# Grady Gardner

GM and CRO

Grady leads the Go-To-Market and Revenue teams at Braintrust, bringing deep expertise in scaling enterprise high-volume recruiting solutions and AI workforce automation.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradygardner/)

## Articles by Grady

- ### [The Ultimate Guide to AI Video Interviews: How They Work and Why They're Replacing Phone Screens](/content/blog/ultimate-guide-ai-voice-interviews/index.html)  
  **October 15, 2025**  
  Discover why top enterprise companies are moving from phone screens to AI video interviews — and how live, adaptive video AI is delivering faster, fairer, and richer candidate assessments.

- ### [The Real ROI of Conversational AI in High-Volume Recruiting](/content/blog/roi-conversational-ai-interviews/index.html)  
  **November 5, 2025**  
  How large enterprises are slashing cost-per-hire and scaling their talent acquisition efforts with AI-driven video screening.

- ### [Building a World-Class Candidate Experience Using AI](/content/blog/world-class-candidate-experience-ai/index.html)  
  **November 20, 2025**  
  Your candidate experience is your employer brand. Learn how to use conversational AI video interviews to treat every applicant like a priority — instantly and at scale.

- ### [The Evolution of Semantic Scoring in Candidate Assessments](/content/blog/evolution-semantic-scoring-candidate-assessments/index.html)  
  **December 10, 2025**  
  Moving beyond resume keywords: how modern AI platforms score candidates based on the actual meaning and context of their answers.

- ### [A Quantitative Look at the ROI of AI Recruiting](/content/blog/roi-braintrust-air-quantitative-analysis/index.html)  
  **December 23, 2025**  
  A deep dive into the numbers behind conversational AI screening, and how it dramatically reduces cost-per-hire and agency dependency.

- ### [Scaling High-Volume Recruiting in Retail and Healthcare with AI](/content/blog/scaling-high-volume-recruiting-retail-healthcare/index.html)  
  **January 8, 2026**  
  How retail and healthcare organizations are filling high-turnover roles significantly faster using automated conversational screening.

- ### [Compliance and Data Privacy in AI Hiring: What Every CISO Needs to Know](/content/blog/compliance-data-privacy-ai-hiring-ciso-guide/index.html)  
  **January 15, 2026**  
  Understanding the security, SOC 2 compliance, and anti-bias regulations surrounding enterprise deployment of AI interviewing tools.

- ### [Skills-Based Hiring vs. Resumes: How AI Is Surfacing Hidden Talent](/content/blog/skills-based-hiring-vs-resumes-ai-winning/index.html)  
  **February 1, 2026**  
  Resumes are terrible predictors of job performance. Discover how AI interviewing facilitates the shift towards pure skills-based enterprise hiring.

- ### [How a Global Enterprise Navigated AI Hiring Compliance Across Three Continents](/content/blog/case-study-automating-enterprise-compliance/index.html)  
  **February 12, 2026**  
  How a multinational conglomerate safely navigated fragmented global privacy laws while centralizing their screening process on a single AI platform.

- ### [Why AI Is Displacing the RPO Model (And What That Means for TA Budgets)](/content/blog/ai-voice-interviews-reduce-cost-per-hire/index.html)  
  **February 14, 2026**  
  Enterprise Recruitment Process Outsourcing is notoriously expensive. Discover how bringing intelligent screening in-house is resetting TA budgets permanently.

- ### [Five Ways to Future-Proof Your Talent Acquisition Strategy This Year](/content/blog/future-proof-your-talent-acquisition-strategy-2026/index.html)  
  **February 18, 2026**  
  Five strategic imperatives for enterprise HR leaders looking to navigate the aggressive shift toward automated, skills-based recruiting.

- ### [The Death of the Pre-Screening Form](/content/blog/the-death-of-the-pre-screening-form/index.html)  
  **February 20, 2026**  
  Long, static application forms cause massive candidate drop-off. Conversational AI captures the same data far more elegantly — and candidates actually complete it.

- ### [The Debate Is Over: AI Recruiters Outperform Humans. Here's the Data.](/content/blog/the-debate-is-over-ai-recruiters-outperform-humans/index.html)  
  **August 20, 2025**  
  Independent research from UChicago Booth and Erasmus University shows AI-led interviews produce better hires, higher retention, and significantly less gender bias.

- ### [Best AI Interview Software Compared for 2026](/content/blog/best-ai-interview-software-2026/index.html)  
  **March 15, 2026**  
  We evaluated 15 AI interview platforms across voice AI, conversational depth, enterprise readiness, assessment sophistication, and scalability. Here are the results.