Textio review: AI writing guidance for recruiting content, interview notes and manager feedback

What Textio does

Textio is a software suite for HR teams that helps people write better talent-related text. It is organized around the talent lifecycle: attracting candidates, documenting interviews, and giving employees feedback.

The recruiting side covers job posts, sourcing messages and employer branding content. It can draft a job post from a few details, keep finished posts in a shared library, and grade emails, posts and pages with a Textio Score meant to predict who will apply. Extra meters show how wording may skew by gender or appeal to different generations, and teams can program their own brand guidance.

Interview intelligence links interview questions to job requirements and records feedback for every candidate. On the feedback side, managers get prompts, real-time guidance, a tone adjuster, risk detection for sensitive remarks, and a place to keep the feedback they have given.

You can work directly on textio.com, or use extensions that bring the guidance into an ATS, an HRIS, LinkedIn or a performance management system.

Pricing is not published on the official site, and the pricing page could not be found. The homepage offers a free trial account, or you can contact the vendor to design a package for your business. The length of the trial is not stated.

• Job post generation from a few details
• Textio Score for emails, posts and pages
• Gender meter and age graph
• Custom brand guidance
• Interview question alignment and feedback
• Real-time feedback guidance for managers
• Risk detection and tone adjuster
• Extensions for ATS, HRIS and LinkedIn

Our take

Textio fits HR, recruiting and people-operations teams that want writing guidance placed inside the tools where job posts, interview notes and reviews are already written. It covers a broad range of tasks under one vendor, from sourcing messages to self assessments. The trade-offs are practical: no prices, plans or billing terms are public, so budgeting means contacting the vendor or starting the trial. The pages also do not state an API, mobile apps or usage limits. Teams that only need a single narrow writing task, or that need transparent pricing before talking to sales, may find it a less direct fit.