Mindely is the first GenAI interviewer for business case and role-play interviews. We scale non-scalable interviews.

Since traditional AI interviews rely on a pre-determined question-and-answer format, they are inadequate to conduct complex business case and role-play interviews.

Mindely sets a new norm by mastering complex reasoning situations, real-time adaptive answers and human-like, unscripted interactions:
1. For knowledge workers (Consultants, financial analysts…), Mindely conducts robust business case interviews, testing e.g., candidates’ problem solving skills, structured approach and creativity. This cuts hundreds of hours of interviewing handled by senior managers, that represent an opportunity cost of up to ~$500/hour and a risk of inconsistent assessments due to interviewer fatigue.
2. For customer-facing roles (CSR, Account manager, Salesperson…), Mindely conducts role-play interviews, testing e.g., candidates’ real-time scenario handling, quick thinking skills and customer relation skills. This ensures new hires have what it takes to perform on the job.

Mindely deploys smart, hyper-customizable and unbiased interviews 24/7. We help companies hire better candidates from wider talent pools with less effort.
The first GenAI interviewer conducting complex business interviews
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### The first GenAI interviewer for skills assessment interviews

Mindely is the first AI interviewer designed for skills assessment interviews. Hiring for high volume, high turnover roles (e.g., consultants, analysts, sales & customer representatives) is time-consuming, inconsistent, and prone to unconscious bias. Managers spend valuable time on lengthy skill-based interviews instead of focusing on building candidate relationships or on driving company revenue. Traditional AI interviewers don’t solve these issues – their rigid Q&A formats and one-size-fits-all approach can’t handle complex skill assessments. Mindely changes the game as the first AI interviewer built for in-depth case study, technical and role-play interviews. It: - Simulates human interaction with real-time dialogue - Challenges candidates with dynamic, adaptive responses - Eliminates interviewer bias to create a fair, inclusive hiring process - Works 24/7 to free up senior staff and widen talent pool With Mindely, companies can rapidly customize and deploy human interviews at AI scale to test specific on-the-job skills.



Mindely

Founded:2024

Team Size:4

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Joseph Thalinjan, Founder/CEO

Joseph is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindely. Before, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 3 years, focusing on improving the global strategy of software and tech companies. He holds a Master of Science from CentraleSupelec Engineering School and a Master in Management from ESCP Europe Business School.



### Sasha Collin, Founder/CTO

Co-founder and CTO of Mindely. He previously studied Computer Science and published several articles, including one in Nature Communications, during his research at Harvard Medical School. He worked at McKinsey for 3 years, focusing on plant optimization, personalization of marketing campaigns, and the development of GenAI products.



### Alix Maurin, Founder/COO

Alix is the Co-Founder and COO of Mindely. She was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for three years, focusing on improving the global strategy of digital companies. Before joining McKinsey, Alix worked at Uber EMEA and interned at Amazon. She holds a Master’s in Management from ESSEC Business School.



### Clément Nguyen, Founder/Head of Engineering

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Mindely. In his previous role as a full-stack data scientist at Rakuten Advertising, he led the engineering operations for the data science team. His responsibilities included leading the team's infrastructure transition towards generative AI technologies, leveraging his expertise in cutting-edge machine learning techniques.



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[### Mindely - The only AI agent that conducts advanced interview rounds](

**TLDR:** [**Mindely**]( is the first Generative AI interviewer for advanced interview rounds. We make it easy to scale and improve complex, time-consuming interviews for high turnover, high volume corporate roles.

Hey everyone! We are building Mindely: the first AI agent that conducts advanced rounds interviews.

[**Check out our demo**]( of a case study interview for a consulting position:

**❌ The problem:**
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After spending a couple of years in strategy consulting and tech, we realized that a certain category of roles: consultants, analysts, customer representatives, salespeople… have 2 pain points in common regarding interviews\*:

1.  They are all “**High-Volume High-Turnover”** roles:
    
    *   Very **wide** **pool of applicants** (up to 200,000+ candidates per year per company)
    *   Interviews are run **on a rolling basis** to compensate for the **high turnover rate** (20%+ p.a.)
    *   Interviews are **conducted directly by non-HR peers** (e.g., Senior Managers, Partners…) since candidates must tested on on-the-job **complex reasoning skills**, **communication skills,** and **personality traits**
    *   **Very limited** **availability** and huge **opportunity cost** for the peers to conduct the interviews (up to $500/h for a Senior Manager in Consulting)
2.  **Candidate experience and selection is flawed** across the recruiting process:
    
    *   Unconscious **interviewer bias**
    *   Interview **formats and evaluation criteria vary** from one interviewer to the next
    *   Interviewers often rely heavily on discussing a candidate’s **past experience** vs testing their actual **role-related skills**
    *   **Interviewer fatigue** impacts candidate assessment
    *   Candidates from **non-traditional** backgrounds often don’t get the chance to interview because of limited interviewer availability

_\*Interviews for strategic & analytical roles (e.g., consultants) are case study interviews: the candidate has to work through a complex business problem. Interviews for customer-facing roles (e.g., salesperson) are ideally based on interactive role-plays._

**💡 The Solution:**
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**Mindely enables unbiased, skill-based recruiting at scale for complex roles.**

**Unlike traditional AI Interviewers, Mindely** is the first AI interviewer that can run complex ‘human-like’ interviews 24/7:

1.  **Fully interactive** with adaptive, unscripted questions & answers that replicate human interactions
2.  **Understands** the whole context for a complex case study or role-play interview
3.  **Thinks like a human** with a candidate to challenge them (e.g., hypothesis testing, follow-up questions, hints…)
4.  Fully **customizable** in terms of content & evaluation criteria

**🖥️ App Preview:**
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💪 **The Team:**
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From left to right:

[**_Joseph_**]( **_CEO_**, holds a double master’s degree from CentraleSupelec Engineering School and ESCP Business School. He worked as a consultant at McKinsey for 3 years.

[**_Sasha_**]( **_CTO_**, holds a double master's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Ecole Normal Superieur (MVA) and Harvard. He worked as a data scientist at McKinsey for 3 years and was part of the development team of the internal ChatGPT. During his research position at Harvard, he published 10+ articles.

[**_Alix_**]( **_COO_**, holds a master’s degree from ESSEC Business School. She worked at Uber and Amazon before joining McKinsey as a consultant for 3 years.

[**_Clement_**]( **_Head of Engineering_**, holds a double master’s degree in both Computer Science and Mathematics from Ecole Normal Superieur (MVA). He worked as a lead Software Engineer at Rakuten for 3 years.

**🙏 Ask:**
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*   If you are **recruiting for strategic and/or customer-facing roles**, contact us at [founders@mindely.ai](mailto:founders@mindely.ai), we would love to help you find the best talent!
*   If you know any **Talent Acquisition managers** in Consulting, Tech, BPO, Sales, Financial services, we would love to have their contact information and we would be grateful for a warm intro!

Thank you so much!! 😊
