Podium Systems Limited

How We Use AI

AI helps us build better assessments and keep them secure. It never scores, ranks or makes decisions about candidates.

Where We Do Use AI

AI does three jobs at Podium, and each one has a person checking its work.

  • Building Assessments

    AI helps our psychologists draft and translate questions, map an organisation's competency framework onto our scales, suggest ideal profiles for a role and produce the scenario videos used in Leadership Insights.

    Human Check

    A psychologist reviews and approves everything AI drafts before it is used in a live assessment.

  • Protecting Test Integrity

    Facial Validation uses AI to check that a single candidate stays present and on camera, flagging moments with no face or more than one face. Alongside it, the Confidence Score, a behavioural index rather than AI, looks for signs of outside help in how a test is taken.

    Facial Validation

    Human Check

    Flags are evidence for a person to review. Neither system makes automated decisions, and every flagged session goes to a qualified reviewer.

  • Helping People Read Results

    Administrators can choose to generate an AI summary of a participant's results. It is written only from scores that have already been calculated, and never includes names or other identifying details. An AI assistant in our management platform also helps administrators find data, build charts and prepare documents.

    Human Check

    Summaries are optional, labelled as AI-generated and carry a reminder that they should not be the sole basis for any employment, development or organisational decision.

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No AI scores, ranks or makes decisions about candidates.

Every score a candidate receives comes from established psychometric scoring, set against norm groups. Video interviews are watched and scored by people. AI never shortlists candidates, screens anyone out or recommends who to hire.

Safeguards

The rules that keep AI in a supporting role.

No Automated Decisions
No decision about a candidate is made solely by automated means, in line with Article 22 of the UK GDPR.
Psychologist Sign-Off
AI-drafted assessment content goes live only after one of our psychologists has approved it.
Your Data Stays Yours
We use enterprise AI services on zero-data-retention terms, so the AI provider does not keep what we send, and AI summaries are generated without names or identifying details.
Certified Security
Podium is ISO 27001 certified, and AI features run within the same information security controls as the rest of the platform.
Published Evidence
Our integrity framework, including how fairly it works across demographic groups, is set out in research presented at the SIOP 2026 Annual Conference.