Natural live interview
Candidates speak naturally with James — not through rigid questionnaires, scripted tests or keyword-driven assessments.
The AI Interviewer
Built for Maritime.
Natural live interviews designed to reveal real maritime competence, experience and professional decision-making.
A real conversation. Backed by a governed, evidence-based
maritime competence interpretation and assessment architecture.
Preparing the launch countdown…
Private Beta in progress
How CrewUI interviews and assesses maritime competence
Maritime context
Every interview is shaped by rank, vessel experience, professional responsibilities, operational context and the direction of the conversation.
Competence assessment
The system continuously interprets demonstrated knowledge and professional reasoning to build a clearer, more consistent view of competence.
WHY CREWUI
Technical interviews should measure independent competence — not interviewer influence.
CrewUI is a maritime crew interviewing and competence-assessment system for seafarers and maritime employers. It conducts natural live professional interviews through James, separates the candidate-facing conversation from governed assessment and supports — but does not replace — human recruitment decisions.
The challenge
Consistent technical screening is difficult to scale.
Maritime technical interviews depend on professional judgement, but outcomes can also be influenced by inconsistent questioning, interviewer fatigue, familiarity, accent perception, subjective judgement and well-intentioned prompting.
Protecting candidate evidence
Assistance and independent knowledge are not the same.
When substantial assistance enters an interview, information introduced by the interviewer may later be repeated by the candidate and mistaken for independently demonstrated knowledge. That can weaken the evidence behind a hiring decision.
The CrewUI approach
Standardised, traceable and designed for human decisions.
CrewUI is designed to preserve the distinction between independently demonstrated knowledge, clarification and interviewer-assisted responses. Maritime context and traceable evidence help employers reach better-informed decisions while keeping people responsible for the final choice.
James · Interview intelligence
More than an AI conversation.
The conversation is natural. The intelligence behind it is anything but simple.
James — LLM-Driven Maritime Interview Intelligence
James is engineered to conduct adaptive live interviews using multi-stage semantic interpretation and contextual reasoning, with graph-guided retrieval-augmented generation designed to draw from governed maritime knowledge aligned with STCW and applicable IMO, ILO, regulatory, industry and operational requirements.
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LLM Orchestration
Adaptive interview flow and natural professional dialogue
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Semantic Interpretation
Multi-stage interpretation of candidate-owned meaning
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Contextual Reasoning
Role, vessel and operational awareness
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Graph-Guided RAG
Relevant governed maritime knowledge
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Competence Context
Rank-aware expectations and applicability
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Evidence-Based Assessment
Structured interpretation of demonstrated evidence
Recognised maritime foundations
Guided by recognised maritime competence frameworks, regulatory requirements, industry standards and operational authorities.
DECOUPLED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE
Conversation and assessment are intentionally separated.
A deterministically governed, evidence-based assessment architecture. CrewUI keeps the natural interview experience and the interpretation of competence distinct.
James
Conversational interview layer
James conducts the adaptive live interview, manages natural dialogue pacing and delivers the candidate-facing conversation. The conversational layer has no independent scoring or competence-assessment authority.
Governed assessment kernel
A separate evidence-based assessment process
The governed assessment process interprets candidate-owned meaning, tracks interviewer assistance, validates applicable maritime knowledge and maps demonstrated evidence against professional competence expectations.
For seafarers
Talk about what you actually know.
CrewUI is designed as a professional conversation rather than a multiple-choice examination or keyword test. James follows your experience, responsibilities and answers naturally, giving you room to demonstrate how you think and how you would act in real maritime situations.
Your competence is more than the words you recall. It is how you reason, decide and act at sea.
For companies
Go beyond CVs and first impressions.
CrewUI provides a structured and consistent view of how a candidate demonstrates maritime knowledge, operational understanding and professional judgement during the interview.
A stronger crewing decision begins with evidence that can be understood, traced and judged in context.
Private beta
Better interviews.
Better-informed crew decisions.
CrewUI is preparing for Private Beta.
Privacy
Early-access registration stores your normalised email address and registration details only so CrewUI can send launch and early-access updates. Registration data is kept separate from all candidate, interview and competence-assessment information. You can unsubscribe from updates at any time.