This quarter at Kira Talent, our primary focus has been a major milestone: the launch of our new Admin Platform (AP), now available in open beta.
👉 Access the beta Admin Platform: https://manage.kiratalent.com/
The new AP is a rebuilt, modernized experience designed to give you more control, better visibility, and greater efficiency across your admissions workflow — especially when working at scale.
During the beta period, you’ll continue to have full access to both:
- The beta Admin Platform, and
- Your existing Kira admin experience
You can switch between the two at any time, allowing you to explore the new platform at your own pace while continuing your work uninterrupted. As we move toward a full transition later in 2026, we’ll keep you informed and provide plenty of notice and support.
Below is a look at what’s new with this AP and how these updates support faster, more transparent admissions workflows.
What's new in the beta Admin Platform
1. Speed at scale
Inviting & reminding applicants
Performance and speed are core pillars of the new Admin Platform, especially when you’re working with large applicant volumes.
You can now invite up to 1,000 applicants to an assessment in a single action and send reminders to up to 100,000 applicants at once. Once you hit send, you’re free to move on. The platform handles the work in the background, so there’s no longer a need to wait on the page while all emails are delivered.
Assigning reviewers
Another major focus of the rebuild was improving performance across the assignment workflow. We’ve re-engineered our bulk assignment tool to be faster, more intuitive, and significantly more flexible - so managing reviews at scale doesn’t feel as resource-intensive.
With the new assignment experience, you can now:
- Apply assignments to pre-filtered or custom groups of up to 10,000 applicants
- Complete both vertical and horizontal assignments in a single, streamlined workflow
- Understand how many assignments reviewers already have to allow for better distribution of applicants
- Quickly select reviewers with intuitive controls and drag-and-drop functionality
Just like invitations and reminders, the platform does the heavy lifting for you. Click ‘Confirm’ once, and assignments are created in the background, so you can keep moving forward in Kira without interruption.
2. Filtering, sorting & searching
We also addressed one of the biggest limitations of the previous platform - finding what you need quickly.
Every list in Kira - Assessments, Applicants, Assigned Reviewers, and Teammates - is now fully filterable and sortable across a wide range of criteria. You can also search within any list, making it easier to focus only on what you need.
On top of that, we’ve introduced a universal search for both applicants and assessments at the top of our screen, so you can locate what you’re looking for in seconds, no matter where you are in the platform.
3. Advanced user management
We’ve also expanded admin controls for managing your reviewing team (called ‘Teammates’ in the new platform), with more powerful self-serve tools and greater visibility across the entire review process.
With these enhancements, you can now:
- View a rollup of each teammate’s applicant assignments across all assessments, making it easy to see who has capacity for more reviews
- Grant or revoke Staff and Reviewer access to assessments at any time, including removing access when review cycles end
- Send reminders to teammates to complete their reviews, or unassign applicants if issues arise
- Deactivate and reactivate teammates instantly - no need to contact Client Success
- See exactly which applicants each reviewer is assigned to within an assessment and make updates in just a few clicks
Together, these updates give you tighter control, clearer insights, and faster adjustments as your reviewing team evolves.
4. Reviewer ratings
Just like the previous platform, our Reviewer Ratings chart gives you valuable insight into reviewer rating behavior - but with clearer, more actionable visibility.
Quickly identify which teammates tend to be hawks (scoring applicants lower than average) and which are doves (scoring higher than average). You can view these insights at the overall applicant score level or drill down by individual competency. You can also sort by overall score as well as score deviation.
With a single click, highlight outliers and filter results by reviewer or competency to spot patterns, ensure consistency, and confidently calibrate your review process.
5. We heard you!
This rebuild addresses nearly 50 features requested by clients. Many are highlighted above, but here are a few additional improvements worth calling out:
- Improved text formatting in invitation and reminder emails
- Visibility into each teammate’s last login, last assignment, and last review date per assessment
- The ability to remove reviewer ratings for individual applicants when needed
- A high-level snapshot of applicant progress, assignment progress, and review progress on a single page for each assessment
- Clear insight into which applicants are at each stage of the Applicant Pipeline
- A new ‘Issue Log’ to give you visibility into email delivery issues per assessment so you can quickly see if any applicant invites or reminders bounced or failed to send
Together, these enhancements add up to a smoother, more transparent experience across every stage of your admissions workflow.
6. Advanced applicant integrity reporting
Finally, we’re excited to introduce a brand new ‘Advanced Applicant Integrity’ report, available for each assessment.
This report gives admins a downloadable view of all applicants who triggered integrity flags during their assessment, providing added transparency and support for fair, consistent evaluation.
The new integrity flags include:
- Detection of the ChatGPT browser extension being enabled
- Leaving and returning to the browser during an assessment
- Leaving the browser and pasting text back into a written response
- Copying question text
- Copying question text, leaving Kira, and returning to the browser
- Copying question text, leaving, and pasting text back into a written response
- Exceeding the acceptable limit on total unaccounted browser refreshes
- Refreshing their browser more than 30% into the allotted response time
- Exceeding the acceptable limit on average typing speed
- Written responses containing more than 30% pasted content
- Exceeding the acceptable limit on total interview time
This report is an important first step toward a dedicated applicant-level integrity view within the new Admin Platform, where these signals will be surfaced visually and in greater detail. More to come soon.
A note on beta access
The new Admin Platform is currently in open beta. During this phase:
- Some features are still under construction.
- You may encounter occasional rough edges.
- Your feedback will directly shape what comes next through various surveys in the platform.
You’ll continue to have access to both the current Kira platform and the new Admin Platform throughout the beta, with the ability to switch between them at any time.
Thank you helping us build a better, more powerful platform. We’re excited for you to experience the new AP and to keep improving it together.
