Prescreener

Screening · AI applicant screening

AI applicant screening software that reads and ranks every applicant

AI applicant screening matters most when the pile is too big to read by hand. A single posting can draw hundreds of applicants, and a recruiter physically cannot give each one a fair read, so screening becomes a skim of the first few pages and a lot of strong people never get looked at.

Parse · score · rank · recruiter reviews

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Criteria

top · held

Screen the pile to watch Prescreener parse every resume, apply your criteria and knockouts, and rank the inbound applicants with a transparent reason on each.

Live, interactive · AI assists, you decide · no signup needed

top matches surfaced held for review Reasons on every card

AI assists · you decide · bias-audited (EEOC / NYC Local Law 144)

CONSISTENT CRITERIA RANKED PILE ATS-READY

Human-in-the-loop you decide

EEOC and LL144 bias-audited

Prescreener does AI applicant screening across the entire pile, every applicant, no exceptions. It applies your knockout and eligibility criteria consistently, asks screening questions, scores role-fit, and ranks candidates with a transparent reason for each. Recruiters review the top matches first, a human makes every decision, and nothing is auto-rejected. The screening is bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144, and runs with candidate consent and clear AI disclosure.

Applicant screening and resume screening are not quite the same job, and the difference decides which page you want. Resume screening reads the document. Applicant screening covers the whole applicant record: the resume, the answers to your screening questions, and the hard eligibility gates like work authorization, shift availability, or a license the role legally requires. Prescreener does both in one pass, so if it is specifically the document parsing and role-fit scoring you are evaluating, the AI resume screening software page goes deeper on that side.

Why it works

What your team gets with AI applicant screening

Everyone gets read

AI reads the full pile, so no applicant is skipped because a recruiter ran out of hours before reaching the back half of the inbox. The back half is where the late applicants sit, and they are no worse than the early ones.

Consistent and explained

The same criteria apply to every applicant, and each ranking carries a transparent reason, so screening is even and defensible. A tired reviewer on a Friday afternoon applies a different standard than the same reviewer on Monday. A criteria set does not.

Surfaces, never decides

Prescreener flags and ranks the top matches, but a recruiter reviews the reasons and makes every advance or reject call. Nobody is removed from consideration by software.

The whole applicant, not just the resume

Screening question answers and hard eligibility gates are scored alongside the resume, so an applicant who cannot work the shift or lacks the required credential drops down the list with the reason attached rather than reaching a phone screen.

Sits on top of the ATS you already run

Prescreener screens the inbound pile and hands back a ranked list. Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, or whatever holds your requisitions keeps holding them. There is no migration and no second system of record.

What it handles

Parsed, scored and ranked on autopilot

Prescreener reads every inbound resume, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and ranks the applicant pile so your recruiters review the top matches first.

  • Screens every applicant rather than the first few pages
  • Applies knockout and eligibility criteria evenly
  • Scores role-fit and ranks with transparent reasons
  • Surfaces the top matches for recruiter review
  • Bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144, with candidate consent
SHORTLIST Screening
#1 Maya R. 92
#2 Devon L. 88
#3 Priya S. 81 Review
Role-fit scored 48 screened this week

Why Prescreener

One step that screens the whole inbound pile

Not a full ATS, not a six-figure assessment suite, and not a staffing agency. Parse, score, rank and hand off in one place, shaped to the criteria you already hire on.

Reads every resume

Prescreener parses every inbound application, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, and asks the screening questions you set. Applicants consent and are told AI is screening their application, so no qualified person sits in a backlog for days.

Scores role-fit consistently

Every applicant is scored against the same criteria, with a transparent reason on each candidate, so the pile is compared consistently and the scoring stays bias-audited against EEOC guidance and NYC Local Law 144.

Ranks the pile

The strongest matches rise to the top of a ranked pile your recruiters review first. Prescreener never auto-rejects, it ranks and flags candidates for review, and your team makes every decision.

Good questions

Questions about AI applicant screening

AI applicant screening is the automated review of every inbound application against the criteria set for a role: the resume, the answers to your screening questions, and the eligibility gates. The tool scores role-fit and ranks applicants so recruiters review the strongest first. The useful versions read for meaning and show their reasoning; the weak ones are keyword filters with a new interface.
Applications are read as they arrive. The tool extracts what each person actually did and at what scale, checks it against your must-haves and knockout criteria, scores role-fit, and returns the pile ranked with the criteria met and missed written under each candidate. A recruiter then works down an ordered list instead of an inbox sorted by arrival time.
Prescreener never auto-rejects. It ranks and flags candidates for recruiter review with transparent reasons, and a human makes every decision. Some tools do auto-reject on knockout answers, which is worth asking any vendor directly before you buy, because one poorly worded question can then remove qualified applicants with nobody reviewing the result.
Yes, and it is regulated. Disparate impact liability under Title VII, the ADEA, and the ADA applies to an algorithm exactly as it applies to a person. NYC Local Law 144 requires an independent bias audit and candidate notice, and several states have added their own rules for automated employment decision tools. Keep criteria job-related, disclose AI use, audit for adverse impact, and keep a human in the decision.
Every applicant is screened on the same criteria with a transparent reason behind each ranking, candidates consent with AI disclosure, and a recruiter reviews the results before anyone advances. Consistency is the actual argument for automation here: a human reading 400 applications does not apply one standard, and leaves no record of the standard they did apply.
An ATS stores applications, moves candidates through stages, and reports on the pipeline. It is a system of record. Applicant screening decides who is worth looking at in the first place, which is the step in front of the pipeline. Most ATS platforms add AI after a candidate has been advanced into a stage, which is why teams run a screening layer alongside one rather than instead of it.
Prescreener starts at $199 a month for Starter (3 jobs, 1,000 applicants, 2 seats), $499 for Growth (15 jobs, 5,000 applicants) and $1,290 for Scale (50 jobs, 25,000 applicants), with Enterprise by quote and no free plan. Pricing across the category ranges from roughly $99 a month at the low end to enterprise contracts starting in the five figures. Watch whether a vendor charges per seat or per applicant volume, because that decides which one is cheaper for your team.
Yes, and this is the part buyers often miss when comparing tools. Prescreener scores the answers to your screening questions and the hard eligibility gates alongside the resume, in the same pass, so availability, work authorization, and required credentials are checked as part of the ranking rather than discovered on a phone screen a week later.

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Stop reading the inbound pile by hand. Put screening on autopilot.

Set your role and criteria and Prescreener parses every inbound resume, scores role-fit, and ranks the pile for your team. Prescreener ranks and flags candidates, your recruiters make every hiring decision.

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Consistent criteria · bias-audited to EEOC and LL144 · human-in-the-loop