Textio Launches Lavalier to Raise the Hiring Bar With Interview Intelligence

AI is redefining the skills that matter for every role — Lavalier gives recruiting teams structured interviews designed to gather evidence and improve quality of hire

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Textio, a leader in recruiting tools, today launched Lavalier: an interview intelligence platform built to help recruiting teams raise their hiring bar with interviews that drive better decisions faster. Lavalier is free to start with transparent and scalable pricing.

“The bar for what makes a great hire is shifting fast. AI and evolving company needs are redefining the skills that matter for nearly every role. But most teams are still evaluating candidates the same way they’ve always done it: inconsistent interviews, subjective opinions, and no real evidence,” said Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio. “That gap is where you lose the people who would have actually transformed your team. Lavalier gives companies a fundamentally new way to find and hire high-quality talent.”

With Lavalier, recruiting teams improve quality of hire while saving hours coordinating the interview process by:

• Aligning on what the role actually needs: AI is reshaping the skills and behaviors that matter for nearly every role, from navigating ambiguity to rapid experimentation. Lavalier helps recruiters and hiring managers define the competencies that actually matter and align on what to evaluate before interviews start, ensuring the entire interview process — from intake to decision — is designed to surface high-quality talent.
  

• Prepping every interviewer automatically: Most interviewers join these conversations feeling underprepared, without a clear sense of what to ask. Lavalier auto-generates structured interview guides with tailored questions and interviewer assignments. Every interview is designed to gather evidence, regardless of the interviewer's experience. Recruiters save dozens of hours spent prepping and training interviewers manually.
  

• Guiding interviewers in real time: Even with a great plan, interviews go off the rails. Interviewers don't know what to ask, evaluate personality instead of skills, or spend the whole time taking notes instead of listening. Lavalier keeps interviewers on track with AI-powered prompts, questions, and notes — so they can focus on the candidate and run an effective interview.
  

• Making every hiring decision evidence-backed: Transcription tools tell you what was said, but a transcript of a bad interview is still a bad interview. Lavalier guides interviewers to surface the right evidence during each conversation, then synthesizes it across every interview and every candidate so teams can see exactly who raises the bar and why.

“Lavalier has been great to use. I loved how it actively helped me track questions and suggest new ones while I was interviewing candidates,” said Angela Martin, Operating Partner, Bloomberg Beta. “It felt natural. And having the notes and recording post-interview is so helpful.”

“Recruiting great talent efficiently is everyone's dream. But the reality of recruiting is often the opposite — the right questions aren't asked, important flags go unnoticed, candidate notes aren't taken or shared, balls are dropped,” said Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures and Textio board member. “Lavalier works in the background to catch all the things — supporting companies to make the right hires with way less administrative overhead."

Lavalier is available today and free to use in your next interview. To get started, visit: lavalier.ai

About Textio

Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and give feedback to high-performing teams. The company’s latest innovation is Lavalier, an interview intelligence platform that helps recruiting teams raise their hiring bar with structured interviews that gather hiring evidence. Founded in 2014, People leaders at companies like Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Spotify choose Textio to help them attract and develop the top 1% of talent. Textio has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list several times, in addition to the Fortune Impact 20, Forbes AI 50, and CNBC Disruptor 50.