Build the team that builds your product.
In tech, one bad hire can slow an entire engineering team for months. Assessely gives you the confidence to hire fast without cutting corners.
Assessely is a smart HR platform for Australian technology businesses that combines hiring assessments, reference checks with fraud detection, and employee retention surveys in one place.
THE CHALLENGE
The hiring and retention challenges technology businesses face every day.
Cultural fit matters as much as technical skill
A developer who codes well but slows down code review for everyone else costs the team weeks per quarter. You need to assess both capability and how someone works with others, not just one.
Scaling fast creates hiring shortcuts
When you need engineers quickly, reference checks get rushed and onboarding gets skipped. One bad hire in a small team has an outsized impact on velocity and morale.
Losing good engineers is expensive
Replacing a senior engineer can cost months of productivity and significant recruitment spend. Understanding why your best people leave is the first step to keeping them.
THE SOLUTION
How Assessely solves it.
AI assessments for technical roles
Generate role-specific assessments that test real engineering skills and culture fit, not just what looks good on a CV.
Reference checks with fraud detection
Automated verification with AI fraud detection for every technical hire. Fast enough to keep pace with competitive hiring.
Engineering team pulse surveys
Regular pulse surveys so you know how your engineering team is really doing before problems escalate.
eNPS tracking
Measure team loyalty over time. Spot at-risk engineers before they start updating their LinkedIn.
Exit interviews
Find out why engineers really leave before it becomes a pattern that costs you.
Background checks for codebase access
Pre-employment checks for engineers and contractors who get production credentials, source code, or customer data on day one.
IN THEIR WORDS
What technology teams say.
Real moments from people using Assessely in small and medium-sized businesses today.
Got burnt twice in 18 months by senior engineers who interviewed well and didn't fit. We've hired two through here since and both are still here, still productive, still happy. Not saying it's bulletproof but the assessment is actual problem-solving, not a personality quiz.
Daniel K.
Director of Engineering, B2B SaaS scale-up
Sydney, NSW
Senior engineers never pick up unknown numbers. Reference checks here are an email they fill in when they've got ten minutes, and we get the answer back the same day. Caught one fake last quarter where the email domain didn't match.
Stephanie W.
IT Manager, fintech startup
London
Hiring rubric finally has somewhere to live. The structured scorecards mean me and the other interviewers aren't arguing about vibes after each round. We compare on the same five things. Saves an hour per candidate and the arguments are shorter when they happen.
Tom V.
Engineering Manager, SaaS scale-up
Manchester
HOW IT WORKS
Up and running in minutes.
Assess for skill and team fit
Role-specific assessments that test real engineering capability and how someone works under code review. Know who can do the job before you invest interview time.
Verify references automatically
Automated reference collection with AI fraud detection. Fast and thorough without taking your time.
Reduce attrition with pulse and eNPS
Spot disengagement in engineering teams before resignations land. Quarterly eNPS plus monthly pulse keeps you honest.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions.
Quick answers for technology teams considering Assessely.
Assessely runs on AWS with encryption at rest and in transit. Your candidate, reference, and survey data is protected with strict access controls.
Candidate names, contact details, and demographic markers are stripped before any AI evaluation runs. Assessments score against the role criteria you define, not against the candidate as a person. You see the rubric and can override any score.
Basic is $99 a month and Premium with AI assessments is $199 a month. Credits cover individual actions: $1 per candidate sent an assessment, with AI assessments costing 3 credits. Most early-stage tech teams run under $300 a month all in.
Under an hour for most tech teams. Sign up, import your existing role descriptions, set up your hiring stages, and you can send the first AI-generated assessment the same afternoon.
Assessely works as a standalone hiring and retention platform today. Most tech teams use it for assessments, reference checks, and engagement, and keep their ATS for pipeline tracking. CSV import and export handles the data flow.
Yes. The background check flow handles contractors, freelancers, and full-time hires. Right-to-work, code-of-conduct sign-off, and IP agreements can all be collected before someone touches the repo.
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