The HireBus hiring platform

HireBus is hiring software for home service crews, sales teams and office staff. Iris, its AI recruiter, messages every applicant within seconds, interviews them by phone and prioritizes who you should talk to first.

A week of hiring with Iris

Read the interview answers

Each interview lists what the applicant said about experience, pay and availability, with the full transcript.

Pick who to meet

You choose who gets an interview, and it goes on your calendar.

Keep the job details straight

Applicants ask about the van, the uniform and on-call. Give the team your answers so applicants know the working conditions up front.

Meet the person behind the answers

Ask about the work they described in the Iris interview.

A young electrician waits in a contractor's front office holding a folder

Decide on the offer

Make the offer when you're ready. If you want, Iris keeps recruiting for the role and adds good applicants to your bench.

Three white service vans with ladder racks in a Phoenix contractor's yard at dawn
Youdecide
Timing varies by role and market.

What Iris, the HireBus team and you each handle

HireBussetup and campaign
  • Helps set up your role and the questions Iris asks
  • Posts your job ad and runs the campaign
  • Tests and manages the ads on the budget you approve
Irisfollow-up and phone interviews
  • Writes your job ad
  • Messages every applicant within seconds and keeps following up
  • Interviews every applicant by phone and prioritizes who you should talk to first
Youthe hiring decisions
  • Approve the job details and the ad budget
  • Interview the people you pick
  • Decide who gets an offer and on what terms

Your candidate list in the HireBus app

Iris prioritizes who you should talk to first. The Needs Review list is where you see it.

1Iris WorkingThe HireBus desktop app, Candidates screen: a Needs Review list of 12 ordered by RightSeat score with a 'Why Iris flagged them' column, an All Candidates list with Iris Working statuses, and the Ask Iris rail with a morning brief
Close-up of the Needs Review list: Marcus Webb 9, led crews of 4 and asks sharp questions; Tyler Nguyen 8, finished the Iris interview strong; Noah Vega 6, ran a service desk for 6 techs2Sorted by fit3Why she flagged them
  • 1
    Iris Working means she's still on itShe is still messaging or interviewing that applicant.
  • 2
    Sorted by fitThe list is ordered by RightSeat score: behavior, experience and skills.
  • 3
    Why she flagged themA short reason for each person, taken from the interview, with the full answers behind it.

The candidate summary and RightSeat score

After each Iris interview you get a candidate summary. RightSeat™ scores the applicant on behavior, experience and skills for the seat you're filling. How RightSeat works

  • Question. Tell me about a residential service call you handled on your own.
  • Answer. She describes tracing an outage and explaining the repair to the homeowner.
  • Your next step. Ask how she tested the fault and talk through your on-call rotation.

Hear a full Iris phone interview, with the transcript, on the Iris phone interviews page.

Best hire I think I've ever made. He is just killing it… I got 40 to 50 hours a week back.

PatrickBig League Painting

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Within nine days, we had over a hundred applications.JC Chanowsky, Patriot Illumination

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