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TwinCafe lets job seekers send an AI twin to first-round interviews

TwinCafe lets job seekers send an AI twin to first-round interviews

3 Key Points

  1. What happened

    Eightfold AI CEO Ashutosh Garg launched TwinCafe, where candidates upload a résumé, LinkedIn profile and work samples to create a digital twin, then share it via link.

  2. Why it matters

    Garg says recruiters could pre-screen twins to verify résumé details and surface candidates a standard résumé would have rejected, freeing the real interview for human judgment.

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Garg's pitch rests on a problem he states plainly: recruiters spend much of an initial screening interview verifying what is already on a résumé. TwinCafe, which he recently launched, is meant to move that verification earlier by letting candidates upload a résumé, LinkedIn profile, work samples and other documents into a digital version of themselves. The output is a shareable link Garg envisions candidates placing at the top of their résumé or LinkedIn profile.

The stated motivation is not only convenience. Garg says a résumé is "so limiting," and argues a digital twin can fill in the blanks on parts of a background that tend to raise questions, such as career breaks or moves between industries. That framing puts the tool's value on the awkward-to-explain parts of a work history rather than on the credentials that already fit neatly on paper.

Garg takes the idea further than a pre-interview briefing. He envisions a recruiter sending their own agent to talk to the job seeker's digital twin, with no recruiter present for the first screen at all. In his telling, that would surface people the standard résumé would have rejected—and allow far more people to be interviewed. "Why limit a screening to five candidates?" he says. "Why not interview everyone?"

FAQ
What is TwinCafe and what does it do?
It is a platform from Eightfold AI where job seekers upload a résumé, LinkedIn profile, work samples and other documents to create a digital version of themselves. It generates a shareable link that candidates can place at the top of a résumé or LinkedIn profile.
Why does Garg think a résumé is not enough?
He says a résumé is "so limiting" and that a digital twin can fill in the blanks on a candidate's background, such as career breaks or moves between industries. Recruiters currently spend much of an initial screening verifying résumé information, he says.
How could this change a screening interview?
A recruiter could question the twin beforehand about previous roles, skills or work-history gaps, then use time with the actual candidate for questions requiring human judgment. Garg says the real interview "could be a lot more focused on the human aspect versus the fact-check aspect."

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