> ## 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.

# Common Questions

> Straight answers to the hard questions enterprise buyers ask about Exterview: vendor lock-in, bias controls, model autonomy, data handling, and build vs. buy.

## Purpose

The questions that come up in every serious evaluation, answered directly.

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  <Accordion title="Why not just use our ATS's built-in AI?" icon="plug">
    ATS AI is built to move candidates through a pipeline, not to evaluate them to your bar. Exterview adds org-specific, reproducible evaluation and a post-hire loop on top of the ATS you already run, the two are complementary.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Will this lock us in?" icon="lock-open">
    Exterview layers above your stack and integrates through standard connectors.
    Your data is yours, exportable, and specific to your organization. The value
    that accrues, your calibration, belongs to you.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How do you prevent bias?" icon="scale-balanced">
    Role-relevant rubrics applied consistently, content-based scoring (not face,
    tone, or biometrics), explainable results, and mandatory human review. See
    [Responsible AI](/trust/responsible-ai).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does the AI make the hiring decision?" icon="user-check">
    No. Exterview produces decision *support*; a human always owns the outcome. No
    fully autonomous adverse decision is made.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why not build this in-house?" icon="screwdriver-wrench">
    You can build a prompt; the hard part is reproducible, versioned, per-customer
    calibration plus a closed post-hire loop, a set of specialized agents, and
    compliance, sustained over time. That's the system Exterview is.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What about our data?" icon="shield-halved">
    Specific to your organization, encrypted, and never pooled into a shared model
    or sold. Configurable retention policies are still being finalized. See
    [Privacy & Residency](/trust/privacy-residency).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How is this different from a skills graph?" icon="diagram-project">
    A skills graph is one static model served to everyone. Exterview calibrates to *your* organization and compounds with *your* outcomes, the advantage is yours, not the vendor's.
  </Accordion>
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## Related

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  <Card title="Why Exterview" icon="compass" href="/why-exterview/overview">
    The category and the thesis behind Exterview.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How We're Different" icon="arrow-trend-up" href="/why-exterview/difference">
    The pillars behind the answers above.
  </Card>
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