For recruiting: hire on evidence, not on who remembered the interview best
Interview debriefs are memory contests. The panellist who speaks first anchors the room, and the strongest signal in the interview — the specific answer to the specific question — has already blurred into an impression. Donna keeps the transcript with real speaker names and reports what the candidate actually said, so a debrief can start from quotes. Candidate data being personal data, running the whole pipeline on infrastructure you control is not a nice-to-have here.
What this job loses without a real record
- Two interviewers give opposite reads of the same answer and neither can quote it.
- The candidate’s question about team structure was the most revealing moment and nobody wrote it down.
- Legal asks where interview recordings are stored, and the honest answer involves a vendor you have never audited.
The sections that earn their keep here
Commitments made to the candidate — timelines, next steps, compensation ranges discussed — quoted and timestamped, so the offer stage does not contradict the screen.
The question the candidate deflected, and the topic the panel never raised. Both change a hiring decision more than a rating scale does.
How the panel behaved: who interrupted, who led, whether the candidate got equal airtime. Interview process quality, measured from the room rather than from a survey.
The lens that fits
The Boardroom — Power dynamics, subtext, and what nobody said — the classic Donna. Meetings Donna classifies as corporate — leadership reviews, board sessions, cross-team decision meetings, and anything that does not fit another lens. Donna selects it from the meeting itself, so nobody has to remember to switch modes.
The meetings behind it
Questions, answered straight
Is it appropriate to record candidate interviews?
Only with disclosure and consent, and the rules vary by jurisdiction — that is your policy call, not a software setting. What Donna guarantees is that she is visible: she joins as a named participant the host admits, and there is no covert mode.
Where do candidate recordings live?
On the server you run, with transcripts and reports in your own database, under whatever retention policy you implement. No notetaker vendor holds a copy of a candidate’s interview.
Can we compare candidates side by side?
Ask Donna answers natural-language questions across the whole meeting archive with quotes and citations, so “what did each candidate say about handling on-call?” is a question you can ask the archive rather than five different panellists.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.