Purpose
The Smaya Assistant is the conversational surface of the platform. It answers from your organization’s own data with citations, and it is how you direct the work of your AI Employees. It is one surface of the OS, not the whole of it. The substance is the AI Employees doing the work; the assistant is how you ask about that work and direct it.Status: Available. Ask Smaya, streamed answers with a view of what the
agent did, report chat, memory across conversations, and actions that wait for
your approval are all Available.
Where you can ask
The Smaya page
Available. Open Smaya in Exterview to ask anything across your workspace — jobs, candidates, interviews, reports and rounds.
Beside a candidate report
Available. Report chat opens Smaya on the candidate report you are reading
and answers about that report, with citations to the evidence.
Your own assistant
Available. Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot reach the same AI
Employees over MCP. See Microsoft & Interoperability.
Slack
Upcoming. Ask an Exterview AI Employee in a direct message or with an @mention. Slack will be read-only: nothing is changed from Slack.
Streamed answers, and what the agent did
Available. Answers stream in as they are written, so you are not waiting on a blank screen. A transparency panel above the answer shows what the agent did to reach it: which AI Employee handled the question and which reads or actions it ran. The panel says what the agent did. The citations say where each point came from. Together they let you check an answer without taking it on trust.Ask and understand
Read-only. Nothing changes.Understand a person's evaluation
A plain-language summary of fit, strengths and gaps against the role.“Summarize this candidate’s fit for the role.”
Read back a report
The key points from any completed evaluation, without opening and scrolling it.“What did the phone screen flag?”
Compare
Finalists side by side on the dimensions that matter.“Compare the top three for this role.”
Explain a result
The reasoning and the evidence behind a score, so a decision is defensible.“Why did this candidate score well on communication?”
Check status
Where a role stands, who is waiting, and on whom.“Who is waiting on a decision for this job?”
Pick up where you left off
Smaya keeps your conversation history and can recall earlier conversations.“What did we decide about the analyst shortlist last week?”
Act, with your approval
Available. When you ask for a change, Smaya hands the work to the AI Employee whose job it is. Creating a role, publishing a job and contacting a candidate always show an approval card first.Draft and publish a role
Role Designer turns a brief into a drafted role with questions and scoring, and publishes it once you approve.
Invite candidates to screening
Screener reads applicants against the criteria and proposes who to invite.
Schedule panel rounds
Coordinator schedules, reschedules and cancels rounds, and refuses a real
clash rather than double-booking.
Start a role run
Upcoming. From a connected assistant, start a run for a role. See The Agent Swarm.
The line that does not move
Grounded and cited
Every answer traces to a source. When it does not know, it says so rather than inventing an answer.
Scoped to you
It reaches only what you could reach yourself, within your organization and
your own permissions.
Asks before it writes
Consequential changes wait on your approval. No hiring outcome is ever set by
the assistant.
Fully recorded
Every action and approval is captured and attributed.
FAQs
Is the assistant the same thing as Smaya?
Is the assistant the same thing as Smaya?
Smaya is the Agent OS, and also the name of the general-purpose AI Employee that answers across your workspace. The assistant is its conversational surface. When someone says “ask Smaya,” they mean this.
Do I need specific phrasing?
Do I need specific phrasing?
No. The prompts here are illustrative. It interprets natural requests in the
context of what you are viewing.
Can it do something I am not allowed to do?
Can it do something I am not allowed to do?
No. It operates entirely within your own role and permissions.
Can I ask from Slack?
Can I ask from Slack?
Not yet. Asking from Slack is Upcoming, and it will be read-only. Today, changes are made in Exterview or from a connected assistant, with approval.
Related
- AI Employees. The workforce the assistant helps you direct.
- How to use Smaya. Step-by-step in the app.
- Governance & Control. The approval model.