Proof

What we can actually show you.

This page exists because the honest version is more useful than a wall of borrowed credibility. Here is what is real today, and what is not here yet.

1,700
interviews, 28 countries
The questions never mattered. What separated seniors was how they answered: trade-offs, consequences, and knowing where their own solution breaks.

Alexey Borovkov · founder · former lead technical interviewer, led an interviewing team of 22 for four years

Live

In production since June 2026

Not a prototype and not a waitlist. Screening and interviews run on real roles today.

Validated

700+ engineering resumes

The screening layer was tested against a corpus of real engineering CVs before it went near a client's pipeline.

Integrated

Teamtailor, GDPR

Connects to your ATS. Candidate data is processed for your role and nothing else, and never resold as a talent pool.

Deliberately empty

No client logos, no testimonials, no G2 badge, and no “trusted by N companies” number on this page. Every one of those slots is built and waiting. They get filled the day a real customer agrees in writing to be named, and not one day earlier.

Compliance posture

Built for the evidence trail, not retrofitted to it.

Hiring is high-risk under the EU AI Act

That makes explainability and record-keeping obligations rather than features. Our reports are quote-linked by construction, so the trail exists because of how they are written.

A human always decides

StepUP produces an assessment to support a hiring decision. It does not make one, and nothing is auto-rejected on a client's behalf.

GDPR, and boring about it

Processed for the stated purpose, retained while the report cites it, deleted on request.

Interviewers have no stake

They do not know your hiring pressure, they do not tell the candidate the outcome, and you book an anonymous slot rather than a name.