Here's what landed in BotFriday in April.
Reruns When Criteria Change
This is the feature we're most excited about this month. You finish screening 200 candidates, then realise the scoring rubric needed tightening. Until now, that meant manually re-queueing every candidate one by one. As of this month, you can rerun candidates with one click and BotFriday handles the rest.
When you update an agent's configuration (assessment criteria, dealbreakers, prompts, anything that would change the outcome), every existing run against that agent is automatically marked Outdated. The original result stays visible so you have an audit trail, but it's clearly flagged as stale. You then have two ways to re-assess:
- Per candidate: From the row's more-actions menu, pick "Rerun Task" to re-evaluate just that candidate with the new configuration.
- In bulk: Open the Rerun dialog from the dashboard, pick the agent instance, and rerun every outdated candidate at once. Or only those that match your current filters.
This means you can iterate on your assessment criteria without losing the work you've already done. Tighten the rubric, hit rerun, get fresh scores against the new bar. The fresh result appears alongside the old one with a clean side-by-side audit trail.
How to use it: Look for the Outdated badge on candidate rows after editing an agent. The Rerun action lives in the row menu for a single candidate, and the bulk Rerun button sits in the dashboard action bar.
Bulk Report Downloads
We've added selection mode to the dashboard. Tick the candidates you care about, click Download Reports, and you get a combined report covering everyone you selected. Useful for sharing a shortlist with a hiring manager, archiving a job's results at the end of a campaign, or sending an interview summary to a client.
For long lists, the report generator now paginates under the hood, so even campaigns with hundreds of candidates download cleanly instead of timing out. You can also filter the candidate list by identifier first, which keeps the download focused on exactly the people you're shortlisting.
How to use it: On the dashboard, switch on selection mode in the action bar, tick the candidates you want, and click Download Reports.
Sharper LEX Scoring
LEX, the resume screening agent, got a meaningful prompt upgrade this month. Without going into the internals, the short version is that LEX now does a better job of distinguishing between candidates who tick a box on paper and candidates who actually match the spirit of a requirement. Edge cases like adjacent industry experience, transferable skills from a different role, and partial matches against multi-part criteria now get scored more thoughtfully.
You won't see a new button for this. You'll just notice that scores feel more aligned with how you'd score the same resume yourself. If you have a screening pipeline that's been running for a while, this is a good time to use the new rerun feature above to re-score your existing pool against the upgraded LEX.
A Refreshed Look
We've refreshed the BotFriday logo and the dashboard sidebar this month. The new mark is cleaner and works better at small sizes (in browser tabs, favicons, and the app sidebar), and the navigation has been tightened up so you can get to agents, jobs, and the dashboard with fewer clicks. Same product, fewer rough edges.
These updates are live for all BotFriday accounts. If you have questions or want a walkthrough, book a quick demo with our team.