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Startups6 min read · August 27, 2026

Free AI Hiring Employee for Startups: Screening and Interviews

Three months free of an AI hiring employee — CV screening, structured AI voice interviews and scored summaries so a two-person team hires like a ten-person one.

Free AI Hiring Employee for Startups: Screening and Interviews
Quick answer

Approved startups get the AI Hiring Employee Starter plan free for three months on the MAZ Assist Startups program. It parses CVs against your role requirements, runs structured AI voice interviews by email invitation, and returns scored summaries with transcripts — so founders only meet the shortlist. After three months you continue on the same Starter plan at standard pricing.

Why screening breaks first

A single job post can pull 200 CVs. Founders skim the first 30 and reject the rest by accident. The AI Hiring Employee reads every one against the requirements you set, then interviews the ones that pass.

What runs automatically

  1. CV parsing and matching against your role template.
  2. Email invitation to a structured AI voice interview.
  3. Scored summary with transcript and highlighted answers.
  4. Shortlist handed to you for the human conversation.

Also included: 1,000 decision-maker contacts

Every approved startup also gets 1,000 international decision-maker contacts with full targeting — country, city, industry, company size, seniority and department — each with a verified LinkedIn profile.

Your AI Employee converts the people who already reach your site. This covers the people who haven't found you yet. Instead of scrolling LinkedIn profile by profile and firing off mass connection requests that read as spam (and get accounts restricted), you build a list that matches your ideal customer and reach the right person directly.

Use it for relevant, personalised outreach only — fair use and applicable data protection rules apply.

Where it fits a startup

It is most valuable when you're hiring sales, support or operations roles at volume, and least valuable for a single senior technical hire where the founder wants every conversation anyway.

Who can apply

  • A physically present, legally registered company in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE or India (US startups are prioritised).
  • A company-domain email address — Gmail, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted.
  • Fewer than 25 employees and not already a paying MAZ Assist customer.
  • A live website or product page, so your AI Employee has somewhere to work.

Applications are reviewed and answered within 15 days: either an approval with activation steps, or a note on what's still missing. Apply to the MAZ Assist Startups program.

Frequently asked questions

What is included in the free AI hiring employee?
The Starter plan: CV parsing, structured AI voice interviews, scored candidate summaries and a hosted careers page — free for three months for approved startups.
Do candidates need to install anything?
No. Candidates receive an email invitation and complete the interview in their browser.
Does a human still decide?
Always. The AI screens and scores; hiring decisions stay with your team.
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See every playbook, case study and comparison written for Startups on the MAZ Assist blog.

Want to see this in action on your site?

Spin up a MAZ Assist workspace, drop the embed snippet on your homepage, and you have a multilingual voice AI in minutes.

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