Hiring, based on real work.
Put your candidates on real work,then hire on the evidence.
Chesky finds your best matches across your whole talent pool and new applicants, then proves who can do the work, live.
Sarah Mitchell
Fullstack Developer
The problem
Keep the app online when sign-ups triple next month.
On the whiteboard, sketch a system that stays fast as users surge, then point to the one piece most likely to break first.
A live case study. Switch to Pipeline or Decisions to explore the product.
Start with the results and work backwards to the people. Most people start with resumes.
We took the principle. And the name.
THE COST OF GETTING IT WRONG
A wrong hire costs far more than the salary.
Structured, evidence-based evaluation eliminates these failure modes at the source.
the annual salary a bad hire can cost you.
It scales with the role, seniority, and market.
of hires that fail, fail on attitude, not skill.
Across 20,000 new hires they tracked.
candidate profiles will be fake by 2028.
Fake AI resumes and cheated interviews, everywhere.
And the cost adds up
- Onboarding and training go to waste
- You source and hire all over again
- Your employer brand takes the hit
- The team that stays feels it
Connects to the ATS your team already runs
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- Workday
- Ashby
- iCIMS
- Oracle
- Workable
- BambooHR
Done for you
Connect your ATS. We send back a ranked shortlist.
We vet your whole pool, put the finalists on real work, and send back a ranked shortlist.
We read your entire talent pool
We rank them against the role
Finalists solve real work, live
We send your top-ranked shortlist
We do the work. You make the final call. What a top-tier headhunter does in weeks, down to a single hour of interviews, at a fraction of the cost.
The case study
See the case study on a real role.
Solved as real work.
Each candidate works one real task from the role, live, with screen, camera, and voice recorded. You see how they actually think.
Olivia Reyes
Marketing Manager
The problem
A rival undercut your price. Win signups back.
You have two weeks and a small budget. Plan the move, and defend it, live.
Every candidate in one view.
Sessions land in your pipeline as they finish, each with a stage, a read on the work, and a status.
In progress
7
Waiting on you
2
Typical time to decide
42h
Sarah MitchellReady to decideStrongFullstack Developer
Diego AlvarezReady to decideSolidBackend Engineer
Priya NairReviewedStrongFrontend Developer
Tara NilssonWorking on itFullstack DeveloperDecide on the data.
Chesky turns the recorded work into proof a CV, a LinkedIn, or a GitHub never shows, and hands your team the data to decide on.
Olivia Reyes
7 yrs · growth marketing
Skills
read from the real work
Strength
Focused a scattered budget on the one message and channel that would move signups.
Watch
Leaned on instinct for the creative. Worth testing two versions.
Recommended. Olivia, the sharpest plan of the group.
AdvanceThe operating principle
The best operators stopped guessing. They watch the work.
I do not believe in interviews. Some people interview well and are not good at all. Others interview poorly and are excellent. So we actually have them do the job.
Ali GhodsiCo-founder and CEO, DatabricksSourceIt is easy to fake a belief in an interview. So judge people by what they do. Check the references, and run real tests during the process.
What You Do Is What You Are
Ben HorowitzCo-founder, a16zSourceI would rather interview fifty people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
Jeff BezosFounder, AmazonSourceChesky turns this principle into a repeatable process: a real problem, solved in real time, recorded in full, and decided on evidence rather than impression.
Why we built it
“The hardest part of hiring isn't finding candidates. It's having confidence in the decision. Chesky helps talent teams move from intuition to evidence.”
Stefano Angelero
Co-founder & COO, Chesky
Proof, not promises.
How well each one predicts real job performance
Watch them do real work (Chesky)
Strongest
The person solves a real task from the role, live. This is the best way to tell how they will do on the job.
A normal interview
Moderate
Just chatting is easy to fake and easy to read wrong. It is still what most companies use.
Reading the resume
Weak
A weak hint at best. AI-written resumes have made it even weaker.
Years of experience
Weakest
Barely tied to how well someone does the work. Yet people lean on it all the time.
Here is what actually predicts how well someone does the job. Watching them do real work wins: twice as good as an interview, four times better than a resume.
Sackett et al., 2022 · Schmidt & Hunter, 1998
Built to pass your security review.
Your data is kept apart
Each company's data sits in its own walled-off space. One account can never see another.
We only read your hiring tool
We read from your hiring tool. We write results back only when you say so. We never delete anything. Ever.
Locked-down network
We use a firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and rate limits on every door in. Our inner systems are never open to the internet.
Built around GDPR
Hosted in the US by default. You can choose to keep your data in the EU. A DPA comes with every Enterprise plan. More to come.
Your data stays yours
We never use candidate work to train AI models. Everything runs on Chesky's own walled-off servers.
Encrypted end to end
AES-256 while stored. TLS 1.3 while moving. Every candidate record and result is encrypted.
Enterprise customers get a full DPA, answers to your security questions, and their own compliance documents.
Recordings of each candidate's screen, camera, and voice are kept in the region you pick. US by default, EU on request. The outside services we use are listed on the Trust Center.
Visit the Trust CenterROI Calculator
What does a bad hire cost your team?
what one bad senior hire costs
SHRM 2024
46%
of new hires go wrong within 18 months
Leadership IQ
2×
better at predicting than interviews
Schmidt & Hunter
44 days
how long it takes to fill a role
SHRM 2024
Tell us about your hiring
How we work this out
A bad hire costs about 3× their yearly salary · Robert Half 2025. Chesky stops about 65% of them, based on our early data.
What bad hires cost you a year
2.4 bad hires × $241K each
With Chesky at $1,500/mo
No strings · 14-day free trial
FAQ
Every question, answered.
Ready when you are
Hire on proof. Work backwards from results.
It gets a little better with every hire.
Works with the hiring tools you already use. Nothing to move, nothing to learn.