Sample shortlists
What a search actually hands you
Six roles, 18 candidates. We wrote the candidates and then ran them through the same screener that grades real applicants — the scores and notes below are its output, published without editing, including where it went against someone.
Customer Support VA
Shopify + Zendesk, strong written English, e-commerce support experience
Executive Assistant
calendar and inbox ownership for a US founder, research briefs that end in a recommendation, native-level written English, 4+ hours of US overlap
Bookkeeper
monthly close on QuickBooks Online or Xero, bank and payment-processor reconciliation, e-commerce revenue (Shopify/Stripe), a real method for hunting discrepancies
Operations Manager
owns process end to end, writes SOPs people actually follow, vendor and fulfilment coordination, comfortable with numbers, 4+ hours of US overlap
Social Media Manager
owns the content calendar end to end, writes copy that reads human, repurposes long-form into short, reports on what actually moved rather than impressions
Data Entry Specialist
high accuracy sustained under volume, a repeatable method rather than ad-hoc care, flags anomalous records instead of copying them, comfortable in spreadsheets
Why the scores are not all 90s
Because the screener is calibrated to spread, and we published what it said. Most real applicants land between 55 and 75; anything above 80 is meant to be the top tenth. A page where every sample candidate scored 95 would tell you nothing about your own applicants, which is the only thing this page is for. The rubric, the weights and the bands are published, and you can run it on your own answer.
18 of 18 candidates scored by claude-sonnet-4-6 on 2026-09-20, using the rubric extracted from the production screener itself.