It's incredibly funny how much of our work lives are decided by chance. Imagine an engineer whose dream job is to be a software engineer - ideally at an anime company because he loves anime. He goes to his college career fair and talks to the first few tables he sees. By the third table, a recruiter offers him an interview. He lands a job on the spot. If he'd walked just one table further, he would've found an anime company offering even higher pay, better benefits, and his literal dream role. He never knew it existed. Let's zoom out even more: what about a job that's a better fit but in another state from a company that didn't attend his career fair? Or an even better job buried as the 65th link in his "software engineer" search on Indeed?
This problem isn't only about people not finding their dream jobs, it also slows down how fast the world improves. If our hypothetical engineer was in a job that's perfect for him, he would contribute more to the global economy not only because he enjoys what he does, but because his skills and personality would also naturally align with the role. Multiply that by 8 billion people, and you're looking at one of the biggest hidden inefficiencies in the world.
Even if you somehow find your dream role and apply for it? Your resume, not you, gets screened by a machine looking for keywords. Then, if you get past the machine, a recruiter spends ~30 seconds on your resume before making a decision because there are just too many resumes to look through. That's inefficient. To fix this, recruiters attend conferences and career fairs which brings us back to the original problem of randomness.
This results in probably the most important part of the world's economy running on one of the most inefficient allocation mechanisms. Ideally, every qualified person should apply for every open role. But, it would take forever for applicants to apply and for companies to evaluate them.
Until now.
Intelligence is now too cheap to meter. For the first time in history, everyone can apply to every job, and everyone can be evaluated for every role. An ideal marketplace.
But marketplaces have chicken-and-egg problems. So we hacked one side first. This isn't new: Uber started with limo drivers, Airbnb started with conferences, and Indeed started with a job board. We're doing the same thing by building a 10x better experience than any other job board.
Instead of going through the painful & repetitive process of applying for jobs manually, when you swipe right on Sorce, we deploy an AI Agent that goes to the company's website and applies on your behalf. Instead of spending 15+ minutes on a job application, you spend 3 seconds. So far, we've applied to 1M+ jobs and helped people land interviews/offers at companies like SpaceX, Anduril, CocaCola, Nvidia, Vercel, Browserbase, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Next, we'll build out the employer side and the AI engine that evaluates & matches people and companies at scale.