How the work gets scored.
Every candidate is measured against a rubric written for the role — scored criterion by criterion by an AI that shows its evidence, then a person makes the call. No trivia, no black box, no automatic verdicts.
A rubric for the role
Each scenario carries a weighted list of criteria written for that role — not a fixed, one-size trivia bank.
Every score cites the transcript
An AI judge scores each criterion 0–100 with a written reason pointing back to what the candidate actually did.
A human makes the call
Scores are an input, not a verdict. A named reviewer marks Pass, Maybe, or No — Can You Build? never decides on its own.
Written for the role, weighted on purpose.
When you author a campaign, the scenario comes with a set of criteria and weights that match what the job actually needs. The candidate sees them before the timer starts — the bar is explicit, not a secret. Weights always sum to 100%.
Example — a "Deep debug" scenario for a backend hire:
Did they find the actual problem at each layer?
Did they ask smart, targeted questions of the AI?
Are the proposed fixes correct and production-ready?
How directly did they get there — signal over thrash?
A number you can trace back to a sentence.
Each criterion is scored 0–100 with a short reason. The overall is a weighted aggregate across criteria and stages — and it reports its coverage, so a partial run never masquerades as a complete one. Every line links to the exact moment in the transcript it came from.
Traced the timeout to the connection pool, not the query — confirmed with a targeted follow-up.
The call is a person's. Always.
A named reviewer reads the report and the transcript, then records a decision. The score informs it; it never makes it. Can You Build? never accepts, rejects, ranks, or shortlists a candidate on its own — and the rubric, scores, reasons, decision and notes export as one auditable trail.
Reviewer decisions — the candidate is never told a score, and no verdict is automatic.
See the framework in motion.
Walk through one candidate, from the challenge to the scored report.