Get a ranked, explainable shortlist in minutes. You set the criteria, and every score shows the evidence. Built for small teams drowning in applications.
Free to try. No card, no setup.
Backend leadership: “led a 6-person backend team, migrated to Postgres”
Python depth: “4 yrs Python, shipped two REST APIs in production”
Backend exposure: “strong frontend, limited backend exposure”
Every score links to a quote from the resume.
Dozens for every role.
Hard to tell who is real.
Sifting by hand, again.
You set the criteria. We rank every applicant and show the evidence behind each score. You make the call.
The whole thing runs in your browser. Try it before you ever make an account.
We read it and suggest the criteria that matter for your role (experience, skills, culture fit). Edit the rubric until it reflects what you actually need.
Paste text or upload PDFs. We score every candidate against your rubric and pull a direct quote from their resume as evidence for each criterion.
See who rises to the top and why. Read the evidence, adjust scores if you disagree, export to CSV. Make your call in minutes, not evenings.
The ranking assistant that does the first pass, so you can focus on the people who rise to the top.
Edit the rubric until it reflects what you actually need. Experience, skills, culture signals: you decide what matters and how much weight it carries.
See the exact quote from the resume that justifies each rating. No black-box algorithm, no mystery. You can explain every decision.
Screen a pile of resumes in minutes instead of hours. Every candidate is judged against the same rubric, so no one is overlooked.
You make the final call on every hire. You get a ranked shortlist with quoted evidence so your decision is explainable, consistent, and fair.
No hiring software required. Works the way you already work, just faster and fairer.
Once the ranking is done, SiftFirst helps you run what comes next: dig into the pile, interview well, and decide as a team.
Chat with the whole pile in plain English: "who has Kubernetes and has led a team?" Search by meaning, not just keywords, and jump straight to the quoted evidence.
Get tailored questions and a scorecard graded on the same rubric. Autofill it from a pasted interview transcript; you always make the advance-or-pass call.
Every screening is kept with a tamper-evident audit trail. Come back to re-weight the rubric, add late applicants, compare finalists, or export a CSV.
Invite a colleague by email to review the shortlist and add their own interview scores, while you keep control of edits. Billed by candidate, never per seat.
Your shortlist is ranked and defensible. You see the evidence behind every score, make the call fast and fair, and move on to the work that matters.
Build my shortlistThe short answers. For pricing details, see the pricing page.
Yes. Drop a whole pile at once: PDFs, DOCX files, a ZIP export, or a CSV, mixed freely. SiftFirst reads every file and scores each candidate against your criteria; a 25-resume pile screens in about a minute. You can drop up to 1,000 resumes in a single screening; plans meter the candidates you score per month, from 50 on the free plan up to 5,000 on Business, and the no-signup demo covers up to 15.
No. It runs in the browser: paste a job description, drop the applications, get the shortlist. Nothing to set up and no ATS to migrate. There's an optional Chrome extension for one-click access, but it is never required.
Never. SiftFirst ranks and explains; every score carries a quoted line from the resume so you can verify it yourself. You make every decision.
Yes, the rubric is yours. SiftFirst suggests criteria from your job description as a starting point; you can edit them, add your own, and set the weights before anything is scored. After scoring, drag the weights live and watch the ranking reorder instantly, without re-running the screen.
You don't have to trust them, you can check them. Every score on every criterion carries a quoted line from the resume as evidence, so verifying a call takes seconds. Treat SiftFirst as a ranking assistant: it puts the strongest candidates on top and shows its work, and you make the judgment.
SiftFirst is built for defensible screening: criteria are set by a human, every score carries evidence, a human makes every decision, and a tamper-evident audit log records each step. We also publish free plain-English guides on AI-hiring rules at siftfirst.com/compliance. This is not legal advice, but it is a process you can explain.
Yes. Applications are used only to produce your screening, never to train AI models. You can delete any screening, or your whole account and everything in it, at any time.
Yes. Share any saved screening with a teammate by email; they can review the shortlist and add their own interview scores, while you keep control of edits and deletes. Because you are billed by candidates screened, not per seat, extra reviewers cost nothing.
Free for 50 candidates a month, no card required. Paid plans start at $39/month for 500 candidates and are metered by candidates screened, not seats.
No signup, no credit card. Paste your job description and resumes, see the ranked shortlist with evidence, and export to CSV. It's free to try.