# Run a tryout

URL: /workflows/processes/hiring/run-tryout · Id: `workflow:run-tryout`

> Run a tryout pays a Candidate for real work from the Role’s backlog, graded blind against the incumbent Agent’s run of the same Tasks.

Run a tryout pays a [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) for real work from the [Role](/business/nouns/role)’s backlog, graded blind against the incumbent [Agent](/business/nouns/agent)’s run of the same [Tasks](/business/nouns/task).

## Trigger
Runs on [`Candidate.screened`](/business/events/Candidate.screened). Part of [Hiring](/workflows/processes/hiring), run by the [People Team](/agents/people).

## Steps
1. Cut Tasks from the Role’s backlog, preferring those the Agent failed, escalated, or left waiting.
2. Grant the Candidate a scoped Mandate that expires with the tryout. It waits 1 business hour first.
3. Give the Candidate and the incumbent Agent the same Tasks.
4. Grade both arms blind with the Role’s Evaluators.
5. Write the per-Verb delta and a proposed split as Evidence on the Candidate.
6. Pay the Candidate in full, whatever the grade. It waits 1 business hour first.

## Outputs
- [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate)
- [Evidence](/business/nouns/evidence)
- [Project](/business/nouns/project)

## Example
A [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) for a content Role writes ten articles from the backlog while the incumbent [Agent](/business/nouns/agent) writes the same ten unseen. The Role's [Evaluators](/business/nouns/evaluator) grade all twenty blind: the Candidate wins on pieces built from practitioner quotes and ties on the rest.