Hiring

Hire without re-arguing the bar every round.

A hiring loop runs for weeks, across interviewers who rarely compare notes in real time. The bar — the scorecard, the comp band, the must-haves — gets decided once, early, in a conversation with your assistant. Then it re-drifts anyway, because nobody wrote it down where the next interviewer would actually see it.

You keep working in ChatGPT or Claude the way you do now. Giraffe is where the bar stays put.

Why the bar drifts round to round

You work out the shape of a role with your assistant — how many, what band, what actually matters versus what’s nice to have. That reasoning is good the day you have it. But a loop has several interviewers, spread across weeks, and the version each of them is working from is whatever they remember from the kickoff, or whatever the last candidate happened to ask.

So the band creeps between rounds, the scorecard changes shape, and a strong candidate gets a different bar than a weak one got the week before — not because anyone decided that, but because nobody had the original conversation in front of them.

What Giraffe does instead

You keep working out the plan the way you already do. When the shape is set, you say so — “Save the hiring plan — roles, bands and the scorecard.” — and it lands sorted: what’s current, what you decided, what’s still open. Every interviewer can open the same project before their round instead of asking you or guessing.

When a band moves, you say that too — “Update the backend band — it’s $150 to 175k now.” — and the number every interviewer sees updates with it, dated.

What that looks like

Say you’re running two backend hires and a design hire this quarter. You worked out the bands, the must-haves and the scorecard across a few conversations. Here’s the project every interviewer opens before their round:

Nothing is captured automatically. Giraffe has no view of your conversations — only what you ask your assistant to save, or type in yourself.

A candidate in round three gets the same bar a candidate in round one did, because the bar is written down and dated, not carried in whoever’s memory happens to be freshest. When it does move, everyone sees the same new number at the same time.

Most rounds, reading the project is all an interviewer needs. When the plan itself needs rework — the design req, a band that’s not landing offers — you can pick it up in ChatGPT or Claude with the whole plan already in front of it, which is exactly how Giraffe works.