Your HR agent’s offer looks fair. The number came from the candidate’s last salary, not the role. The manager hit send. The candidate walked — and nobody caught it until your recruiter got the no.
The agent that drafts the offer is the same one that checks it’s fine. One hand writes the pay and signs off.
There’s a rule from internal audit worth stealing: whoever makes a risky call can’t be the one who approves it. That’s segregation of duties, and your agent needs it.
Split the job. Agent drafts. A separate person — with real power to say no — reviews and blocks any offer that’s out of band.
You’ll see it in the logs: more offers sent back, fewer anchored to “what they made before,” and a record of what got blocked and why. That log is your bias map.
The fix isn’t a smarter agent. It’s segregation of duties.
InTheValley senior engineers know how to wire this split into your hiring agents.
