Release Notes - Beta v0.15

This release is anchored by Assessments 2.0 — a top-to-bottom redesign of the assessments experience, covering creation, AI generation, the candidate taking experience, and how attempts show up on the candidate's profile. Recruiters get a faster way to create assessments, a smarter "Generate with AI" flow, brand-new video-answer questions that are scored automatically, and a true preview mode. On the platform side, CV scoring is now consistent and trackable, the team invitation flow has been fully rebuilt, and workspaces gain their own email setup plus a single off-switch to pause all outbound email. The interview module gets direct reschedule, resume-based follow-up interviews, searchable job and candidate pickers, local-timezone display, and a fix for two browser tabs disrupting the same interview.

• Assessments 2.0 — faster creation flow, smarter "Generate with AI" with quick-start presets and a question-mix picker, video-answer questions that are scored automatically, a real preview mode, and a polished candidate experience
• Assessments on the candidate profile — every attempt now appears in a dedicated Assessments section on the candidate page (Passed / In Progress / Expired), with full per-question results just a click away
• Reliable & Trackable CV Scoring — the same candidate, on the same job, with the same setup, now always produces the same score; one shared score across the workspace; full history kept alongside every evaluation
• Team Invitation Flow Rework — clear messages and the right next step for new users, signed-out users, already-signed-in users, and people who clicked a link meant for someone else; in both English and Arabic
• Workspace Email Delivery Controls — each workspace can send email through its own email account, plus a single switch to pause all outbound email when needed
• Interview Workflow Improvements — recruiters can reschedule directly, follow-up interviews are now driven by the candidate's resume, job and candidate pickers are searchable, times show in your own timezone, and two browser tabs no longer disrupt the same interview
• Job UX Polish — the public/hidden toggle is back as a clear button, "Share Job" only appears when a job is actually public, the "Add 1 CV" form is cleaner, and bulk CV uploads handle failures without losing the rest of the batch

• Faster assessment creation — replaces the old full-page form with a compact dialog (name, description, time-limit slider, pass mark); category and difficulty default sensibly and can be edited later
• Cleaner editor header — removed the broken Share button (Assign already provides the proper public link)
• Better assessment list — single clean footer with totals, page-size picker, and page navigator, always visible
• Video questions in AI generation — the new question-mix picker has a Video Answer option with a NEW badge
• Re-scan stability — clicking "Re-scan applicants" multiple times no longer produces different scores or different PDFs for the same candidate
• Consistent across applications — two different applications of the same person to the same job now show the same score
• Interview times in your timezone — list rows now show your local time with the original time shown underneath
• Slimmer "Add 1 CV" form — only CV upload and an optional cover letter; the rest is read from the resume

• Consistent, repeatable CV scoring — every score is saved with enough history that any past score can be looked up and explained later
• Automatic scoring of recorded video answers — including a behaviour-based read on top of the transcript
• Two-browser interview isolation (rolling out gradually) — fixes a bug where two browsers on the same interview link would kick each other out and overwrite the recording
• Reliable final evaluation — the final interview evaluation now fires at the right point in the flow; no more interviews finishing without a score
• Resilient bulk CV uploads — a single bad file no longer breaks the rest of the batch

Faster to Build, Richer to Take, Clearer on the Profile

The assessments experience has been rebuilt end-to-end. The headline changes are:

Redesigned assessments list — clean rows, consistent badges, and per-row actions

New compact create dialog — name, optional description, time-limit slider, and pass mark. Category and difficulty are edited inline in the editor.

Editor with the new header (Preview, Assign, Clone), inline settings sidebar, and questions list — Q19 shows the new Video question type

Smarter "Generate with AI" dialog — quick-start presets, a question-mix picker (Text / Single / Multi / Video — with a NEW badge on Video), and a Source-material section that pulls from a job posting or focus topics

Preview mode shows exactly what a candidate sees, with a banner reminder that answers will not be saved and an Exit preview button

Spoken Replies, Automatically Scored

Candidates can now record video responses to questions. The recorded answer is transcribed, evaluated against the question, and reviewed for behaviour cues — all without any manual review work for the recruiter.

For creators:

• Add a video question directly in the editor, or pick Video answer from the new question-mix picker in the "Generate with AI" dialog
• Time and points are configured per question, just like text or choice questions

For candidates:

• Spoken reply via the in-browser recorder — the same kind of interface as the live AI interview
• One attempt per question, with a clear preview before submitting

Behind the scenes:

• Automatic transcription, then a check that the answer actually addresses the question
• A behaviour-based read layered on top, contributing to the overall assessment score
• Stored alongside the rest of the attempt's per-question results

Candidate-side video answer recorder — question prompt and tips on the left, in-browser webcam preview with a clear "Start recording" button and a 3-minute auto-stop timer on the right. Answers save automatically.

Every Attempt at a Glance

The candidate profile now has a dedicated Assessments section — a chronological, status-coloured list of every attempt the candidate has taken, regardless of which job triggered it.

What you see:

• One card per attempt with status (Passed, In Progress, or Expired), score, and the assessment name
• Clicking a card opens a side sheet with the full per-question breakdown — surfaced exactly where you actually look
• An empty-state placeholder ("This candidate hasn't taken any assessments yet") when the candidate has no attempts on file

Clicking an attempt card opens a side sheet with the per-question breakdown — score, status per question, and the recorded video answer with the AI's evaluation notes inline

Same Candidate, Same Job, Same Score — Every Time

CV scoring is now consistent and trustworthy. The same candidate, on the same job, with the same scoring settings, will always produce the same score. Two different applications of the same person to the same job will no longer disagree, and re-scanning applicants will reuse the existing score instead of producing a fresh, slightly different one.

What changed:

Why it matters:

• Recruiters can defend a hiring decision later — the evaluation details are preserved
• Workspaces can change scoring settings later without losing the ability to look up older scores
• Re-scan operations no longer waste time and AI usage on results that were already final

A Smooth Path for Every Invite Scenario

The invitation experience has been rebuilt from the ground up. All four scenarios now have proper feedback and routing:

Other polish:

• The native browser confirm popup is gone — replaced with a proper in-app dialog that matches the rest of the UI
• All new copy is available in English and Arabic
• Every accept/decline action shows a confirmation message

Team Management page — invite a teammate by email and role at the top, active members and their statuses below, and a Pending Invitations table for invites that haven't been accepted yet

Each Workspace Sends Email Its Own Way

Workspaces now have full control over their outbound email — both how mail is sent and whether it is sent at all.

Send through your own email account

Each workspace can configure its own email server and from-address. When set, all outbound mail from that workspace — application confirmations, status updates, interview invitations, decision emails — is automatically sent through the workspace's own email account. No more shared default-provider domain on candidate emails.

Configurable per workspace:

• From email address
• Email server, port number, username, password
• Optional secure-connection toggle
• Optional email signature appended to outgoing emails

Workspace email off-switch

A single toggle — Disable outbound email — pauses all outbound email from the workspace. Useful for staging, audits, or briefly pausing communications before a re-launch. Nothing is delivered to candidates or recruiters until the toggle is turned back off.

Email Settings page — off-switch at the top, per-workspace email server fields below, with a banner showing whether the workspace is using its own server or the default provider

A Set of Recruiter- and Candidate-Facing Quality-of-Life Wins

Reschedule Interview dialog — optional reason note, new date/time, duration, time zone, AI Meeting Assistant toggle, interviewer email, meeting platform, and meeting link, all in one place. Saving notifies the candidate and interviewer with what changed.

Interview list now shows times in your timezone, with the original timezone shown beneath — and a new "Rescheduled" tab for easy filtering

Cleaner Forms, Clearer Toggles, Sturdier Uploads

Restored visibility toggle as a clear button

The job details page brings back a Public / Hidden toggle as a prominent button next to the Published status badge — green when public, outlined when hidden. The "Share Job" option now only appears when the job is actually public, so a hidden job can't be shared by accident.

Cleaner "Add 1 CV" form

The single-candidate upload form no longer asks for candidate identity fields that don't belong in that flow. The only inputs are now CV upload and an optional cover letter — the rest of the candidate's profile is read from the resume itself.

Slimmed-down "Add 1 Candidate" dialog — CV upload + optional cover letter, nothing more

Resilient bulk CV uploads

Failures during a bulk CV upload are now handled gracefully. A single bad file no longer silently drops or breaks the batch — failed items are surfaced with a clear status, the rest of the batch keeps going, and you can retry just the failures without re-uploading the whole set.

General UI polish across various screens — consistent spacing, badge styles, and empty-state copy across the candidates, jobs, and assessments pages.