Because stages are usually named after activities rather than evidence. "Interviewed" can mean the interview happened, or that it is booked, or that somebody spoke to them once. The pipeline then measures nothing.
The stages an applicant moves through, from applied to offer, with the criteria for entering each one.
Stages carry entry criteria, the same discipline that makes a sales pipeline honest. "Interviewed" means the interview happened and the feedback is recorded.
A candidate cannot reach offer without the interview feedback that stage requires, so a hiring decision is never made on a conversation nobody wrote down.
It does not rank or score candidates. Screening is a judgement, and dressing it as a number makes it harder to challenge, not easier.
Time in stage shows where hiring actually stalls — usually scheduling rather than decision-making, which is a fixable problem once it is visible.
Yes, per role or per template.
Yes, overall and per stage.
Yes, with previous applications visible on the same person.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.