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 want to be transparent. We use AI to help write job descriptions, prepare interview questions, take notes, and draft candidate communications.

AI does not make hiring decisions at Attest, every decision is made by a person. We also don't use any information you share with us to train AI models.

Use AI to refine, not replace. If you want to use an AI tool to tighten up your writing, improve structure, or check your spelling — go for it. What we ask is that the experiences, examples and ideas are genuinely yours. We're not reading your application to see how well AI can write. We're reading it to understand who you are.

A good test: if you were asked about something in your application during an interview, would you be able to speak to it authentically? If yes, you're using AI well. If not, it's worth going back to your own words.

This is where AI can be genuinely useful. Use it to research Attest, get familiar with the kind of questions you might face, or help structure your thinking around your own experiences. If you want to practise talking through your answers, AI can be a useful sparring partner.

Here are some ways to make the most of it:

• Paste the job description into an AI tool and ask it to identify the key skills and behaviours being looked for.

• Think about your own experiences that speak to those areas.

• Ask AI to help you prepare for likely questions based on the role, or to summarise publicly available information about Attest, our product, and the market we're in.

• You can also ask it to help you frame a specific experience more clearly, just make sure the content is yours.

This one is straightforward: please don't use AI during live interviews. We're not asking trick questions or trying to catch you out, we genuinely want to have a real conversation. Having notes to hand is absolutely fine but using an AI tool to generate answers in real time breaks the connection.

We expect you to use AI tools if they help you do your best work, that's how we work at Attest, and we'd find it odd if you didn't consider it. However, what we're interested in is your judgment, not just the output.

During your interview, we'll ask you about it: where you used AI, why that felt like the right call, and whether you did anything differently as a result.

If you are unsure if or how you can use AI in a Skills Assessment or take home tasks, just ask.

If you use an AI tool as part of a reasonable adjustment, for example, to help with note-taking or processing information during a call, please let your recruiter know ahead of time so we can ensure that everything is set up in a way that works 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.