Make blind shortlisting actually happen
You wrote the blind-hiring policy. Now every CV that lands — from a job board, an agency, a referral, a direct email — arrives at the hiring manager in the same format, without names, photos, or school logos. The policy isn't a slide deck. It's just what happens.
For in-house Talent Acquisition teamsWhat hurts today
The four things we hear most from teams in this shape.
A great candidate's CV is a Canva PDF. Your ATS reads 'PROJECT MANAGER' as their name and skips half the experience. They never make the shortlist.
Your D&I policy says blind first review. Your hiring manager opens the ATS and the first thing they see is a photo and a name.
Five sources. Five formats. Your shortlist meeting is half about candidates, half about who came in through which channel — visible in the layout.
Legal updates the policy. You've got a year of CVs anonymised under the old rules. Re-running them by hand isn't happening.
How Distill handles it
Specific features that map to each pain above.
Every CV reaches the hiring manager looking the same
Job board, agency, referral, direct email — all standardised to one template before anyone shortlists. Channel of origin stops being a signal.
Names, photos, schools — gone before review
Default off. Re-enable per role for jurisdictions that require demographic data. Your D&I policy stops depending on someone remembering to scroll past.
Canva, scans, weird PDFs — clean Word before your ATS sees them
Your ATS gets parseable text every time. Great candidates stop falling through the cracks because their CV designer got too creative.
Re-run a quarter under new rules in an afternoon
Policy change? Push a button. Every CV in scope gets re-anonymised against the current rules. No spreadsheets, no manual review.
Same policy, three ways in
Whether CVs come by email, get dropped into the app, or arrive through your ATS via API — they all run through the same blind-shortlist policy and come out in the same template.
By email
Auto-forwarding rules in your inbox or ATS route inbound CVs straight to Distill. The normalised .docx returns in under 30 seconds — ready for your ATS without anyone touching a step.
In the app
Drop a CV — or a batch — into the Distill app, pick the policy, download normalised files. Useful for cleaning up historical records after a policy update.
Via API
POST applications from your ATS (Greenhouse, Workday, Lever) and receive normalised output by webhook. Drops Distill into a high-volume application flow without an extra tool to learn.
See it on one of your CVs.
Forward a real CV, get a clean result. No card, no commitment.
See It In Action
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