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Hiring teams are drowning in interviews — 20 per hire on average, 42% more than just a few years ago. And at the end of each one? Someone fills out a scorecard from memory. Maybe the same day. Maybe the next morning when half the details have already faded. AI evaluation agents are changing this completely. Instead of a fuzzy 1-to-5 rating, these systems generate evidence packets — competency scores backed by actual quotes from the candidate transcript. Hiring managers read evidence, not opinion. And the results speak for themselves: Unilever replaced first-round human interviews entirely, saving 50,000 hours of interview time and cutting time-to-hire by 90%. Mid-market companies are seeing the same impact at smaller scale. Workleap cut its screening cycle from five days to 60 seconds per application. LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant pushed recruiter productivity up 60–70%. The economics work at every size. OVI's Milo agent brings this model to any hiring team — audio-based screening chats that return structured, rubric-scored output with transcript citations. Plans start at $99/month. That's not just faster hiring — it's more defensible hiring.