At Attest, AI is far from something we’re shying away from. It's part of how we work, and we're genuinely excited by all it has to offer ourselves and our customers. We build AI-powered products, our team uses AI every single day to do better work, and the people who use it brilliantly are doing some of the most amazing work. So, we're not telling you to avoid it - quite the opposite: We actually want to see what you can do with it.

Let's not be coy: How you use AI is a live, real part of how we assess your fit with us - not a side note, not a footnote, but a genuine signal we're looking closely at every talented person who’s considering joining us. We look for it in the way you prepare, the way you think, the way you work through a task, and the way you'd operate in the job itself. If AI fluency is a superpower (we think it is), we want to see yours in full flight.

But here's the twist: Attest people hire people. Not prompts, not outputs, not polished paragraphs a model can produce for anyone. AI can sharpen your thinking; it can't replace it, and it definitely can't be you in the room. Every hiring decision here is made by a human, looking for another human - someone with real judgement, real experience, and a real point of view that AI could never manufacture on your behalf.

So here's our honest, excited, and completely upfront guidance on how to bring your best AI game to our process - and why it’s potentially more important than you might think.

Do (and we really mean it!)

• Use AI to research and prepare like a pro;

• Use AI to sharpen, tighten, and elevate your own writing;

• Use AI to practise, pressure-test, and structure your thinking;

• Show us your best AI judgement (because we're watching for it, in a good way.)

Don't

• Use AI to invent examples or experiences you haven't had (we’ll soon know);

• Use AI to complete assessments without adding your own judgement (again, we’ll know);

• Use AI to answer questions live in an interview (we will definitely know.)

We're not going to pretend this is a vague vibe check. Here's exactly where your AI game shows up on our radar in the process, and in the job:

• In your prep - the quality of your questions in an interview often tells us how well you've used AI to get under the skin of the role. Sharp prep = sharp conversation.

• In your work - on a task, we're watching the decisions around the AI, not just the AI's output. What did you keep, what did you cut, where did you override it, and why?

• In the debrief - we'll ask you to walk us through your process. This is one of our favourite parts of the whole interview so please come ready to talk shop.

• In the job - this doesn't stop once you're hired. Using AI well is a working skill here, like writing clearly or reading a room. We'll keep looking for it, because we keep valuing it.

Think of it less like a test you pass or fail, and more like a craft we're genuinely curious to see you practise.

Here's the bit that never changes, however sharp AI gets: Attest people hire people. We can assess your AI fluency all day long, but the final call always comes down to a human being convinced by another human being, your judgement, your story, your fit. AI can help you show up as your best self. It can't show up instead of you.

We use it too, to help draft job descriptions, prepare interview questions, take notes, and write candidate communications. But the decision itself is always ours, made person to person. And we never use anything you share with us to train models.

Use AI to refine, not replace - and enjoy doing it. Tighten your writing, sharpen your structure, catch every typo. Go for it. Just make sure the experiences and ideas are genuinely yours. We're not scoring how well AI can write; we're trying to understand who you are, and how sharply you can express it.

A good test: if we asked you about something in your application in an interview, could you speak to it authentically, with energy and detail? If yes, you're using AI exactly as we hoped. If not, go back and make it yours.

This is where AI can genuinely give you an edge. Use it to research Attest inside out, anticipate the questions coming your way, and structure your thinking around your own experiences. Want to rehearse out loud? AI makes a brilliant sparring partner - use it.

A few ways to get the most out of it:

• Paste the job description in and ask AI to pull out the key skills and behaviours being assessed;

• Map your own experiences against those areas;

• Ask AI to help you prep for likely questions, or summarise public information about Attest, our product, and our market;

• Ask it to help you frame a specific experience more clearly - just make sure the substance is yours, because we will ask a lot of questions around it.

One simple rule: No AI during live interviews. We're not trying to catch you out, we just want a real conversation, human to human. Bring notes if that helps you feel prepared, but generating answers in real time breaks the connection we're genuinely excited to build with you.

Let's be completely transparent, because we want you to be able to decide, right now, whether this is the right process for you.

You will have real opportunities, built into the task on purpose, to show us how you use AI:

• You'll have AI tools available and you're expected to use them. We're not testing whether you can do the task with your hands tied behind your back.

• We'll ask to see your working - the prompts you wrote, where you pushed back on the model, where you overrode it, and where you decided AI wasn't the right tool for that particular step.

• We'll talk it through with you afterwards, in detail. This is one of our favourite parts of the whole process, and it's not a formality; it's where a lot of our real insight into your ways of working will come from.

And here's the bar. Think of it as three levels:

• Level one is using AI as a tool - asking it to draft something and folding the output into your own work. That's useful, and it's table stakes here; it won't make you stand out for all of our roles.

• Level two is using AI end-to-end on a problem: Letting it help you rethink your actual approach, not just polish the output, and being able to say clearly what you changed and why. This is the baseline level we're hiring for for 90% of our roles.

• Level three - orchestrating whole fleets of agents like a virtual team - is where the frontier is heading, and we love candidates who are already curious about it, but it's not necessarily the bar for this stage. In fact, it’s more likely the bar for only 5-10% of our roles currently.

We're telling you this upfront on purpose. If chasing that second level sounds exciting, this is the right place for you. If it sounds like a lot - that's honestly useful for you to know now, not three interviews in.

Not sure what's fair game for a specific task? Just ask - we'd rather you ask than guess.

If AI supports a reasonable adjustment, note-taking, processing information on a call, whatever helps, tell your recruiter ahead of time so we can set things up properly for you.

If you're unsure about anything, just ask. You can reach us at talent@askattest.com. All conversations are treated in confidence and won't affect how we assess your application.