UnCircuit Backed by YC

We Make Games
That Interview People

We build your company custom game-based assessments; your job candidates play them and you see who has the exact traits your role demands.

Beyond the resume

Everyone says they have the skills. UnCircuit shows how candidates actually are
before you hire them.

The evidence behind
every great hire

Explore assessments

Built for the role. A custom assessment game around the traits that matter most.

Describe your ideal hire…

10-30 minutes live. Every candidate gets the same focused challenge, measured in real time.

0. Role brief

Choose the traits you need; for example, judgment, creativity, pace

1. 📄 Build game

We build a short scenario every candidate tests in

2. 🧠 Measure

Evidence your whole team can trust.

Save 50+ hours on screening calls

Get full report on each candidate’s actual skills

Watch how they think. Score, pace, trade-offs, and integrity signals as they happen.

How did this candidate handle ambiguity?
Live session · 42 events
  • Read

    Paused before choosing, then protected the safety margin.

  • Score

    Held decision quality after the rules changed mid-task.

  • Share

    Send the hiring team a clean evidence summary.

Assessment evidence

“An hour of play can teach you more about a person than a year of conversation.”

— Plato

Assessment gallery

Inside our game-based assessments

Each scene below is from a real assessment we designed and shipped. Select an image to view it in detail.

You can't get the full picture from just a résumé.

Everyone who's hired knows the feeling: the candidate looked great on paper, interviewed well, and you still didn't really know who you were getting. The résumé isn't lying, it just can't show how someone actually thinks: how they learn something new, recover from a setback, decide when to push and when to wait.

So we build custom game-based assessments.

For every role, we design a short game that tests the traits that are most important to you, like creativity, attention to detail, decision making with trade-offs, collaboration, work under pressure, or something else. Then we drop each candidate for the specific role into the same six minutes of it.

They play. We watch how they think. You see who can actually do the work.

Describe your ideal hire. We'll find them.

Book 14 minutes with a founder.

Stop guessing.
Find the best candidate.

Game-based assessment