You spent two weeks preparing. You re-read the JD. You rehearsed STAR answers in front of the mirror. You had your portfolio ready.

Then the call ended.

Within an hour, what they asked is fading. Within a day, you can't remember which company asked about leadership and which asked about your last failure. By the time round two comes around, you're back to running the same generic prep loop you'd run for any role.

Most candidates spend 80% of their effort on prep, 20% on debrief. The math is backwards.

Prep produces a flat baseline. Debrief produces compounding signal: which questions tripped you up, what each company actually weighted, where your story landed and where it fell flat. That's the data that makes round two go better than round one — but only if you capture it.

The candidates who improve fastest are the ones who treat every interview as the most expensive piece of feedback they can get — and capture it before it evaporates.

Legend captures the conversation, structures it into a clean debrief (questions asked, your answers, where you stumbled, what to prep for round two), and drafts your follow-up email — all within five minutes of hanging up.

The agencies, recruiters, and hiring managers you talk to know what they want to hear. Your job is to remember what they actually said.