Before the phone screen
Hear your candidates think
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Building your preview
One moment…
- Reading the job description
- Finding the company
- Extracting your branding
- Understanding the role
- Drafting a challenge question
- Setting up your preview
Some roles just
take up all your time
Tons of requirements. Subjective fit. Stakeholders who can’t agree on what “good” looks like. You’ll cycle through hundreds before they find someone they actually want.
A time suck you can’t control. The only way through is to talk to every candidate yourself, and when you finally hand one off, you’re not even confident the hiring manager will say yes.
Keep doing the screens yourself, or let McCoy IQ ask every candidate a real question they’d face on the job. You watch how they think on your time, and only call the ones worth calling.
Bots apply. Auto-apply tools submit on candidates’ behalf. AI writes the answers. Your recruiters burn hours before they meet someone worth calling.
McCoy IQ amplifies real candidates.
A short video after the resume gives every strong candidate a chance to be heard, so the ones your recruiters actually want to talk to come through.
Save time
before the interview
Give candidates a real problem they’d face on the job, or your favorite open-ended interview question. Watch how they think before you spend an hour on a call.
The real signal
The qualities that matter most
A resume won’t show you any of this. One to five minutes of someone talking through a real problem will. And you can watch it before you spend an hour on a call.
As heard on
Candidates are saying:
Finally. I'm sick of tweaking my resume for every job I apply to. I'm sick of being ignored. You're telling me I can just record and explain how I do it, and you'll contact me if it's a fit?
I told her I knew we'd dropped the ball, and I wasn't there to make excuses. I just wanted to understand what she actually needed.
Turns out the real issue wasn't the deliverable, it was that she felt like we weren't listening.
So we rebuilt the timeline together. Her input, her priorities. And within six weeks she'd signed an expansion.
I reached out directly, skipped the account manager and called the VP myself.
I told her I knew we'd dropped the ball, and I wasn't there to make excuses.
On the candidate side
An experience that makes candidates actually want to finish
Low-pressure. AI helps the candidate prepare. Retakes are unlimited. They own the response and submit when satisfied. Most finish in 5 to 10 minutes.
And no, the app isn’t a hurdle. Tap the link, install, and the challenge opens straight away.
Fixes the resume gap before the phone screen
A short response to an open-ended question shows what resumes alone can’t.
A different data point, before the interview.
A candidate’s own voice on a real question tells you what the resume can’t.
How it works
Draft the prompt.
Start with a job description and a few guided questions. McCoy IQ helps write the challenge, key highlights, and video script.
Record the intro.
Record yourself with the built-in teleprompter, or generate an AI avatar to introduce your challenge on your behalf.
Publish the page.
McCoy IQ delivers a challenge page in your company's brand, ready to share with candidates.
Review responses.
Candidates submit short video responses.* Everything lands in one place to scan and compare.
*Written-response accommodation available.
Already have an ATS? Works alongside it.
No replacement, no integration. Just a URL you send from the screening email you already send. Want a native integration for yours? Tell us which one.
Try it with your roles first, without ATS integration.
Most recruiters want to see McCoy IQ work with real candidates before committing to an ATS integration. So it runs alongside your ATS from day one. Send candidates the challenge, review responses in McCoy IQ, and move the ones you like forward.
Ready for a native integration? Tell us which ATS.
Four ways teams use McCoy IQ
First screen
Easy apply makes it too easy. Add the challenge to your application so only motivated candidates finish.
Second screen
Send it to everyone who applies, or just the ones worth a second look. Either way, start with how they think.
Pipeline before the role
Let interested candidates respond to a standing challenge before you’re hiring. When a role opens, you have warm options already in hand.
Brand engagement
Be known for what you ask. A public challenge tells people what you care about and gives them more to do than tap follow.
Simple, transparent pricing
Pick the plan that matches how many roles you’re hiring for, how many teammates will run them, and whether you’re hiring for your own company or for clients.
Try it before you buy it
30 days free on a real role. No credit card, no ATS integration, no commitment.
Start freeSee all plans
Free Trial
Create one role and collect responses
No credit card required.
Solo
Hiring managers, in-house recruiters, or fractional recruiters
Billed monthly
Team
In-house teams with multiple reviewers
Billed monthly
Agency
Recruiting firms and external recruiters hiring across multiple clients
Billed monthly
* No integration is required to use McCoy IQ. The ATS integration add-on is optional, for Team customers who want responses to flow directly into their ATS.
Need more than 10 seats or 25 roles? See Enterprise below.
Enterprise
For large organizations with special requirements
FAQS
You've likely got a few questions
About McCoy IQ
McCoy IQ isn’t that. Candidates take real time to think, prepare a script, use a teleprompter, and re-record as many times as they want before they share. You’re not measuring whether they crack under pressure. You’re seeing how they choose to communicate a story from their own experience.
The video is recorded directly through the candidate’s phone camera using our mobile app. You might reasonably wonder about privacy. Here’s the difference: the candidate owns the content they create in McCoy IQ. They can edit it or delete it after the fact, on their own terms. No other product in this space works that way.
Bias & AI
On the candidate side: McCoy AI probes each candidate with a series of questions about their experience, and then gives them a chance to refine their answer to make it their own, in their own voice, from their own experience. How they choose to answer, what they focus on, and how they connect it to what they’ve done is itself a signal about who they are.
On your side: The response you get back is only as good as the challenge you set. The more you tell McCoy IQ about what you’re looking for in the role, the better we can help you craft a challenge that draws out real substance, like actual examples from the candidate’s experience. We’ve put a lot of effort into making sure what you see back is a valuable data point.
We built it this way on purpose. Automated scoring of candidate videos raises real legal and bias questions (there’s active litigation right now against tools that do it), and we think the recruiter needs to stay in the driver’s seat. McCoy IQ is a data point, not a decision.
On the McCoy IQ side, you see the candidate as they chose to present themselves in their response. How you use McCoy IQ beyond that is up to you.
McCoy IQ gives you a different signal to weigh: how the candidate thinks and communicates about a real problem, in their own voice. When you’re deciding who’s worth a call, you’re not working from the resume alone.
Use cases
Using McCoy IQ
Getting set up
If it helps to send something over, we can put together a one-pager tailored to your team so you don’t have to translate it yourself. And we’re happy to meet with your boss, your team, or whoever else needs to weigh in and answer questions directly. Email us at contact@mccoy.io.