Someone still has to create candidate. It does not have to be you
It reads every candidate your Gem account holds, drafts the change that follow, and hands you a card for each one before a single candidate moves.
Open the candidate. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Gem afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a candidate until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Gem exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 1 operation, no reads and 1 write. In practice that means it can create a candidate.
The Gem API stops at Gem. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the candidates or ask you for them?
In the tab.
Gem exposes no read operation to a connected account, so a companion opens Gem in the session you are already signed into and reads the screens you would.
The candidates are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the candidates. A companion can hold that operation and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Gem admin becomes a queue you review.
What happens before it can create candidate?
The one write operation there is waits for you.
A companion can create a candidate, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the candidate, the field and the new value before it lands in Gem.
Nothing in Gem is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the candidate exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
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Can it create candidate on a schedule?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Gem candidates pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The recruiting playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of hiring admin, the Gem candidates sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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