You're hiring for AI fluency. You have no way to measure it.
VibeWorks Hire is a 30-minute work simulation built from the actual role, where using AI is the point. See how every candidate prompts, delegates, verifies, and decides. Read the same way, for everyone.
- Built from the real job
- AI use encouraged: that's the skill
- Same scenario, same standard, every candidate
- Human-in-the-loop, always
The problem
On every other assessment, using AI gets you flagged. On ours, it's the job.
"Proficient with AI" is on every résumé now. And none of it is verified. Your interview can't see how someone works with a model. Your take-home gets quietly handed to ChatGPT. And the tools that promise to fix it respond by policing AI like contraband: proctoring, plagiarism flags, surveillance. That measures compliance, not capability. The skill you're hiring for is how well a person works with AI. And the only way to see it is to watch them do the real work.
What you have today
Claims and gut reads.
Résumé lines, a feel from the interview, and a take-home you can't trust anymore.
What the market offers
Quizzes and surveillance.
Trivia about AI, and anti-AI proctoring bolted onto assessments built for a pre-AI world. Candidates notice. And the good ones walk.
What you actually need
The real work, AI included.
A simulation of the actual job, AI included, read against the same standard for every candidate.
How it works
The real job, in a controlled scenario.
Every candidate steps into the same scripted work scenario, built from the role: a recruiter takes over a colleague's hiring debrief; an AI assistant is there to help. The scenario deliberately plants the problems real work throws up: a confident claim the AI can't back, a buried piece of conflicting evidence.
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The same real scenario
Scripted, role-based, with planted problems. Same conditions for everyone: that's the fairness, and it's what makes results comparable.
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A live read of the work
A model reads how the candidate worked, their judgment across the five dimensions, with a one-line rationale for each score.
Using AI isn't cheating. Outsourcing your judgment is.
The assessment is built to tell the difference.
At application, as a short screen As the take-home, rebuilt for the AI era Results flow to your ATS
What the hiring team receives
A read you can actually defend.
Not a pass/fail. Every candidate gets a band, a 0–10 on each of the five dimensions with a one-line rationale, what they did well, and where they'd grow. The same instrument, applied the same way, for everyone you assess.
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Description
How clearly they direct the AI.
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Delegation
What they route to AI, and what they keep human.
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Discernment
Catching what the AI got wrong.
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Diligence
Verifying against the source, not trusting the summary.
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Delivery
A decision that holds up to scrutiny.
Every candidate lands on a five-level scale
- Novice
- Functional
- Proficient
- Advanced
- Native
VibeWorks Hire · Candidate report
Sample candidate · Account Executive
- Description
- 8.4
- Sets clear goals, constraints, and context up front; the model rarely has to guess.
- Delegation
- 7.8
- Routes drafting and synthesis to the AI, keeps the judgment calls human.
- Discernment
- 8.1
- Flagged the planted, unsourced claim and asked for the evidence behind it.
- Diligence
- 7.2
- Verified the high-stakes figure against the source records; lighter checks on drafts.
- Delivery
- 8.0
- Turned the session into a clear, defensible recommendation.
Did well
Directs the model precisely and checks it where it counts, and AI work becomes shipped, defensible output.
Where they'd grow
Diligence: extend source-level verification to lower-stakes drafts, not just the headline claim.
VibeWorks is decision-support, not a verdict. Every assessment keeps a human in the loop: it informs your hiring team; it never auto-rejects. Scores are a developmental read, meant to inform a decision, not gate one.
Get a sample reportThe candidate experience
The only assessment candidates thank you for.
Most assessments extract value from candidates: hours of unpaid work for a rejection email. Yours gives it back. Every candidate finishes with a free VibeWorks account: their full fluency profile, a personalized read on their strengths and gaps across all five dimensions, and coaching to close them. Every candidate leaves your process better at the thing you assessed them on, including the ones you don't hire. They'll remember who did that for them.
A profile that's theirs to keep
Their fluency read, portable, not a score that dies in your ATS.
Coaching on their weakest dimension
Concrete next steps, not a form rejection.
A better story for your employer brand
An assessment that respects candidates' time and gives something back.
Stop guessing whether a candidate can actually work with AI.
We'll walk you through the assessment, a sample report, and how it drops into your process.
Human-in-the-loop, never auto-reject Developmental, not a verdict Privacy by design
FAQ
Questions hiring teams ask.
How is this different from a quiz about AI?
A quiz measures what someone knows about AI. This is a work simulation: the candidate does a realistic slice of the role with an AI assistant, and we read how they actually worked: what they directed, caught, verified, and decided.
Can a candidate just use AI to pass it?
That's the point. AI is part of the simulation by design: the assessment reads how they use it. Handing the whole task to the model and trusting its output is exactly what scores low.
What are the five dimensions, and how are they scored?
Description, Delegation, Discernment, Diligence, and Delivery: each scored 0–10 by a live model with a one-line rationale, plus an overall band from Novice to Native. Every candidate is read against the same rubric.
Does it auto-reject anyone?
No. VibeWorks is decision-support only: the report informs your hiring team, and a human always makes the call.
Where does it fit in our process, and does it work with our ATS?
Two placements work best: as a short screen at application, or as the take-home replacement later in the funnel. Results flow to your ATS.
What does the candidate see afterward?
Their full report: band, dimension scores, strengths, and growth areas, plus a free VibeWorks account with coaching to keep improving.
What about candidate data and privacy?
The assessment captures the work session only: prompts, checks, and decisions inside the scenario. Candidates see exactly what's recorded while they work, and their report belongs to them.
Can we measure the fluency of the team we already have?
Yes: the same five dimensions extend from hiring to the workforce you already have. See how VibeWorks measures your current team.