Candidate Handbook

👋 Welcome!

Hey there! Thanks for checking out EverAI.

This handbook was made just for you, a potential new colleague, to give you a sneak peek into who we are, what drives us, and how we collaborate to make big things happen.

We're super excited that you're considering joining our team, and we can't wait to see what we can create together!

Check out the pages below to learn more about us!

Watch this — 2 min from our team

🚨 Newsflash 🗞️: Candy.ai is now the 4th largest AI web product in the world by unique monthly users, under two years after launch.

Ranking chart of the top AI apps by monthly users, showing Candy.ai at #4 with 20 million users

👉 We have a real opportunity to shape entirely new categories and we need bright go-getters to help us make this happen.

👉 If that excites you… dive into this handbook, prepare well for your interviews and LET'S GOOOOO! 🔥

🚧 Our team is working on building more candidate resources. If you don't see what you're looking for, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter anytime. We're your partners in this journey, and we're here to answer any questions you may have along the way! :)
👥 Who We Are

Our Vision

EverAI - Building the future of AI Companionship.

At EverAI, we're shaping what it means to connect with AI. With 50 Million users and counting, we're not just building a product, we're creating an entirely new category.

Our vision is clear: “To combat loneliness and boredom through immersive and lifelike AI experiences.”

We are the team behind:

  • Candy.ai: The world's largest AI companionship platform, redefining companionship for millions.

Up next? We are doubling down on Candy.ai, tailoring experiences to specific user preferences and ensuring we dominate every niche of the AI companionship market.

All of this is governed by our proprietary moderation system, EverGuard: an internal AI designed to ensure everything we build is safe, ethical, and human-first.

🪄 As part of the team, you'll help bring these stories to life, building the future of AI companionship, where imagination knows no limits.

Our Values

Illustrated infographic of EverAI's six core values: Make It Happen, Aim Bigger Go Faster, Stay Hungry Stay Curious, Own It All of It, Enjoy The Journey, and Conquer Together

Meet the Team

Our team is made up of a fully remote group of A-players from Tier 1 tech. We move fast, and care deeply about what we build, and who we build it with.

Leading our journey is a founding team with deep entrepreneurial roots and a proven track record of success. Having built and scaled multiple web products from the ground up, all the way to IPO, they bring the kind of expertise and leadership that transforms ambitious ideas into reality.

Thomas Lacroix, Co-founder and CMO
Thomas Lacroix Co-founder & CMO
  • 8+ years in Customer Acquisition & E-commerce Growth
  • Serial-entrepreneur: Curatible (sold to Blackstone) and MTK Digital (exited / 0->$20m revenue)
Michael Monin, Co-founder and CTO
Michael Monin Co-founder & CTO
  • 9+ years as CTO / COO, 3 years in AI/LLM
  • Serial-entrepreneur: MTK Digital (exited / 0->$20m revenue) and Zipchat (exited / AI Chatbot for E-commerce brands)
Alexis Soulopoulos, CEO
Alexis Soulopoulos CEO
  • 10+ years in Tech Executive Leadership
  • Co-Founder Mad Paws Holdings (from 0 to IPO)
  • Forbes 30U30 + Deloitte TechFast50 '22 & '23
Dr. Maruša Fasano, CFO and Legal
Dr. Maruša Fasano CFO/Legal
  • 25+ years in Finance, Strategy, M&A
  • Ex-CFO/M&A @Curatible (exited to Blackstone)
  • Ex-President of the Board @SotremoSA (exited)
  • Co-founder/CFO @SoftOne (exited)

At EverAI, we are lucky to have an incredible group of people who bring their expertise from world-renowned companies, such as:

Logos of companies our team previously worked at, including Revolut, Shopify, CloudKitchens, Farfetch, PandaDoc, Gojek, JD.com, Deel, Bain & Company, BCG, Walmart, Bitpanda, eharmony, and Spotify

We're a mix of smart, passionate people who love solving problems and pushing the boundaries of AI. When you join us, you'll work alongside colleagues who are not just experts in what they do, but are also excited to share, learn, and have fun building something incredible together.

EverAI team celebrating on stage at the CandyCon26 company gathering in Buenos AiresEverAI team group photo wearing Argentina jerseys at CandyCon26 in Buenos Aires

The team at our annual company gathering - CandyCon26 in Buenos Aires!

What Sets Us Apart

Besides our Team described in above section, EverAI is a unique opportunity because:

Exponential Growth

From 50M users in 2 years, to 100M next, and 500M beyond.

Track Record of Category-Creating Innovation

We consistently launch world-first AI applications. We are setting the pace, not following it.

Global Impact

Top-tier user growth, real-world adoption, and cultural relevance.

Ethical Core

Finally, we built the world's most advanced AI Content Moderation, it's for users, technology & financial partners, and for attracting the right talent.

Our dedicated Compliance team, led by our Ethics & Compliance Officer and working closely with our AI teams, ensures that ethics and compliance are embedded in everything we build and do:

🛡️ EverGuard, our proprietary AI-Powered Moderation Technology

Our advanced AI technology protects against any prohibited content, ensuring a safe environment for all users.

✅ Audited and Transparent

We're independently audited by a trusted audit firm and overseen by our Board of Directors, guaranteeing accountability. Payment providers, banks, and other partners regularly audit us to meet strict compliance standards.

🏦 Investor-Backed Stability

We've raised a $10M seed round from prominent investors who conducted rigorous due diligence before investing.

By joining EverAI, you'll be part of a team that values integrity, innovation, and trust at every level.

💻 What We Do

How It Started 🚀

🔞 A quick but important note: EverAI is an 18+, adults-only platform. Candy.ai is designed exclusively for verified adult users. This shapes everything from our product decisions to our Trust & Safety infrastructure, so it's worth keeping in mind as you read through this Handbook.

It all started when our co-founders, Michael and Thomas, set out to create a WhatsApp chatbot assistant. But as they dove deeper into analyzing how users were interacting with it, they stumbled upon something surprising: people weren't just using it for assistance, they were using it romantically! 💘

That “aha” moment sparked a bold new direction. Instead of sticking with the original plan, Michael and Thomas took a leap and decided to build something unique: Candy.ai, a platform that helps people foster deeper, more meaningful connections.

Our Product & Technology

We believe that AI isn't just about answering questions, it's about creating experiences that feel alive. We're focused on developing technology that allows users to step into stories, create characters, and explore their fantasies in a safe, fun, and judgment-free environment.

Candy.ai

Our journey began with Candy🍬, the world's leading realistic AI companion platform.

Across the platform, we provide users with an array of tools to design and engage with AI companions in ways that reflect their personal vision.

Here is what our technology allows users to do:

  • Design & Customize: Users can design their own AI companions from the ground up, customizing appearance, personality traits, and voice, making each character truly unique.
  • Chat through Text & AI Phone Calls: We take immersion to the next level. With just one tap, users can connect through a phone call and experience the full power of the AI they created, like talking to an old friend or meeting an exciting new one.
  • Generate High-Fidelity Visuals: Users can describe a scene or idea, and our engine brings it to life. Whether they want a picture or a short video, a simple prompt generates a unique visual tailored to their imagination.

Pushing the Boundaries of Immersion 🚀

We don't just settle for “standard” features. We are constantly shipping industry-first innovations to make the experience deeper and more engaging:

  • Advanced Image & Video Tech: We've enabled users to turn static images (including Anime styles) into motion with 5-second and 10-second animations.
  • Group Chat: Users can now step into multi-character dynamics, where companions interact not just with the user, but with each other! 🤯
  • Hyper-Realistic “Live Action”: We have introduced Live Action models that blur the line between AI and reality, offering a level of visual detail that feels completely authentic.
  • The Explore Feed: We created an engaging Feed where users can discover high-quality content and characters created by our world-class content teams, providing endless inspiration and entertainment.
  • Memory System: It's not just a chat bot; it remembers. Users can now build long-term context with their companions, who recall specific details and shared moments to build a genuine bond.
  • Cam (New! 📹): A live-cam style feature that lets users see their AI companions live on camera, in real time, as if on a video call.
  • Candy Roulette (New! 🔀): A chat-roulette-style experience, randomly matching users with new AI companions for spontaneous, surprising connections.
  • Shorts (New! 🎬): Vertical, cinematic episodic content — ongoing stories told through short-form video, built for binge-worthy engagement.
  • Creators (New! ⭐): Partnerships with popular creators from OnlyFans, TikTok, and Instagram, bringing their digital twins to life on our platform.

How It's Going 🔥

Since our launch in September 2023, Candy AI has absolutely taken off, becoming the largest platform of its kind worldwide in record time!

With 20 million unique users per month, we've earned our place among the top 4 Generative AI web products globally, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the biggest names in the industry.

Chart ranking the top 50 Gen AI web products by unique monthly visits, with Candy.ai ranked #4

In under a year, we've hit eight-figure annualized revenue, a milestone that speaks to the incredible growth of our platform. Now, over 18 months in, we have scaled significantly past that milestone.

And we're not the only ones who've noticed: investors have too! We've successfully raised $10 million in funding, cementing Candy.ai as one of the fastest-growing companies in the space.

Our community of 50 Million users is a testament to the platform's incredible appeal and impact, particularly in two of the fastest-growing Gen AI categories: content generation and companion.

Chart showing AI companionship as the fastest-growing Gen AI category by monthly visits

To read the full article, visit this page.

According to Harvard Business Review, Generative AI in 2025 has shifted from technical use cases to emotional, personal, and human-centric applications.

Harvard Business Review chart of the top 10 Gen AI use cases, showing therapy and companionship as the top use case in 2025

To read the full article, visit this page.

🧠 Bottom Line

CandyAI isn't just riding the wave, it's shaping it.

In a world where users are actively turning to GenAI for companionship, intimacy, and purpose, CandyAI is building exactly what people are asking for, and doing it earlier and better than most.

We couldn't be prouder of how far we've come, and can't wait to see what the future holds for us! And the best part? We're just getting started!

Our Future (And Your Role in It)

We're not stopping here; and we need your help writing the next chapter. Coming soon, we're working on:

  • AI Chat in Local Languages: We are actively expanding our language capabilities to 16+ languages to make global interaction easier.
  • Improved AI-generated videos: Users' stories will come to life in moving pictures, turning words into vivid animations. Currently we offer 10 second videos, with ample improvement opportunities.
  • AI Live Streaming: We've set ourselves an ambitious goal: to be the first in the world to launch AI Live Streaming for our industry. We believe adoption will be off the charts, with use cases spanning far and wide.
  • AR/VR integration: Soon, users will step into their stories, living their fantasies through immersive AR/VR experiences.

👑 We acquired 50M users in 2 years, our goals is to reach 100M users in the next 12 months, and 500M after.

To achieve that, we're looking for exceptional talent ready to ship & scale world-first AI innovations fast, and co-create with us this category defining business.

The next few years will be transformative, and we're inviting you to be part of that journey.

🛡️ Safety and Ethics

Overview 🚀

  • Safety and ethics are at the core of our product and mission. We recognize our unique responsibility as an adults-only AI platform, and we take a safety-by-design approach, embedding safety into all aspects of our operation and all stages of the development lifecycle.
  • We know that you're reading this because safety is important to you, too. This document aims to strike a balance between providing meaningful information on our moderation controls while not compromising security by giving bad actors information on how to evade them. If you have specific questions about safety that aren't addressed here, we're happy to answer them during your interviews.

Technical and organizational measures

Technical measures

  • Users cannot upload or import external visual media to the platform. This prevents, for example, non-consensual intimate imagery and “nudification.”
  • All text and images are subject to moderation. We incorporate layered safeguards on the platform, continuous monitoring, and dedicated oversight to maintain safety and integrity.
  • Through ongoing collaboration between our Trust & Safety and AI teams, we are constantly improving and refining our proprietary moderation LLM (EverGuard), the top adult moderation tool worldwide.
  • Because our moderation technology is proprietary and security-sensitive, we can't share detailed implementation or infrastructure information publicly. You are invited to ask more specific questions during any interviews, and your interviewers will be happy to share more detailed information.

Organizational measures

Ensuring safety and ethics in our product is not a one-and-done or “check the box” exercise. It requires a culture of compliance, buy-in from top-level management, and an organizational commitment to safety.

The following gives an overview of how we've built a culture of compliance at EverAI:

  • We have a zero-tolerance policy for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and are committed to fully complying with valid requests from law enforcement. In addition to our other content moderation and removal controls, human moderators review flagged accounts and permanently block users that attempt to create CSAM. We are a registered reporter with and report known CSAM to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (or other local authorities as appropriate).
  • We have an in-house Ethics and Compliance Officer (ECO) who owns safety and compliance issues. This is not simply a title given to someone in the company; the position was specifically recruited-for. Our ECO works with all teams on an ongoing basis to address compliance and/or safety topics that come up in their work, for example, reviewing new features and characters before they are published on the platform.
  • All EverAI team members' onboarding includes safety/compliance trainings. Additional company-wide and department-specific trainings on safety and broader compliance topics (e.g., data protection) are also provided on an ongoing basis.

ℹ️ You can access our Trust & Safety hub here.

⚙️ Engineering at EverAI

Engineering at EverAI

If you're evaluating a role here, you deserve a clear picture of what you'd actually be working on.

This section gives you a direct, honest look at what Engineering at EverAI actually looks like:

🚧 Under the Hood

This article was written by our CTO & Co-founder, Michael Monin.

ℹ️ Why this matters for candidates

We're not a prototype. We run one of the most active AI companionship platforms in the world, on a lean, fast-moving Engineering team. If you care about scale, ownership, and shipping, read on.

Scaling AI companionship — under the hood of a 10B request monolith

💎 Why We Use Rails

Garry Tan recently noted that the world is “sleeping” on the combination of Ruby on Rails and AI-augmented coding. Because Rails is built on “Convention Over Configuration,” AI models like Claude can act autonomously within the codebase, resulting in massive productivity gains.

Tweet from Garry Tan explaining why Ruby on Rails paired with Claude Code is a major productivity unlock

At EverAI, we've turned that “unlock” into a reality at massive scale. We aren't just building an app; we are running a global infrastructure that handles:

Dashboard chart showing user activity over time: 28 million in 30 days, 8 million in 7 days, 1.3 million in 1 day

📊 The raw numbers

10–12 billion HTTP requests in a typical 30-day window. Peaks push well north of 400M/day. 80M+ visits, 41M+ uniques, and we're serving a full petabyte of data (mostly images/videos — they're heavy).

28,000,000Monthly Active Users
10,000,000,000+HTTP requests every 30 days
1 Petabyteof monthly data traffic

Last 30 days - Requests

Dashboard chart showing 10.28 billion HTTP requests over the last 30 days

⚒️ Keeping the queues happy

Everything non-trivial is async: image, messages, notifications, ML inference queues, analytics events etc.. All flowing through Sidekiq.

We process billions of jobs with basically zero backlog. On Rails.

Sidekiq Jobs

Sidekiq dashboard showing 1,350,729,260 background jobs processed

Throughput

Chart showing web throughput averaging 27,610 requests per minute

💥 The database is... not small

Single primary Postgres (plus read replicas) holding billions of messages, conversation, user profiles and more.

Total size ~1.81TB and growing fast. Indexing and query optimization never sleep.

Database

Database utilization dashboard showing 1.81 TB of data sizeDashboard showing approximate message counts, totaling over 2.5 billion messages

We ship fast 🚀

Reviews typically land in under an hour. Engineers spend the vast majority of their time on new features, not firefighting.

Heavy AI tool adoption in the codebase itself. PR velocity has been climbing steadily, with recent months routinely hitting 400–500+ merged PRs.

Charts showing monthly and cumulative merged pull requests and lines of code changed over time

Join Our Team

We're still early in the journey to 500M+ users. The fun problems ahead: real-time WebSocket scaling for millions of concurrent chats, smarter caching of personalized conversation context, cost-efficient image/video generation at extreme volume, thoughtful monolith sharding, and making the whole system bulletproof under viral traffic spikes.

The core stack is Ruby on Rails + Postgres + Redis + Sidekiq, but we're language-agnostic, strong modern backend/web experience matters way more than specific Rails years.

If any of this sounds like the kind of scale you want to tackle every day, we're hiring senior backend engineers (full remote, Europe time zones preferred).

The EverAI Way: What Shipping Fast Really Means

At EverAI, speed matters. We move fast because it helps us learn faster, validate ideas earlier, and stay ahead. We move fast because speed is a competitive advantage.

Shipping fast does not mean rushing or lowering the bar. It means focusing on the right problem, keeping solutions simple, and reducing wasted time. We value small, safe, high-leverage changes that are easy to review, test, and improve.

We care more about proving something that works than overbuilding too early. The goal is to find the simplest way to create value now, then iterate from there.

Speed also comes from communication. Strong teams flag risks early, ask for help quickly, and keep others informed so work keeps moving.

In practice, shipping fast at EverAI means:

That's how we move with urgency without losing quality.

🤔 Why Join Us?

Why Work at EverAI

Ambitious AI Project

We're only scratching the surface of what AI can do. With a multi-product ecosystem and new features like Live Streaming on the horizon, your contributions will have a direct and visible impact on shaping the future of our product.

A 5-Star International Team

Elite 100% Remote Team from Tier 1 tech companies, with a culture of ownership, velocity, and radical creativity. Our founding team has a proven track record, taking startups from zero to millions of users, all the way to IPO. Work alongside seasoned entrepreneurs, learn from the best, and build a product that reaches hundreds of millions.

Huge Traction

Since our product launch in September 2023, we've grown to 50 Million Users. You'll be joining a company that's already proving its potential and scaling rapidly.

Annual Performance Reviews

We see this as a collaborative process, where feedback flows both ways. Through collaborative annual performance reviews, regular check-ins, and open communication and feedback, we ensure your goals align with our mission. Your growth is immensely important to us.

Career Progression and Growth Opportunities

As we scale rapidly, so will your growth. Whether it's mastering new tools, exploring emerging technologies, or tackling ambitious projects, we'll give you the resources and freedom to grow your expertise and take your career to the next level.

Our Benefits and Perks

💥 Choose Your Path

Whether you're looking for a regular contract or prefer being a contractor, we've got you covered. As long as you're committed to the journey, we're excited to have you on board!

📍 Work From Anywhere

Full remote, no strings attached. Whether it's your home office or a beachside bungalow, you can choose where you do your best work. We trust you to create the environment that fuels you.

🌴 4 Weeks of Paid Time Off

We know the best ideas come when you're well-rested and recharged. Enjoy 20 days of PTO annually to reset, explore, or simply unwind.

👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Annual Team Gatherings

While we thrive as a remote-first team, we know nothing beats face-to-face connections. That's why we organize yearly meet-ups to bring everyone together, brainstorm, and strengthen the bonds that make us a powerful team.

❤️‍🩹 Health & Wellness Support

All contractors receive a $100 monthly allowance to support health insurance costs + Access to unlimited 1:1 sessions with psychologists and lifestyle experts through OpenUp (also available to up to three of your family members).

📚 Learning Budget

Fuel your growth with a learning budget, which you can use for courses, books, conferences, or any resource that helps you sharpen your skills and stay ahead.

🏢 Co-Working Space Budget

To make remote work more engaging and social, every team member can work from a co-working space up to twice per month, with a budget of €35 / $40 per visit. It's a simple way to connect with others, stay inspired, and enjoy a change of scenery whenever you need it.

💻 Company Laptop & Equipment

Laptop provided + monitor budget up to 250 USD + keyboard/mouse/mic/headphones budget up to 150 USD.

⚡ Top-Tier AI Tools for the Best Talent

You'll get access to tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Hugging Face, and others, to experiment, push boundaries, and bring your boldest ideas to life.

Candy.ai branded banners reading Aim Bigger Go Faster, Enjoy The Journey, Make It Happen, and Stay Hungry Stay Curious at the CandyCon team event

Some of our values displayed at CandyCon 2025.

EverAI values:

  1. Aim Bigger, Go Faster
  2. Enjoy The Journey
  3. Make It Happen
  4. Stay Hungry, Stay Curious
  5. Own It, All of It
  6. Conquer Together through Teamwork
Reality Check: Is EverAI Right For You?

We value transparency above all else. EverAI is an incredible place to grow, but it is not for everyone. We are a high-performance team moving at breakneck speed.

We want all our team members to be happy and motivated at work, so to save your time and ours, please read the following.

You might not enjoy working here if:

🚧 You prefer heavy structure and fixed processes
We build the plane while flying it. Processes change, priorities shift, and we often have to figure things out on the fly. If you need a strict playbook or a manager to tell you exactly what to do every day, this probably won't be a good place for you.
🐌 You have a low tolerance for fast iteration
We ship features fast (sometimes in hours, not weeks). We test constantly. If you need 100% certainty or prefer to spend weeks perfecting a plan before executing, our pace will feel uncomfortable.
🙅 You expect a rigid role without ownership
We value “Own It, All of It”. We operate with clear ownership. If something is broken, we fix it. We trust A-players to step outside their lane to fix problems and make decisions without waiting for approval. If you prefer strict job descriptions or rely on getting everyone to agree before moving forward, this isn't the environment for you.
🫣 You dislike being accountable and humble
With great freedom comes great responsibility. We trust you to work from anywhere, but we expect you to own your outcomes. If things go wrong, we expect you to raise your hand, learn, and fix it, not hide it.
🧪 You are uncomfortable with experimentation, ambiguity, or frequent change
We take risks. We try different things constantly to see what happens. Some things work; some don't. You need to be resilient enough to fail, learn, and try again immediately.
🏁 Our Recruitment Process

What You Can Expect

We respect your time and energy. Our recruitment process is designed to be rigorous yet efficient, ensuring we find the best A-players while giving you a transparent look into how we work.

While the specific steps may vary slightly depending on the role, here is the general roadmap of your journey with EverAI:

  1. 📄

    Step 1: Application Review

    After your application, a member of our team will review your application personally. We look for impact, speed, and alignment with our values.

  2. 🤝

    Step 2: Culture & Discovery Call

    Who: A member of our Talent Acquisition team.
    Goal: To get to know you! We'll discuss your background, your interest in EverAI, and answer your initial questions about the company. We want to ensure our culture of speed and ownership is a match for what you are looking for.

  3. 🧠

    Step 3: Hiring Manager(s) Deep Dive

    Who: Your potential future manager or a colleague from the team.
    Goal: A deeper conversation about your expertise. We'll dig into your past projects, the challenges you've solved, and the "wins" you are most proud of. This is your chance to geek out on your craft.

  4. 💻

    Step 4: The Challenge / Case Study

    What: A practical assessment or take-home task.
    Goal: We believe in "Show, Don't Tell." Whether it's a coding challenge, a design task, or a strategic case study, this step allows you to showcase your skills in a real-world context similar to the work you'd do here.

  5. 🚀

    Step 5: Founder Round / Cultural Fit Interview

    Who: Key stakeholders, cross-functional peers, or our Co-Founders.
    Goal: The final sanity check. We assess "Culture Add": how you will raise the bar for the team, and alignment on our long-term vision.

  6. 🎉

    Step 6: Reference Check & Offer

    Goal: We speak to your former peers/managers to understand how to set you up for success (don't worry, we will never contact anyone without your permission). Then, if it's a match, we roll out the red carpet with an offer to join the rocket ship!

A Note on AI Interview Recordings 📹

To support a consistent and fair hiring process in our remote-first environment, we use AI note-taking tools during interviews so interviewers can focus on the conversation rather than manual note-taking.
Consent is requested where required, and recording is always visible during the interview.
Rest assured, these recordings are strictly confidential, used solely for hiring decisions, and are permanently deleted after 4 months, in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice.

How to Ace the Interview

Most candidates don't fail interviews because they lack intelligence or relevant experience; they fail because they lack precision. In a high-velocity environment, we don't just value talent; we value reliability.

The candidates who perform best communicate clearly, focus on outcomes, and remove unnecessary detail.

Here is how to stand out in your interview process:

🎯 Prioritize Precision over Explanation

Don't just tell us what you did; tell us why it mattered. When using the STAR Method, keep the "Situation" brief and spend 80% of your time on Actions and Results.
• Stay Objective: Focus on outcomes, not emotions.
• Quantify Everything: Did you increase retention by 15%? Did you cut latency by 200ms? Numbers are the language of trust.

⚡ Show Your Velocity

One of our core values is "Aim Bigger, Go Faster." We look for a bias toward action. Share examples of when you chose "done" over "perfect" or iterated on a project in record time. Show us you can handle the speed of a remote, high-growth team.

📢 Be Concise & Direct

In a remote, high-speed environment, clear communication is a superpower.
• Be Concise: If your answer feels long, it is. Keep it sharp.
• Kill the Acronyms: Speak plainly. Clarity is more impressive than sounding technical.
• The "I Don't Know" Rule: If you're stuck, don't ramble. Say: "I don't know the answer to that yet, but here is exactly how I would find out."

🕵️ Ask Genuine & High-Signal Questions

Skip the generic, ChatGPT-generated questions. We want to see real curiosity about Candy.ai. Ask us about our roadmap, our specific technical debt, or the biggest bottleneck we're facing this quarter. Show us you've already started thinking like an employee.

✨ Be Authentic & Grounded

We hire people, not resumes. You don't need to be a "perfect" candidate; you need to be a precise one. Bring your unique perspective, your real challenges, and your honest experiences; failures included.

😮‍💨 Take a Breath, You've Got This!

If you encounter a tricky question, take a moment to gather your thoughts. Thoughtfulness and confidence always leave a good impression.

🔐 EverAI Applicant Privacy Notice

EverAI Applicant Privacy Notice

Last updated: 07 April 2026

  1. Introduction

    EverAI Limited (“EverAI”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal data you share with us during the recruitment and/or application process. EverAI is a "controller" in relation to such personal data. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you.

    This EverAI Applicant Privacy Notice is intended to inform you about how and why your personal data will be used and stored during the recruitment and application process.

  2. Data protection principles

    We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

    • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
    • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
    • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
    • Accurate and kept up to date.
    • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
    • Kept securely.
  3. Who is your personal information collected from?

    We collect personal information about job candidates from the following sources:

    • You, the applicant, when you apply for employment (e.g., directly through our website or through a job board) or respond to a proactive contact from us.
    • Publicly accessible sources, e.g., professional profiles like LinkedIn or platforms that showcase your work or experience relevant to a role.
    • Third parties with whom you have a pre-existing relationship and/or whom you authorize to provide us with information about you, including:
      • Referrers
      • Recruitment agencies. (For information on the data protection practices of recruitment agencies, please contact them directly.)
      • Your named references.
  4. The kind of information we hold about you

    In connection with recruitment and/or your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

    • Information in our standard application form (name, email, contact information, link to LinkedIn profile, location, work authorization confirmation for your location (yes/no), timezone information, salary expectations, answers to other role-specific questions, portfolios or other documents needed to consider you for a particular role, and answers to any free fields in the application form).
    • The information you have provided to us in your CV and/or additional documents that form part of your application.
    • Any information you provide to us during your interview(s) or during the recruitment, interview, and hiring process.
    • To facilitate hiring in our remote-first environment and accommodate varying timezones on the hiring team, we may ask to record interviews, so that all members of the hiring team can properly review the application. We will always ask for your consent before doing so, and it will always be clear in the call interface that a recording is in progress. We adhere to strict data deletion periods for any recordings (see Section 10 below).
    • Automatically generated transcripts of any recorded interviews.
    • Performance/results of any case study. We use this information solely to evaluate your fitness for the role.
    • Information obtained from sources other than yourself previously referred to in this notice.
    • Any legally mandated information per local requirements.

    You do not need to reveal, nor will we base our recruitment decisions on, any type of more sensitive information. However, if you voluntarily share this type of information (e.g., on your CV or in an interview), we may collect, store and process:

    • Information about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sexual orientation and political opinions.
    • Information about your gender identity and/or pronouns.
    • Information about your health, including information necessary to accommodate any disability.
    • Information about criminal convictions and offences.
  5. How we will use information about you

    We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

    • Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role.
    • Carry out reference checks.
    • Communicate with you and (as applicable) referring recruitment agencies about the recruitment process.
    • Keep records related to our hiring processes.
    • Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

    Once we receive your application materials, we will process that information to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is strong enough to invite you for an interview. If so, we will use the information you provide to us during your interview(s) to decide whether to make an offer of employment. If we decide to make such an offer, we will contact your references and/or perform any role-specific preliminary checks before making a final offer. You are responsible for informing your named references that you are giving us their contact information and obtaining any necessary consent for same. If you fail to provide requested information that is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application.

    As part of our recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools to assist in reviewing and summarizing application materials, parsing CV information, and transcribing interviews. These tools support human decision-making and are used to help organize and analyze information for the hiring team(s). AI systems used in this context do not materially influence employment decisions or make final hiring decisions, and candidates are never auto-advanced or auto-rejected via AI tools. All recruitment- and application-relevant decisions are made by humans.

  6. Automated decision-making

    You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.

    While EverAI may use AI tools for purposes consistent with this Applicant Privacy Notice, these tools operate only as decision-support systems and do not materially influence or independently determine application- or hiring-relevant decisions.

  7. Disclosure of your personal information

    We will only share your personal information with third parties where necessary for us to process your application. The parties to whom we may disclose your personal information include:

    • EverAI staff on the applicable hiring team: Internal staff receive information about your application on a need-to-know basis and are subject to confidentiality obligations. Generally, only members of the hiring team for a given role and top-level management have access to your application information.
    • Service providers: We use service providers to facilitate our hiring processes, including office tools and a centralized recruitment management platform. These service providers may only use your information to perform certain tasks on our behalf and have access only to the information needed to perform such tasks that we define. All third-party service providers or other recipients are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with applicable law.
    • Recruitment agencies: If your application came in through a recruitment agency, we share limited information regarding the status of your application with them upon request.
    • Other third parties required by law: We take our legal obligations seriously, and may access, preserve, and share personal information with regulators, public authorities, law enforcement, government agencies, or others, where we reasonably believe such disclosure is necessary to:
      • Comply with valid legal process, court orders, applicable law, regulations, or official requests;
      • Address illegal or suspected illegal activities, security, or technical issues;
      • Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our company, users, staff, or other third parties; or
      • Maintain and protect the security and integrity of our infrastructure.

    Your personal information may also be transferred outside the EEA or UK in connection with the application and recruitment process. As a remote-first environment, our staff (and members of the hiring team and management) are located and may access your information from outside the EEA or UK. Some of our service providers, including our centralized recruitment platform (Ashby), are also located outside the EEA or UK, including in the United States of America.
    When we transfer personal information outside the EEA or UK, we ensure that the transfer complies with this privacy notice and applicable law. Where an appropriate safeguard for transfers of personal information outside the EEA or UK is required, we generally rely on adequacy decisions published by, and/or Standard Contractual Clauses approved by, the European Commission and/or UK Information Commissioner's Office.

  8. Data security

    We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
    We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

  9. Data retention

    General retention period: We will retain your personal information for the duration of your application/recruitment process, and for two years after communicating the outcome of your application. We retain your personal information for that period so that: if you apply for another role, we have a record of previous decisions taken on your application; with your consent, we can consider you for future roles for which you may be a good fit; and, for applications coming through a recruitment agency, to fulfill our obligations under our contracts with them (e.g., when we are required to pay a commission for rejected applicants who are later hired within a specified period after the initial referral).

    Specific retention periods:

    • Any recorded interviews are deleted 4 months after recording.
    • Information relating to successful applicants will be transferred to their employment records, insofar as the information is necessary to establish an employment relationship or comply with legal obligations. In this case, retention periods are subject to our separate EverAI Staff Privacy Notice.
  10. Your rights related to your personal information

    Depending on your location, applicable legal requirements, and applicable exemptions, you have certain rights with respect to your personal information:

    • Right of access: You have the right to request access to your personal information, namely, receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
    • Right to rectification: You have the right to request rectification of the personal information that we hold about you, namely, have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
    • Right to deletion: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information.
    • Right to object: In some cases, you have the right to object to us processing your personal information where we are relying on our or a third party's a legitimate interest.
    • Right to restrict processing: In some cases, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal information.
    • Right to file a complaint: If you are in the EEA or the UK, you also have a right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority.

    You can exercise the above rights by contacting us at hello@everai.ai. We will respond to any data-related request as soon as practicable, and in any event within 30 days of receipt. We may require further information from you to verify the request, i.e., to ensure that it is really you making the request, or that any third-party requester has authority to act on your behalf.

  11. California Applicants

    In addition to the rights explained in this Applicant Privacy Notice, California residents also have rights under The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, subject to the exceptions therein. Applicants residing in California additionally have the right to:

    • Certain information concerning our collection and use of their personal information;
    • Request that we delete certain personal information we collected from them;
    • Appoint an agent to exercise their rights provided for by the CCPA, provided that we are able to verify the request from a third-party via a duly executed notarized power of attorney and sufficient information to allow us to verify your identity and locate your information in our systems;
    • Not be subjected to discrimination for the exercise of these rights.

    We do not sell (and have not sold in the past 12 months) your personal information to third parties. We do not share (and have not shared in the past 12 months) your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

  12. Additional inquiries

    If you have any additional questions not addressed in this Applicant Privacy Notice, please contact us at hello@everai.ai.

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