Paid pilot · Technical hiring signal
Make the technical hiring decision defensible.
HotTea turns completed assessment evidence, reviewer notes, transcripts, and role rubrics into Hiring Signal Reports: what the candidate proved, what they did not prove, where reviewers disagreed, and what to ask next.
What you pay for
Founding-team access. Hard caps, no overage.
Candidate sessions included each month.
Estimated monthly token cap. Requests stop before overage.
Why assessment teams care
Practical coding tasks still work. The missing piece is the AI-era audit trail of AI fluency.
GitHub-based assessments already show what a candidate can build. HotTea adds the reviewer packet for agentic engineering — how the candidate directs the agent, what they probe, what they push back on, what they verify. No proctoring, no locked browsers, no theater. The candidate works the way they really work. You read the receipts.
What lands in the packet
Real agentic workspace
Each applicant gets an isolated developer VM — Claude, Codex, tests, git, normal shell tooling. No mock IDE.
AI fluency evidence
Transcript, terminal output, git snapshots, final diff, tests, and a structured fluency analysis with quoted reasoning moments, probe responses, and follow-up questions.
Cost guardrails
Prompt length, message count, candidate session count, and monthly token caps are hard stops, not soft alerts.