Scale placements. Not headcount.
A voice AI runs the first 12 minutes of every applicant call. You curate the shortlist and ship branded, scored transcripts to your client. Your judgment, applied to a 5× wider funnel.
Scored report
Senior Product Engineer
First-round · 12 min · voice
Transcript
AI: Walk me through a system you owned end-to-end.
Candidate: I led the billing migration — cut reconciliation from days to minutes…
What it is
Vettika for talent scouts is a voice-AI first-round interviewer that screens applicants against a per-client rubric and returns a scored transcript you can forward to your client. Talent scouts and executive search operators typically place 3 to 8 candidates a month per scout, bounded by the number of first conversations they can hold in a week. Vettika takes that ceiling off: run 50 first-rounds in parallel, then spend your time curating the top 5. Your first interview is free, no card. After that, Scale is $149 for 500 Interview Minutes — enough for 50 ten-minute first-rounds, prepaid, with no subscription and no overage.
The talent scout placement problem
Your ceiling is how many screens you can run yourself.
Was
Placement velocity capped at the screens you personally run each week
Now
Run 5× the first-rounds in the same week. Your judgment, applied to a wider funnel.
Was
Send a shortlist with a Google Doc and a paragraph of vibes
Now
Send a branded, scored transcript per candidate. Your client reads the actual conversation.
Was
Lose the placement because the client moved before you finished sourcing
Now
Day-of screening on every applicant. The shortlist lands before the role gets reassigned.
How a scout uses it end to end
From client brief to scored shortlist you can forward.
Build the rubric per client
Pull the brief into a per-client template — opening intro, screening questions, and the scoring criteria the client actually cares about.
Send one interview link per engagement
One apply link per client engagement, open and close it on your own schedule. The interview, transcript and candidate report are Vettika-branded — there is no per-account branding or custom candidate domain.
Curate the AI-scored shortlist
Sort by rubric score, add your own annotation per candidate, package the top 5 with your read on each.
Hand off to the client with the receipts
Client gets your shortlist, the full scored transcript for each candidate, and the audit log. No black box.
5× your funnel. Same judgment. Same headcount.
A talent scout running screens themselves typically tops out at 20 first conversations a week. With Vettika on the front end, the same scout sources the same 20 hours of judgment to 100 first-rounds — and only the top 10 transcripts get the personal call. The placement rate per hour goes up; the scout-to-placement ratio gets fundamentally better.
Pricing for scouts
Prepaid minutes, not a monthly retainer.
Your first interview is free, no card. After that, prepaid packs — Starter $19 for 50 Interview Minutes, Growth $49 for 150, or Scale $149 for 500 — Starter for a single client engagement, Scale for a full desk. Prepaid, no subscription, no overage.
No card. No subscription.
Per-client rubric templates
Scored transcript per candidate
Audit log for every session
FAQ
Questions scouts actually ask.
Can I put my agency brand on the candidate transcript?
Not today. Every candidate-facing screen, invite email and transcript carries Vettika branding, on every plan, and there is no logo upload, theme override or custom candidate domain. What you can change per client is the rubric, the questions and the intro the agent reads. If screening under your own brand is a hard requirement, email partnerships@vettika.com so it is counted — but there is nothing to switch on right now.
What about executive search where the first round has to be human?
Executive search is not our category — we are explicit on this. The product is built for the first conversation in the funnel, which for exec searches is usually the source-and-warm step, not a screening call. If your placement workflow always starts with you on a Zoom with the candidate, Vettika is the wrong fit.
How does the AI know my niche — fintech infra, AI research, devtools?
You bring the rubric and the question list. The agent reads them, asks them, and adapts follow-ups based on the candidate answer. For a fintech infra role, you might list "owned a payment ledger in prod" as a rubric criterion; the agent will press on specifics, dates, and scale until it has enough to score.
Does my client need to sign up for anything?
No. You send them the transcript and report. The client reads, reviews, and decides whether to meet the candidate. They never touch the Vettika product unless you want them to. Your shortlist, your handoff.
What about candidates who would not interview with an AI?
A real risk for senior placements. Mitigation: tag the role intake with a sourcing-only flag and skip the AI screen for warm-introduced candidates. For inbound applicants and second-tier sourced candidates, the 12-minute transparent voice format with kept transcript has been well-received — try the 90-second candidate demo yourself before you decide.
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