Knovia
demand.knovia.ai · India's verified hiring engine

Hire who can actually do the job. Not who claims they can.

Stop screening 200 resumes per role. Start interviewing pre-validated candidates who passed proctored coding, live cloud terminals, and real assessments. Every applicant arrives with explainable evidence, not a CV full of claims.

₹3,999

full-time/contract role

₹1,999

internship role

∞

applicants per role

8 candidates · Skill Match 60%
Avg time-to-shortlist: 11d
campaign :: rzp-be-2026-04Verified · Live

Backend Engineer

Razorpay · Pune

8 verified147 appliedSkill Match >= 60%
Java + Spring verified
AS

Aryan · 2 yrs · BLR

Java ✓Spring ✓AWS ✓PSQL ✓
78
RK

Rahul · 3 yrs · PUN

Java ✓Kafka ✓K8s ✓
74
PN

Priya · 1 yr · HYD

Java ✓Spring ✓Redis ✓
68
MV

Mohan · 2 yrs · BLR

Go ✓Kafka ✓AWS ✓
66
TK

Tanya · 2 yrs · PUN

Java ✓Spring ✓
62
+3 more verified candidates ready to interview
Razorpay · Backend Engineer · 8 verified shortlists shippedSarvam AI · AI Agent Dev · campaign liveAvg time-to-shortlist: 11 daysMicrosoft · ML Engineer · Hyderabad · 12 verified60,623 proctored assessments completedSwiggy · Full-Stack · campaign live0 mis-hires reported across pilot enterprisesRazorpay · Backend Engineer · 8 verified shortlists shippedSarvam AI · AI Agent Dev · campaign liveAvg time-to-shortlist: 11 daysMicrosoft · ML Engineer · Hyderabad · 12 verified60,623 proctored assessments completedSwiggy · Full-Stack · campaign live0 mis-hires reported across pilot enterprises

The hiring funnel is broken

You post a role. 200 resumes pour in. And you still hire wrong.

~30%

of tech hires turn out mis-hires within 6 months · ~₹24L cost per failure

42 hrs

average recruiter time per role · most of it on resumes that do not matter

₹37,000Cr

India's annual cost of mis-hires, failed placements, and retraining

What you actually get

A verified shortlist. Not a resume firehose.

Every Knovia campaign returns a focused list of pre-validated candidates, each with explainable evidence chips you can drill into. Filter by KRS threshold, verification depth, location, and experience type.

/ explainable evidence

Every score, traceable.

Click any candidate. See exactly which assessment they passed, what they scored on the IDE, which certs are API-verified, and what their GitHub looks like.

/ filter by depth

Your bar, not ours.

Mentor-verified experience. Live coding pass. Cloud terminal proficiency. KRS >= 70. Your campaign, your filters, applied across unlimited applicants.

/ ats-ready

Routes into your stack.

CSV export, webhook push, or direct integration with Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and Naukri RMS. Verified profiles flow into your existing workflow.

How we actually verify

Built so candidates can't game it. Built so you can finally trust it.

Other platforms run multiple-choice tests in a browser tab. We run live coding in a proctored IDE, real cloud commands in a sandboxed terminal, and adaptive objective tests that recalibrate to the candidate's level.

Proctored coding IDE

Real production tasks in the candidate's chosen language. Live editor, run/test cycles, plagiarism detection, copy-paste blocking, webcam checks, and AI-led typing pattern analysis.

Java 21 runtime
3 of 5 tests passing
Anti-cheat layers armed

Live cloud terminal

For DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineers: real bash in a sandboxed environment. AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform tasks against a live runtime.

Terraform plan
kubectl apply
Sandboxed AWS task

Adaptive assessments

MCQs across DSA, system design, databases, and security that scale to the candidate's level. Trying to game it just gets them a harder question.

Difficulty adapts
Objective scoring
Recorded attempts

Most platforms test memorization. We test execution. There's a reason recruiters started calling our shortlists "unfakeable".

Run a pilot campaign

Skills intelligence · refreshed weekly

A taxonomy that knows what you'll need next quarter.

163 mapped tech roles. Around 1,500 skills organized into a 3-tier hierarchy, with a predictive layer that watches patents, research papers, GitHub libraries, and package managers to flag emerging skills before they hit job posts.

Backend Engineering

Built on Lightcast Open Skills + ESCO foundations, customized for India's tech market. Every role decomposes into capability clusters and verifiable micro-skills.

/ Tier 1

Backend Engineering

/ Tier 2

API Design · Data Modeling · Distributed Systems · Caching

/ Tier 3

REST · GraphQL · gRPC · Postgres · Redis · Kafka · Sharding

Skills about to hit the market.

We track research papers, patents, GitHub repository creation, PyPI/npm adoption, and Stack Overflow questions. Hype without ecosystem activity gets filtered out.

Mojo · emerging · 2 quarters out
Agent SDKs · rising · in market
Rust for ML inference · emerging
WebAssembly + edge compute · rising

The enterprise loop · 5 steps

From "we need a backend engineer" to "interview scheduled" in 11 days.

01

Define the campaign

Tell us the role. We map the skills.

Pick from 163 pre-mapped roles or define a custom one. Set must-have skills, KRS threshold, location, experience type, and verification depth. One job brief, 60 seconds, done.

02

Publish to the network

Goes live to matched, verified candidates.

Your campaign is routed only to candidates whose verified profile matches the role. Zero scraping, zero spam. 15-day window. Unlimited applicants.

03

Filter by verification depth

Mentor-verified. GitHub-verified. Skill-verified.

Stack the filters you trust: proctored coding pass, live terminal completion, mentor-verified experience, API-verified certs, and GitHub activity threshold.

04

Receive the shortlist

Pre-validated. Explainable. Ready.

Each candidate arrives with evidence chips, KRS breakdown, and exact assessment artifacts: code submitted, terminal output, and MCQ scoring.

05

Interview & hire · outcome

Move straight to decision.

Verified profiles route into your ATS or export as CSV. Your team interviews 5 candidates instead of screening 200. Same week, signed offer.

The economics · per role

42 hours of screening, or 2 hours of deciding.

/ before knovia

The status quo.

Resumes received200+
Recruiter screening time42 hrs
Phone screens needed~30
Mis-hire rate~30%
Cost per hire₹3.2L

/ with knovia

The shift.

Verified shortlist8
Recruiter time2 hrs
Interviews to offer~3
Mis-hire rate<5%
Cost per hire₹0.8L

Pricing · transparent · per role

Choose the campaign type. Estimate by role volume.

Full-time/Contract campaign

₹3,999 / role

15-day campaign window · unlimited applicants

Full-time/Contract campaign roles

Select expected roles and see the usual bulk discount.

Per role

₹3,999

Est. total

₹3,999

Discount

0%

Standard single-role pricing. Bulk discounts start at 10 roles.

Internship campaign

₹1,999 / role

Campus drives · early-career hiring · bulk-ready

Internship campaign roles

Select expected roles and see the usual bulk discount.

Per role

₹1,999

Est. total

₹1,999

Discount

0%

Standard single-role pricing. Bulk discounts start at 10 roles.

No hidden role charges. Bulk discounts start at 10 roles.

Contact us · demo

Want to see the campaign flow first?

Pick Full-time/Contract or Internship campaign pricing, select the expected role volume, and we'll walk you through how the shortlist and applicant review flow works.

Traction · 4 weeks · 0 paid spend

5,738 verified builders. Already in the pool.

Your campaign goes live to candidates who've already passed our verification stack. Not a cold ad. Not a job-board scrape. A pre-existing network of evidence-backed talent.

5,738

Verified builders

60,623

Proctored assessments

163

Mapped tech roles

11 days

Avg time to shortlist

"For the first time, I'm interviewing candidates who can actually do the job in the first 10 minutes. Knovia eliminated the part of recruiting I hated most."
/ TA Lead · Series B fintech · Pune

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Last thing

Stop screening. Start hiring.

₹3,999 launches a Full-time/Contract campaign role. ₹1,999 launches an Internship campaign role. 15-day window, unlimited applicants, and founder-led onboarding.