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The Hiring Operating System for A-Teams

Hire for outcomes,
not resumes

Mainsheet starts from 12-month success outcomes, reverse-engineers the competencies you need, and builds a world-class interview process that every interviewer follows. Connected to the tools you already use. Powered by AI.

Step 1 of 5 — Define Success Outcomes
What will this person accomplish in 12 months?
Build and launch a partner channel generating $2M in pipeline within 12 months
Hire and ramp 3 senior account executives with 90% quota attainment by Q3
Add another outcome...
The Problem

Good people. Bad process.

Most companies don't have a hiring problem. They have a process problem. These are the six ways it breaks down.

🎯

You're hiring A-players for the wrong position

You wrote a vague JD, interviewed against vibes, and got a great person who can't do the job you actually need done.

📋

Five interviewers, five different scorecards

One liked the energy. One tested algorithms. One asked about hobbies. Nobody assessed the same competencies. The debrief was chaos.

👁

You don't know if your process works

Critical skills slip through. Star interviewers carry the team. Weak ones rubber-stamp everyone. You find out 6 months after the hire.

🌐

Your ATS is a database you have to babysit

You move a candidate forward and then go update three tools. Every action requires a parallel action in a tool nobody wants to open.

💬

Your interviewers aren't getting better

Some ask great questions. Some wing it. Nobody gets feedback. There's no coaching loop. Your worst interviewer has the same vote as your best one.

📈

You hire when it hurts, not when it's smart

Someone quits, the CEO panics, you scramble. There's no workforce plan. No one's looking at the roadmap and saying "we need someone by Q2."

The Mainsheet Methodology

Hiring is broken because it's backwards

Most companies start with a job description and hope for the best. Mainsheet flips this entirely.

1

Outcomes

Define the 12-month success outcomes. Not responsibilities. Not requirements. What will this person have accomplished?

2

Competencies

AI deduces the specific skills needed to hit those outcomes. Tagged as Critical, High, or Nice to Have.

3

Interview Plan

Each stage assesses specific competencies. A coverage matrix shows every gap and overlap before you start.

4

Evidence

Interviewers get stage-specific scorecards with assigned competencies, rubrics, and suggested questions.

5

Decision

Debrief with competency-level scores across every stage. The evidence decides, not the loudest voice.

Passive Intelligence

You'll forget it's there. That's the point.

Every ATS requires you to be its secretary. Mainsheet watches the tools you already use and updates itself in real time.

💬
You post in Slack: "Really liked the call with Sarah — let's move her forward."
Mainsheet detects the sentiment and candidate, updates Sarah's status to "Advance," and flags her for the next stage.
→ Pipeline auto-updated
📅
A calendar invite goes out for "Technical Screen — Sarah Chen + David Kim"
Mainsheet auto-detects the candidate match, assigns the interview to the correct stage, and updates the timeline.
→ Stage auto-scheduled
📝
David finishes the interview and Granola captures the meeting notes
Mainsheet auto-imports the transcript, attaches it to Sarah's evidence tab, and nudges David to complete his scorecard.
→ Evidence auto-captured
The hiring manager messages: "Let's get Sarah into the case study round this week"
Mainsheet captures the intent and schedules the next stage.
→ Next stage auto-queued
📋
Friday arrives
Mainsheet auto-generates the weekly report from everything that happened. Zero manual compilation. Ready for Slack or email.
→ Weekly report auto-generated

You never opened Mainsheet once. But every candidate, every interview, every decision was captured. The pipeline is current. The report is written. You work. Mainsheet keeps up.

How It Works

Four steps to hiring with confidence

01

Connect your tools

Plug in Slack, Calendar, Granola, Rippling, and your project tools. Mainsheet starts listening immediately.

02

Plan your organization

See your current org, identify gaps, and plan the humans and AI agents you need — powered by real data from your connected tools.

03

Set up roles with methodology

Define outcomes, generate competencies, build interview plans with full coverage. Go from concept to live pipeline in minutes.

04

Hire with evidence

Every interviewer assesses the same competencies. Every debrief is data-driven. Every decision has evidence behind it.

Capabilities

A system, not a feature list

Everything you need to hire like the best companies on earth.

Core

Outcome-Driven Role Setup

Every role starts with what success looks like — not a job description. The 5-step wizard walks you from outcomes to a live, competency-based interview process.

Core

Competency Coverage Matrix

See every blind spot before your candidate reaches the offer stage.

Screen
Tech
Case
Culture
Final
Strategic Thinking
Technical Depth
Commercial Mind
Leadership
Core

Passive Workflow Intelligence

It watches how you work and updates itself. Slack, Calendar, Granola — your pipeline stays current without you ever opening the app.

Core

Interviewer Coaching

Turn every interviewer into your best interviewer. Quality profiles, coaching suggestions, and star recognition — not surveillance.

Strong

Evidence-Based Scorecards

Stage-specific scorecards with assigned competencies, rubrics, and suggested questions. No login required. Zero friction.

Strong

AI-Powered Org Planning

Your next great hire might be an AI agent. Plan both humans and AI in one view, powered by data from your connected tools.

Strong

Modern Integration Layer

Mainsheet lives where you work — and it's always paying attention. Your integrations aren't static logos. They're active connectors.

Essential

Auto Weekly Reports

Friday reports, written for you. By role: past week activity, next week plan, sourcing goals, action items. Ready for Slack.

Essential

AI + Human Scoring

Candidate scores evolve as evidence accumulates. AI starts from the resume, humans add signal with every interaction.

Essential

Pipeline Management

Kanban boards, candidate drawers, and stage management. The table-stakes, done right.

DK

David Kim

Sr. Engineering Manager · 24 interviews
⭐ Star Interviewer
92
Quality
4.2
Depth
88%
Adherence
AI Coaching Suggestion
Your Technical Deep Dive follow-ups have improved significantly. To push further: when candidates describe architecture decisions, try asking "What alternatives did you consider and why did you reject them?" to assess critical thinking depth.
Quality trend (last 8 cycles)
Interviewer Development

Turn every interviewer into your best interviewer

Your interviewers get better every cycle. Not because you tell them to — because the system shows them how.

🔎

Question quality tracking

Are they digging into competency-specific evidence or staying surface-level?

📊

Consistency metrics

Do their assessments correlate with hire outcomes? Calibrated or miscalibrated?

🏆

Star recognition

Your highest-signal interviewers become panel captains. Performance gets recognized.

💡

Coaching, not surveillance

Game film for hiring. Not to embarrass — to improve. Specific, actionable guidance after every round.

The Modern Organization

Mainsheet lives where you work —
and it's always paying attention

Not just integrations. Active connectors that watch your tools and keep everything current.

Slack
listening
Google Calendar
synced
Granola
capturing
Rippling
connected
Linear
synced
GitHub
connected
👤 CEO
👤 VP Engineering
👤 VP Sales
👤 Head of People
👤 Sr. Backend Eng
🤖 SDR Agent
👤 Platform Lead (Q2)
🤖 Support Agent (Q3)

Plan humans and AI agents in one view. Dashed = planned hires.

Honest Positioning

Mainsheet is not for everyone

We're opinionated software. That's by design. Here's how to know if we're right for you.

Mainsheet is for you if…

  • You believe hiring is the highest-leverage decision your company makes
  • You want every interviewer assessing the same competencies against the same rubric
  • You define roles by outcomes, not job descriptions
  • You want your tools connected, not siloed — and you never want to manually update an ATS again
  • You believe interviewers should get better over time, not just show up and wing it
  • You think the future workforce includes AI agents alongside humans

Probably not for you if…

  • You think "culture fit" is a valid interview assessment
  • You prefer hiring based on gut feeling and referrals alone
  • You want a resume database, not a hiring system
  • You don't mind spending hours every week manually updating candidate statuses
  • You think the interview process is "good enough"
What Leaders Say

The results speak for themselves

★★★★★
"We used to define roles by copying job descriptions from competitors. Mainsheet forced us to think about outcomes first. Our last three hires have been our best three hires. That's not a coincidence."
VP Engineering
Series B SaaS Company
★★★★★
"For the first time, our debrief conversations are about evidence, not opinions. Every interviewer assesses the same competencies. It completely changed the quality of our hiring decisions."
Head of People
Growth-stage Company
★★★★★
"I realized after two weeks that I hadn't opened Mainsheet once — but the pipeline was perfectly up to date. My recruiters got three hours a week back just from not doing data entry."
Director of Talent
120-person Company
Pricing

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Every plan includes the full methodology. No feature gating on the things that matter.

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For small teams getting started with structured hiring.
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  • Up to 3 active roles
  • Full outcome-driven role setup
  • Competency mapping & coverage matrix
  • Evidence-based scorecards
  • Basic integrations
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For scaling teams that need the full hiring operating system.
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  • Unlimited active roles
  • Everything in Free
  • Passive workflow intelligence
  • Interviewer development profiles
  • Auto weekly reports
  • AI org planning
  • All integrations
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For organizations building world-class hiring at scale.
Custom
tailored to your organization
  • Everything in Growth
  • SSO & advanced security
  • Custom integrations
  • Dedicated success manager
  • Custom reporting & analytics
  • API access
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FAQ

Questions you might have

Those are applicant tracking systems — databases that let you track where candidates are in your process. Mainsheet is a hiring operating system that enforces a methodology. It starts from outcomes, generates competencies, builds interview plans, ensures coverage, and produces evidence-based decisions. It's the difference between tracking what happened and designing what should happen.
Great — Mainsheet will make it better. If your process is already outcome-driven and competency-based, Mainsheet will systematize it and fill in the gaps. If it's not, Mainsheet will guide you to one that is. Either way, you'll end up with a more rigorous, more consistent process.
No. Interviewers get a simple link to their scorecard — no login, no account, no training. The scorecard tells them exactly what to assess, suggests questions, and gives them a clear rubric. Fill it in and move on.
Rippling and ADP for org data, Linear and GitHub for roadmap context, Google Calendar for scheduling, Granola for automatic interview note capture, Slack for notifications and reports, Google Drive for documents. More shipping regularly.
Modern organizations are building teams that include both humans and AI agents. Mainsheet's Org Planning lets you plan both — mapping which capabilities should be filled by people and which by AI tools. It's workforce planning for the way companies actually operate in 2026.
Yes. Free plan includes up to 3 active roles with the full methodology — outcome-driven setup, competency mapping, interview plans, and evidence-based scorecards. No credit card, no sales call.

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