How it works

Invite to verdict, unattended.

NAX Ai Interviewer replaces the entire first round. Here's exactly what happens between sending an invite and reading a scored result.

Guide video

NAX HQ Guide — how the AI interview works

A short slide-based explainer put together by our team: how a NAX Ai Interviewer session is set up, what the candidate goes through, and what lands on your desk afterwards.

  • The flow from invite to verdict
  • What candidates see and hear
  • The scored report you receive

An illustrated guide video — slides and narration only, no actors and no filmed footage.

An illustrated guide video — slides and narration only, no actors and no filmed footage.
  1. 01
    Send a single-use invite

    HR generates an invite link per candidate and role. Links are one-time and expire on your schedule — no duplicate attempts, no shared back-doors.

    • Per-role question bank
    • Expiry you control
    • Bulk generation from a CSV
  2. 02
    Candidate registers

    Details, resume upload and the role being applied for. Everything is captured before a single second of interview time is spent.

    • Resume parsed to the profile
    • Consent captured up-front
    • Reference code issued
  3. 03
    Device check

    Camera, microphone, speaker, lighting and network are tested and scored before recording starts. Bad setups get fixed, not discovered later.

    • Live mic level meter
    • Lighting quality read
    • Bandwidth probe
  4. 04
    Live AI conversation

    The AI interviewer asks role-specific questions out loud and listens. It follows up on vague answers, switches between BM and English, and gives 30 seconds of think time per question.

    • Turn-by-turn language detection
    • Contextual follow-ups
    • Live tasks for technical roles
  5. 05
    Monitored and recorded

    One continuous take from the first question to the last, while anti-cheat watches for tab switches, extra monitors, copy-paste, multiple faces and long silence.

    • Five-strike auto-end
    • Capture guard blurs on screenshot
    • Resumable private upload
  6. 06
    Instant scored verdict

    Answers are scored on relevance, clarity and depth. HR gets a Pass / Review / Fail decision with transcript, recording and the full integrity log attached.

    • Score breakdown per question
    • Searchable transcript
    • Reference-code lookup

What HR receives

The full recording

One take, compressed and stored privately. Jump straight to any question with transcript timestamps.

A scored verdict

Pass / Review / Fail with a per-question breakdown on relevance, clarity and depth.

The integrity log

Every anti-cheat event with a timestamp, so a borderline result can be judged in context.

The candidate profile

Resume, contact details and reference code, all attached to the same record.

Minute by minute

What the candidate actually lives through.

A NAX interview runs about 18 minutes end to end. Here is the whole thing, in order, from the applicant's side of the screen — no jargon, just what they see and hear.

  1. 0:00
    The link opens

    No app to install and no account to create. The invite opens in whatever browser the candidate already has, on a phone or a laptop, and the page tells them in plain language how long it will take and what will be recorded.

  2. 1:30
    They fill in who they are

    Name, contact, the role they applied for, and their resume. It takes about ninety seconds. The moment they submit it, they get a reference code they can quote later if they want to ask about their application.

  3. 3:00
    The room gets checked

    Camera, microphone, speaker, lighting and connection are all tested while they watch. If the room is too dark or the mic is picking up a fan, they are told before recording starts — not after they have given a good answer nobody can hear.

  4. 4:00
    The first question is spoken

    The AI greets them by name in the language they chose, explains the rules once, and asks the opening question out loud. There is a short think-time countdown, then the microphone opens.

  5. 5:00
    It becomes a conversation

    They answer in their own words. If an answer is vague, the AI asks the obvious follow-up a good interviewer would ask. If they ramble, it waits. If they freeze, it offers to repeat the question. Nothing about it feels like filling in a form.

  6. 15:00
    The last answer lands

    Technical roles get a short live task instead of a final question. Then the AI thanks them, tells them what happens next and when to expect an answer, and stops the recording in one clean take.

  7. 15:30
    Your team takes over

    Within seconds the interview appears in your review queue with a score, a transcript, the recording and the integrity log. That is the first moment a human is needed at all.

What it deliberately does not do

Plenty of hiring tools overpromise. Here is where we draw the line on purpose, so nobody is surprised three months in.

It does not make the hire

NAX never sends a rejection on its own and never picks your new employee. It sorts a pile of applicants into Pass, Review and Fail so your team spends its afternoon on the top of the pile instead of the whole thing.

It does not judge a face

There is no scoring of appearance, accent, expression or 'confidence'. The camera exists so you can see the same person answered the whole way through, and nothing else.

It does not fail people for one bad moment

A single tab switch is a note in the log, not a verdict. Only a pattern of behaviour ends a session early, and even then the recording is kept so a human can look and disagree.

It does not replace your final round

The deep conversation about salary, culture and the messy specifics of the job stays with your team. NAX just makes sure that conversation only happens with people worth the hour.

It does not hoard your data

Recordings sit in a private bucket with a retention window you set. When the window closes, they are gone — and you can delete a candidate's record on request before that.

What your team actually has to do

Three things. That is the whole job on your side.

01
Tell us the roles

You describe what a good answer looks like for each role you hire for. We build the question bank and the rubric around it and show it to you before anything goes live.

02
Send the links

One link per candidate, generated one at a time or in bulk from a spreadsheet. You can send them from your own inbox or your existing ATS — nothing has to be replaced.

03
Review the shortlist

Open the queue once a day. Watch the interviews the score flagged as worth watching, ignore the rest, and book the ones you like. Most teams spend under twenty minutes on it.

Rollout

Live in one week, not one quarter.

NAX handles the configuration. Your team only reviews the shortlist.

  1. 01
    Scope the role

    We take your job description and turn it into a question bank and scoring rubric.

  2. 02
    Brand the portal

    Your logo, your language, your consent copy — hosted on a NAX subdomain or yours.

  3. 03
    Send invites

    Bulk upload or API. Every candidate gets a single-use link with a reference code.

  4. 04
    Review results

    Scored verdicts land in the HR dashboard as sessions finish. Shortlist and export.

FAQ

Everything hiring teams ask us before a pilot — setup, accuracy, fairness, privacy and cost.

01How long does an interview take?+

Between 15 and 30 minutes depending on the role and how many live tasks it includes. Candidates get up to 30 seconds of think time per question, so the pace never feels rushed, and they can start whenever they are ready instead of waiting for a slot.

02Can we use our own questions and scoring?+

Yes. Each role gets its own question bank, live tasks and scoring rubric. NAX configures them with you during onboarding, and you can revise a question or reweight a competency at any time without disturbing candidates already in flight.

03How accurate is the scoring?+

Scores are anchored to model answers written for your role, not to a generic personality model. In pilots the clear passes and clear fails match the recruiter's own judgement closely; borderline candidates are deliberately marked Review rather than forced into a decision, which is why a human always reads the shortlist.

04Does a human still make the final call?+

Always. NAX produces a score, a summary and the evidence behind it — the hiring decision stays with your team. Most clients auto-reject only the clearly unqualified and review everything above that line.

05How does the anti-cheat work?+

Tab switches, window blur, secondary displays, copy-paste, multiple faces on camera and prolonged silence are logged with timestamps as they happen. Five strikes ends the interview automatically and the full log is attached to the result so a borderline case can be judged in context.

06What stops someone else sitting the interview?+

Invite links are single-use and expire on your schedule, the camera runs for the whole session, multiple faces are flagged, and the recording is one continuous take. Optional mobile or WhatsApp verification adds a second identity check before the session starts.

07Which languages are supported?+

The interview can be conducted in any of 125+ languages and regional accents, including a natural rojak mix of Bahasa Malaysia and English. Your plan determines how many languages are active at once, and the interviewer replies in whichever one the candidate is using.

08Is it fair to candidates who are not confident in English?+

That is exactly why language is detected per turn and scoring is applied to substance rather than fluency. A candidate can answer in their strongest language and still be compared fairly against everyone else in the same role.

09What happens if the internet drops mid-answer?+

The session pauses, buffers locally and resumes on the exact question. Bitrate adapts to the connection in real time, and the upload is resumable — a dropped line costs a few seconds, not the whole interview.

10Do candidates need to install anything?+

No. The invite opens in a normal browser on desktop or mobile. A device check tests camera, microphone, speaker, lighting and bandwidth before recording begins, so problems are fixed up front rather than discovered in the transcript.

11Where is the data stored and who can see it?+

Recordings, transcripts and logs live in a private, access-controlled bucket with a retention period you set. Consent is captured before the interview starts, access is limited to your reviewers, and records can be purged on request.

12How do we integrate it with our existing ATS or process?+

Invites can be generated in bulk from a CSV or through an API, and finished results carry a reference code so they can be matched back to your records. Optional add-ons email results to a distribution list or push them to your own endpoint.

13How fast can we go live, and what does it cost?+

Most clients are live within a week: we turn your job description into a question bank, brand the portal, and send the first invites. Pricing is a one-time setup fee plus a monthly plan based on candidate volume and the number of active languages, with optional add-ons billed separately.

Put your first round on autopilot.

Tell us the roles you hire for and we'll configure a pilot for your team.