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Real hires. Real results.

We saw one candidate use Claude to write 50 personalised outbound emails in under 20 minutes. That is the fluency we needed in an SDR.

Sarah Kim
Sarah Kim
Head of Sales Development

Grainy took the guesswork out of assessing AI skills for a creative role. We saw the actual work, made a shortlist of three, and hired within two weeks.

James Thornton
James Thornton
Creative Director

Grainy found us a PM who now runs sprint planning, PRDs, and stakeholder updates through Claude. That workflow fluency was impossible to screen for before. Now it is the first thing we look for.

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Alex Chen
Chief Product Officer

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How it works

01

Describe the role

Tell us what you're hiring for and how your team operates!

grainy — Post a Role
Role Title
Sales Development Representative 
Team
Sales
What does this person do day-to-day?
Prospect into mid-market accounts, run cold outbound, and book qualified meetings for the AE team.
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02

We build a custom task

We build a task around your actual workflows, not a generic test. Something the candidate would genuinely do in the role.

grainy — Task Builder
Sales Development RepresentativeAI-enabled · 90 min
Build a sales deck and cold email campaign for a new product launch
1
Build a 10-slide sales deck targeting mid-market SaaS buyers
2
Write a 5-email cold outbound sequence
3
Personalise the sequence for 3 different buyer personas
4
Include a follow-up cadence with objection handling
Candidates may use
Any AI tools they choose. Screen recorded throughout.
03

Candidates complete it using AI

We send the task to candidates in our network. They can use any AI tools they want. We record their screen the whole time so you can see how they actually worked.

grainy — Session Recording
REC
AI Tool Activity
PerplexityPerplexity04:11
What pain points do mid-market SaaS buyers care about most in 2024
ChatGPTChatGPT19:38
Write a cold email sequence for a new CRM tool targeting sales ops leads
ClaudeClaude38:52
Rewrite this email to sound less salesy and more like a peer reaching out
GammaGamma54:17
Turn this outline into a 10-slide sales deck with a strong opening hook
1:02:47 elapsed4 tools used
04

AI reviews every submission

Our AI goes through each submission and scores the output quality, which tools they used, and how well they used them. You get specific feedback, not just a number.

grainy — AI Assessment
Analysing
SC
Sofia Cruz
Sales deck + email campaign · SDR task
Scoring in progress…
AI Tool Usage
Candidate should have prompted better for the sales deck copy and tried using a more design-centric tool. Gamma or Beautiful.ai would have elevated the visual quality significantly.
Output Quality
Output would get the job done, but lacks a convincing hook and an attention-keeping design. The value prop on slide 3 is generic and the email sequence reads too templated to convert well.
Prompting Qualityanalysing…
05

You get a ranked dashboard

Every candidate gets two scores: Output Quality and AI Proficiency. You also see their estimated annual salary so you can compare performance and cost in one place before deciding who to interview.

grainy — Candidate Dashboard
Sales Development Representative
18 submissions · AI-scored
Task Active5 Shortlisted
P
Priya Sharma
Stanford '24
$52K–$64K
est. / yr
Out 96%AI 94%
R
Rohan Mehta
MIT '25
$88K–$102K
est. / yr
Out 94%AI 91%
S
Sofia Cruz
DLSU '24
$20K–$28K
est. / yr
Out 91%AI 88%
M
Marcus Reyes
UC Berkeley '25
$48K–$60K
est. / yr
Out 88%AI 85%

We only win
when you do.

No monthly fees. No setup costs. No charges for browsing candidates. We earn a success fee only when a hire closes — meaning our incentives are completely aligned with yours.

Post a Role
Free. Always.
Browse & Score
Free. See every candidate.
Hire
Pay only on success.
10%
of base salary — one third of the cost of agencies
ON HIRE ONLY
Full Refund Guarantee
If an employee leaves or is dismissed in the first 3 months, you get a full refund.
How much?
Only 10% of the annual compensation.

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