The CV is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Once the cornerstone of talent decisions, the CV has become a symbol of everything broken in hiring: static, subjective, and stuck in the past. In a world defined by change, it can no longer serve as the gateway to opportunity. It privileges pedigree over performance, polish over potential. It encodes bias, fuels inefficiency, and limits access to the very talent companies are trying to unlock.
And yet, most companies haven’t replaced it. They’ve just tried to automate it.
Automating a Broken Input
Across industries, AI is being layered onto resume screening processes in a bid for efficiency. But this isn’t transformation. It’s digitising a flawed system and calling it progress.
AI trained on CVs often replicates the biases and assumptions of historical hiring. Keyword filters become proxies for potential. Gaps become red flags. Names, schools, and titles stand in for ability. Harvard Business School and Accenture report that millions of capable candidates are discarded by AI tools built to process, not understand, human potential.
The result? Faster exclusion. Not smarter selection.
In 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidance cautioning against unvetted AI in hiring decisions, citing risks to fairness, transparency, and compliance. Deloitte has similarly highlighted the risk of “automation bias,” warning that many AI systems reinforce pre-existing inequities in hiring data.
The message is clear: automating bias at scale is still bias at scale.
CVs Don’t Predict Performance. Science Does.
At Maki, we didn’t set out to improve CV screening. We eliminated it altogether.
Our AI HR agents replace the CV with something better: direct, validated measurement of capability. No assumptions. No guesswork. Just evidence.
We assess candidates not by what they say they’ve done but by what they can do. Our assessments are grounded in behavioural science, cognitive research, and psychometric validation. Candidates are evaluated on real skills, through immersive tasks that simulate real work. Soft skills. Power skills. Language. Logic. Decision-making. All captured in a controlled, scientifically designed environment.
This is not a better filter. It’s a new system. A system designed to surface talent others miss.
According to the World Economic Forum, skills-based hiring is one of the most impactful shifts reshaping the future of work, offering increased access to opportunity and better alignment between talent and tasks.
AI HR Agents | Beyond Automation, Into Execution
Maki’s AI HR agents don’t just review. They act.
They conduct phone screenings, at scale, interviewing thousands of candidates per week, dynamically adapting to role requirements. They listen. They assess. They ask follow-up questions. They score responses using fine-tuned LLMs trained on real-world success, not arbitrary keywords.
They handle the heavy lifting of hiring; screening, scheduling, evaluating - so recruiters can focus on what humans do best: decision-making, relationship-building, strategy.
This is not support software. This is software that works.
Our agents are autonomous, fully customisable, and embedded into the hiring workflows of the world’s most demanding enterprises. They don’t rely on resumes. They rely on results.
Designed for Fairness. Built for Accuracy.
Everything our agents do is grounded in science. Every question, every score, every decision is validated and auditable. Independently tested. Ethically governed. Enterprise-ready.
McKinsey estimates that companies using structured, skills-based assessments as a primary input in hiring experience 20–30% improvement in long-term employee performance, compared to traditional resume-based filtering.
While others rush AI into hiring with minimal oversight, we build trust into every layer, ensuring fairness isn’t a feature. It’s the foundation.
It’s why organisations that use Maki see measurable gains: 3x faster hiring, 95% candidate satisfaction, and double-digit improvements in quality of hire and retention.
The Future Doesn’t Include a CV
Legacy hiring was built for a world that no longer exists. Today’s talent deserves better and so do today’s companies.
Maki redefines how work gets done in HR. We don’t just streamline tasks. We replace them. We don’t just speed up decisions. We improve them. Our AI agents make talent acquisition smarter, fairer, and exponentially more scalable.
This isn’t about replacing recruiters. It’s about freeing them to lead.
Because the future of hiring isn’t paper-based. It’s performance-based. And it’s already here.
