About
Applying should not be the hardest part of getting hired.
We build the part of the job hunt nobody enjoys and everybody has to do — so the effort you put in shows up in the outcome.
Why this exists
The same pattern, over and over
Effort in, silence out
Capable people putting weeks into a search and hearing nothing back. Applications disappearing. Promising roles leading nowhere. People taking less than they are worth — not for lack of skill, but because the process wears them down first.
The advice is always 'apply to more'
So the search became a numbers game. But volume does not produce better openings; it produces exhaustion. The question we started from was smaller than a mission statement: what would make this feel fair instead of draining?
Take the machinery off the person
Reading thousands of postings, matching them honestly against one CV, rewriting for each, rehearsing the interview — all of it is work a person should not have to do by hand. So we do it, show our reasoning, and leave every decision with you.
What we hold to
Five things we will not trade away
Fewer, better matches
The market rewards scale. We think a short list of genuinely relevant openings beats an endless one, and we would rather show you six than six hundred.
You see the reasoning
Every match says why it scored the way it did, and every gap is named. No black box, no score you are asked to trust on faith.
People are not keywords
Careers are not linear and talent does not reduce to a checklist. We design around real experience, not around what screening software finds easy to parse.
Nothing is sent without you
We prepare, suggest and rehearse. We do not apply on your behalf behind your back, and we never will — the send button stays yours.
Progress without burnout
Looking for work is hard enough. A tool that adds urgency, streaks and guilt to that is making the problem worse, so ours does not.
Beyond hiring
A forest that grows with us
Building a fairer job market also means being responsible for the world it sits in. We plant trees through Treedom, supporting local communities alongside the climate benefit. It is a small commitment today, and it grows as we do.
Visit our forestWork with us
Come and build the rest of it.
We are a small team with more to build than people to build it. If the problem above is one you have lived, we would like to hear from you.
See open rolesMeet the people building TalentAid
Phillip
Founder and CEO
Phillip founded TalentAid and leads it as CEO. A former CERN physicist and fintech CTO at Chintai, he started TalentAid to put AI on the side of the person looking for work rather than the recruiter.
Kristin
Operations Officer
Kristin runs operations at TalentAid. She brings about seven years of forensic technology and eDiscovery experience from PwC Germany and KPMG Germany across investigations in financial services, industrials, and tech, plus a Mathematics degree from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Jolanta
Product Designer
Over a decade designing SaaS products: usability testing tools, no-code, sales software, and AI. Seed-stage scrappiness and bigger-company scale. I joined TalentAid because almost no one builds tools for the person actually doing the job search. Most products push you to apply to more jobs, faster. The rest are built for recruiters. We're going the other way: fewer applications, better ones, on your side. Off the clock: sport, and a slightly unreasonable number of DIY projects.
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