About
Evidence, not conclusions
Evalgist builds AI-assisted evaluation tools for people who weigh many documents against the same criteria — a hiring round, a grant call, an admissions cycle — and then have to defend the outcome. The AI extracts and compares the evidence. The reviewer decides.
What Evalgist does
Give a tool many documents and one set of criteria. It reads each document, pulls the evidence for each criterion, and lays the results out side by side. It does not score in your place; it makes the evidence easier to inspect and the comparison easier to defend. Evalgist Shortlist, the first of these tools, applies the approach to resume screening.
How we work
Evidence before scores
A result should point back to the document it came from. A judgment that cannot be traced is not useful.
Human decision-making
Evalgist helps reviewers compare documents against criteria. It does not make the final decision.
A conservative data model
Customer documents are used for the evaluation and nothing else. Extracted text is deleted after analysis, and the AI providers do not retain it or train on it.
Our full data-handling commitments are published on the privacy page.
Why it matters
Much of this work is episodic, not a daily job. The hard part is not reading one file. It is comparing many files consistently, remembering why one ranked above another, and leaving a record that holds up when the decision is questioned.
Founders
Filip Van Nieuwerburgh
Co-founder & CEO, Evalgist
Academic at Ghent University who does this evaluation work himself, which is where Evalgist started. Leads the evaluation methodology and academic pilots across the product family.
Karel Van Achte
Co-founder & CTO, Evalgist
Software developer with over ten years of experience building production systems. Builds and runs the full technical stack: the evaluation pipeline, AI architecture, evidence anchoring, and data handling.
Questions
Who is Evalgist for?
Evalgist builds evaluation tools for episodic evaluators: committees, hiring managers, academic and grant reviewers, and similar teams who assess many documents against set criteria a few times a year, not for a living. The tools are not built for recruiters processing hundreds of resumes a day, or for teams with an existing ATS.
Does Evalgist make the decision?
No. Evalgist's tools compare documents against your criteria and show the evidence behind each result. The reviewer makes the decision. Every judgment points back to a quote or reference in the source, so the outcome can be checked and defended.
What happens to uploaded documents?
Extracted text is deleted after analysis, and the AI providers do not retain it or train on it. Original files are kept for a 14-day recovery window, then deleted. The evaluation results and their evidence quotes remain until you delete the job or your account.
Company
Evalgist BV is registered at Bosstraat 13, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium. Company number, VAT, and jurisdiction are on the contact page.