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Manifesto

Remove applications.

The job market is built around people looking for jobs.Amble is built for people who aren’t.

Recruiting has worked the same way for decades.

A company publishes a job. People find it. They apply. Someone filters the applications.

Now we can generate applications faster than anyone can meaningfully read them. Companies respond with more automation, more screening and more filters.

More applications. More filters. More noise.

A better application keeps the same loop.

The application is the problem.

Most people aren’t looking.

And that’s the part the current system handles badly.

Some of the best people for a role are already doing good work somewhere else. They aren’t browsing job boards. They aren’t updating their CV. They aren’t applying.

  • Aiko Tanaka

    Product designer

    Not lookingWould move forthe right problem

  • Daniel Okafor

    Backend engineer

    Open to work

  • Lucía Serrano

    Data scientist

    Not lookingWould move forremote

  • Tom Weber

    Staff engineer

    Not looking

  • Priya Nair

    ML engineer

    Not lookingWould move formore ownership

  • Jonas Berg

    Platform engineer

    Not lookingWould move forthe right number
Not looking ≠ not listening.

But not looking isn’t the same as not listening.

There may be a company they’d join. A problem they’d want to solve. More ownership they’d take. A team they’d want to work with. A number that would change the equation.

Today, discovering that requires one side to interrupt the other. Recruiters send cold messages. People browse jobs they mostly don’t want. Both sides repeat information the other could already know.

There should be a better way to discover mutual intent.

Give everyone a Rep.

Your Rep knows what you’ve actually done, what you can demonstrate and what would make you move.

When something deserves your attention, it comes to you, already filtered against your work, your conditions and the things you’ve taught your Rep to care about. It arrives with one sentence:

I found something worth your attention.

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Your Rep

Listening

You

At work

1 worth your time

The old system waits for you to apply.Your Rep listens for you.

What we build by

  1. 01

    Describe each person on their own.

    What you’re worth depends on who is asking and for what. So your Rep describes you, on your own terms, one person at a time.

  2. 02

    Every claim has a source.

    Every claim your Rep makes points to where it read it. Without a source, it stays quiet, even when saying more would flatter you.

  3. 03

    Name the gaps.

    A good representative is precise about its own uncertainty. “I can’t tell yet” is a useful sentence.

  4. 04

    Ask who decided.

    Much of today’s work is written with an agent. So your Rep asks you to explain your decisions, and only claims what you can defend.

  5. 05

    Retract, and keep the record.

    When your Rep stops believing something, it keeps the record of why. A system that can’t unlearn inflates everyone it reads.

  6. 06

    The no is the data.

    Nobody lists their own dealbreakers correctly. They show them, one trade-off at a time. Your Rep learns most from what you turn down.

  7. 07

    Silence is a feature.

    Most weeks, the right number of opportunities is zero, and your Rep says nothing at all.

  8. 08

    Your data is yours.

    Private by default, portable as plain text, deletable for good. You can always see why your Rep thinks what it thinks, and change its mind.

  9. 09

    Built in the open.

    With the people who use it, and in public where we can. The format your profile is written in will be open for anyone to read and use.

Eventually, the search itself goes away.

Each side reveals more as interest grows on both.

Your agent talks to theirs.

And when both sides want the conversation, humans talk.

Remove applications.