HireVue turned video interviews into a scalable filter. Synfia takes the next step: intelligent voice dialogues that don't just screen candidates but continuously capture what employees, customers, and stakeholders actually think — with the depth of a qualitative interview and the scale of a survey.
HireVue is a hiring platform. Synfia is the Conversational Insight Infrastructure for the enterprise. Organizations that outgrew one-way video interviews for internal research, transformation, and voice-of-employee programs typically land here.
| HireVue | Synfia | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Candidate screening and hiring workflows | Structured listening across employees, customers, and stakeholders |
| Interview format | One-way recorded video answers to fixed questions | Real-time voice dialogue with adaptive follow-up questions |
| Depth of insight | Structured answers per question, ranked for hiring signals | Full qualitative narrative per participant, coded and quantified |
| Participant experience | Camera on, recorded, evaluated | Voice conversation, no camera, no evaluation — audio discarded |
| Data storage | Video and audio stored for review | Only transcripts stored. Audio is never persisted. |
| Analysis | Scoring rubrics designed for hiring decisions | Thematic analysis, sentiment, driver detection across all interviews |
| Time to insight | Days to weeks per hiring cohort | Hours. Live dashboard as interviews come in. |
| Cost profile | Per-seat / per-interview licensing tuned to TA teams | Program-based, scoped to research and intelligence budgets |
| Hosting and compliance | US-headquartered, global infrastructure | EU-hosted, GDPR-first, ISO-aligned controls |
Transformation programs, employee listening, customer research, and stakeholder consultation need different signal than a screening interview produces.
People say different things to a camera than to a voice. Voice-only, no-evaluation dialogues consistently produce more candid answers.
Watching video is not analysis. Synfia codes and quantifies every transcript automatically, so you can see themes, drivers, and outliers at a glance.
Synfia never stores audio. Transcripts are the single artifact, and everything runs on EU infrastructure.
HireVue is purpose-built for candidate screening. If your workflow is talent acquisition and you need structured, scorable video answers integrated with your ATS, that's the right tool. Synfia isn't a hiring platform and doesn't try to be.
No. Synfia is not a hiring platform. It replaces the internal research, employee listening, and stakeholder feedback use cases that some organizations tried to force into HireVue.
HireVue asks a fixed question and records the answer. Synfia holds a real conversation — it follows up on what the participant says, probes contradictions, and adapts to the individual response, closer to a human interviewer.
Audio is transcribed in real time and then discarded. Only the transcript is stored. This is a deliberate design choice for privacy and works well for enterprise compliance reviews.
Days, not months. Most enterprise programs are live within two weeks of the Expert Consultation.
A 45-minute Expert Consultation shows the platform against your actual use case — transformation, employee, customer, or stakeholder intelligence — and where it does and doesn't fit.