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The Ultimate Guide to AI Video Interviews: How They Work and Why They're Replacing Phone Screens

Discover why top enterprise companies are moving from phone screens to AI video interviews — and how live, adaptive video AI is delivering faster, fairer, and richer candidate assessments.

Grady Gardner·9 min read

AI RecruitingJan 18, 2026

Conversational Voice Interviews vs. One-Way Recorded Video: Which Actually Works?

Adam Jackson· 6 min read

Case StudyNov 5, 2025

How an AI Interviewer Evaluates Candidates: Rubrics, Scoring, and the Human in the Loop

Grady Gardner· 10 min read

All Articles

AI RecruitingSep 7, 2026

Agentic AI in Recruiting: What an AI Recruiting Agent Automates

An AI recruiting agent runs sourcing, screening, first-round interviews and scheduling. Here is the five-level autonomy scale, what it cannot do, and the laws that set the limit.

Grady Gardner

13 min read

AI RecruitingSep 7, 2026

Recruiting Automation: Which Hiring Tasks to Automate in 2026

Recruiting automation works on repeatable, reversible, evidence-based hiring work. Use the four tests and the task-by-task map to decide what to automate and what to keep human.

Grady Gardner

14 min read

AI RecruitingSep 7, 2026

AI Resume Screening: How It Works and How Accurate It Is

AI resume screening ranks applicants against your criteria. Here is how it works, what the research says about its accuracy, and a weighted scorecard for choosing a tool.

Anne Muscarella

14 min read

How-ToSep 7, 2026

Interview Scheduling Software: What Self-Scheduling Actually Fixes

Interview scheduling software is worth buying for the constraints it solves, not the booking link. What breaks on a general-purpose scheduler, why self-scheduling works, and how to score vendors.

Anne Muscarella

13 min read

AI RecruitingSep 5, 2026

Braintrust AIR vs HireVue: Conversational Voice Screening Compared

HireVue is a video-first interview and assessment platform. Braintrust AIR is conversational AI interview software that runs a two-way voice screen and leaves the hiring decision with a human. Here is a clear comparison.

Grady Gardner

10 min read

AI RecruitingSep 5, 2026

What Is AI Interview Software? A Practical Category Definition

AI interview software conducts, scores, or analyzes candidate interviews with artificial intelligence. The category splits into conversational voice, one-way recorded video, and adjacent skills tests. Here is a lift-ready definition — and why conversational voice is the screen that replaces the phone call.

Grady Gardner

8 min read

AI RecruitingSep 5, 2026

NYC Local Law 144 and AI Interviewing: A Buyer’s Compliance Explainer

New York City Local Law 144 requires bias audits, notices, and an alternative process for automated employment decision tools. Here is a lift-ready explainer for TA and legal buyers — restating only what Braintrust already publishes about AIR.

Anne Muscarella

9 min read

Industry InsightsSep 5, 2026

Screen with AIR First, Then Fill with the Talent Marketplace

Agency markups charge you to find people you have not screened. The AIR-first motion is the reverse: conversational voice screening, then Marketplace fill — with a published platform fee instead of an opaque spread. Try AIR first.

Grady Gardner

8 min read

ProductSep 5, 2026

Recruiting Ops Automation with AIR and Nexus

Nexus automates the workflows around hiring. AIR creates the screening signal those workflows should move. Shared-savings pricing is 75/25 as published on the Nexus page. Start with AIR, then automate the handoffs.

Braintrust Team

8 min read

Industry InsightsMar 15, 2026

Best AI Interview Software in 2026: Conversational Voice Compared

A 2026 comparison of AI interview software — conversational voice, one-way video, chat, and skills tests. Braintrust AIR is two-way adaptive voice with ATS sync, compliance, and a try-demo, alongside honest coverage of HireVue, Paradox, HeyMilo, and others.

Grady Gardner

15 min read

Case StudyFeb 21, 2026

What Happens When 40,000 People Apply Over a Weekend

How highly scalable conversational AI infrastructure ensures enterprise hiring never breaks during viral product launches or seasonal hiring crunches.

Adam Jackson

9 min read

ProductFeb 20, 2026

The Death of the Pre-Screening Form

Long, static application forms cause massive candidate drop-off. Conversational AI captures the same data far more elegantly — and candidates actually complete it.

Grady Gardner

8 min read

AI RecruitingFeb 19, 2026

How AI Video Interviews Are Making Hiring More Accessible for Everyone

Structured, rubric-based AI video interviews are leveling the playing field by eliminating the subjective judgments that gate great candidates out of the hiring process.

Braintrust Team

8 min read

Industry InsightsFeb 18, 2026

Five Ways to Future-Proof Your Talent Acquisition Strategy This Year

Five strategic imperatives for enterprise HR leaders looking to navigate the aggressive shift toward automated, skills-based recruiting.

Grady Gardner

9 min read

ProductFeb 17, 2026

Building AIR: The Engineering Behind Real-Time AI Video Interviews

A technical look at the latency, LLM orchestration, speech-to-text, and video infrastructure required to build an AI that actually feels like a real conversation.

Adam Jackson

10 min read

How-ToFeb 16, 2026

How to Crush Your AI Voice Interview: Practical Tips for Candidates

A candid look at how AI video interviews work, and practical strategies for candidates to perform their best in a live AI video interview.

Braintrust Team

8 min read

Industry InsightsFeb 14, 2026

Why AI Is Displacing the RPO Model (And What That Means for TA Budgets)

Enterprise Recruitment Process Outsourcing is notoriously expensive. Discover how bringing intelligent screening in-house is resetting TA budgets permanently.

Grady Gardner

9 min read

Case StudyFeb 12, 2026

How a Global Enterprise Navigated AI Hiring Compliance Across Three Continents

How a multinational conglomerate safely navigated fragmented global privacy laws while centralizing their screening process on a single AI platform.

Grady Gardner

9 min read

Industry InsightsFeb 9, 2026

Three Generations of AI Recruiting Software: Understanding the Landscape

A clear-eyed look at the vendor landscape for automated screening, and why live conversational AI video is the evolution beyond legacy chatbot and one-way video solutions.

Adam Jackson

11 min read

AI RecruitingFeb 5, 2026

How AI Assessment Tools Are Leading the Charge in Bias Reduction

By standardizing the interview process and focusing strictly on semantic data, conversational AI represents the greatest leap forward in fair hiring practices.

Braintrust Team

9 min read

AI RecruitingFeb 1, 2026

Skills-Based Hiring vs. Resumes: How AI Is Surfacing Hidden Talent

Resumes are terrible predictors of job performance. Discover how AI interviewing facilitates the shift towards pure skills-based enterprise hiring.

Grady Gardner

9 min read

Case StudyJan 26, 2026

Beating the Holiday Hiring Rush: How Contact Centers Use Conversational AI at Scale

A look at how massive BPO and contact center operators automate tens of thousands of seasonal interviews to out-hire the competition.

Braintrust Team

9 min read

ProductJan 20, 2026

Why Deep ATS Integration Makes or Breaks AI Screening Adoption

What is an AI recruiter, how does it differ from an ATS, and which tasks can recruiting automation realistically handle? A practical guide built around a real enterprise ATS integration example.

Adam Jackson

7 min read

AI RecruitingJan 15, 2026

Compliance and Data Privacy in AI Hiring: What Every CISO Needs to Know

Understanding the security, SOC 2 compliance, and anti-bias regulations surrounding enterprise deployment of AI interviewing tools.

Grady Gardner

10 min read

Industry InsightsJan 8, 2026

Scaling High-Volume Recruiting in Retail and Healthcare with AI

How retail and healthcare organizations are filling high-turnover roles significantly faster using automated conversational screening.

Grady Gardner

8 min read

Case StudyDec 23, 2025

A Quantitative Look at the ROI of AI Recruiting

The ROI model for AI recruiting line by line, with the published benchmarks behind each input, a worked example, and the places the standard business case overstates itself.

Grady Gardner

10 min read

ProductDec 16, 2025

Adaptive Interviewing: What It Is and Why It Matters

How dynamic, real-time AI conversation paths mimic the best human interviewers to extract deep candidate insights automatically.

Adam Jackson

7 min read

Industry InsightsDec 10, 2025

The Evolution of Semantic Scoring in Candidate Assessments

How semantic scoring works beyond keyword matching, how accurate it actually is, and what the bias-audit rules now require of it.

Grady Gardner

10 min read

ResearchDec 5, 2025

Which AI Tools Assess Coding Skills? The Eight Categories of Technical Screening

AI tools that assess coding and technical skills fall into eight categories that measure different things. A buyer guide to the categories, the evaluation criteria, and what the research says about interview format.

Braintrust Team

10 min read

AI RecruitingNov 28, 2025

The Problem with One-Way Recorded Video Interviews (And How Live AI Video Fixes It)

Why candidates despise asynchronous recorded video interviews, and why live, conversational AI video is the modern, humane alternative for high-volume screening.

Adam Jackson

7 min read

How-ToNov 20, 2025

Building a World-Class Candidate Experience Using AI

Your candidate experience is your employer brand. Learn how to use conversational AI video interviews to treat every applicant like a priority — instantly and at scale.

Grady Gardner

8 min read

AI RecruitingNov 12, 2025

Eliminating Unconscious Bias in the Interview Process with AI

Do AI interviewers reduce hiring bias or introduce new forms of it? We look at the research on both sides, including documented bias in AI speech recognition, and what actually makes AI-driven screening fairer.

Braintrust Team

7 min read

AI RecruitingOct 7, 2025

Navigating AI Regulations in Hiring: How Braintrust AIR Ensures Compliance

A clear breakdown of how Braintrust AIR meets U.S., Canadian, and EU AI hiring regulations — from NYC Local Law 144 to the EU AI Act.

Anne Muscarella

8 min read

Case StudyAug 27, 2025

How a Leading Fast-Food Management Group Plans to Save 7,000 Manager Hours a Year

A management group operating 80+ restaurants deployed AIR to automate first-round interviews — cutting interview costs by $280K annually and time-to-hire by 75%.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

ResearchAug 20, 2025

The Debate Is Over: AI Recruiters Outperform Humans. Here's the Data.

Independent research from UChicago Booth and Erasmus University shows AI-led interviews produce better hires, higher retention, and significantly less gender bias.

Grady Gardner

7 min read

Case StudyJul 28, 2025

High-Profile Entertainment Agency Streamlined Hiring and Uncovered Hidden Talent Using AIR

A lean HR team managing 1,000+ applicants per role scaled hiring during their biggest growth year without adding a single recruiter headcount.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

Case StudyJul 8, 2025

"I Can't Live Without It": How Recruitz Scaled Faster with Braintrust AIR

A two-person recruiting startup used AIR to handle 500+ applicants for a single role, placing a founding engineer in four weeks — 50% faster than average.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

How-ToJul 1, 2025

5 AI Prompts That Help You Source World-Class Talent Faster

Five specific, ready-to-use prompts for recruiters to generate targeted sourcing strategies, high-converting job posts, and personalized candidate outreach.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

How-ToJun 26, 2025

The 5 AI Prompts Every Time-Strapped Recruiter Needs

Strategic AI prompts that help recruiters build better candidate pipelines, write stronger outreach, and get a real-time read on funnel health.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

ProductJun 25, 2025

Braintrust AIR: Frequently Asked Questions

Everything talent acquisition teams ask before deploying AIR — from how the AI is trained, to candidate experience, to how it handles bias and data privacy.

Anne Muscarella

8 min read

ResearchJun 20, 2025

Braintrust AIR Passes Independent AI Bias and Compliance Audit with Zero Findings

A third-party audit confirmed zero adverse impact across demographic groups and full compliance with GDPR, EEOC, and NYC Local Law 144.

Anne Muscarella

7 min read

ProductJun 18, 2025

Now Interviewing in 10 Languages — With Zero Added Effort

AIR now conducts fully conversational interviews in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and Hindi.

Anne Muscarella

6 min read

Case StudyFeb 18, 2025

How a Leading Healthcare Provider Tripled Screening Efficiency and Cut Costs by 86%

How AI is used across healthcare and high-volume clinical recruiting, what it does not do, and the home care deployment that moved screening completion from 8 percent to 26 percent.

Anne Muscarella

10 min read

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