Groundwork
Hiring starts before the candidate.
Most hiring goes wrong before a candidate is ever in the room. The job description is a wish list nobody agreed on, the interview loop is assembled from whoever was free, and the scoring happens in a debrief where the most confident voice wins. Groundwork inverts that order: it makes the organisation do its own work first, and only then lets it assess anyone.
Built to the constraints from a consultation with an I/O psychologist, which is why it is opinionated about things that look like friction — you cannot skip the definition step, and you cannot change the rubric after you have seen an answer.
What it does
- Intake — a structured interview with the hiring company, establishing what the role genuinely requires and what evidence would settle it, before any instrument exists.
- Instrument design — the questions are generated from that definition, not chosen from a bank, so every question traces back to a requirement somebody signed off on.
- A rubric that is fixed before the answers — scoring criteria are locked at design time. This is the whole point, and it is the part every hiring process quietly skips.
- An evidence file — what was asked, why it was asked, what was answered, and how it was scored, in a form a person can audit afterwards.
Why it is not embedded on this page
Groundwork is a system an organisation adopts, not a tool you call once. It holds real role definitions and real candidate evidence, and a session is a sequence of steps across a whole hiring loop rather than a single request and response. That does not fit in a panel, and it does not fit the SkillEra token model — so it runs on its own site, with its own sign-in.
Access
Invite only while it is in prototype. If you want to try it — whether you are hiring, or you work in assessment and want to argue with its assumptions — ask for access and tell us a little about what you would put through it. The prototype is seeded with a full worked scenario, so there is something to look at from the first screen.