TrueHire
Costly signals over cheap ones

Your resume
is gone.
Your work still speaks.

AI tailors every resume into a 95% match. Recruiters stopped reading them. TrueHire replaces the resume with signals that are too expensive to fake — starting with years of verified public code.

500–1000
applicants per role, post-ChatGPT
30s
to generate a ‘perfect’ resume
4 signals
stacked, near-impossible to fake
truehire.dev/sample-dev
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Sam Devlin
@sample-dev · Senior infra engineer
Verified
82
SCORE
Depth
88
Breadth
71
Recognition
84
Specialization
76
Top evidenceweight
  • kubernetes/kubernetes
    112k· 14 PRs merged
  • sample-dev/warp-cache
    3.2k· authored
  • grafana/loki
    24k· 6 PRs merged
Derived weekly from GitHub · last verified 2h ago
§ 01Signal collapse

Hiring broke in a new way.

When every applicant can ship a tailored resume in 30 seconds, top-tier candidates look identical to average ones. Recruiters bias toward warm intros, great engineers without networks go invisible, and everyone pays more for worse hires.

  • 10×increase in application volume per role
  • 62%recruiters who can't tell AI resumes apart
  • 34 daysaverage time to hire — and getting longer
  • $4,700average cost-per-hire for a senior IC
§ 02The stack

Four orthogonal signals. Stacked.

Any one costly signal can be partially gamed. Four, layered, can only be produced by someone who actually is who they claim to be.

01Live
Public work

Years of real commits, merged PRs into popular repos, authored libraries. Already indexable, no buy-in required.

02Next
hr@stripe.comConfirmed Staff Eng · 2022–2024
hr@datadog.comConfirmed Senior SWE · 2019–2022
Employer verification

HR-signed confirmation of role and tenure, payroll-backed where available. Cryptographically signed on your profile.

03Roadmap
$200
$500
$1000
Reputation bonds

Colleagues and referrers stake money on specific claims. The stake forfeits if the claim proves false.

04Roadmap
Paid audition

Two weeks of paid contract work at target comp. Convert to FT with escrowed outcome feedback.

§ 03How it works

Derived, not declared.

You cannot write your own bio, summary, or skills list. Everything on your profile is computed from verified sources. That is the point.

  1. 01
    Connect GitHub

    OAuth only — we never ask for a resume, a headline, or a self-description.

  2. 02
    We read your work

    Commits, releases, stars, merged PRs to high-reputation repos — no heuristics, no ML black box.

  3. 03
    Score + evidence

    A transparent 0–100 composite with the receipts behind every number. Recomputed weekly.

Depth
30%
Months active, recency-weighted
Breadth
20%
Distinct meaningful repos
Recognition
35%
Stars, merged PRs to 100★+ repos
Specialization
15%
Concentration in a top language
§ 04FAQ

Questions, answered.

Why GitHub first?

Because it's the one signal that exists at scale today without asking anyone's permission. Years of public commits cannot be fabricated in a weekend. Other signals — employer verification, reputation bonds, paid auditions — come next.

Can I edit my profile?

No. The entire point is that nothing on a TrueHire profile is written by the candidate. If it's on your profile, it came from a verifiable source. We surface the raw evidence so recruiters can audit every number.

What if I don't have much GitHub history?

MVP focuses on engineers with public code. If that's not you yet, the score will be low — that's honest. As we ship signals 2–4, non-code credentials (verified employment, references, auditions) open the door for more profiles.

How do you stop gaming (bot commits, bought stars)?

Recognition credits only high-star repos and merged PRs into them. Depth requires sustained months of activity, not a recent burst. We detect and discount star-spikes. Gaming enough signals to materially move a score is substantially harder than real work.

Is this free?

Yes — public profiles and weekly score refresh will stay free. Paid tiers (manual refresh, private mode, verified PDF export, recruiter search) come later.

Stop tailoring. Start being trusted.

Your profile takes 60 seconds. Then it works for you, forever.