Use case · First technical hire
First technical hire
Evaluate skills you don't have in-house yet, with confidence. Vertana's AI-drafted, work-sample questions let a non-technical founder or team screen for real ability — and make a defensible first decision.
- Assess skills you can't yet
- AI-drafted, work-sample questions
- A defensible first decision
The problem
Why the old way falls short
You can't interview for skills you don't have
Without an engineer on staff, it's hard to tell a strong technical candidate from a confident one.
The first hire is the most expensive to get wrong
Your first technical hire shapes everything after it — a bad call sets the whole team back.
How Vertana helps
A screen your whole team can trust
AI-drafted questions
Describe the role and Vertana drafts a role-specific assessment, so you start from an expert-shaped baseline.
Real work samples
Candidates solve practical problems with real execution — you see ability, not just a polished conversation.
A decision you can defend
Objective, comparable scores give you the evidence to back your first technical hire with confidence.