approach to recruitment’s first round. It is a product of Alert AI Pty Ltd, based in Sydney, and the same team runs it day to day.
Who writes here
Andy Thompson founded Alert AI and builds Alert Hire. He has started four companies and sold two of them, both in 2026. Most of his work is on systems that take a whole job function and run it, rather than tools that help a person do the same job faster. He writes the posts on this site, and the opinions in them are his.
We are small, and we would rather show you the product than talk about ourselves. If you want to reach the person who built it, contact us or start a pilot and you will.
What we hold to
Four rules the product is built around
The AI interviews, and people decide
Alert Hire asks, scores, ranks and summarises. It never declines a candidate, and it never sends an outcome unless a recruiter does it themselves.
Every score explains itself
If you cannot read the reasoning behind a grade, you cannot trust it or defend it to a client. Every sub-score points at the words in the CV or the answer that produced it.
It fits around what you already run
Paste a list, drop a CSV or the CVs, or share the job’s interview link, from whatever ATS you use or none at all. Nothing here depends on which platform you are on.
Candidate data stays in Australia
Stored encrypted in Australian data centres, kept only as long as you set, never used to train models, purged when you say so. What candidates are told.
See it on one of your own roles
An afternoon to set up your first role. After that, each shortlist comes back as interviews you can read.