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Everyone trusts their
own resume. Nobody trusts
anyone else's.
Before building anything we surveyed fifteen students and recent graduates, to check the problem was real rather than assumed. The most useful finding was not one we set out to look for.
trust that their own resume represents their ability accurately
are confident other students can do what their resume claims
A resume is self-reported, and everyone already knows self-reporting is only trustworthy when it is their own. The market does not need convincing that the instrument is broken — it needs a replacement it can defend to somebody else.
- Want companies to judge them on their work rather than their resume 15 / 15
- Would use it if their college provided it 14 / 15
- Have used AI on a resume, copied code, or seen others fake skills 13 / 15
- Say college exams do not test real-world skills 11 / 15
A unanimous response is rare in any survey. Fifteen out of fifteen wanting to be judged on work rather than paper is the clearest demand signal we have.
Being straight about this
Fifteen responses is a small sample, and only four respondents were engineering or IT students — the very cohort our first product serves. This tests whether the problem is real. It does not test whether the product works.
No pilot has run yet. The first one is the next thing we do, and until it has we will not present anything here as a result.
Two numbers describing
two different worlds.
of engineering graduates are rated employable on standardised tests
India Skills Report 2026secure no relevant job or internship
Forbes IndiaThese come from different studies with different definitions, and we are not claiming one causes the other. We are pointing at the fact that the instrument and the outcome disagree: a test says seven in ten are employable, and the labour market behaves as though far fewer are. Whichever number is closer to right, the measurement is not telling recruiters what they need to know.
That gap was survivable while a resume, a certificate and a puzzle score were reasonably hard to fake. A fluent resume, a polished commit history and an algorithm solution are now a few prompts away for anyone, whether or not they can do the work.
Who else is trying this.
Two companies are chasing the same thesis, and we would rather name them than let you find them. Both are remote and self-recorded — which is the one thing we are not.
| Who | What they do | What it leaves open |
|---|---|---|
| HackerRank, Mercer | Mettl | Timed algorithm puzzles and multiple choice, at enterprise scale | Whether the candidate was alone, and whether they can do the job |
| AMCAT, eLitmus, CoCubes | Campus aptitude testing at national scale | Produces a percentile, not a record of someone building something |
| Unstop, Internshala | Host student profiles and competitions | The profile is still self-reported |
| Provn | "Proof over pedigree" — real challenges with self-recorded video walkthroughs, 40,000+ users claimed | Remote and self-recorded. Nobody is in the room when the work happens |
| CapCheck | AI voice interview grounded in real work | Remote. No live fault, no person across the table |
Our difference is not a better algorithm. It is a supervised room, a fault injected live by a person, and a viva conducted face to face. That is operationally harder to run — which is exactly why a software company is unlikely to copy it.
We record people.
So duties attach
from session one.
| Obligation | What we do |
|---|---|
| Consent | Written, plain-language consent before any recording — every session, no exceptions. What is recorded, why, for how long, and how to withdraw it |
| Under-18s | A first-year student can be 17. The DPDP Act treats anyone under 18 as a child and restricts behavioural profiling. Until a verified parental-consent flow exists, we assess nobody under 18 |
| Storage | Encrypted, India-hosted, with a stated retention period and actual deletion at the end of it |
| Ownership | The recording is the student's personal data and they may withdraw it. The report is ours to write, and the college cannot edit it |
India's DPDP Rules 2025 set a full-compliance deadline of 13 May 2027, but the Data Protection Board is already operational. We treat these as live obligations now, not as something that begins in 2027.