AI review (screen candidates with AI)

What it is

AI review lets you describe what you want in a candidate, and Binary's AI grades every candidate against that criteria - showing a Yes / No / Maybe for each criterion right in the candidates table. It runs in the background and streams results in live as candidates are graded.

Start a review

1. On the form's Responses page, click AI Review in the toolbar to open the AI review panel.
2. In the "Add more review criteria…" box, type what you want to check - a skill, requirement, or location (e.g. "React experience", "based in SF"). Each one you add becomes a criterion.
3. Choose a scope - New grades only candidates who haven't been reviewed, All grades everyone - and a mode. Fast review reads answers, attachments, and video answers. Deep review does all that and also looks up public links such as LinkedIn, which costs more usage per candidate. Submit the criterion to add it.
4. Binary grades candidates against your criteria in the background and streams the results into the table. Each criterion shows an "N new" count of candidates still to grade.

Reading the results

• Each criterion is its own column, with a verdict per candidate: Yes (green ✓), No (red ✗), or Maybe (orange ?).
• The AI Review column shows an overall score across the criteria (e.g. 3/8). The same per-criterion verdicts appear in the AI Review section of a candidate's detail view.
• Filter by a criterion's verdict (e.g. show only "Yes") to shortlist quickly - see Search and filter candidates.
• From the panel you can duplicate or delete any criterion.

Keep new candidates graded

Auto review new candidates is on by default for every new form, on every plan. New candidates are graded against your existing criteria as they apply - no need to re-run. To stop it on a form, untick Auto review new candidates at the top of the panel.

Notes & limits

• AI review draws from the workspace's usage credits - about $0.005 per candidate, plus $0.02 per LinkedIn lookup on a Deep review. If usage runs out the review pauses until it resets or you buy extra usage - see Usage and credits.
• A form runs one review at a time; starting a new one replaces a paused/older run.
• Changing criteria mid-run doesn't affect the in-flight run - it applies to the next one.
• This is different from the chat-style Ask AI assistant (which looks up and explains data) - see What the AI assistant can do.
• Anyone with access to the form can run AI review on it.