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Getting Started

This guide shows the full Gradient workflow. You finish onboarding, add your role, and ask Gradient to build your assessment. Then you invite a candidate and review their score.

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Onboarding

When you first sign in, Gradient shows a short four-step onboarding. It ends at role creation:
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Your details

Enter your name, your organization name (if you created the workspace), and your job role.
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Candidate sandbox

See what the candidate experience looks like.
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Scoring

Learn the scoring axes (deliverable, AI usage, durable skills) and session replay.
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Get started

A recap of the three steps to your first assessment: add a role, Gradient builds your assessment, and you invite candidates. The wizard then takes you to add your first role.

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Prerequisites

  • A Gradient account with admin access (owner or admin)
  • At least one candidate to invite

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Step 1: Add your role

Everything starts from a role, the job you are hiring for.
  1. Go to Roles and click Create role.
  2. Enter a title and paste or link the job description.
  3. To import the role from your ATS, click Import from ATS. First connect your ATS (see Integrations).

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Step 2: Gradient builds your assessment

The Gradient team builds each assessment by hand. We write the task brief, the data candidates search, and the scoring rubric for your role. You do not create or edit this content.
  1. Email hi@trygradient.ai with your role and what you want to test.
  2. Gradient builds the assessment and adds it to your workspace.
  3. Open the assessment and read the task. Tell us if you want a change.
Every assessment runs on the fixed Explore, Task, and Reflection phase model. Gradient sets the Task brief and time. See Assessments.
When the assessment is in your workspace, you can change its settings. These include the name, the due date, and feedback settings. See Assessments.

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Step 3: Invite a candidate

  1. Open the assessment.
  2. Click Invite Candidate.
  3. Enter their name and email. They receive an email with a unique assessment link.
To invite many candidates at once, see Bulk invite.

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Step 4: Wait for submission

The candidate opens the link and moves through the Explore, Task, and optional Reflection phases, then submits their deliverable (or it auto-submits when the Task timer ends). Check the session status:

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Step 5: Trigger scoring

Once a candidate submits, trigger the scoring engine:

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Step 6: Review results

Retrieve the score breakdown:
The response includes category scores with point breakdowns, a percentile ranking against other candidates who sat the same assessment, summary text, and suggested follow-up questions. You can also review the full session in the dashboard, including session replay, the AI conversation transcript, and the candidate’s workspace configuration. See Scoring for how scores are computed.