Conversational AI video interviews that screen every candidate

What is a conversational AI video interview?

Most “video interview” tools are one-way: the candidate reads a question off the screen, records an answer, and hopes someone watches it. A conversational AI video interview works like a real first-round call. The candidate joins from a phone or laptop, an AI interviewer greets them, asks a question, listens to the full answer, and then asks a follow-up based on what they actually said.

That follow-up is the difference. When a candidate says “I handled forty store orders a day”, a good recruiter asks how they prioritised them. Vanira’s interviewer does the same, so you get depth in the first round instead of rehearsed one-liners.

Why one-way video and phone screens break at volume

High-volume hiring teams screen hundreds of applicants for the same role. Phone screens eat recruiter hours and only happen during office time. One-way video saves time but candidates find it awkward, completion drops, and reviewers still have to watch every recording.

• Recruiter time

  Fifteen-minute phone screens add up to days of work for a single requisition.

• Scheduling

  Shift workers and students apply in the evening, when nobody is available to call them.

• Inconsistency

  Different interviewers ask different questions and score them differently.

• Shallow answers

  Recorded answers can’t be probed, so you learn little beyond the script.

What Vanira’s AI interviewer does

You give it the role. It runs the first round end to end and hands your team a ranked, evidence-backed shortlist.

• Builds the interview from your job description

  Questions map to the competencies you care about — communication, customer handling, role knowledge, availability.

• Asks adaptive follow-ups

  It listens to each answer and digs deeper where it matters, like a trained recruiter.

• Speaks the candidate’s language

  Interviews run in 99+ languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi, and handle code-switching naturally.

• Scores with evidence

  Every competency gets a score with the candidate’s own words quoted as evidence, so reviewers can check the reasoning in seconds.

• Keeps the full record

  Transcript, recording and structured scores are saved for every interview and can be sent to your ATS or sheet through webhooks and the API.

• Runs around the clock

  Candidates interview the moment they apply, from any device, at any hour.

Fair, consistent and always reviewed by a human

Every candidate for a role gets the same core questions and is scored against the same rubric, which removes a lot of the variation that creeps into manual screening. The AI does not make hiring decisions. It produces a recommendation and the evidence behind it; your recruiters decide who moves forward, and they can replay any interview to check.

How it works

1. 01

   Share the role

   Paste the job description and pick the competencies to score.

2. 02

   Send the link

   Candidates get an interview link by email, SMS or WhatsApp right after they apply.

3. 03

   Candidates interview anytime

   A 10–20 minute live conversation with follow-up questions, on phone or laptop.

4. 04

   Review the shortlist

   Scores, evidence quotes and recordings land with your team, ranked and ready.

How it compares

Who uses it

• Staffing agencies

  Screen every applicant across many client roles without adding recruiters.

• Retail and frontline hiring

  Interview store staff, delivery partners and field roles in their own language.

• BPO and customer support

  Assess spoken communication and customer handling in a realistic conversation.

• Campus and graduate hiring

  Run thousands of first-round interviews in a week instead of a season.

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