74%
of resumes now contain AI-generated content
Resume Genius, 2025
Live — real-time intelligence for recruiting calls
Paladin puts that intelligence behind you on live calls: a brief before you dial, the follow-up worth asking, a flag when the story on the phone drifts from the resume on file. The AI thinks at full power. You do what it never could: actually be there.
An Ashford & Briggs product
Live transcript
“…so I led that Kafka migration end to end.”
+12:31“Who owned the cutover weekend? Walk me through the go/no-go call.”
+12:38“Well, it was a team effort, but I
+12:44Realtime advisor · for the recruiter · the candidate never hears this
Resume says “contributed to” the migration. LinkedIn dates put him on the team four months.
Who owned the cutover weekend, and how the go/no-go call was made.
Kafka: a distributed event-streaming platform. “Cutover” is the switch to the new system.
EXHIBIT A — THE CANDIDATE
Resume inflators. Live interview copilots. Teleprompters for phone screens. Candidate-side AI is a product category now. The numbers, as filed:
74%
of resumes now contain AI-generated content
Resume Genius, 2025
65%
of hiring managers have caught candidates using deceptive AI in interviews
industry survey data
$17,000
average cost of a bad hire who fails inside 90 days
SHRM
Every other tool works before or after the interview. Deception happens live — and until now, the recruiter on the other end had a legal pad.
Six things happening on your screen while you're on the phone doing what you're great at
01
Before the phone rings, Paladin builds the case file: LinkedIn parsed and enriched, resume cross-referenced against the job description, gaps pre-flagged, must-ask questions generated. You walk in knowing more than they think you know.
02
The call streams to your dashboard in real time — speakers separated, sub-second latency. Every word, on the record, as it's said.
03
Follow-up questions generated from what the candidate just said, cross-referenced against their file. The question worth asking, on screen while there's still time to ask it.
04
Technical terms, certifications, and industry jargon defined on your screen the moment they come up. Zero pretending.
05
Every claim checked against the resume, the LinkedIn profile, and the job description — live. When the story drifts from the file, you see it while you can still probe it.
06
Seconds after hang-up: narrative summary, strengths, concerns, red flags, action items — filed to the candidate's history automatically. No note-taking. No memory gaps.
⚑ Paladin advises. You decide what to ask. Nothing talks to the candidate but you.
EXHIBIT B — ONE CALL, START TO FINISH
No desk phone, no softphone, no phone system to install. Your cell is the handset; your screen is the intelligence.
Drop in the req, the resume, and the LinkedIn URL. Paladin does the homework.
Profile summary, experience highlights, pre-flagged gaps, and a structured call script — generated before you dial.
Paladin dials your own cellphone, then bridges the candidate — who sees a Paladin-issued business number, never your personal cell.
Live transcript, follow-up questions, instant definitions, trust flags — while you talk, without breaking your flow.
Summary, assessment, and action items filed automatically. A full intelligence-weighted report is one click away.
Running now
Paladin runs the phone line itself, so the intelligence rides on the call rather than beside it. Recruiters are dialing through it now, and every call is transcribed, advised and filed as it happens.
The line
Carrier-connected and STIR/SHAKEN compliant. Paladin hears each side of the call on its own channel because it runs the phone system itself.
The transcript
Streaming transcription with the speakers split at the audio layer, not guessed afterwards. Every word on the record as it's said.
The phone
Recruiters answer on the phone already in their pocket. Candidates see a Paladin-issued business number, never a personal cell.
The file
Summary, assessment and action items written to the candidate's record seconds after the call ends, on every call, without anyone typing.
FIELD NOTES — FROM THE FOUNDER
Short notes from building Paladin and running real calls through it. No screenshots of things we haven't built.
2026-09-11
Most AI startups are a wrapper around a model, or now an agent harness. Paladin's core tech is the phone line. You can't wrap that.
Read the note →2026-09-11
Four senior recruiters have seen it. The read from one who ran a national firm: a new recruiter runs calls like a senior one within weeks, and your seniors double their output.
Read the note →2026-09-11
Worst case, 15 seconds from the candidate saying something to the recruiter seeing a prompt about it. Usually much less. That's the budget we design against.
Read the note →Paladin is an Ashford & Briggs product, born from years of real-world staffing experience.
We built Paladin because we lived the problem. As recruiters, we were drowning in research, notes, and follow-ups — and walking into calls where the candidate had more technology on their side than we did.
So we built something that's actually on the call with you. Not an AI that talks to candidates. Not a recording that gets scored after the moment to ask the follow-up is gone. A counter-intelligence layer that works while the conversation is happening — because that's when it matters.
Whether you're an independent recruiter or part of a staffing agency, Paladin fits the way you already work: your phone, your voice, your relationships. Just better informed.
Intelligence in real time, not after
No phone system to install
AI voices talking to your candidates
From hang-up to filed summary
The demo is the product: we put a live call on the screen and you watch the file build itself. Thirty minutes, real phone lines, nothing staged.