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The Open Weights Letter Is a Hiring Document
Twenty-five companies asked Washington to keep open weights open. Read as a hiring document, it forecasts which AI engineers America will compete for over the next decade, and where the shortage actually bites.
July 25, 2026 | 5 min read
Full Machine Leverage, Full Human Authority
What building an autonomous recruiting system taught us about judgment, and why the system was the easy part.
July 24, 2026 | 10 min read
The 13% Problem: Why Every Recruiter Emails the Same Engineers
Every sourcing tool buys the same data from the same two suppliers, and only 13% of it is reachable. Here is why the best engineers stopped answering, and how we built around it.
June 7, 2026 | 6 min read
How to Spot a Recruiting Scam (And What's Just a Bad Recruiter)
The difference between a frustrating experience and an actual threat to your identity and finances.
March 24, 2026 | 5 min read