See how candidates think
before the phone screen
McCoy IQ gives candidates a real business problem to talk through in 1–5 minutes. You decide who's worth a call before you make one.
See it for yourself
Paste a job description for a role you’re hiring for.
We’ll build a sample challenge your candidates would respond to.
Building your preview
- Reading the job description
- Finding the company
- Extracting your branding
- Understanding the role
- Drafting a challenge question
- Setting up your preview
Some roles just
take up all your time
Tons of requirements. Subjective fit. Stakeholders who can’t agree on what “good” looks like. You’ll cycle through hundreds before they find someone they actually want.
A time suck you can’t control. The only way through is to talk to every candidate yourself, and when you finally hand one off, you’re not even confident the hiring manager will say yes.
Keep doing the screens yourself, or let McCoy IQ ask every candidate a real question they’d face on the job. You watch how they think on your time, and only call the ones worth calling.
Save time
before the phone screen
Give candidates a real problem they’d face on the job. Watch how they think before you spend an hour on a call.
The real signal
The qualities that matter most
A resume won’t show you any of this. Two to five minutes of someone talking through a real problem will — and you can watch it before you spend an hour on a call.
As heard on
Candidates are saying:
Finally — I'm sick of tweaking my resume for every job I apply to. I'm sick of being ignored. You're telling me I can just record and explain how I do it, and you'll contact me if it's a fit?
I told her I knew we'd dropped the ball, and I wasn't there to make excuses. I just wanted to understand what she actually needed.
Turns out the real issue wasn't the deliverable – it was that she felt like we weren't listening.
So we rebuilt the timeline together. Her input, her priorities. And within six weeks she'd signed an expansion.
I reached out directly – skipped the account manager and called the VP myself.
I told her I knew we'd dropped the ball, and I wasn't there to make excuses.
On the candidate side
An experience that makes candidates actually want to finish
Low-pressure. AI helps the candidate prepare. Retakes are unlimited. They own the response and submit when satisfied. Most finish in 5 to 10 minutes.
And no, the app isn’t a hurdle. Tap the link, install, and the challenge opens straight away.
Fixes the resume gap before the phone screen
A short response to an open-ended question shows what resumes alone can’t.
How it works
Draft the prompt.
Start with a job description and a few guided questions. McCoy IQ helps write the challenge, key highlights, and video script.
Record the intro.
Record yourself with the built-in teleprompter, or generate an AI avatar to introduce your challenge on your behalf.
Publish the page.
McCoy IQ delivers a challenge page in your company's brand, ready to share with candidates.
Review responses.
Candidates submit short video responses.* Everything lands in one place to scan and compare.
*Written-response accommodation available.
Already have an ATS? Works alongside it.
No replacement, no integration — just a URL you send from the screening email you already send. Want a native integration for yours? Tell us which one.
Four ways teams use McCoy IQ
First screen
Easy apply makes it too easy. Add the challenge to your application so only motivated candidates finish.
Second screen
Send it to everyone who applies, or just the ones worth a second look. Either way, start with how they think.
Pipeline before the role
Let interested candidates respond to a standing challenge before you’re hiring. When a role opens, you have warm options already in hand.
Brand engagement
Be known for what you ask. A public challenge tells people what you care about and gives them more to do than tap follow.
Simple, transparent pricing
Pick the plan that matches how many roles you’re hiring for, how many teammates will run them, and whether you’re hiring for your own company or for clients.
Free Trial
Create one role and collect responses
No credit card required.
Solo
Hiring managers, in-house recruiters, or fractional recruiters
Billed monthly
Team
In-house teams with multiple reviewers
Billed monthly
Agency
Recruiting firms and external recruiters hiring across multiple clients
Billed monthly
* No integration is required to use McCoy IQ. The ATS integration add-on is optional, for Team customers who want responses to flow directly into their ATS.
Need more than 10 seats or 25 roles? See Enterprise below.
Enterprise
For large organizations with special requirements
FAQS