Ashby’s AI-assisted application review scores a candidate against criteria the recruiter sets up. Per Ashby’s own documentation, it returns, for each criterion, one of three evaluation statuses: the candidate "meets," "does not meet," or the AI "was undecided," and it surfaces an overall "AI job criteria met percentage" a recruiter can sort by. Ashby’s documentation describes this as a review aid; it documents no mechanism by which the AI review itself rejects a candidate.
Ashby’s one documented automated reject lives elsewhere, on the application form. Ashby’s own auto-reject documentation describes rejecting candidates "whose application submissions match certain conditions automatically," configured on application-form questions, such as a location question, not on the resume’s content and not on an AI score. That is the same pattern seen across most of the ATS market: the one true automated cut is a form answer, not a resume read.
Ashby's own documentation describes what the software is built to do: score against recruiter-set criteria, and mark each as met, not met, or undecided. It does not say which criteria a specific employer set, how those criteria are weighted, or which form answers trigger their auto-reject rule. That is configured inside the employer's own Ashby account and is not visible outside it, to anyone, including us.
Ashby's AI review checks each recruiter-set criterion against your resume and marks it met, not met, or undecided, so make sure the evidence for each criterion the posting implies is actually present, and easy to find, in the resume or the field the form provides for it. An accomplishment implied but never stated is the kind of thing that lands as undecided rather than met.
Never leave a form question blank or vague, especially on location, work authorization, or availability: Ashby's one documented automated reject runs on exactly those form answers, not on the resume. State them plainly, in the field the application asks for, rather than assuming a resume line covers it.
As Ashby documents it, no. Ashby's AI-assisted application review scores a candidate against recruiter-set criteria and marks each one meets, does not meet, or undecided, but Ashby documents no mechanism by which that review rejects anyone on its own. The one automated reject Ashby does document is a separate feature keyed off application-form answers, like a location question, not the AI review and not the resume.
It scores a candidate against criteria the recruiter defines and returns, for each criterion, one of three statuses: meets, does not meet, or undecided, according to Ashby's own documentation, plus an overall criteria-met percentage a recruiter can sort by. It is a review aid a human recruiter uses to work through a pipeline, not an automated decision-maker that accepts or rejects a candidate by itself.
A form answer, not the resume. Ashby's own auto-reject documentation describes disqualification keyed off application-form responses, such as location, that the employer configures in advance for that specific job. The resume's content and Ashby's AI-assisted review score are not what triggers this rule; a candidate who answers the form accurately is never auto-rejected on the basis of resume wording alone.
Related: every platform in this hub, how Greenhouse screens a resume, how Lever screens a resume.
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