You can't take notes and listen at the same time

Before this, I spent two months in tech recruitment, on a desk that only did C++ roles.

If you've worked in recruitment then you already know the job is sourcing. Finding people nobody else has found, getting them on the phone, keeping the pipeline full. Everything else exists to serve that. However, a good amount of every recruiter's week always goes to write-ups, to tidying up answers in a document, drafting emails, getting a candidate into a shape a client can read.

You can't summarise what you don't understand

Screening a C++ engineer when you've never written C++ is a strange job. You ask what they do day to day and they tell you about lock-free queues, or which standard they're stuck on because the client hasn't upgraded since 2017. You get about a second to decide whether that mattered.

If you've been in the job long enough you can compress on the fly, hear a sentence, pick out the keywords, keep the clause that counts. But if you aren't super familiar with the industry, you either type it out word for word and stop listening, or you stay in the conversation and hope you'll still have it in an hour.

Most people type. So for twenty to thirty minutes, while someone is telling you the things you needed to know and relay to the client accurately, you're half-present and looking at a form.

Your time is the most valuable thing

We polish our qualification sheets straight after the call, while everything is still fresh in memory. But that time was never a break and it was never spare. It was ten or fifteen minutes you could have spent on the pipeline.

When the calls are back to back there is no time between. One half-finished qualification sheet, then two, then three, and now you're reconstructing a conversation from ninety minutes ago out of half a page of rough notes, which takes longer than writing it would have, and comes out worse.

It's also easy to forget the specific parts, the tiny details which could make or break a deal. You remember them telling you they want more ownership. But the exact terms of their non-compete, the exact figure of their salary expectation, or their right to work status is hard to keep 100% accurate in your head whilst you're on different calls all day.

You focus on what matters, let AI handle the rest

None of this is a shorthand problem. One person can't run a conversation and produce a document from it at once, because both use the same part of your head.

What makes it fixable is that the document never changes. Notice period. Package, and what they're expecting. Why they're looking. Right to work. What else they're in process for. It's been the same form for years. So the answers we need arrive during the call, pretty much in the same way every call, but they always get typed out roughly by someone focused on two or three things at once.

That is the part of the day that should not belong to a person.

Notes that are finished when the call is

Sorinai runs on your own computer and listens to the call you're on, so the fields of your screening sheet fill themselves in while you're still talking. Every answer keeps the quote it came from, so you can check what the person actually said instead of trusting a summary. The questions you haven't covered yet stay on screen, which is the part I'd have wanted most — you know the feeling of realising two hours later that you forgot to check their right to work status after having seemingly found the perfect candidate.

Nothing joins the call, so it works where recruitment actually happens: a dialler, WhatsApp, FaceTime, a browser tab. Any call your computer carries. And when you hang up, it writes the answers into the Word or PDF your desk already sends, formatting untouched.

The write-up is finished when the call is. What you do with the hour that gives you back is the part worth being good at.