Always sharp. Never overwhelmed.
Mr. Simon screens, scores, interviews, and pitches candidates — so you stay focused on the relationships that matter.
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Go from LinkedIn profile to client submissions in minutes
1-Click Sourcing
Import candidates directly from LinkedIn with one click, upload resumes manually, or receive them automatically via your ATS integration. Mr. Simon instantly scores each profile against your job — no copy-pasting, no manual entry.
Always Know Your Next Move
For every candidate, Mr. Simon delivers a clear recommendation — proceed, validate, or pass — backed by a detailed Eagle View breakdown of their fit across industry, seniority, location, and more.
AI Video Interviews
Candidates complete a short AI video interview on their schedule. Use it to validate borderline candidates before your call — or include it with your submission so clients get a real feel for the candidate before they commit to an interview.
Know in seconds if they're worth your call
Stop wasting time on screening calls with candidates who won't take the commute, lack the right industry depth, or raise other red flags. Mr. Simon analyzes every profile and flags exactly what you need to know — before you pick up the phone.
- Automatically calculates exact commute times based on the candidate's location and your client's job site
- Instantly spots red flags like missing industry experience or lack of required software proficiency
- Assesses tenure patterns and seniority to ensure alignment with your client's requirements
- Extracts key highlights and unique strengths so you know exactly what to pitch to your client
- Delivers a clear ✅ proceed, 🔎 validate, or ❌ pass recommendation — with the reasoning behind it
- Already have candidates in your pipeline? Search your entire talent pool in plain English — "legal assistant with corporate experience in NJ" — and Mr. Simon instantly surfaces the best matches. Your existing candidates are a valuable asset. Now you can actually use it.
Every candidate, handled
Knowing what to do with a candidate is only half the battle. Mr. Simon also tells you what to say — and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks, no matter how full your day gets.
- ✅ Before your screening call, Mr. Simon does all the prep for you - provides you with a guide that's specific to this candidate — their career path summarized, the right questions to ask, and exactly what to probe. Just open it before the call, and you are all set!
- ✅ For borderline candidates, Mr. Simon drafts a validation email with the exact clarifying questions worth asking — so you don't waste a call finding out they won't take the commute.
- ✅ When you're ready to move forward, ready-to-send message templates handle the invite — whether it's a Zoom call, an AI video interview, or a follow-up after no response.
- ✅ For candidates who aren't the right fit right now, nurture templates keep the relationship warm — because the person wrong for this role may be perfect for the next one.
- ✅ Every rejection is handled with care — multiple rejection templates for every stage, from inbox to post-interview, so no candidate is left without a response.
What candidates say after a rejection:
"While I'm disappointed not to be moving forward, I truly appreciate the time you and your team took with me." — Ariana G., candidate
When every candidate feels genuinely considered — even the ones you don't place — they remember it. They come back. They refer others. Mr. Simon gives you the bandwidth to treat every person in your pipeline with the care that builds a recruiting reputation worth having.
Your talent pool, finally searchable
Every recruiter builds a pipeline over time — people who applied, interviewed, and weren't placed yet. Most of that value gets lost in spreadsheets or buried in an ATS. Mr. Simon turns your entire candidate history into a searchable, intelligent database.
- Type a plain-English description — "employment attorney with small firm experience, Morris County" — and get ranked matches instantly
- Every candidate's full history is searchable — their resume, interview answers, evaluations, and your own notes
- Surface the right person for a new role in seconds, not hours of digging through old files
- The more candidates you evaluate, the more powerful your talent pool becomes — your pipeline grows into a competitive advantage
Every candidate, at their best
When you've found the right person, the last thing you want is to lose the placement because the submission didn't do them justice. Mr. Simon makes sure every candidate lands on your client's desk looking their absolute best — with minimal effort on your part.
- A polished client write-up is generated from everything Mr. Simon knows about the candidate — their resume, interview answers, your observations, and their unique strengths. Ready to send.
- No more resume cleanup. Mr. Simon reformats and enriches it instantly — drawing on the original resume plus everything learned along the way: interview answers, screening call notes, email exchanges, and your own observations. The result is a client-ready document that tells the full story of your candidate.
- Include a video interview link so hiring managers get a real feel for the candidate before committing to a meeting — and come to that meeting already excited.
The result: submissions that are thorough, professional, and personal — the kind that make clients trust your judgment and remember your name when the next role opens up.
How it looks
Candidate List
Eagle View Scorecard
Interview Flow
Client Write-Up
Message Templates
Intelligent Search
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Why I built
Mr. Simon
Natalie Lihacova
Co-founder & Product Lead
"I'm an optimizer by nature. Recruiting had too much friction, too many micro-decisions, and too little support for the human side of the work. Mr. Simon is my answer to that."
My name is Natalie Lihacova. I'm a process optimization consultant and co-founder of Teammate.Exec, a software agency I've run since 2011 — we build and support digital products for enterprise clients across the US and Europe.
In 2019 we launched Mr. Simon as an AI mock interview coach for job seekers, and as a lab where our team could experiment with the most cutting-edge AI technologies.
Working closely with job seekers during product discovery, I realized I didn't fully understand how hiring worked from a recruiter's perspective, leaving my knowledge incomplete. So when the president of a small NJ recruiting firm posted on LinkedIn looking for an intern in early 2025, I applied — and spent the next year learning the business from the inside.
Every feature you see in Mr. Simon today was shaped by that year — the cognitive load of constant micro-decisions, the time lost to admin work, the amazing candidates who deserved better communication than a busy recruiter could give them.
I rebuilt the product around what I learned. Mr. Simon starts with how recruiting actually works — and then optimizes every step of it.
Prefer to talk it through first? I'm happy to answer questions personally before you get started.
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