Pre-screening · For hiring teams

The first interview,
on call.

An AI that screens every qualified applicant within an hour and emails you a ranked shortlist by morning.

Book an intro call

From $299/month · 10 screens free, no card.

54 minmedian time-to-screen
3.2×more applicants reached
78%candidate completion rate
reffem.app · pre-screen in progress On call
JK
Jordan Kim
Applied · Backend Engineer III
Screen 14 of 47
5+ yrs back-end
Authorized to work · US
Comp range · $180–220K
On-call comfort
Reffem · 03:14Walk me through how you'd debug a service that's healthy on metrics but timing out for users.
Jordan · 03:28First thing I'd check is whether the timeouts are clustered — same region, same client —
Jordan · 03:41— because aggregate p99 hides a lot. Last quarter we had a Cloudflare worker eating 8s on a single edge.
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The problem with phone screens

You lose your best applicants on day three.

Great candidates have three other offers. The screen you'd schedule for next week, they took somewhere else on Tuesday.

A typical recruiter has fourteen open roles, sixty applicants per role, and four hours a day for screens. Most applicants never get a call.

Reffem Screen calls everyone qualified within the hour, in their language, and shows you who actually fits before your hiring manager opens their inbox.

Typical funnel · 100 applicants

Applied
Inbound + sourced
100
Recruiter reviewed
Within 5 days
62
Phone screen scheduled
Email tag, calendar holds
28
Phone screen completed
Median 9 days after applying
19
Still interested by then
Already accepted elsewhere
11
Source: Reffem study, n=42 mid-market TA teamsQ1 2026
How it works

Three steps. First two finish before lunch.

01
Setup · 4 minutes

Define the role

Paste the JD, mark must-haves vs nice-to-haves, set a comp band. Reffem builds a screen in your voice and sends you the script to approve. Edit any question; lock it; done.

02
Continuous · 24/7

Reffem calls applicants

The moment a qualified applicant lands in your ATS, Reffem texts to schedule and calls within the hour. In their language. Adaptive follow-ups when an answer is vague. Voicemail handled with a callback window.

03
Ranked · By 9am

You read the shortlist

A scored, themed table with verbatim quotes and click-to-play audio. Advance to onsite with one click — Reffem auto-books with your hiring manager's calendar.

A sample shortlist

Forty-seven applicants in. Four worth your time.

Ranked against the rubric you approved. Every score backed by a quote and a timestamp.

Backend Engineer III · San Francisco

Req 24-118 · 47 applicants · Updated 8:42am
Candidate
JKJordan Kim
Technical fit
9.2
Comp aligned
Yes · within band
Highlight
“p99 hides a lot…”
Rec
Advance
›
Candidate
SPSam Patel
Technical fit
8.7
Comp aligned
Yes · within band
Highlight
“shipped a Kafka rewrite…”
Rec
Advance
›
Candidate
RMRachel Moss
Technical fit
7.9
Comp aligned
$15K above
Highlight
“I'd want to know about on-call rotation”
Rec
Review
›
Candidate
DADevin Aoki
Technical fit
7.4
Comp aligned
Yes · within band
Highlight
“Less senior than résumé read”
Rec
Review
›
Candidate
+43 below threshold
Technical fit
avg 5.6
Comp aligned
 
Highlight
 
Rec
Pass
 
Listen in

Two minutes from a real screen. No script.

One sharper follow-up, and you learn whether the candidate can actually do the job. Click any line to jump.

Jordan K. · Backend Eng III
Pre-screen 14 · 22:08 total
08:1822:08
Starting at 08:18 · The follow-up that changed the score
07:42
Reffem
You mentioned you "led the migration." What part of leading was hardest?
07:58
Jordan
Honestly the technical work was the easy part. The hard part was getting two teams to agree on what done meant.
08:18
ReffemPlaying
Where did you land? And what would you do differently next time?
08:34
Jordan
We landed on a shared SLO doc. Not a deck — a doc with numbers in it. Next time I'd write that on day one, not month two.
09:02
Reffem
Did the SLOs hold?
Pricing

Pay per screen. Not per seat.

Volume-based, not per seat. Every plan includes recordings, transcripts, 32 languages, and ATS sync.

Free trial
Try it on one role
$0
10 screens free
  • 10 screens · 1 role
  • Up to 20 minutes / call
  • English only
  • Reffem watermark
Starter
A single recruiter
$299
Per month
  • 50 screens / month
  • 32 languages
  • Branded shortlists
  • Email + chat support
Recommended
Professional
Most TA teams pick this
$899
Per month
  • 200 screens / month
  • Custom rubrics by role
  • ATS sync (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)
  • Auto-schedule onsite
  • 10 user seats · SSO
Enterprise
High-volume & data residency
Custom
Annual
  • Unlimited screens
  • EU / US / private hosting
  • Custom voice & brand
  • SAML SSO + audit log + DPA
  • Dedicated CSM
Common questions

What teams ask before they sign up.

If you don't see your question, write us at team@reffem.com. We answer same-day.

Will candidates actually do a phone screen with an AI?−
Seventy-eight percent finish the call. Reffem identifies itself in the first six seconds, says it's there to make sure they get a fair look, and offers to call back at a better time. Candidates appreciate getting a screen the same day they applied — and they tell us so in the post-call survey.
How do you avoid bias in scoring?+
Can hiring managers customize what Reffem asks?+
Does this replace our recruiters?+
Which ATSes do you sync with?+
Book an intro call

See it work, on a real role.

Twenty-five minutes with a founder. Bring a role you're hiring for and we'll walk through a live screen — the call experience, the scored shortlist, and how it slots into your ATS.

Last word

Talk to every applicant. Even the good ones.

The good ones move fastest. Reffem Screen makes sure you reach them first.