Release Notes - v1.0.0

Truepick graduates from beta to its first stable release. This release is anchored by deterministic CV scoring — a seven-PR overhaul that makes the same candidate, same job, same settings always produce the same score, backed by a global fingerprint cache, whitespace normalization, and a full audit trail. The AI interviewer has been rebuilt on ElevenLabs + GPT-4o, interviews are now time-bound with per-job deadlines and automated reminders, and recruiters can schedule multi-interviewer panels with resume attachments or upload external transcripts for AI evaluation. A new embeddable job widget lets companies display live listings on any website with per-domain security. The release also delivers a redesigned dashboard, offer lifecycle tracking (accept/decline with reasons), an AI-powered candidate comparison report, and a complete UI overhaul — flatter design, dialog-based settings, and a rebuilt sidebar. Every dead beta feature has been removed to keep the platform honest and focused.

• Deterministic CV Scoring — the same candidate, same job, same settings now always produce the same score; a global fingerprint cache, whitespace normalization, and fingerprint-derived LLM seeds guarantee reproducibility; every evaluation stores the full audit trail
• ElevenLabs + GPT-4o Interview Pipeline — the AI interviewer now uses ElevenLabs for speech synthesis and GPT-4o for text generation, replacing the previous OpenAI realtime model
• Interview Deadlines & Reminders — each job has an expiry setting (default 7 days), with overdue/due-soon badges, and automated email reminders at 24h/1h/15m before the interview
• Multi-Interviewer Panel Scheduling — schedule with multiple panelists, each receiving their own invitation with the candidate's resume attached
• Embeddable Job Widget — embed live, paginated job listings on any website with `<iframe>`, secured by per-API-key domain allowlists and dynamic Content Security Policy
• Offer Accept/Decline Tracking — full offer lifecycle with accepted and declined statuses, decline reasons shown in the Application Journey pipeline, confirmation emails, and audit logging
• AI-Powered Candidate Comparison — side-by-side comparison report across JD criteria with downloadable PDF
• Redesigned Dashboard — compact single-page grid layout with funnel conversion cards, 4-series trend chart, and interview outcome donut chart
• Manual Transcript Upload — upload plain-text transcripts from external interviews for AI evaluation and scoring
• Bulk Upload Cancel — cancel in-progress bulk CV uploads with immediate cleanup of queued items and SSE broadcast

• Interview scoring redesigned — new scoring UI with per-job interview question management
• Country filter on applicants — filter by country with a consolidated popover and removable badge tags
• AI review edit history — tracks who edited, what changed, and when, with a history dialog showing before/after diffs
• Gmail connection warning — shows when Gmail is enabled as an application source without a connected account
• Silence watchdog fixed — resets on speech-start events, eliminating false nudges during long candidate answers
• Guest OTP through company SMTP — guest application OTP emails now route through the company's own email server
• Public API triggers AI review — applications submitted through the Public API now enter the scoring pipeline automatically
• Applicant refresh button — manual one-click refresh on the applicants toolbar

• 98% stuck-batch bug closed — timeout budgets on CV processing, idempotent state transitions, and exponential-backoff retry eliminate permanently stuck uploads
• SSE poll safety-net — recovers from missed completion events within 15 seconds instead of requiring a page refresh
• LiveKit double-dispatch prevented — DB-level atomic compare-and-swap ensures exactly one AI agent per interview session
• Browser translation protection — prevents Chrome/Edge translation extensions from corrupting React's DOM
• 73 migrations squashed — single `0000_init` baseline for clean new-environment deployments, with production drift reconciled

Same Candidate, Same Job, Same Score — Guaranteed

CV scoring was overhauled across seven PRs to achieve full reproducibility. This is the single biggest reliability improvement in v1.0.0.

What changed:

Why it matters:

• Recruiters can defend a hiring decision later — the evaluation details are preserved
• Workspaces can change scoring settings without losing the ability to look up older scores
• Re-scan operations no longer waste time and AI usage on results that were already final
• The prompt version is now tracked (`cv-review/v2`), so any future prompt change is explicit and auditable

AI Review now shows "Last edited by" with a history dialog — score comparison and before/after diffs for every edit

A New Voice for the AI Interviewer

The AI interviewer's voice and intelligence layers have been separated and upgraded:

Behind the scenes:

• The silence watchdog now resets on VAD speech-start events instead of only on final STT transcripts, eliminating false nudges during long candidate answers
• LiveKit session isolation was hardened with API-level enforcement (409 on cookie mismatch) and DB-level atomic compare-and-swap to prevent double agent dispatch

Time-Bound Interviews with Automated Follow-Up

Interviews no longer stay open indefinitely. Each job now has an `interviewExpiryDays` setting (default: 7 days), and each candidate gets a calculated deadline.

What recruiters see:

• Overdue and Due soon badges on applicant rows, with filter and sort controls
• Invitation emails show the actual deadline instead of "available 24/7"

Automated reminders:

• Sends at 24 hours, 1 hour, and 15 minutes before the interview
• Recipient-aware delivery — candidates and interviewers get different templates
• Atomic claim prevents duplicate sends
• Auto-cancels pending reminders when an interview is cancelled or rescheduled
• Configurable per workspace in interview settings

Applicant list showing Overdue (red) and Due Soon (amber) badges with deadline filter controls

Panel Interviews, Properly Supported

The single interviewer email field has been replaced with a dynamic list, making panel interviews a first-class feature.

Live Job Listings on Any Website

Companies can now embed a live, paginated job listing on their career page or any external website using a simple `<iframe>` tag with an API key.

How it works:

• Generate an embed token in Settings > API Keys
• Add your allowed domains to the token's allowlist
• Drop the `<iframe>` on your website — jobs update automatically as you post or close positions

Security model:

For developers:

<iframe
  src="https://truepick.ai/job-list/embed?apiKey=your_embed_token"
  width="100%" height="600px" frameborder="0"
  style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);"
  title="Job Listings">
</iframe>

From "Offer Sent" to "Accepted" or "Declined"

The Application Journey pipeline now tracks the full offer lifecycle instead of stopping at "Offer Extended."

New statuses:

For recruiters:

• Mark Accepted — single-step confirmation dialog
• Mark Declined — optional free-text reason (up to 2,000 characters) captured at the same time
• AI Review and Interview Summary edit buttons are locked once an offer is sent, preserving audit trail integrity
• All transitions create audit log entries
• Dashboard aggregation updated with offer outcome counts

Application Journey showing Offer Declined with the decline reason displayed below the step

Side-by-Side Reports with PDF Download

Recruiters can now generate an AI-powered comparison report for 2–4 candidates on the same job. The report evaluates candidates against the job description criteria, showing AI scores, skill matches, and strengths side by side, with a downloadable PDF for offline review or sharing with hiring managers.

Side-by-side candidate comparison against JD criteria with downloadable PDF

Everything Important, One Screen

The tabbed dashboard has been replaced with a compact single-page grid layout that shows the full hiring funnel at a glance.

Compact grid dashboard — funnel cards, trend chart, and interview outcomes on a single page

AI Evaluation for Off-Platform Interviews

Recruiters can now upload a plain-text interview transcript to complete an interview that was conducted outside the platform — phone screen, in-person, or an external video call. The uploaded transcript goes through the same AI evaluation pipeline as a live interview, producing scores, summaries, and hiring recommendations.

How it works:

• Open a scheduled interview and choose "Upload Transcript"
• Paste or upload the interview text
• The AI evaluates it against the job's interview questions
• Scores and recommendations appear on the candidate's profile, identical to a live interview

Stop a Running Upload Without Losing Everything

In-progress bulk CV uploads can now be cancelled with a single click:

• Kills in-flight processing functions immediately
• Marks queued items as failed without waiting for them to time out
• Stops pending file uploads to storage
• Broadcasts cancellation to all connected browser tabs via SSE
• Already-completed items in the batch are preserved

Flatter, Faster, Dialog-First

The entire application UI was redesigned in this release:

Dead Features Removed, AI Made Honest

Every incomplete or unused beta feature has been removed to keep the platform focused and the AI assistant honest about its capabilities: