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Notes from the Flipbase team.
What we've learned from building short video moments into recruitment flows, the AI arms race that has hiring teams stuck in the middle, and why we still believe the answer is one real human minute in the funnel.
A 30-minute test to know if your video screening tool will survive twelve months.
Most video screening tools quietly stop being used six months after the contract is signed. Here is the 30-minute test that predicts whether yours will too.
Flipbase team · 15 May 2026
- Integration·5 min read
Video moments, video interviews, video applications. What is the difference?
Three terms get thrown around in recruitment tech, often as if they meant the same thing. They do not. Here is the difference, and why it matters when you choose.
Flipbase team · 1 May 2026
- Integration·5 min read
The hidden cost of “just one more tab” in your recruitment stack.
Every tool that lives outside your ATS adds a tax that does not show up on the invoice. Here is how to see it.
Flipbase team · 17 April 2026
- Integration·6 min read
ATS-native vs ATS-adjacent. The integration question that decides adoption.
Two phrases that vendors use interchangeably and that mean very different things in practice. Knowing the difference is how you avoid a year of tool fatigue.
Flipbase team · 3 April 2026
- Integration·7 min read
Why standalone video interview tools die in your ATS.
Standalone tools have great features and shrinking usage. The pattern is so predictable it is almost a law. Here is what causes it and what to do instead.
Flipbase team · 20 March 2026
- Authenticity·6 min read
Bias in “unbiased” AI screening.
AI screening platforms are marketed as bias mitigation. The audit record says otherwise. Here is what HR teams should ask before adopting one.
Flipbase team · 6 March 2026
- Authenticity·6 min read
What gets lost when AI handles your first-round read.
AI screening flattens the things that matter most in early hiring. Here is what the model misses, and why a recruiter still needs to see it.
Flipbase team · 20 February 2026
- Authenticity·5 min read
Why we don’t score, rank, or predict candidates.
It would be technically easy to add a score to every Flipbase video moment. We have deliberately not built it. Here is the reasoning.
Flipbase team · 6 February 2026
- Authenticity·6 min read
AI screening AI applications. The arms race nobody asked for.
Candidates use AI to write applications. Recruiters use AI to screen them. The signal in the middle is collapsing. Here is the way out.
Flipbase team · 23 January 2026
- Authenticity·7 min read
Bringing authenticity back to hiring.
The Flipbase tagline is also our argument. Here is what we mean by authenticity, why we think the industry has lost it, and how a short video moment brings it back.
Flipbase team · 9 January 2026
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