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Introducing the HireBest Companion App

HireBest now runs on the interviewer's phone. The Companion App carries the whole structured interview: the questions, the candidate briefing, the consent script, the recording, and the cipher rating. It needs no signal in the room. When the phone finds a connection, everything syncs to HireBest on its own.

We built it for the rooms where hiring happens.

The interview that decides the hire is the one the platform never sees

Dealerships, clinics, distribution centres: whole categories of hiring run face to face, in a back office at whichever site the candidate can reach. There is no video call to record. The wifi in the service building drops. And a laptop on the desk between two people changes the conversation, so most interviewers skip the tools and work from a printed sheet.

The cost lands later. No transcript. No evidence against the role definition. A write-up from memory, an hour after the candidate left, if it happens at all.

The meetings list in the HireBest Companion App, with two interviews marked Ready offline and a note that recordings upload themselves when a signal returns (opens a larger view)The meetings list in the HireBest Companion App, with two interviews marked Ready offline and a note that recordings upload themselves when a signal returns
Your interviews, downloaded and ready before you walk in.
The live question loop while recording, showing one interview question in large type with probe prompts underneath (opens a larger view)The live question loop while recording, showing one interview question in large type with probe prompts underneath
One question at a time while the phone records.
The cipher rating screen scoring a deliverable on the one-to-four scale, with an evidence box that accepts dictation (opens a larger view)The cipher rating screen scoring a deliverable on the one-to-four scale, with an evidence box that accepts dictation
Rate against the cipher before you leave the building.

1. Signal or no signal, the interview is on the record

Recording, the question loop and the rating all run on the phone. Native capture keeps going through screen lock, incoming calls and a dead spot in the building. Nothing leaves the phone until HireBest confirms every part arrived intact. Then the interview appears in HireBest as if it had happened at your desk: the transcript, who said what, and the evidence lined up against the cipher.

2. Rate the candidate before you reach the car park

The wrap-up flows into the cipher rating, on the same 1 to 4 scale the web app uses. Speak your evidence instead of thumb-typing it. You score while the conversation is still in your head, and the debrief starts from evidence.

3. A phone face-down on the desk, not a laptop between you

One question at a time, in large type. Swipe to advance. The briefing, the chapters and the opening and closing scripts travel with the interview, so every candidate gets the same one. “Mind if I read my notes off my phone?” is a question candidates say yes to without thinking.

Pairing takes one QR scan from your desktop, once. No passwords on a phone keyboard.


Structured interviewing works when it happens on every interview, and the in-person ones were the gap. The Companion App closes it.

The app is rolling out to HireBest customers now. Request a demo and see it with your own roles.

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