We Don't Read Résumés
Published: February 2025 | 5 min read
A résumé is a story someone tells about their past. We're not interested in stories. We're interested in proof.
When you look at a résumé, you see job titles, years of experience, and education credentials. What you don't see is whether someone can actually ship. Whether they learn fast. Whether they contribute to communities. Whether they're obsessed with getting better.
Proof of work beats credentials. Always.
GitHub commits tell us more than 10 years at a FAANG company. YouTube tutorials teaching 40,000 people show us communication skills better than any degree. Discord activity in AI communities reveals someone's real-time learning velocity.
We don't care where you've been. We care where you're going.
The GitHub Economy
Published: February 2025 | 6 min read
Open-source contributions have become the new interview. And most companies still don't get it.
Traditional interviews ask candidates to solve algorithmic puzzles on a whiteboard. GitHub shows you how someone actually works: their code quality, their commit frequency, how they handle issues, whether they document, how they collaborate.
It's a permanent, public record of how someone thinks.
We track developers who contribute to open-source projects in AI, distributed systems, dev tools. Not because they're trying to get hired—but because they want to build something that matters.
That's the signal. That's who we find.
Discord Is a Hiring Database
Published: January 2025 | 4 min read
While recruiters spam LinkedIn, the best builders are in Discord servers—helping strangers debug code, sharing learnings, building in public.
Discord communities around AI, web3, and dev tools are where real expertise lives. Not job titles. Not polished profiles. Just people who know their shit and help others.
Community reputation is the new credential.
Someone who's answered 500 questions in a LangChain Discord? Who's helped debug Bittensor subnets at 2am? Who's contributing to AI model training discussions?
They're not updating their LinkedIn. But we're watching.
The Junior Advantage
Published: January 2025 | 7 min read
Why a 22-year-old with 3 months of AI experience can outship a senior with 10 years.
The tech industry worships experience. But experience in what? Frameworks that are already outdated? Processes that slow shipping? Corporate politics?
The tools changed. The rules changed.
GPT-4 shipped in March 2023. LangChain exploded in late 2023. Most "senior" developers haven't touched them. But hungry juniors? They're building AI agents, creating content, teaching themselves in public.
They don't know what's "impossible." So they just ship.
We're betting on trajectory, not pedigree.
What We Learned from 50 Placements
Published: December 2024 | 8 min read
Patterns, surprises, and where the market is headed.
After 50 placements in Lisbon and Amsterdam, some patterns emerged:
- Speed matters. Companies that moved fast (1-2 interviews max) hired the best talent. Those who dragged it out lost them.
- Proof beats everything. Candidates with public portfolios got offers 3x faster than those with just résumés.
- AI fluency is non-negotiable. Every role, even non-technical ones, now requires AI literacy.
- Remote-first wins. Companies offering remote work had 5x more qualified candidates.
- Junior retention is higher. Our trained juniors had 90%+ retention vs 60% for senior hires.
The market is rewarding speed, proof, and AI-native thinking. Everyone else is falling behind.
Lisbon's Hidden Builders
Published: December 2024 | 5 min read
Spotlight on the city's emerging AI talent that traditional recruiters miss.
Lisbon is quietly becoming one of Europe's best AI hubs. Not because of venture capital or government programs. But because builders are choosing it.
Lower cost of living. High quality of life. English-first startups.
We've found ML engineers who left FAANG to teach AI to students in Sintra. Developers building open-source tools from shared workspaces. Self-taught programmers who spent a year learning before applying to anything.
They're not on LinkedIn. They're in cafés, co-working spaces, and Discord servers. Building.
The Death of the CV
Published: November 2024 | 6 min read
How public work killed the résumé.
The résumé was invented for a world where work was private. You had to trust what people said they'd done. Not anymore.
Everything is public now.
Your GitHub shows your code. Your YouTube shows how you explain concepts. Your Discord shows how you help others. Your blog shows how you think. Your side projects show what you're obsessed with.
A CV is a summary. Public work is the full story. Why read the summary when you can read the book?
The CV is dead. Long live the GitHub profile.