Why we built it
AI can draft a job ad or summarise an application. Recruiters still carry the context, chase the next step and rebuild the evidence before every decision.
They schedule interviews, remind hiring managers, update candidates and pull information together from different tools. Hiring managers enter the process with different levels of context. By decision time, the evidence behind each candidate is scattered across systems, notes and conversations.
The tools made individual tasks faster. They did not carry the work between them.
Alva's agent does.
"We started Alva because hiring should help teams see the person behind every application. We spent years building the science to make that possible. Now we're bringing the same standard to the whole hiring process. Recruiters can spend less time running it and more time understanding candidates and making the decisions that shape their teams."
Malcolm Burenstam Linder, Co-founder and CEO, Alva Labs
What the agent carries
Alva Agentic Hiring System gives the agent the context to carry work across the process, from role brief to offer.
- Define the role first. The agent turns the brief into clear criteria, an assessment plan and a job ad for your team to review before the first candidate arrives.
- Keep every candidate moving. It handles scheduling, reminders and candidate updates, bringing the next action to the right person at the right time.
- Apply the same bar. Role criteria stay connected to assessments and structured interviews, so every candidate is reviewed against the same evidence-based standard.
- Bring the evidence together. The live Role Fit Scorecard brings role criteria, assessment results and structured interview evidence into one place. Your team sees what informed the result and makes the final call.
Recruiters spend less time running the process and more time with candidates and hiring managers. Candidates get clearer communication. Hiring managers get the context and evidence they need without asking TA to rebuild it before every decision.
The agent does the work. Your team decides.
Hiring is too consequential to hand over to a black box.
Every action in Alva stays traceable. Your team can review what the agent did, inspect the evidence behind its work and approve consequential actions. The agent never makes an automated hiring decision.
That division is deliberate: the agent carries the repeatable work. People keep the judgement, the relationships, the final decision and the responsibility.
Built on nine years of hiring science
The agent runs on the same foundation Alva has built since 2017: DNV-certified assessments and decades of psychometric research into what predicts performance.
Alva's assessment models are calibrated on data from 1.5 million candidates. More than 650 organisations already use that science to bring consistent evidence into hiring decisions.
The Alva Agentic Hiring System connects that evidence to the whole process. Role criteria, assessments and interviews stay attached to the candidate record, so the decision does not have to be rebuilt from fragments.
Built for consequential work
Alva is certified according to ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management, ISO/IEC 27001 for information security and ISO 10667-2 for assessment delivery. Our psychometric assessments are independently certified by DNV.
Customer data is stored and processed within the EU and EEA. It is not used to train language models.
The result is an agent your team can use without giving up visibility or control: every action remains traceable, sensitive data stays protected and every hiring decision stays with a person.
What this means for existing assessment customers
Alva's assessments are not going anywhere. Psychometrics remains a separate product with its own roadmap, and we will keep investing in it. Existing customers can continue using their assessments, reports and ATS as they do today.
If you want to explore how the agent can support your current setup, contact your CSM. Nothing changes until your team chooses the next step.
Since 2017, our science has made hiring decisions more repeatable. Now the Alva agent makes the work around them repeatable too.
See it in action
Join us on Friday 16 October for The Launch of Alva Agentic Hiring System. We'll take a real role from brief to decision and show what the agent carries, where your team reviews the work and where human judgement takes over.
