Trial is a hospitality-specific screening and progression workflow. Founding venue applications open 15 June — register now to be first in line.
Applications still come to you the way they always have — Seek, your website, walk-ins, Facebook. Trial doesn't replace your job board. It takes over from the moment an application lands.
List a Trial-routed email on your online job posts, auto-forward applicant emails from your inbox, or display a Trial QR code at your venue for walk-ins. However an application reaches you — Seek, your website, Facebook, a CV at the counter — Trial picks up the candidate's name, contact details, and the role they're applying for. No forwarding clicks, no spreadsheets, no logins required.
Branded as if it's from your venue. Pre-filled with their name and the role they applied for. Front-of-house specific questions tailored to the role — beverage staff (bartender, bar back), floor and service roles (host, waiter/waitress, expediter), café roles (barista, café all-rounder), or management (bar supervisor, restaurant supervisor, duty manager, café manager, restaurant manager).
Not generic personality tests. Ten to fifteen minutes of the candidate's time, structured for the way you actually evaluate someone on the floor.
Their full assessment responses, an AI-generated summary, and a recommendation score calibrated for hospitality fit — not generic employability metrics. Sort and decide who's worth your interview hours. The score helps you prioritise; you make the call.
Interview, trial shift, hire — every stage tracked in a single dashboard. Your hiring history compounds into a record that gets sharper with every decision you make through it.
When an application arrives, Trial forwards the original email and resume to your inbox automatically — and deletes its own copy within forty-eight hours. We keep only what's actively used in the dashboard: structured assessment responses, a summary, and the journey state.
No candidate data hoard. No resumes sitting on our servers. Less compliance exposure for your venue, more trust from the candidates you're trying to hire, better-completed assessments as a result.
Founding venue applications open from 15 June to 15 July — one month, no
artificial cap. We onboard venues as they sign through to mid-August, then
Trial. opens to the public on the 17th. It's deliberate: better to build
with operators who give us their honest read than launch loudly into a
thousand venues we can't yet meaningfully support.
In return for being early, we ask for your operational reality — what's working,
what isn't, what's missing.
Final platform work, legal foundations, founding cohort preparation. Landing page live for operators who want to be first in line when applications open on 15 June.
One-month window. Operators register, watch the walkthrough, and tell us about their venue. We approve the venues that are the right fit for Trial.
Founding venues go live as they sign through to mid-August. Real workflows, real hires, real feedback. The platform is pressure-tested in operating venues.
Trial. opens to the public. Founding pricing closes; standard pricing applies for new operators. Positioned ahead of the spring–summer hiring surge.
Drop your details and you'll get an 8-minute walkthrough straight after. Watch it. If Trial. looks like a fit for your venue, you'll be invited to book a 30-minute conversation with me.
No long form here. No five-to-seven business days. You'll see the product in the next few minutes.
— Anders, founder
Here's the part most pre-launch waitlists don't do: I'm going to skip the "we'll be in touch in five to seven days" email and just show you the product.
Watch the eight-minute walkthrough below. If Trial. looks like a fit for your venue, book a thirty-minute conversation with me and we'll talk specifics. If it's not, no worries — you've spent eight minutes, not an hour.
— Anders, founder
Founding pricing isn't a launch discount that quietly disappears. Every venue that joins Trial. through the founding window — EOI by 15 July, onboarded by 16 August 2026 — gets their rate locked permanently, regardless of what we charge in twelve months, in three years, or after the next funding round. The trade-off: you give us your honest operational read while we're still learning.
Your subscription covers unlimited assessments and unlimited candidates — no per-hire fees, no outcome-based charges, no variable costs. You pay the same amount every month regardless of how many candidates you assess or how many people you hire.