Humanly Intelligent CV Screening

Humanly Intelligent is a web-based suite of eleven co-pilots for hiring documents and candidate screening, built especially for MENA HR teams with limited staffing or no systems to integrate. Its evidence-backed CV scoring and clear human decision boundary are useful strengths; the trade-off is a free tier with small screening and storage limits and Pro at $129 a month.

Overview

The suite covers documents across the employee journey, from job adverts to onboarding, probation reviews and career paths. It works in Arabic and English, and its labour-law outputs address seven MENA countries: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Oman. That regional scope makes it a natural fit for employers working in those markets, rather than teams seeking a location-neutral HR workflow.

Smart Shortlist scores CVs against criteria and weights set by the user, quotes the CV evidence behind each score and identifies missing criteria. Resume parsing, skills screening, knockout questions and custom scoring support structured review. The system cannot shortlist, reject or hire anyone, so hiring decisions remain with a person.

Key features

Screening and sourcing

Screening runs handle up to 10 CVs on Explorer and 25 on Pro. Evidence quotes and missing-criteria cues give reviewers a basis to check a score rather than treating it as a verdict, but the free-plan ceiling may constrain teams handling larger applicant batches. Active Sourcing and Job Posting generates search strings, outreach messages and adverts for LinkedIn, Bayt, Naukrigulf, WhatsApp and email.

Documents and candidate records

Generated documents export to Word or PDF, while Pro adds Excel export with the user's logo. Talent Vault keeps candidate records across seven stages, from New to Employee or Not a fit, with Arabic and English search. It is included with Pro but unavailable on Explorer, so the free tier is better for trying individual co-pilots than maintaining an ongoing candidate pool.

Data handling

Data in transit uses TLS 1.3, and uploaded files are encrypted at rest with AES-256. The AI sub-processor uses submitted content to generate a response, does not use it to train models and does not retain it beyond the API request. Data is processed and stored in the United States, with no regional data residency; that may rule the service out for organizations that require local storage. Users can delete Recall memory, accounts and all data, or uploaded CVs and extracted text, in Settings. A Privacy Desk handles output corrections, audit requests and data-processing-agreement requests at [email protected].

Pricing

Explorer: free. It includes five job descriptions every day and one run of every other co-pilot, with up to 10 CVs per screening run. It has no Talent Vault and no storage. This suits an individual exploring the tools, but not a team that needs a persistent candidate database or larger screening batches.

Pro: $129 a month, billed monthly. It includes all eleven co-pilots and Talent Vault, 300 documents per month, 40 documents per day, up to 3,000 candidate profiles, up to 25 CVs per screening run and 5 GB storage. It is the practical tier for teams that need the full suite and ongoing records, though its monthly price is a substantial step up from Explorer.

Golden: custom pricing; it is described as a bigger plan coming soon. The pricing model is freemium, with paid plans from $12/mo, but Pro is priced at $129 a month.

Platforms

Humanly Intelligent is available on the web.

Who it's for

This is best suited to MENA employers, particularly a small HR team or a single hiring manager who needs screening support and hiring documents without integrating an existing system. The Arabic-English workflow and country-specific labour-law outputs strengthen that fit. Teams that require regional data residency, or whose applicant volumes exceed Explorer's limits but do not justify Pro's price, should look elsewhere.

Pros and cons

• Pros: CV scores come with quoted evidence and missing-criteria cues, making them easier for a human to assess.
• Pros: Arabic and English support across screening and Talent Vault search suits MENA-focused hiring.
• Pros: The system leaves shortlist, rejection and hiring decisions to people.
• Cons: Explorer caps screening at 10 CVs per run and offers neither Talent Vault nor storage.
• Cons: Pro costs $129 a month and limits storage to 5 GB.
• Cons: United States processing and storage, with no regional data residency, may conflict with organizational requirements.

Alternatives

Browse Candidate Screening Software for more options. Choose CVViZ Job Distribution if a paid product with a free trial, five active jobs and unlimited users is a better match. SkipCV offers a free web plan with 20 credits and a maximum of eight candidates per analysis, making it an option for smaller individual analyses. CandiSift is a free, open-source self-hosted option, though LLM processing can incur per-token costs. Octagnt has a free plan for one requisition and 150 evaluated profiles each month, or a $499 a month Starter plan for ten requisitions. Ducknowl uses custom pricing tailored to hiring processes and screening or assessment types, with payment based on use. Truffle offers a seven-day free trial with 30 credits and every feature unlocked, then a $49 a month Starter plan. X0PA AI has a $49 per user/month AI Recruiter Lite plan with a monthly candidate limit of 100. Prescreener starts at $199 a month for up to three active jobs, 1,000 applicants screened per month and two seats, with resume parsing, knockout rules and screening questions.

Verdict

Choose Humanly Intelligent if you are a MENA-focused HR team that wants evidence-backed CV scoring, bilingual hiring tools and human control over every hiring decision. Its main advantage is the breadth of the co-pilot suite around screening; its main reason to look elsewhere is the jump from a tightly limited free plan to Pro at $129 a month, alongside United States-only data residency.