Vekt, an open-source hiring tool, publishes the limits of its AI scoring

Vekt is an open-source recruitment engine that runs on a company's own servers and uses AI to rank job applications against a job description, while leaving hiring decisions to people. The project's compliance documentation openly lists what its AI scoring cannot do, which the author argues should come before any feature list. The tool has never been validated against labelled CV and hiring-outcome data, so no accuracy figures exist, and the author urges buyers to ask what any vendor's accuracy claim was measured on. Name and other direct identifiers are stripped before text reaches the model, but proxies such as university names or career gaps can still reveal origin, age or gender, so human review remains essential. Scores also vary with the model, prompt or even repeated runs, and self-hosting only settles where data lives, not whether the hiring process is lawful or fair. The team is seeking two or three EU organisations to test Vekt on their own past applications, with results to be published.