Eragon x MeritFirst
MeritFirst is now natively supported inside Eragon. Every Eragon customer can access skills-based talent assessments directly from the Chat UI with a single command: /meritfirst.
We're announcing this because we believe in meritocracy — and we think the companies building the future should hire for ability, not appearance.
Hiring is still broken.
The best companies are built by the best people. That's not a controversial statement. But the way most companies find those people — resume screens, credential filters, phone screens, gut instinct — systematically overlooks the talent that would actually perform best in the role.
Resumes reward pedigree. Interviews reward polish. Neither reliably predicts who can do the work.
MeritFirst exists to fix that. They build AI-powered, skills-based assessments that measure what actually matters: can this person do the job? Not where they went to school. Not who they know. Not how they perform in a 30-minute conversation with a stranger. Can they diagnose the problem, ask the right questions, and deliver a plan of action?
America's frontier is in unlocking hidden talent. We agree.
/meritfirst — talent assessment inside Eragon.
Inside the Eragon Chat UI, type /meritfirst to create, distribute, and evaluate skills-based assessments for any role. Your agent handles the entire workflow — designing evaluations tailored to the role and level, managing candidate access, and surfacing structured results with objective scoring.
Your agent can generate evaluations that mirror real work — text responses, code challenges, video, audio, multiple choice, and document uploads. The assessment is tailored to the specific role, team, and skills that matter to your company. Not a generic test. A real evaluation of real ability.
Results come back structured: scored against objective rubrics, with candidate insights surfaced so hiring managers can review asynchronously based on demonstrated ability rather than hunches.
What this means for how you hire.
Eragon agents already run your operations. Now they can run your talent pipeline too.
Design evaluations in minutes. Describe the role and what you're looking for. Your agent generates a work-sample assessment calibrated to the level, function, and specific skills that matter. No more spending days writing take-home assignments.
Evaluate at scale without sacrificing quality. Every candidate gets the same structured evaluation. Scoring is consistent, auditable, and based on demonstrated ability. Your hiring managers review shortlists built on merit, not pattern-matching on resumes.
Protect your team's time. Stop burning engineering hours on phone screens that generate weak signal. Let the assessment do the filtering. Your team only talks to candidates who've already proven they can do the work.
Discover hidden talent. The best candidate for your role might not have the "right" resume. Skills-based assessment gives them a way in — and gives you a way to find them. Opportunity promised. Outcomes earned.
Why this matters to us.
Eragon partners with the best builders and startups to bring world-class technology natively into our platform. MeritFirst is the latest example.
But this one is personal. We're building Eragon for companies that believe the best ideas should win. That the best people should rise. That intelligence and effort should matter more than credentials and connections.
That's meritocracy. And we think every company on our platform should have access to the tools that make it real.
Get started.
Book a demo to get set up on Eragon. Once you're in, type /meritfirst in any chat session and start hiring on merit.
Skills-based assessments powered by MeritFirst.