Explainable scoring
Every score traces back to the criteria you chose and the evidence in the CV. No hidden weights, no mystery ranking. You can read the reason for any result, and so can your auditor.
Built for NGO hiring in Sudan
Turn a flood of CVs into a shortlist you can defend.
Shortlist reads every application, including Arabic and scanned documents, and ranks candidates with scoring you can explain line by line. When the donor asks how you chose, you have the answer ready.
EU-hosted data. Explainable scoring. Consent before any sharing.
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Before you sign up, look at a real shortlist
Here is what the link opens: a sample shortlist in Arabic and English, on your phone, with every score and its reasons.
- Scored, with reasons A score with its reasons Every candidate is ranked with a score that traces back to the criteria you set and the evidence in the CV. No black-box ranking.
- Respectful reply A bilingual rejection A rejection written to be humane, in Arabic and English, so every applicant is turned down with dignity.
- Bilingual, on a phone Arabic and English, on your phone The whole shortlist reads in Arabic and English with full right-to-left layout, and stays clear on a phone over a weak connection.
You did not sign up to read four hundred CVs by hand.
A single posting brings hundreds of applications. They arrive as Word files, photos of printed pages, PDFs in Arabic, PDFs in English, and a few that are barely readable at all. The deadline does not move.
So you screen fast, you keep notes in a spreadsheet, and a quiet worry follows you to the interview room: if a donor questions this hire, can you show exactly why this person made the list and that one did not?
- Hundreds of CVs per role, in mixed formats and two languages, with no clean way to compare them.
- A shortlist built under time pressure that you cannot fully reconstruct three months later.
- Dozens of candidates who applied in good faith and never heard back, which is not how you want your organization to be known.
Five steps, from inbox to defensible shortlist.
- 1
Post the job
Create a posting in minutes, in Arabic, English, or both.
- 2
Parse every CV
We read each application, including scanned pages and Arabic documents, and pull out the facts that matter.
- 3
Score on the criteria
Deterministic scoring rates each candidate against the requirements you set, and shows its work.
- 4
Review the ranked list
Open a clear, ordered shortlist with the reason for every score in plain language.
- 5
Close the loop
Send respectful bilingual replies, including humane bulk rejections, and capture consent for the shared pool.
What you get, and why it holds up.
Reads Arabic and scanned CVs
Real applications are messy. Shortlist parses Arabic text, scanned images, and photographed documents, not only clean English PDFs, so no qualified candidate is lost to a bad file format.
Respectful bilingual replies
Reply to candidates in Arabic or English, one at a time or in bulk. Rejections are written to be humane, so people are turned down with dignity and your reputation stays intact.
Consent-based shared talent pool
Access strong candidates that other NGOs have already screened. Profiles enter the shared pool only when the candidate gives explicit consent. There is no silent cross-organization sharing, ever.
When the audit comes, you are ready.
Recruitment is a grant-eligible cost, and donors expect to see how it was spent. Shortlist is built so that every shortlist can be explained, evidenced, and reconstructed long after the role is filled.
- A written reason for every decision. Each candidate's score links to the criteria and the evidence behind it, so why this hire is documented, not remembered.
- A record that survives the deadline. Postings, scores, and rejections are kept in order, so you can reconstruct a selection process months later without digging through email.
- Selection on merit, visibly. Because scoring is deterministic and consistent across candidates, you can demonstrate that the same rules applied to everyone.
- Explainable, never a black box
- Exportable audit record
- Explicit, revocable consent
- EU-hosted data
Priced as a grant-eligible line item, not a gamble.
Recruitment costs money whether you spend it on staff time, on a job board, or on a bad hire. Shortlist is the defensible option, not the cheapest one. For reference, a single posting on the main local board runs around 200 US dollars, and that buys you a listing, not a shortlist.
Single posting
$200
One role, fully parsed, scored, and closed out. Pay per post.
Starter Pack of 10
$1,400
Ten postings at a lower per-role rate, for teams hiring across several grants.
Org Annual
$3,600per year
High-volume hiring for one organization, billed annually, with shared-pool access.
See full pricing
Pilot-friendly. No card required to start.
Invoice billing in USD (cash or Bankak). No online card required.
The shortlist, in their words.
We used to spend the better part of a week sorting applications by hand. Now the shortlist arrives with a reason attached to every name, which is exactly what our donor reviews ask for.
HR Manager, international relief NGO
The bilingual rejections changed how candidates talk about us. People who did not get the role still reply to say thank you for the clear, respectful answer.
Recruitment Lead, national development organization
Illustrative examples. Real pilot quotes will replace these once partners consent to be named.
Questions a careful buyer asks.
Is our candidate data private, and who controls the shared pool?
Your data is hosted in the EU and we do not sell it to third parties. A candidate's profile only enters the inter-NGO shared pool when that candidate gives explicit consent. There is no silent sharing between organizations.
Can it really read Arabic CVs and scanned documents?
Yes. Shortlist is built to parse Arabic text and English text, including scanned pages and photographed documents, not only clean digital PDFs. Messy, real-world applications are the normal case, not the exception.
How is the scoring explainable?
Scoring is deterministic. Each candidate is rated against the criteria you set, and every score links to the evidence in the CV that produced it. There are no hidden weights and no black-box ranking, so you can read and defend any result.
How much does it cost, and is it grant-eligible?
Recruitment is a grant-eligible cost, so Shortlist fits as a budgeted line item. We offer single postings, a pack of ten, and an annual organization plan. See the pricing section for current rates.
What happens to candidates who are not shortlisted?
You can send them a respectful reply in Arabic or English, individually or in bulk. Rejections are written to be humane, so applicants are told clearly and treated with dignity rather than left waiting.
What languages does the interface support?
The full interface works in both Arabic and English, with proper right-to-left layout, and it is built mobile-first to stay usable on a phone and a low-bandwidth connection.
Not ready to talk yet? See the sample first.
Leave your email and we will send you a sample shortlist: scored, bilingual, with a reason on every name. No account, no obligation.
Your next shortlist should be one you can stand behind.
EU-hosted. Pilot-friendly. No card required to start.