Our Winter 2026 product release will be available progressively from November to January. Below, you will find the descriptions and help center articles for each feature included in the release, along with additional resources to help you prepare for upcoming changes.
Released January 8th, 2026
Visual Insights
AI Interview Companion Dashboard
Gain visibility into the time savings, productivity gains, and hiring improvements achieved through your investment in AI Interview Companion. By quantifying efficiencies and outcomes, recruiting teams can better understand how AI is driving measurable impact. See Visual Insights: AI Interview Companion Dashboard for more information.
AI Screening Companion
Candidate Insights Powered by ProboTalent
Candidate Insights delivers AI-powered screening at the top of your hiring funnel to surface qualified candidates instantly. Assessments and reference checks are sent automatically when candidates apply, revealing skills, fit, and potential fraud before manual screening begins. See Candidate Insights (AI Screening Companion Add-on powered by ProboTalent) and AI Screening Companion Overview for more information.
AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries
Sync Internal & Unlisted Roles from Lever to the AI Interview Companion Platform
We’ve expanded the Lever → AI Interview Companion (AIIC) platform integration to give you more control over which roles sync into AIIC. In addition to standard external roles, you can now choose to sync Internal and Unlisted/Undisclosed roles when using the Import All Roles setting. This ensures teams that hire confidentially or manage internal mobility programs can still benefit from AIIC interview tools. See Setup and Use AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Unlimited for more information.
"Interview Intelligence" is now "Interview Companion" and "Interview Transcripts and Summaries"
| Previous Name | New Name | Related Article(s) |
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| Pillar | AI Interview Companion (AIIC) | AIIC Help Center |
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Interview Intelligence Interview + AI Summary (Complementary AI Interview Companion) |
AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Lite | |
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Interview Intelligence Standalone AI Interview Companion (Pillar) Integration or "Premium" |
AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Unlimited |
AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Overview Setup and Use AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Unlimited |
Enable for Newly Created Jobs Setting
When enabling Interview Transcripts and Summaries, you can now automatically enable/disable Interview Companion for all newly created jobs. See AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries Lite for more information.
Get Lever Guides sent to Interview Companion with Ratings Enhancement
Interview ratings (scores) now sync back into Lever from the AI Interview Companion platform.
Lever Interview Sync Enhancement
Interviews for newly created jobs in Lever now sync automatically after the initial sync completes.
AI Interview Companion Platform
New Interview & Intake Guide Creation Experience
We’ve enhanced the Interview Guides area with a more flexible way to create, organize, and use guides across your hiring process. You can now add a new guide using the “Add New Guide” button and choose between two guide types: Interview Guide or Intake Guide. Intake Guides can be used when scheduling Intake Meetings with Hiring Managers, allowing you to configure structured sections, questions, and form elements to support consistent, high-quality intake conversations. A new guide-type filter also makes it easier to find and manage your guides. Once you choose the guide type, you’ll be taken directly into the guide builder to start creating your structure, skills, and questions.
For more information, see Intake Meeting and Meeting Guides.
One-Click Candidate Consent Opt-Out Email
We’ve improved the Candidate Consent workflow by adding an easy, one-click opt-out option for candidates. When the Candidate Consent Email setting is enabled, candidates will automatically receive an email before their interview with a clear explanation of AI usage and a direct link to opt out; no recruiter follow-up required. Once the candidate clicks the link, their preference is immediately recorded in AI Interview Companion, ensuring interviews aren’t recorded or analyzed by AI.
For more information, see Recording & Email Preferences in the AI Interview Companion.
Translate Interview Summary and Transcript to 17 Languages
We’ve introduced the ability to translate interviews into 17 different languages, including the summary, transcript, and AI Interview Companion Chatbot responses. The summary will automatically appear in the language spoken during the interview, and users can switch to any of the 17 supported languages with a single click, making interviews more accessible for global teams.
For more information, see FAQ: AI Interview Companion.
Released November 13th, 2025
Onboarding
Undo Hired within Lever When Sent to Onboarding
Hiring plans can change. With Undo Hire, recruiters and HR admins can quickly revert a candidate’s “Hire & Onboarding” status when employment can’t move forward, keeping your data clean and your process flexible. See Send to Onboarding for more information.
Attribute Mapping and Role Access Management within Onboarding
Save time, accurately control access, and reduce security risks by automatically assigning the right permissions to the right people—set permissions based on department, business unit, and employment type to control access across your organization.
See the following articles for more information:
AI Screening Companion
AI Screening Companion provides you with insights and next steps before you even ask. Candidate Transparency makes personalized feedback easy, and Loss Risk flags indicate when top candidates might drop out, allowing you to act quickly to keep them engaged. It’s about helping you hire faster while treating candidates better.
To learn more about the AI Screening Companion add-on feature, click here to learn more and connect with your account manager.
Screening Companion Agent
The AI Screening Companion is a widget or agent that sits on top of the Lever ATS and proactively provides screening-related insights, with the ability to offer next steps or recommendations based on those insights. The first types of screening insights to be displayed to users will be around Talent Fit. See Screening Companion Agent for more information.
Candidate Transparency Post Application
As a Recruiter, I want to generate personalized emails for rejected candidates, offering feedback to improve the candidate experience and save time in my hiring process. By following existing workflows to archive and email a single candidate, you can generate a personalized disposition email for that candidate. See Candidate Transparency Post Application for more information.
Candidate Loss Risk
This feature helps recruiters and hiring managers proactively identify top candidates who are at high risk of dropping out of the hiring process. By analyzing candidate quality signals, communication patterns, and workflow progress, the system flags at-risk candidates and provides timely, actionable recommendations to re-engage them. This enables recruiting teams to take strategic action such as accelerating feedback, initiating outreach, or scheduling next steps to prevent talent loss, reduce time to fill, and improve conversion rates from screening to hire. See Candidate Loss Risk for more information.