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DuckyHelper in Ashby

DuckyHelper sees Ashby on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to add candidates and applications, move applicants through interview stages, schedule interviews, publish job postings, and create offers. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Ashby when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the candidates and add an existing email message to a candidate”
  • “Create an offer in Ashby”
  • “Show me how to add a candidate to a project”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

Candidates in AshbyDone in 7sExample
List the candidates and add an existing email message to a candidate
  1. Listed the candidates in Ashby
  2. Added a candidate to a project
  3. Add an existing email message to a candidate

It's ready in Ashby. Nothing goes out until you press Send.

Ashby
AshbyNew emailNeeds your OK
ToDana Lee (example)
Hi Dana, here is the update you asked for. Tell me if anything is missing.

Drawn from Ashby's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Ashby

Each one is something Ashby itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this candidate to me”
  • “Where do I find the offers in Ashby?”
  • “Show me how to add a candidate to a project”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Ashby and looks things up for you.

  • List the candidates
  • Search the candidates
  • List the offers
  • List the applications
  • List the interview stages
  • List the candidate projects
  • List the candidate client info
  • List the candidate tags
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  • List the projects
  • Search the projects
  • List the interview schedules
  • Look up the offer info
  • List the locations
  • Look up the candidate info
  • Look up the interview info
  • Look up the application info
  • Look up the interview stage info
  • List the candidate notes
  • List the interview types
  • List the departments
  • List the application history
  • List the application feedback
  • List the interview plans
  • List the openings
  • List the interviewer pools
  • List the candidate fraud checks
  • Search the candidate suggestions
  • List the jobs
  • List the users
  • Search the jobs
  • List the survey form definitions
  • Search the users
  • List the feedback form definitions
  • List the referrals
  • List the application criteria evaluations
  • Look up the file info
  • Look up the opening info
  • List the survey requests
  • List the sources
  • Look up the location info
  • List the approvals
  • Look up the department info
  • List the interview events
  • List the close reasons
  • List the brands
  • List the archive reasons
  • Look up the interviewer pool info
  • List the interview stage groups
  • List the survey submissions
  • Look up the take-home assignment info
  • List the job postings
  • Look up the user info
  • Search an opening
  • List the source tracking links
  • List the take home assignments
  • List a sequence
  • List an email sync blocked address
  • List the user interviewer pauses
  • List an email sender
  • Look up the job info
  • List the job templates
  • Look up a survey form definition
  • Look up the job posting info
  • Look up a feedback form definition
  • Look up the job interview plan info
  • List the job boards
  • Look up a referral form
  • List the custom fields
  • Look up the custom field info
  • List the communication templates
  • List the application hiring team roles
  • List the hiring team roles
  • List a sequence template
  • List a version
  • Look up the interviewer user settings

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Add a candidate to a project
  • Create an offer
  • Create a candidate
  • Create an application
  • Update a candidate
  • Upload a file candidate
  • Update an offer
  • Upload a resume candidate
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  • Start an offer
  • Add a candidate tag
  • Approve an offer
  • Update an application
  • Create a candidate tag
  • Create a project
  • Create an interview schedule
  • Create a location
  • Update a sequence stage
  • Update an application stage
  • Add an opening location
  • Create a candidate note
  • Create a department
  • Create an application feedback request
  • Create an opening
  • Create an interviewer pool
  • Create a job
  • Add a sequence
  • Update a project
  • Create a referral
  • Add an opening job
  • Update an interview schedule
  • Create a survey request
  • Create an email sync blocked address
  • Restore a project
  • Update a department
  • Create a report
  • Move a location
  • Create an interviewer pause user
  • Create a survey submission
  • Start an offer process
  • Restore a location
  • Update an application source
  • Create a job posting
  • Add a completed assessment to a candidate
  • Move a department
  • Start an offer approval process
  • Restore a department
  • Update an opening
  • Update an interviewer pool
  • Submit an application form
  • Add an existing email message to a candidate
  • Update a job
  • Update an approval definition
  • Submit the application feedback
  • Update a location address
  • Set an offer decision timestamp
  • Restore an interviewer pool
  • Update the application history
  • Update an assessment
  • Update a location name
  • Update a job posting
  • Update a location external name
  • Update a location workplace type
  • Start a sequence draft
  • Set an opening state
  • Set an opening archived
  • Set a status job posting
  • Create a custom field
  • Set the job status
  • Update a job compensation
  • Set the candidate fraud status
  • Set the offer acceptance status
  • Start a job approval process
  • Update a job posting compensation
  • Set a custom field values project
  • Set a custom field value
  • Set the custom field values
  • Set a project custom field value
  • Update a selectable values custom field
  • Update the location remote status

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Ashby.

  • Remove a tag candidate
  • Remove a candidate from a project
  • Delete an application
  • Archive a candidate tag
  • Archive a project
  • Cancel an interview schedule
  • Archive a location
  • Add a hiring team member
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  • Remove an opening location
  • Reject an offer approval
  • Archive a department
  • Add a hiring team member to an application
  • Add a user to an interviewer pool
  • Archive an interviewer pool
  • Cancel a sequence
  • Delete a referral
  • Remove an application hiring team member
  • Remove an opening job
  • Delete an email sync blocked address
  • Discard a sequence draft
  • Remove a hiring team member
  • Remove a user from an interviewer pool
  • Delete a user interviewer pause
  • Update the job compensation settings
  • Update the job posting compensation settings
  • Set a custom field values user
  • Set a user custom field value
  • Update the user interviewer settings
BUILT TO ASK FIRST

It's built to wait for your OK in Ashby.

When a job ends in “Add an existing email message to a candidate”, it does the work, and is built to stop with it ready. You see exactly what it wrote and where it goes, then Send, Edit or Deny.

It works in Ashby signed in as you. If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself: it's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.

AshbyNew emailNeeds your OK
ToDana Lee (example)
Hi Dana, here is the update you asked for. Tell me if anything is missing.

Example draft · early access on Mac

MAKE IT ALWAYS ON

Do it once. Then let it repeat.

When it's done, it offers to keep doing it: whenever an offer is created in Ashby, it does it again on its own.

Each run is still built to ask before it sends or pays. Turn it off or change it any time in Work › Automations.

Make this automatic?Trigger
Add a candidate to a project in Ashby
WhenAn offer is created in Ashby
DoesAdd a candidate to a project
ThenTells you when it's done

Always on · early access on Mac

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Ashby like you do

  • Early access: it sees Ashby on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Ashby signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Ashby and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Ashby out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Ashby: it answers out loud and can draw on Ashby to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Ashby with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the candidates and add an existing email message to a candidate” and “Create an offer in Ashby”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to add a candidate to a project”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Ashby and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

In Ashby, a job that ends in “Add an existing email message to a candidate” is built to stop there for your OK: Send, Edit or Deny.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Ashby and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ashby. It works in Ashby the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Ashby.Press one key and ask.

It sees Ashby, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

Download DuckyHelper
Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.