For sales leaders
Quota waits for nobody.
Especially not your recruiter.
You are missing pipeline because you are missing reps. We screen, interview, score, and recommend SDRs and AEs against a rubric built on discovery quality, written follow-through, and demo poise, not which logos are on the CV.
no recruiter·first 50 candidates free·first ramp day in week 3
MR
Marta Reinholt
SENIOR BACKEND · BERLIN · EX-LYFT
SCORE
91
Role-fit assessment93/100
Top decile · systems-design depth.
Conversational screen89/100
Direct. Asks the right second question.
AI first-round interview92/100
Composed. Pragmatic on tradeoffs.
What you said, last quarter
You're not hiring closers. You're hiring résumés.
Q3 review
"We were under quota for two quarters because we missed the ramp window on three of five new hires. They could not run a discovery call."
· VP sales · Series A SaaS
Recruiter call
"Twenty-eight Salesforce alumni in the pipeline. Three of them have actually run an outbound motion. The other twenty-five are pattern-matching."
· Director of sales · Series B fintech
Onboarding wk 2
"I keep hiring people who interviewed beautifully and then froze on the first live call. There has to be a better filter."
· Head of GTM · seed start-up
The rubric
We evaluate the reps you actually want.
Defaults · editable per role
Discovery instinct
weight · 25
A scored conversational discovery against a real-feeling buyer persona. We measure question quality, listening signals, and the moment they recognise a disqualification.
AI first-round interview
Written follow-through
weight · 20
Candidate writes the post-call follow-up email. We score for clarity, specificity, and whether they propose a real next step.
Role-fit assessment
Objection handling
weight · 20
Two scripted objections during the AI interview, scored against a rubric. We look for genuine engagement, not deflection patterns.
AI first-round interview
Activity discipline
weight · 15
A short structured probe on how they planned their week at their last role. Specific numbers, real activities, not "I was very organised".
AI screen
Coachability
weight · 10
One piece of feedback given mid-interview. We score how quickly they incorporate it and whether they ask a follow-up question.
AI first-round interview
Must-haves you set
weight · 10
Territory, quota band, experience floor. We hard-filter these first so the model only scores people who can actually do the job.
Triage
What Friday looks like
Three reps.
In ramp by month two.
412
Inbound applicants screened
88%
Top-3 offered
29h
Median time from post to shortlist
17d
Median days saved per seat
For sales leaders, recent
Sales leaders who needed seats, not screens.
"I was running discovery interviews myself between QBRs because I didn't trust the recruiter screen. That stopped two months ago."
VS
VP sales
Series A SaaS, 60 people
"Picked surfaced an SDR who'd worked at a coffee shop and a software company. Recruiter never would have shown me. She's our top performer this quarter."
DO
Director of sales
Series B fintech, 110 people
"The rubric on objection handling is alone worth the price. It's the thing I can never quite assess on a Zoom call."
HO
Head of GTM
Seed, 12 people
"We were paying a £4,800/month retainer to a sales recruiter. We stopped. Picked filled the next four seats. Same quality. One-fifth the spend."
C
COO
Series A SaaS, 80 people
Stop reading. Start posting.
Three reps.
Ramped by month two.
For sales leaders · Picked.ai