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The Screening Brief

Bilal Chaudhry · founder, Dastarkhwan Group — 600 CVs at the kitchen table

Forty hires for Islamabad meant six hundred CVs, screened at Bilal’s kitchen table over three nights. The next branch is already scouted; the CV pile is already dreaded.

The Screening Brief takes a CV stack and Bilal’s stated criteria and returns a structured shortlist brief — who meets the bar, who’s borderline and why, and what got everyone else set aside. Decisions stay human; the sorting stops taking over Bilal’s evenings.

fictional demo · real workflow concept · ready to build runs on your own ChatGPT/Claude a fair shortlist from the pile — no more kitchen-table nights ~1 week setup

The mock

A sketch of the shortlist brief — not yet captured from a client run, which is why it fades out.

concept mock

Dastarkhwan Group

Screening brief — floor staff, Islamabad: 68 CVs → 14

criteria set by Dastarkhwan · every decision human

Shortlisted: 14

Meet all three musts — F&B experience, Islamabad-based, evening availability.

Borderline: 9

Strong but missing one criterion — each listed with the gap named, for a human second look.

Not advanced: 45

Criterion gaps listed per CV. No silent rejections; the reasoning is on paper.

What we’d build

The essentials

This runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription. No infrastructure, nothing extra to run. We set it up with your criteria format and train whoever runs hiring.

Setup time
About a week
Honest note
A sorting aid, not a judge of character — the interview still does what interviews do.

More for HR: The Policy Desk · The Screening Brief

Want this for your business?

Six hundred CVs deserve a fair sort, and your evenings deserve better than doing it.

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