Chapta
15-minute AI conversation replaces CV spam. Personalised 'why you match' explanations for every job. Mutual interest required, no more ghosting.
CVs do not tell the story, ATS systems flatten the search, candidates get ghosted.
The candidate journey has degraded into a numbers game. CVs get keyword-scanned by algorithms that cannot see values, aspirations, or working style. Mass-application strategy becomes the default because personal attention has disappeared. Then the silence: applied, never heard back, no feedback, no explanation, no respect for the candidate's time.
Even where matches happen, the system gives no reasoning. Jobs appear, candidates are expected to apply, and the logic stays opaque. The candidate ends up guessing how a "match" was reached and whether to trust it.
- The candidate must be visible as a person, not a keyword profile.
- Every match must come with a why, not a black box.
- Neither side can contact the other without explicit mutual interest.
- The candidate sees status at every stage and is never ghosted.
Inside the Chapta candidate experience.
A 15-minute AI conversation, not a 50-field form
Natural dialogue replaces CV form-filling. Candidates share background, values, aspirations, and working style in one flowing conversation. The AI handles the structure underneath.
A behavioural read alongside the experience profile
A PAEI-style behavioural assessment sits inside onboarding, so a match has more than skill keywords to anchor to. Working style, decision-making preferences, and team posture all feed the match.
A feed of matches, not a search box
Jobs come to the candidate, with an explicit match score. Status pills track interest and reply on every card so the candidate always knows where the conversation actually stands.
An explainable match, not a black-box score
Every match opens into a six-dimension breakdown of where the candidate and the role align, and where they do not. The candidate sees the reasoning before deciding whether to express interest.
Filters that work with the match, not around it
Location, salary, work pattern, and role type tune what surfaces without overriding the matching logic. The candidate stays in control without losing the explainability.
A profile shaped around the candidate, not the CV
Profile information drawn from the conversation, with the candidate able to edit, expand, or hide any dimension. The employer sees what the candidate chose to share, not what a CV parser inferred.
A conversation, a six-dimension match, and a mutual-interest gate that ends ghosting at the source.
Onboarding runs as a 15-minute conversation rather than a form. The AI guides the candidate through background, values, aspirations, and working style, capturing structured data underneath without making the candidate fill structured fields.
Matching evaluates the candidate-role pair across six dimensions, with the reasoning surfaced per match. The candidate sees the alignment factors and the misalignments, then decides whether to express interest. The employer sees the same when they receive an interest signal back. Neither side can message the other until both have opted in.
Status is visible end-to-end. A candidate can see where their interest sits on every role, with real-time notifications when an employer responds. Ghosting becomes structurally hard rather than the default outcome.
- Conversational onboarding (~15 minutes) replacing form-based candidate intake.
- Six-dimension matching engine with per-match explanations.
- PAEI behavioural assessment integrated into onboarding.
- Mutual-interest workflow gating all candidate-employer contact.
- Real-time status tracking and notifications on every role.
- Native mobile experience with edit-anywhere candidate profile.
A candidate platform built on visibility, explainability, and mutual respect.
Tell the story once
Fifteen-minute conversational onboarding captures everything employers need to know. No multi-page form, no CV upload.
Understand every match
Per-match explanations across six dimensions show where the candidate and the role line up and where they do not. No opaque score.
Never ghosted
Real-time status tracking and notifications keep the candidate informed at every stage. Mutual interest required before contact.
Faster decisions
Both sides see alignment up front, so the conversations that happen are with the people the system has already vouched for.
How we delivered it.
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From scoping to live.
- DiscoveryMapped the candidate journey today: CV-spam frustration, black-box ATS matching, ghosting at scale. Set the design goal as 'replace the form-filling with a conversation that captures the person'. Months 1-2
- MVP buildFifteen-minute conversational onboarding, explainable matching engine on six dimensions, mutual-interest workflow that gates contact behind both-sides consent. Months 3-6
- Mobile launchNative mobile experience for candidates. Real-time status tracking and notifications keep them informed at every stage instead of guessing. Months 7-9
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