Now with agentic assessment  

Talent assessment for the
agentic hiring stack

Prelim turns your most complex hiring pipelines into clean, structured candidate insights your team can actually act on — skills, cognition, culture fit and all.

[ ASSESSMENT PIPELINE ]
TOP 5%
Cognitive
94
Technical
88
Culture
85
~
94%
87%
76%

TRUSTED BY LEADING HIRING TEAMS

NORTHWIND CARLYLE VantPay MERIDIAN ASTRAFLOW 3CAPITAL HELIX

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Our free plan includes:
100 free candidate assessments per month
Skill, cognition & culture-fit scoring
Structured candidate insights & ranking
Build and deploy end-to-end hiring pipelines
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THE ASSESSOR

We assess your most complex candidates

Candidate
Reports

Parse any CV, cover letter and assessment into structured, comparable profiles — for every candidate, at any volume.

COGNITIVE
82
TECHNICAL
91
CULTURE
76
JL
TOP 5%
COGNITIVE
94
TECHNICAL
88
CULTURE
85

Skills
Matrix

Score candidates across technical, cognitive and cultural dimensions — simultaneously, even from dense or irregular assessments.

CANDIDATE
SQL
PYTHON
COMMS
FIT
J. Lee
94
88
91
A+
P. Nair
87
73
89
A
R. Kim
78
92
70
B+
M. Chen
55
68
83
B

Hiring
Analytics

Turn raw assessment results into ranked shortlists and pipeline insights your whole hiring team can act on.

PIPELINE SCORES
28 candidates · Senior Data Analyst
RANKED RESULTS
1
96
2
88
3
84
2.4M+
Assessments completed
1,200+
Hiring teams
87%
Faster time-to-shortlist

Unrivaled accuracy
across every assessment type

Benchmark
PRELIM AGENTIC VLM · PROPRIETARY COMMERCIAL · ATS LEGACY PLATFORM
Overall accuracy Cognitive tests Technical tests
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
47.9
WORKDAY HCM
50.4
GREENHOUSE ATS
50.6
LEVER
54.1
HACKERRANK
59.6
CODILITY
62.2
TESTGORILLA
71.0
MERCER METTL
84.9
PRELIM AGENTIC
PIPELINE

Everything your assessment pipeline needs

Parse

Industry-leading document parsing for 50+ unstructured file types — including support for embedded images, complex layouts, multi-page tables, and even handwritten notes.

Extract

Pull structured candidate data — skills, experience, education, competency scores — from any assessment format into clean, comparable outputs your pipelines can use directly.

Split

Intelligently segment long-form candidate responses and assessments into discrete, independently scorable units — technical, cognitive, culture, and communication — without losing context.

Classify

Automatically categorize every candidate by role fit tier, skill level, culture alignment, and hiring intent — using AI trained on real assessment outcomes across thousands of roles.

Index

Build a searchable talent intelligence bank from every candidate assessed. Surface the right person for any role — instantly — from your existing pipeline, with full assessment context preserved.

candidate_cv.pdf
parsed_output.json
{
  "name": "Jordan Lee",
  "skills": ["Python", "SQL"],
  "exp_yrs": 5,
  "score": 94
}
EXTRACTED FIELDS
CANDIDATE
Jordan Lee · Senior Data Analyst
SKILLS
PythonSQLMLSpark
EXPERIENCE
5 years · 3 companies
EDUCATION
BSc Computer Science · UCL
SCORE
94
ASSESSMENT SEGMENTS
SEGMENT 1 · TECHNICAL
SEGMENT 2 · COGNITIVE
SEGMENT 3 · CULTURE FIT
SEGMENT 4 · COMMUNICATION
CLASSIFICATION RESULTS
ROLE FIT
High
Senior level match
SKILL TIER
L3
Advanced practitioner
CULTURE
82%
Alignment score
INTENT
Active
Ready to move
OVERALL RECOMMENDATIONADVANCE
JL
PythonSQL
94
PN
MLSpark
88
RK
PythonTF
84
28 candidates indexed · sorted by fit score
02
Prelim API
Integrate in Minutes. Scale to Millions.

Production-ready REST APIs for AI-powered talent assessment. Drop into any ATS, any job board, any hiring workflow — with one API call returning a fully structured candidate report.

Fully SOC 2 Type II
200ms median latency
Works with any ATS
Structured JSON output
$ curl api.prelim.io/v1/assess -H "Authorization: Bearer ..."

Built for every hiring-intensive industry

Purpose-built assessment modules for the roles, formats, and volumes that matter most.

Finance

From banking to fintech — screen for regulatory knowledge, Excel mastery, analytical reasoning, and role-specific aptitude across every level.

EXPLORE FINANCE
Healthcare

Assess clinical knowledge, patient communication, and regulatory compliance — from frontline intake staff to specialist and leadership hires.

EXPLORE HEALTHCARE
Technology

Evaluate coding skill, system design thinking, and DevOps competency across engineering, data, and AI roles — at any pipeline scale.

EXPLORE TECH
Legal

Test research depth, contract drafting quality, and regulatory awareness for associate, paralegal, and compliance officer screening at volume.

EXPLORE LEGAL
FLAGSHIP

Prelim Assess

The most accurate way to evaluate any candidate for any role. Built for volume scale, tuned for the assessments that break everything else.

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FAST & LIGHTWEIGHT

Prelim Screen

Screen candidates in seconds at a fraction of the cost. Same Prelim quality, optimized for high-volume, low-latency hiring pipelines.

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POST api.prelim.io/screen \
  -d candidate_id=cnd_abc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer …"

# 210ms · ranked & scored ✓
USE CASES

How leading teams use
Prelim assessment

Volume Hiring

Screen thousands of candidates fast without compromising on quality.

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Tech Screening

Validate coding skills and technical knowledge without manual review.

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Leadership Assessment

Identify high-potential leaders with science-backed evaluation frameworks.

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INDUSTRIES

Built for every hiring-
intensive industry

Enterprise Ready

Security, compliance and reliability your platform team can sign off on.

🛡
SOC 2 Type II

Audited controls across security and availability.

🔒
Data Privacy

Candidate data is never used to train models.

🏢
Dedicated Support

SLAs, onboarding and a named success engineer.

Flexible Deploy

Cloud, VPC or on-prem to meet your requirements.

TESTIMONIALS

Trusted by leading hiring teams

"Prelim assesses candidates that broke every other tool we tried. Accuracy on behavioural fit is genuinely a step change for our team."

Maya Chen
Head of Talent · Northwind

"We replaced a brittle screening pipeline with one API call. Time-to-shortlist and cost both dropped, quality went up."

Daniel Ross
Engineering Lead · VantPay

"The structured candidate output drops straight into our ATS. It is the most reliable part of our hiring stack now."

Priya Nair
CTO · 3Capital

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talent assessment
today

Prelim delivers unrivaled accuracy and hiring intelligence — across every candidate, every role, and every pipeline — at any scale.

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understands, ranks, and delivers.

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