TORONTO, ON, Sept 10, 2025 – Today’s talent teams are often asked to do more with less. Move faster, hire better, and meet growing expectations for fairness and accountability. What was once a competitive edge is now a baseline requirement: making confident, efficient, and inclusive hiring decisions.
At Knockri, we’ve reimagined hiring and promotions as a more efficient and automated process. By combining I-O Psychology with machine learning, our platform helps recruiters save time, identify top tier talent, and provide candidates a more equitable, streamlined journey from application to offer. In addition to providing a trust score that indicates the likelihood of cheating, Knockri assessments are structured as interview-style responses with no single ‘right’ answer which inherently reduces the possibility of gaming the system.
Now, in collaboration with IBM, we’re taking the next step: embedding generative AI directly into the hiring workflow designed to make the entire process not just smarter but simpler.
Turning Complex Talent Workflows into Assistant-Driven Experiences
IBM watsonx Orchestrate, IBM’s generative AI and automation solution that helps create, deploy and manage AI assistants and agents, is helping us deliver intelligent automation to talent teams and hiring managers, empowering them to move more efficiently and confidently through recruitment cycles. We have now embedded watsonx Orchestrate assistant as a chat-based experience in Knockri’s recruiter dashboard, enabling hiring teams to trigger and manage recruiting workflows directly through natural language. Designed to automate tasks, reduce complexity, and save time, watsonx Orchestrate will help us make everyday HR workflows more accessible and scalable.
This integration is designed to help recruiters and hiring managers:
Create tailored, predictive interviews in seconds by simply describing the role or required skills, enabling the assistant to design high-quality Knockri asynchronous interviews.
Automatically retrieve and invite candidates — the assistant can go directly into a customer’s ATS, find applicants waiting for review, or work from an uploaded file, and send them structured assessments.
Pinpoint top talent by filtering applicants through Knockri’s skills-based scoring and surfacing those with the potential to succeed within the given parameters. Use natural language prompts, like “show me the top 90% of candidates,” to instantly analyze and act on evaluation results.
Verify authenticity by equipping hiring managers with candidate response summaries, interview guidance and fairness indicators – enabling them to confirm insights in person during live interviews.
Unlock hidden potential by searching past interview data and existing talent pools to discover candidates who may have been previously overlooked. All of this happens through simple natural language prompts, enabling the AI assistant to handle multiple steps, from designing interviews to sourcing candidates in your ATS to delivering a ready-to-review shortlist, so hiring teams can act faster and make smarter decisions with minimal effort.
We’re not stopping here. Soon, the assistant will do even more to deliver a truly end-to-end hiring experience, with plans to take hiring teams from job creation through candidate evaluation, all within a single flow.
Some key features we are working on:
Publish targeted job descriptions for specific roles across platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed.
Schedule and manage in-person or virtual interviews with best-matched talent.
Track the entire workflow — from posting to offer — via one intuitive AI assistant
A Shared Commitment to Scalable, Responsible AI
We believe that our collaboration with IBM will help strengthen Knockri’s mission to help organizations hire using technology that helps mitigate bias, provide greater transparency, and support better talent outcomes — all without adding complexity. By embedding generative AI directly into existing talent workflows, we empower hiring teams to work faster, cut manual effort, and surface structured, bias-mitigated recommendations in the tools they already use.
Together, we’re enabling more confident, inclusive, and data-driven decisions about people. “Assistant-driven workflows will define the next era of talent acquisition, but only if they’re built with a thoughtful approach rooted in proven science and fairness,” said Faisal Ahmed, CTO and Co-Founder of Knockri. “That’s why we’re uniquely positioned to lead this transformation for HR — pairing our deep expertise in equitable hiring with IBM’s powerful automation to create AI assistants that deliver real impact, not just buzzwords.”
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