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By pairing explainable, glass-box AI recruiting with continuous third-party auditing, SquarePeg is building a hiring platform that prioritizes transparency, fairness, and the candidate experience.
We sat down with CEO and Co-founder, Claire McTaggart, to explore how SquarePeg is improving recruiter decision-making.
As an AI-native platform, SquarePeg helps recruiters cut through high volume hiring while explaining every candidate match and score, ensuring transparency throughout the hiring process.
SquarePeg uses AI to connect the right people to the right roles, uncovering “diamonds in the rough,” as Claire describes.
We’re in a world full of noise, lots of applications, lots of jobs, and lots of AI tooling sitting in the middle. It’s becoming really hard to find a signal.
Instead of using black-box accept/reject automation, SquarePeg incorporates what it calls “glass-box AI,” a transparent system where every score shows its work and how it's generated.
With glass-box AI, recruiters understand real, contextual experience, rather than relying on blunt keywords on résumés.
The most fair process is letting people be seen for where they’ve worked, what they’ve done, and the projects they’ve spent their careers building, not just the words on their resume.
What this looks like in practice:
The goal is to surface qualified talent that HR teams might otherwise miss, while helping recruiters respond to candidates more quickly and thoughtfully.
Learn more about SquarePeg’s glass-box AI here.
Glass-box AI improves transparency, as it explains how the algorithm arrives at its decisions.
SquarePeg goes further by coupling glass-box AI with third-party, continuous AI assurance from Warden.
Transparency shows how decisions are made, while continuous assurance for bias auditing, ensures the system remains fair.
By publicly publishing their AI Assurance Dashboard, SquarePeg demonstrates transparency in line with NYC LL 144 transparency standards.
In short, candidates and recruiters can trust the AI, knowing its performance is continuously evaluated.
SquarePeg is building an ethical, transparent hiring platform. By becoming one of the first Warden Assured platforms, they added independent oversight that helps customers move faster by reducing the legal, technical, and organizational friction that often slows deployment.
This isn’t a one-and-done situation. It’s ongoing. We’re constantly looking at our ability to do our job ethically and fairly.
The SquarePeg AI Assurance Dashboard is shared with prospects, and SquarePeg is compliant with AI regulations like NYC LL 144.
Results are transparent and publicly accessible, and both buyers and candidates benefit from a hiring system that is built with fairness at the core.
We send our Warden report to every prospect. They can see exactly what’s been tested. Legal teams love it, it makes everything easier.
Together, continuous assurance and glass-box AI make a compelling case for AI adoption.
With the right product design choices, AI can reduce bias, increase transparency, and build trust with both consumers and enterprises.
SquarePeg will continue building a fast, accurate matching platform, staying focused on contextual hiring and embedding ethical safeguards throughout the process.
Check out SquarePeg on the Warden Assured Directory.
