Textio has launched the ability to program company values into Lavalier, its AI-powered structured interview platform. The new feature enables hiring teams to define the specific values and competencies that matter to their organization, then measure how well each candidate demonstrated those values in every interview, surfacing evidence of what candidates said and did.
Lavalier enables programming of company values for evidence-based culture-fit measurement.
Surfaces candidate evidence for each value, not just post-interview opinions.
Values are role-agnostic and surfaced consistently across every interview.
Hiring teams decide how evidence fits into final decisions.
Designed to mitigate bias by defining and measuring what matters.
Lavalier is Textio's AI-powered structured interview platform.
Company values alignment or "culture fit" has historically been one of the hardest parts of hiring to get right, because it's rife with bias and impossible to measure. The ability to program company values and hire for them is built on the same principle as the rest of Lavalier: it surfaces evidence, it does not hand down a verdict. Companies program Lavalier with the specific values or competencies unique to their organization. Those values are role-agnostic and surfaced for every interview, so the whole team is evaluating against the same definition rather than a private idea of "fit."
After the conversation, a dedicated view shows where there's evidence a candidate demonstrated each value, where the signal is thin, and where a value simply wasn't covered. The hiring team decides how the evidence fits into their overall hiring decision. Hiring teams can define what "culture fit" actually means and then measure it by programming Lavalier with the specific values and culture aspects their company cares about. They can also measure values alignment across every open req, as defining values is programmed into a company's Lavalier OS once and then questions are surfaced for every interview across every open req.
"Company values alignment or 'culture fit' has historically been one of the hardest parts of hiring to get right, because it's rife with bias and impossible to measure. Throughout the 2010s, our response to this was to hire people who were 'culture adds,' which did nothing more than re-brand the measurement problem," said Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio. "The reality is every organization has values that matter to them and it's important their teams embody these values. Whatever those values are, the way you mitigate bias is by defining what matters and measuring it effectively across every candidate. Lavalier is the first interview platform to bring evidence-based measurement to company values and culture-fit."
About Textio
Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams. The company's latest innovation is Lavalier, a structured interview platform that helps recruiters and managers make better hires in half the time, with AI-powered intake, interview planning and support, evidence-based candidate evaluations, and debrief guidance. When teams can see clearly who sets the bar and why, high-quality hiring is easy to achieve with speed.
