Ropes AI

Tool Information

Primary Task	Coding competency assessment
Category	technology-and-development
Country	United States

Ropes is a New York-based AI-driven hiring platform founded in January 2023 by CEO Ken Schumacher. The company focuses on transforming technical talent evaluation through skills-based assessments. Ropes addresses challenges in the skills-based hiring market by providing asynchronous, role-specific evaluations that simulate real-world engineering tasks. Recently, Ropes secured $3.1 million in seed funding led by GSV Ventures, with participation from Box Group, to expand its platform.

Ropes offers a customizable assessment platform designed to evaluate engineering candidates using AI-driven simulations. Key features include the ability to create custom problems tailored to a company’s tech stack, holistic scorecards that analyze candidates’ problem-solving approaches, and cheat-proof environments that track candidate activity. The platform emphasizes real-world project simulations to assess technical skills, focusing on process-oriented metrics to identify nuanced abilities often missed in traditional assessments. Ropes aims to streamline technical hiring for enterprises and tech companies, improving candidate quality and reducing hiring bottlenecks.