TECHNICAL HIRING, WITH NOTHING LOST

Great hires.
In plain sight.

See the person. See the work. Make the call.
Your entire hiring process, from first application to final offer.

Create a workspace Explore the process

Alex MorganBackend Engineer

EXAMPLE

REPOSITORY CHALLENGE02 / 03

payments/retry.ts

8f31c2a

01export async function retry(task) {

02 for (const delay of backoff) {

03 try { return await task(); }

04 catch { await sleep(delay); }

05 }

06}

8 checks passed · Exact commit preserved

hiretea / candidate recordContext stays attached

Real code. An exact commit.

Alex submitted commit 8f31c2a
8 checks passed · backend-challenge
Maya moved Alex to Interview
Challenge invite delivered
Candidate reply linked to timeline
Priya scored Written response 4 / 5
Team interview scheduled · Thu 14:00
Offer v2 sent · Backend Engineer
Pipeline v3 published
Audit event appended · stage.move

01 — The product

One record, from public role to final decision.

Every application lands on a connected candidate record and never leaves it. The work, the conversations, and the judgment all stay attached — that is the whole product.

See the person

Answers, history, and context arrive together — not as attachments scattered across inboxes.

Show the process

Candidates read your stages, descriptions, and effort before they share a single byte.

See the work

Candidates push real Git and submit the exact commit they want reviewed. No zips, no screenshots.

Make the call

Reviewers score against rubrics, the team aligns on evidence, and a human records the outcome.

Keep the proof

Stage history, submissions, messages, and decisions persist as an append-only audit trail.

AI advises. It never hires.

Fit review and code review surface evidence and suggested next steps beside the application. They cannot move a stage, send an offer, or reject a candidate — that authority stays with your team, on your own model keys.

02 — One hiring loop

One application. Every signal. The whole decision.

The workflow stays continuous from the public role to the final outcome. Every step adds evidence without losing the context that came before it.

01 — JOB

Publish the role

Define the role, screening questions, and a versioned hiring pipeline before applications arrive.

Public job · Pipeline v3

02 — PROCESS

Show the process

Candidates see public stages, descriptions, effort, and challenge context before sharing their information.

6 public stages · ~3h effort

03 — APPLY

Receive the application

No account is required. Answers, role context, and consent are captured in an immutable submission snapshot.

Alex Morgan · Submitted

04 — REVIEW

Review the evidence

The hiring team owns stage movement while an optional fit review surfaces supporting evidence beside the application.

Human decision · AI advisory

05 — ASSESS

Assess real capability

Use a structured assessment, a private repository challenge, or both—pinned to the version the candidate received.

Assessment · Repository challenge

06 — COMMIT

Collect exact work

Candidates work through Git and submit an exact commit SHA. Evaluators record bounded evidence; reviewers select the final submission.

8f31c2a · 8 checks passed

07 — INTERVIEW

Continue the conversation

Communication, interview revisions, invitations, attendance, and outcomes stay attached to the same application.

Systems interview · Scheduled

08 — DECISION

Make and record the call

Send a versioned offer, record the outcome, and preserve the stage and audit history behind the decision.

Offer draft · Audit retained

Application journey

Backend Engineer · Alex Morgan

01 / 08

Job

Publish the role

Define the role, screening questions, and a versioned hiring pipeline before applications arrive.

Public job · Pipeline v3

03 — Command center

Every signal, one screen.

The application, the assessment evidence, the conversation, the interviews, and the private notes — five views of the same record, never five tools.

Application 0248

Alex Morgan

Repository challenge

Owner: Maya Chen
Role: Backend Engineer
Application: In progress
Pipeline: 4 of 7 stages

hiretea application 0248 overview

04 — Technical assessment

Real work. Exact commit. Honest signal.

Structured assessments and repository challenges live in the same pipeline. Pick the format that matches the signal you need — the evidence lands on the same record either way.

Structured assessment

Versioned questions, time limits, passing scores, code execution, and explicit human scoring for written answers.

Multiple choice · Auto-scored

Inline code · Visible and hidden checks

Written response · Reviewer-scored

Repository challenge

The repository is the interface. Every candidate gets a private copy, works with normal Git, and submits the commit they want reviewed.

candidate@localhost — git

✓

8f31c2a pinned for review

01Template repository
02Isolated candidate copy
03Clone and work locally
04Push commits
05Submit exact SHA
06Evaluation evidence
07Human review

05 — AI & automation

AI advises. You decide.

Automation drafts, scores, and suggests — then waits. Try the approval queue: every button below is a decision only a human can make.

Approval queue · 1 pending Advisory — needs a human

Fit review proposes: advance Alex to Interview

Confidence medium — the system design answer needs a human read before this means anything.

5 yrs backend · payments domainStrong match
Retry semantics in submitted commitVerified in 8f31c2a
System design answerNeeds human read

Advisory only

AI proposes, evidence attached. It cannot move a stage or send a decision on its own — the approval queue holds every proposal until an operator rules.

Your model keys

Bring your own provider. Your keys, your usage bill, your data boundary — Hiretea orchestrates, it never resells your hiring signal.

Every run is logged

Each AI run records its inputs, model, and output on the audit trail. When a decision is questioned, the reasoning is replayable.

06 — Continuity

Two views. One truth.

Candidates see a clear, respectful process. Your team sees everything behind it. Both read from the same record, so the story never splits.

Candidate sees

Six stages, with effort, before applying
“Your challenge is ready” — one email
Push code, submit a commit, done
“Maya is reviewing your work”
Interview invite with calendar file
Offer v2 — accept or decline

Team sees

Pipeline v3 — published, versioned, owned
Private repo provisioned · invite delivered
8f31c2a pinned · 8 checks · diff ready
Reviewer assigned · rubric 4 criteria
Scheduled · attendance tracked
Versioned offer · outcome recorded

Immutable by design. Every application is captured as a snapshot — answers, role context, consent, and the pipeline version it entered. Later edits append new revisions; they never rewrite what the candidate submitted.

07 — Trust

Hiring you can defend.

Every claim a candidate record makes is backed by evidence your team can replay — who did what, when, and on which version.

0
connected record: Per candidate, from first application to final offer.; 0
pipeline stages: Visible to candidates before they share anything.; 0%
operator actions: Appended to the audit trail, nothing silent.; 0
accounts required: To submit an application. Zero friction.

Audit trail

Every operator action — stage moves, reviews, offers — lands on an append-only trail with actor, timestamp, and reason.

Retention & privacy queue

Retention windows age data out automatically, and a review queue holds anything that needs a human before it goes.

Workspace isolation

Roles, candidates, repositories, and secrets are scoped per workspace. Boundaries are enforced, not documented.

08 — Billing

Priced by your team, not your candidates.

Seats set the plan. The two things that genuinely scale with hiring — evaluation runs and stored work — come included and are metered past it. No trial period: a workspace is subscribed from the day it is created.

Starter

$49per workspace / month

One hiring loop, running end to end.

Create a workspace

Team seats: 3
Runner minutes: 500 / mo
Workspace storage: 5 GB

Unlimited candidates, applications, and repositories
Job postings and a public application board
Pipeline stages, interviews, and offers
Repository challenges with per-candidate private repos
AI fit review and agent code review, on your own model keys
Listing on the Hiretea job board
Hosted candidate email, or bring your own SMTP and IMAP
Audit trail and retention controls

GrowthMost popular

$199per workspace / month

Git-native take-homes as the default screen.

Create a workspace

Team seats: 10
Runner minutes: 2,500 / mo
Workspace storage: 25 GB

Everything in Starter
Automated challenge evaluation with runner pipelines
MCP server for agent access
Organization secrets, variables, and runners
Packages and release downloads

Scale

$599per workspace / month

Hiring as infrastructure, at the scale you need.

Create a workspace

Team seats: Unlimited
Runner minutes: 10,000 / mo
Workspace storage: 100 GB

Everything in Growth
Unlimited team seats
10,000 / mo runner minutes
100 GB workspace storage

Feature comparison across the Starter, Growth, and Scale plans
Compare every plan	Starter$49/ mo	Growth$199/ mo	Scale$599/ mo
Plan limits
Team seats	3	10	Unlimited
Runner minutes$0.01 per minute beyond the plan, up to a limit you set	500 / mo	2,500 / mo	10,000 / mo
Workspace storage$0.25 per GB / month beyond the plan, up to a limit you set	5 GB	25 GB	100 GB
Candidates and applications	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Job postings	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Repositories	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Hiring pipeline
Public job board and application form	Included	Included	Included
Versioned hiring pipelinesA published pipeline keeps its shape for the applications already on it	Included	Included	Included
Application snapshots and stage history	Included	Included	Included
Candidate records, notes, and resume parsing	Included	Included	Included
Interviews and offers	Included	Included	Included
Bulk pipeline operations	Included	Included	Included
Listing on the Hiretea job boardCross-workspace board on the base domain	Included	Included	Included
Assessments
Structured assessments with automatic scoring	Included	Included	Included
Inline code questions in a sandboxed runner	Included	Included	Included
Repository challengesA private repository per candidate, cloned and pushed with real Git	Included	Included	Included
Automated challenge evaluationRunner pipelines with normalized checks and scores	Not included	Included	Included
Structured reviewer rubrics	Included	Included	Included
AI and automation
AI fit review on applicationsAdvisory only; it never moves an application on its own	Included	Included	Included
Agent code review on submissions	Not included	Included	Included
Bring your own model providerYour keys, your provider, your usage bill	Included	Included	Included
MCP server for agent access	Not included	Included	Included
Scoped API tokens	Included	Included	Included
Agent approval policiesProposals wait for an operator decision before they apply	Included	Included	Included
Communication
Bring your own SMTP and IMAPMail leaves from your server, and replies sync back into the application timeline	Included	Included	Included
Hosted email sendingHiretea sends on your behalf — no mail server to run, configure, or keep deliverable	Included	Included	Included
Recruiting email templates	Included	Included	Included
Application acknowledgement emails	Included	Included	Included
Interview invitations with calendar files	Included	Included	Included
Candidate notification preferences	Included	Included	Included
Git and infrastructure
Bundled Gitea code host	Included	Included	Included
Repository browsing, history, and pull requests	Included	Included	Included
Git over HTTPS with a scoped CLI token	Included	Included	Included
Organization secrets, variables, and runners	Not included	Included	Included
Packages and release downloads	Not included	Included	Included
Governance
Audit trail across every operator action	Included	Included	Included
Retention windows and privacy review queue	Included	Included	Included
Role and workspace isolation	Included	Included	Included

Runner minutes

$0.01 / minute beyond the plan

Compute for automated evaluation: repository challenge pipelines and inline code assessment runs. Measured while a container is actually executing, not while a candidate is working.

Workspace storage

$0.25 / GB / month beyond the plan

Candidate repositories, resumes, submissions, and message attachments. Measured as average stored bytes across the month, so a retention sweep or a purge lowers the next bill.

Never metered

Candidates
Applications
Job postings
Repositories
Interviews
Offers

Self-hosted licenseComing soon

Run the whole stack on infrastructure you control.

Hiretea, PostgreSQL, and Gitea deployed together, so candidate repositories and company code never leave your environment. The runners and the disks are yours, so nothing is metered. The license is not open yet — pricing, terms, and the deployment documentation land together when it is.

Docker Compose deployment
Bundled Gitea code host
Git over SSH and HTTPS
No seat, runner, or storage metering

Billed per workspace, monthly, cancel any time. Usage accrues visibly in the workspace billing page, and a plan change takes effect on the next period without touching the hiring already in flight. Canceling keeps your data readable through the end of the period you paid for.

09 — Questions

Asked by every team before they switch.

The short answers. The long ones are in the product — create a workspace and read a candidate record end to end.

No. Candidates apply through a public link, answer screening questions, and receive repository challenges by email. Every interaction is captured on their record without a signup step standing between them and your role.

From first application to final decision

Hire in the open.

Publish the role. Show the process. Collect real work. Decide with evidence. One record carries it all — start yours today.

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NO TRIAL CLOCK · CANCEL ANY TIME · YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS

Great hires.In plain sight.

payments/retry.ts

One record, from public role to final decision.

See the person

Show the process

See the work

Make the call

Keep the proof

AI advises. It never hires.

One application. Every signal. The whole decision.

Publish the role

Show the process

Receive the application

Review the evidence

Assess real capability

Collect exact work

Continue the conversation

Make and record the call

Publish the role

Every signal, one screen.

Alex Morgan

Real work. Exact commit. Honest signal.

Structured assessment

Repository challenge

AI advises. You decide.

Fit review proposes: advance Alex to Interview

Advisory only

Your model keys

Every run is logged

Two views. One truth.

Hiring you can defend.

Audit trail

Retention & privacy queue

Workspace isolation

Priced by your team, not your candidates.

Runner minutes

Workspace storage

Run the whole stack on infrastructure you control.

Asked by every team before they switch.

Hire in the open.

Great hires.
In plain sight.