Hiring should reward ability, not appearances.
BitStage pairs a short role rehearsal with a recruiter who watches it. The AI transcribes and organises the evidence. A BitStage recruiter reviews it and signs off the shortlist. AI assists, a recruiter decides, and you hire.
Why BitStage exists
Hiring runs on resumes because resumes are cheap to read. Employers spend thousands on job boards and get back hundreds of documents that all read the same. Candidates stop replying because nobody ever got back to them. And the best hire is often not the one with the best-written page.
So we built the other thing. A candidate rehearses a real moment from the role, on camera, for the scenario’s configured duration. A BitStage recruiter watches the rehearsals and signs off the shortlist. AI assists. A recruiter decides.
A barista in a rush, a rep facing a hard objection, a nurse de-escalating a room. Rehearse the moment, and the moment is the evidence. No gotchas, no black boxes, no silence.
From our founder
Tim Barnes
Founder and CEO, BitStage
I've spent thirty years in the service economy, and I've been burned by frontline hiring more times than I can count - the no-shows, the great interview that quit in ninety days, the recruiter invoice for a hire that didn't last.
I built BitStage so operators could stop guessing and watch people do the job first. We score real rehearsals on evidence you can replay, and every shortlist is recruiter-verified so a real person signs off before you see it.
That is the standard, and my name is on it.
Built by
Tim built BitStage after watching too many good hospitality candidates get filtered out by keyword matching and a slow phone screen.
What we stand for
Three rules we do not trade away.
Evidence over resumes
Every shortlisted candidate comes with a recording, a transcript and a recruiter-verified BitScore. You see who can do the job, not who wrote the better page.
Explainable scoring
No black-box scoring. Every BitScore ships with the breakdown behind it, and a BitStage recruiter reviews the rehearsal and signs off before anything reaches you.
Built for frontline hiring
Rehearsals are written for the moments that decide the role - the rush, the difficult guest, the policy grey zone.
See what a rehearsal actually shows.
A short recording of someone doing the job, and a recruiter’s name on the shortlist that follows.
Candidates never pay.