Cruitical

Making hiring human again, with candidate intelligence and virtual work trials that prove candidate ability before day one.

Supported by @fdotinc

[Cruitical @trycruitical]

@thakkaryash21 @shubvastav @ycombinator @VihaarNandigala @xdenuzzo @waynesutton orange is cool

[Yash Thakkar @thakkaryash21]

@shubvastav and I had a great time judging the @ycombinator GTM Hackathon last Sunday!
Huge thanks to @VihaarNandigala, @xdenuzzo, and @waynesutton for such a fun event 🙌

Saw some really cool ideas, from drone swarm ads in the sky to always-on outbound engines.

GTM playbooks for software startups are evolving faster than their products are, and we have a few predictions at @trycruitical ourselves on some trends we're expecting to see more of:

[Yash Thakkar @thakkaryash21]

We spent months on the streets of San Francisco, stopping strangers, asking real candidates and hiring managers what they actually feel about the way hiring works right now. Not one ended with someone saying the system works.

We're building @cruitical toward a world where the best people always find the right work, and the best companies always find the people who make them great; where no one with real ability gets buried because of a keyword filter.

This is just the start.

[Cruitical @trycruitical]

@shubvastav Deeper, faster, fairer.

[Shubham Srivastava @shubvastav]

Today, we're announcing the death of the resume. And the launch of Cruitical.

We spoke with over 600 people on the streets of San Francisco, and we now see the problem clearer than anyone.

Hiring has never been more broken, both sides are losing, and it's reaching a cataclysmic state faster than people realize. It was never designed to find the truth, it was designed to filter.

@trycruitical gives employers a complete picture of every candidate before the first interview -- how they think, how they learn, how they perform under real conditions.

And gives candidates a way to be seen for what they actually are, and get better.

[Cruitical @trycruitical]

@thakkaryash21 @ycombinator @shubvastav 🌉🌉

[Shubham Srivastava @shubvastav]

@hthieblot Exactly why we're building @trycruitical a floor below you -- virtual work trials that measure grit, coachability, and AI fluency.

Companies hire job-ready talent 10x faster, candidates get a fairer process.

[Yash Thakkar @thakkaryash21]

4 Fridays in a row of sharing @trycruitical progress updates with the builders at @fdotinc. Loved closing the last one out with @ruslanjabari , @super8n, and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background!

Hard to not love building in SF on days like this. w/ @shubvastav

[Shubham Srivastava @shubvastav]

just a regular wednesday listening to @snowmaker share the origin story behind the name at @fdotinc

[Shubham Srivastava @shubvastav]

Somewhere along the way, hiring forgot what it was actually trying to do, discover talent instead of dismissing it. @thakkaryash21 and I have been quietly building something to bridge this chasm, and today, we start being louder.

Introducing @trycruitical: the world's first AI-native hiring platform that allows every candidate to tell their full story, and helps companies hire job-ready and AI-fluent talent 10x faster.