---
title: "AI pre-screening"
description: "Finlay can pre-screen interested candidates with a short AI voice conversation, reminders and a role-based assessment."
plans: ["source"]
roles: ["hiring-manager"]
url: https://help.finlay.ai/prescreening/ai-prescreening/
lastReviewed: 2026-10-05
---

# AI pre-screening

Finlay can pre-screen interested candidates with a short AI voice conversation, reminders and a role-based assessment.

## What AI pre-screening does

Finlay can pre-screen an interested candidate with a short voice conversation
about the role before review. It helps clarify requirements that a profile
alone cannot answer and gathers answers to targeted screening questions.

## Set up the conversation

On Finlay Source, choose **AI pre-screen call** in the job's automation
settings and add useful screening questions when you create the job. Finlay
uses those questions and gaps in the profile evidence available for that
candidate to prepare the conversation. The questions can vary by candidate.

The candidate receives role context before the conversation and can ask
questions during it. See [Create a job](https://help.finlay.ai/jobs/create-a-job/) and
[Choose your automation level](https://help.finlay.ai/jobs/automation-levels/).

## When candidates receive the link

With automated outreach, Finlay gives the AI pre-screen link to candidates who
show clear interest in the role. With **I’ll screen them**, it sends the job
owner's booking link instead. With **Skip the call**, it sends no screening
link. See [Automated outreach](https://help.finlay.ai/outreach/automated-outreach/).

## Pre-screen reminders

After an AI pre-screen link is delivered, Finlay can send a reminder after 48
hours. It can send one final reminder 72 hours after the most recently
delivered link. There are at most two reminders, and Finlay stops when the
candidate replies or completes the pre-screen.

## What happens after the call

Finlay assesses a completed call against the role. Open the job's
**Candidates** tab to inspect the assessment and the candidate's evidence,
then decide what to do next. See
[Review candidates](https://help.finlay.ai/candidates/review-candidates/).