How a Founder ran 100+ Voice Interviews in 48 Hours — without a Single Zoom Call, Powered by Dialog

Founders are busy, constantly juggling priorities — building product, talking to users and most important Hiring..... Though its the most essential task, but most of the times it becomes a time sink. Especially when you’re looking for people not just with the right skills, right spirit and high agency.

That’s exactly where Harshit found himself.

He wasn’t hiring for titles or ticking off resumes. He wanted to invite a few driven students to shadow him — to learn how startups actually work, up close.
But here was the dilemma:

• He didn’t have time to hop on 50+ calls.
• He didn’t want to collect cold, lifeless Google Forms.
• And he definitely didn’t want to miss out on applicants with potential, just because they couldn’t write a “perfect answer” under pressure.

What Harshit needed was a way to capture real human intent at scale, without compromising on depth — or his own time.

The Idea: Let an AI Agent Do the Talking

Harshit partnered with the team at Dialog to create something bold:

A voice-based AI interview assistant that could personally talk to each applicant, ask thoughtful questions, and gather insights — just like Harshit would, if he had the time to meet 100+ students one-on-one.

They named the AI agent Futurus, and gave it a warm, clear mission:

“I’m here to select a few people on behalf of Harshit who will get a chance to shadow him for 2 weeks and learn how to practically manage a startup…”

Here’s how it worked:

1. The Interview Experience
   Applicants were invited to speak to an AI voice assistant — not a form. They answered thoughtful questions about why they wanted to join, what they brought to the table, and what drives them.
2. The Synthesis Engine
   As soon as conversations came in, Dialog's AI engine analyzed every response, capturing:
   • Emotional signals (like optimism, curiosity, leadership)
   • Behavioral intent
   • Language tone and commitment levels

The Magic Prompt
Instead of manually listening to every recording or reading transcripts, Harshit simply typed:

“Find me all the candidates that were optimistic and excited for the role and have good leadership skills.”

Dialog returned a curated shortlist — enriched, scored, and annotated.

Pure Magic!

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The Results: 2 days after the Dialog was released

More importantly, Dialog surfaced candidates who:

• Had genuine excitement in their voice
• Demonstrated initiative and clarity
• Might’ve been missed by traditional filters

And all of this happened in less than a day — from one social post to full insight synthesis.

That’s over 3.5 hours of real, personalized interviewing — handled entirely by an AI voice agent.

No scheduling.
No Zoom links.
No burnout.

Just 108 authentic, asynchronous, human-like conversations — at scale.

Advanced Filtering & Lead Enrichment

Dialog didn’t stop at collecting answers. In the Advanced Synthesis tab, Harshit could:

• Chat with the results, just like he would with an LLM
  (“Show me candidates who would be a good fit for a founder’s associate role.”)
• Ask for personality or sentiment-based clusters
  (“Which applicants sounded introspective vs. assertive?”)
• Apply AI Enrichments — tags like leadership, energy, or learning orientation, automatically suggested by Dialog’s models.

This meant that every candidate came with structured emotional metadata, not just raw responses, helping Harshit make decisions with both speed and empathy.

Why This Matters

In traditional hiring funnels, the best applicants are often the quietest.
They don’t optimize for forms. They speak from the heart.

Dialog gave Harshit a way to hear that heart — and then synthesize it, intelligently.

It flipped the recruiting script:

• From filtering resumes to filtering resonance
• From “Who meets the checkbox?” to “Who feels right for the mission?”

This wasn’t just automation. It was scaled user emotional analysis.

What Dialog Unlocks for Creators & Startups

Whether you’re:

• A founder looking to screen talent
• A community builder running fellowships
• A creator launching a mentorship cohort

Dialog lets you interact, understand, and select — at a depth you’d expect from real interviews, but at a scale you didn’t think was possible.

You don’t just collect data.
You discover people.

Takeaway

Harshit didn’t hire with automation.
He hired with intuition at scale.

And Dialog made it possible — not by replacing his voice, but by extending his ability to understand what matters.

If you're ready to stop reading resumes and start hearing stories,
it might be time to start your own Dialog.

Imagine what you could do with Dialog in your hands.