AI-powered work simulations FOR HIRING TEAMS

Hire for thinking,
not memorization.

Secondframe replaces interviews with live, AI-driven work scenarios that reveal how senior candidates actually reason under pressure, not just what they've memorized.

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THE PROBLEM

Senior employees don't fail because of knowledge gaps. They fail because of judgment gaps.

A senior hire who can't frame a problem, chases false signals, skips blast-radius thinking, ignores constraints, or loses stakeholder trust under pressure will be a costly hire, no matter how well they did on a coding test. Every major assessment platform on the market measures the wrong thing.

Secondframe measures the one thing that actually predicts senior performance: judgment.

Dives in before scoping the problem

Jumps to a fix before scoping the problem, missing what is actually wrong.

Chases false signals

Accepts surface-level correlations instead of verifying root cause.

Ignores blast radius

Acts without weighing downstream consequences on other systems or teams.

Ignores constraints

Misses org boundaries, access limits, or change freezes that should shape the decision.

Loses stakeholder trust

Communication breaks down exactly when pressure is highest, and so does stakeholder trust.

LIVE ENVIRONMENT

The closest thing to the job, before the job.

No answer key. No script. Watch a candidate navigate a real production incident, communicate with AI-powered teammates, and make decisions in a scenario that responds to exactly how they show up. Because every run is different.

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Staff · Backend Engineer assessment
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#incident-management
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Payments service degradation · Black Friday · 8 members
Today
SC
Sarah ChenVP Engineering09:08
Payments is throwing errors. Dev Patel is on-call and has pulled metrics. We have Black Friday peak in 38 minutes. Need all hands.
DP
Dev PatelOn-call09:09
Seeing 12% error rate on the payments API. Postgres replica lag is at 4.2s and climbing. Architecture diagram is pinned at the top of this channel.
You
YouCandidate09:10
Before assuming it is a DB issue, I want to know what changed in the last deploy window. The replica lag could be a symptom not the root cause.
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Architecture
Affected
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YOUR DASHBOARD

Compare candidates. Make the call.

Every assessment lands in one dashboard. Results are benchmarked against your own team, ready to compare side by side.

Pied Piper

Overview

Your hiring capacity and required actions.

Active Positions

2/5

Assessments Used

42/50

Active Hiring

Staff Backend Engineer12 candidates · 5 completed
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Senior Platform Engineer8 candidates · 8 completed
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In Benchmarking

Engineering Manager, Payments5 candidates · 2 completed
BenchmarkingNot Set

Needs Attention

Alex Rivera's report is ready

Constraint Integration came in below your team bar — review before deciding.

Benchmark expiring in 6 days

Re-run your Staff Backend bar to keep scoring calibrated.

Benchmark Health

Overall Coverage

3 / 5 positions benchmarked

Recent Activity

Alex Rivera completed the Payments Incident scenario

Today · 09:42

You invited 3 candidates to Senior Platform Engineer

Yesterday · 16:10

Team benchmark set for Engineering Manager, Payments

Yesterday · 11:05

HOW IT WORKS

Simple, structured, and impossible to game.

A better way to evaluate engineers and make confident, defensible hiring decisions.

01

Create

Use role-specific scenarios from our library, or author your own. Run your own engineers through it first to set your team's bar. Free on every plan.

02

Assess

Invite candidates into a live scenario with AI-powered colleagues who respond to how they actually communicate and decide. Trust rises and falls in real time. There's no script to study for and no answer key to find.

03

Analyze

Get a structured Judgment Profile across all five dimensions, with an executive summary and full annotated transcript included, benchmarked against your own team or industry data.

GET STARTED

Stop guessing.
Start seeing how people think.

Seventy-six percent of organizations struggle to fill senior technical roles,⁵ and a bad senior engineering hire costs $600K–$1.2M over 18 months.⁴ ⁶ Secondframe pays for itself the first time it's right.

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