> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.exterview.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Started with Exterview

> Introduction to Exterview and the Configure, Deploy, Monitor lifecycle, with links to core concepts, glossary, and next steps for new customers.

Exterview is an AI-powered hiring **evaluation** platform. It sits as an intelligence layer above your existing hiring stack and evaluates candidates, and the AI agents that assist them, consistently, reproducibly, and with a full audit trail. Exterview spans the entire hiring lifecycle: role creation, candidate matching, phone, voice, and avatar interviews, assessments, panel and HR rounds, offers, onboarding, and post-hire role-fit checks.

## How Exterview works

Exterview is a suite of specialized agents, each configured and scored individually and orchestrated for the enterprise. You don't build agents; they ship pre-built. You configure your organization's context, and Exterview evaluates against it.

Everything in Exterview follows one lifecycle:

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flowchart LR
  A([Configure]) --> B([Deploy]) --> C([Monitor])
```

<Steps>
  <Step title="Configure">
    Define your organization's hiring structure and evaluation rules. Guided,
    CS-led, and frozen into a signed configuration before go-live.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Deploy">
    Launch active **agent sessions** (phone, voice, avatar, panel, HR,
    assessment, and post-hire) or **document workflows** (role creation, resume
    match, offers).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Monitor">
    Review completed sessions, reports, analytics, and post-hire outcomes.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Choose your path

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Configure" icon="sliders" href="/configure/overview">
    Set up your organization structure, evaluation rules, and governance.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploy" icon="rocket" href="/deploy/overview">
    Launch sessions and document workflows, and integrate with your systems.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitor" icon="chart-line" href="/monitor/overview">
    Review reports, analytics, and post-hire outcome intelligence.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Where to go next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Admins" icon="user-gear" href="/configure/overview">
    Start with **Configure** to set up your organization.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Developers" icon="code" href="/deploy/overview">
    Head to **Deploy** and the **API Reference** to integrate.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Security & compliance" icon="shield-check" href="/trust/security">
    Review **Trust & Compliance** for security, privacy, and responsible AI.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Hiring teams" icon="users" href="/monitor/overview">
    See **Monitor** and **Best Practices** for reports and rollout guidance.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## FAQs

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Is Exterview an ATS?">
    No. Exterview is an evaluation layer that works above your existing ATS. It conducts and scores evaluations end to end rather than tracking a pipeline.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Do we build the AI agents ourselves?">
    No. The agents ship pre-built. You configure your organization's context
    (structure, rules, and governance), and Exterview evaluates against it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What does Exterview evaluate?">
    Candidates across the full lifecycle, and the AI agents that assist them.
    Scoring is content-based, meaning what a candidate says, not biometrics or
    tone.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Is a human always in control?">
    Yes. Human review applies to outcomes, and no adverse decision is made autonomously.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="play" href="/get-started/quickstart">
    The end-to-end flow, start to finish.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Core Concepts" icon="book-open" href="/get-started/core-concepts">
    The platform's mental model and vocabulary.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>