Business Metrics — AARRR

Stage Definition
Acquisition Target talent acquisition managers and solo recruiters at tech companies with 20–200 employees running active hiring
Activation First successful evaluation completed end-to-end — JD plus PDF to scored result to email draft — within 10 seconds
Retention Recruiters who complete 5+ evaluations in week one return for week two at significantly higher rates due to time saved
Revenue Cost per evaluation under $0.06 at current Gemini API pricing. At 100 evaluations per month total infrastructure cost remains zero on free tiers
Referral A recruiter who screens 20 candidates in the time it previously took to screen 2 has an immediate story to tell their hiring manager

User Experience Metrics — HEART

Metric Target
Happiness Recruiter satisfaction score ≥ 4.5/5
Engagement Average evaluations completed per session; history page return rate
Adoption % of incoming applications processed through Recruit-AI vs manual review
Retention Recruiters active across 2+ consecutive weeks
Task Success Evaluation time from PDF upload to results display consistently under 10 seconds

AI Performance Metrics

Metric Target
Output Reliability > 99% valid JSON response rate
Hallucination Rate < 2%
Consistency > 95% reproducibility for identical resume and JD pairs
Latency 5–10 seconds end-to-end including database write
Cost per evaluation < $0.06 at current API pricing

North Star Metric

Screening Speed × Recommendation Accuracy

The system succeeds when recruiters evaluate more candidates per hour without sacrificing decision quality. Both must improve simultaneously.