Fast shortlisting
Get from a pool to a ranked shortlist with written rationale in a single run.
— Talent & Leadership
Shortlist & rank
Ranks a candidate pool on evidence, takes the top slice, and writes the rationale explaining why the shortlist fell the way it did.
- Talent & Leadership
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1 day → ~15 minutes
For one complete, review-ready pass
No coding required
- Input
- The candidate pool
- Output
- An evidence-based ranking of the pool
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1 day per run
— USE CASES
What people use Shortlist & rank for
Challengeable rankings
Show the evidence behind the order so the ranking can be interrogated.
Repeatable search process
Apply the same ranking basis to every role you run.
What it works from
- The candidate pool
- The role and its criteria
- The shortlist size
What you get back
- An evidence-based ranking of the pool
- The top slice as a shortlist
- Written rationale for the selection
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Shortlist & rank produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Composed as work product
Findings are written up as a document that reads like professional output rather than raw model text.
Like-for-like comparison
Items are compared on the same dimensions, which makes differences meaningful rather than impressionistic.
Structured extraction
Facts, fields and entities are lifted out of unstructured material and held in a consistent shape.
Grounded in your own material
The run works from documents and data you supply, so conclusions are anchored to your evidence rather than to general model knowledge.
Why this is expensive by hand
Every talent & leadership team needs shortlist & rank — and almost none of them do it the same way twice. In practice it shows up as fast shortlisting: get from a pool to a ranked shortlist with written rationale in a single run. It is the kind of work that decides whether a recommendation survives scrutiny — and the kind that quietly eats 1 day of senior time whenever it comes round.
How this Skill produces it
As a Skill, the work is already sequenced. You bring the evidence, and the run produces an evidence-based ranking of the pool plus the top slice as a shortlist. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: 1 day down to ~15 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
- Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
- Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
- Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Shortlist & rank exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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