Getting started with Evalynq

Create your Evalynq account with your work email — no credit card required. Draft assessments are free to build.

• Verify your work email address — there's no password to create.
• Signup uses your organization or work email; personal addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook aren't accepted for creating a new organization.
• Creating an account and building draft assessments are free. A live assessment requires payment verification and activation unless a platform administrator explicitly grants your organization an Early Access trial.
• An Early Access trial, when granted, covers one assessment and 1–10 candidate starts for 30 days from the grant. It waives payment only; your plan entitlements still apply.
• You land in an empty workspace with one synthetic demo assessment already there, so the dashboard isn't blank on day one.

One short form: organization name, type, and country.

• Organization type (private company, NGO, government, etc.) and country are used for your own records — they don't restrict anything in the product.
• You become the organization's Owner automatically. Owners and Admins can invite teammates, manage billing, and change settings.

A recruitment is the container for one open role — usually one recruitment per position you're hiring for.

• Give it a title and a position title. Optionally set a referral source and vacancy code — these compose the "you have been shortlisted..." sentence in the invitation email automatically, so you don't retype it per candidate.
• A recruitment can hold more than one assessment, if a role needs more than one stage.

Inside the recruitment, add the assessment itself: duration, window, and rules.

• Set the opening and closing time (Africa/Nairobi time), a passing score, and whether scores are published to candidates at all.
• Turn on webcam or screen-share monitoring if the role needs it — each requires the candidate's own separate, explicit consent before it activates. Neither is required to use Evalynq at all.
• Identity verification (a government-issued ID or passport upload before starting) is also its own separate toggle, off by default — turn it on only for assessments that actually need it.
• Optional per-recruitment branding (a logo and accent colour on the candidate-facing pages) is available for eligible organizations — ask Evalynq if you need it.

Mix multiple-choice, written, and practical file-upload questions in the same assessment.

• Add questions directly, pull them from your reusable question bank, import a CSV (including a reshaped Google Forms export), or generate draft questions from a job description with AI — you review, edit, or discard each draft before it's added; nothing publishes automatically.
• Multiple-choice and multiple-select questions score automatically at submission. Written and file-upload questions always go to manual review.
• For a practical exercise, attach reference files (a brief, dataset, or template) and a scoring rubric from Rubrics, so every reviewer scores the same criteria the same way.

New organizations need payment verification and platform-admin activation before an assessment goes live. A platform administrator may instead grant a one-time Early Access trial.

• For paid capacity: click Request activation, choose how many candidate starts to purchase, and upload a PDF, JPG, or PNG of your receipt. The page shows the expected total ($10 per assessment plus $10 per candidate on Self-Service).
• An Early Access trial is not automatic at signup. A platform administrator may grant one trial per organization, for one assessment and 1–10 starts. Its 30-day clock begins at the grant.
• The trial waives payment only. Your plan's feature and active-assessment limits continue to apply. Trial starts expire after 30 days; purchased starts remain separate and do not expire.
• Payment verification and activation are separate steps: Evalynq first verifies your payment, then a platform administrator activates the assessment and adds the approved candidate starts. Invitations become available once the assessment is active.
• The assessment must be able to reach its passing score with the questions on it, or publishing/activation is blocked. You can edit it freely until the first candidate starts.

One at a time, or in bulk — each invitation is a unique, single-use link.

• Invitations become available once the assessment is active. Evalynq pauses new invitations once your candidate-start balance reaches zero. If you expect more candidates to participate than your remaining balance allows, request a top-up before inviting them.
• Optional first step: bulk-import CVs from your own applicant-tracking system and let AI suggest a match score against the role description — it's advisory only, so you still choose who to invite.
• Import a CSV of candidates: the app previews exactly who will be invited before anything actually sends, so a bad file can't silently email the wrong list.
• Or invite one candidate directly, with an optional custom subject/message and extra accommodation minutes for that candidate.
• Opening and expiry reminder emails send automatically — nothing to schedule by hand.

A calm, self-contained flow — no account or password required on their side.

• Identity, camera, and room-scan checks (where required) happen before the timer starts, so getting ready never costs the candidate time.
• Answers autosave with a visible status, and there's a clear confirmation once submission succeeds.
• Candidates never pay to take an assessment and are never asked for payment details.

The Live page shows every candidate currently mid-assessment, auto-refreshing.

• Useful for a support window — you can see who's started, who's close to their deadline, and who may need a reset.

Objective questions are already scored the moment a candidate submits. Everything else needs a person.

• Score written and file-upload answers from the results page. If a rubric is attached, score it criterion by criterion — the weighted total becomes the answer's score.
• More than one reviewer can score the same rubric independently, so a second opinion is never a re-do.
• Where AI grading assistance is enabled, a reviewer can request a suggested score — it prefills the form but is never saved until a person reviews it and clicks Save.
• If monitoring flagged anything, a reviewer clears the proctoring concern with a comment before results can be released — this is advisory review, never an automatic accusation.

Nothing is shown to a candidate automatically — not even a fully objective, unmonitored assessment.

• Once grading and (where applicable) proctoring review are both cleared, click Release results to candidate. Only then can they see a score or download a certificate.
• Shortlisting is a separate, explicit human decision with a required written rationale — never computed from the score automatically.
• Once shortlisted, you can send an interview invitation with a date, time, and location straight from the same page.

Share decision-ready outputs without giving every stakeholder dashboard access.

• The results list filters by candidate, status, score, and more, and exports to CSV or Excel.
• Each attempt has a one-page PDF report (score, review, rubric detail) and a full evidence-and-answers ZIP bundle for anyone who needs the complete record.

Add teammates with a role that matches what they should actually be able to do.

• Owner, Admin, Assessment Manager, Reviewer, Viewer, or Billing — each role sees a different slice of the dashboard.
• A Reviewer only ever sees the recruitments they've been explicitly assigned to, never the whole organization's candidates by default.

Evalynq is pay-as-you-go, not a subscription — see full pricing for the self-service and managed rates.

• Creating an account and building draft assessments are free. Live assessment access requires verified offline payment and manual activation, unless an administrator explicitly grants the one-time Early Access trial.
• The Early Access trial is one per organization, one assessment, 1–10 candidate starts, and 30 days from grant. It waives payment only and does not raise plan entitlements.
• Self-service pricing is $10 per assessment plus $10 per candidate who successfully starts. There's no card checkout: you pay offline and upload your receipt from Billing → Assessment activation. After Evalynq verifies your payment, a platform administrator activates the assessment and adds the approved candidate starts.
• One candidate start is used when a candidate completes readiness checks and creates their attempt (clicking Start assessment), just before the timer begins. Sending or opening an invitation never uses one, resuming an attempt never uses a second, and unused starts stay in your balance — they don't expire.
• Need more candidates? Submit a top-up request the same way. Approved candidate starts are added after the top-up payment is verified, and a top-up is charged per candidate only, with no second assessment fee.
• Your Billing page shows your candidate starts remaining, credit activity, invoices, and the status of every activation or top-up request.