Agent-allowed, understanding-verified
Other hiring platforms either ban AI or watch you use it. hunr lets you use any agent — then verifies you understood the work.
Hiring at scale is broken because the only mass-scale screener most teams have is résumé filtering — and a résumé is a weak, unfair proxy for who can actually do the job. The usual fix, competitive-coding screens, selects for puzzle-solving, not for the ability to ship real production code.
Then agents changed what matters. When an AI can write the loop for you, the durable, high-value skill is knowing what to build and how to structure it — and being able to own the result. So we built a screener around that: ship real code against a realistic, role-specific challenge (use any agent you like), pass a deterministic gateway, get your code graded against a rubric, and then defend your reasoning in an unaided, adaptive conversation.
We deliberately don't try to detect AI. The signal isn't “did a human type every line.” It's “can this person ship, reason about, and own real work in our stack — with or without an agent.” That's the only question worth answering, and it's the one we answer.
We don't fight reality
Capable coding agents are now part of how engineering works. Detecting or banning them is an arms race that's already lost — cheating attempts doubled in 2025 and vendors admit they can't catch it.
Mechanics down, judgment up
Typing speed and syntax recall are commoditized. Scope, trade-offs, design and ownership are not. We weight the work agents can't do for you.
The gap is the signal
The take-home is open; the defense is unaided. The distance between a polished submission and a real understanding of it is exactly what we measure.
Fair by design
GitHub can corroborate but never condemn. Scores are banded, not falsely precise. Candidates see their full, evidence-linked report. Trust is the product.
Build the team you can actually trust.
See the thesis in action — book a demo or take a challenge yourself.