10-minute tour (1/3): Problem + thesis¶
Time: ~3 minutes
The problem: hiring is optimized for volume, not truth¶
Modern hiring stacks sell "more inbound" and "more outreach." Everyone pays for that in hidden costs:
- Employers: screening, coordination, slow decisions, process fatigue
- Candidates: ghosting, spam applications, low-signal interactions
- The system rewards volume over clarity
The thesis: constrain flow, increase certainty¶
Ibby reframes hiring as: "Deliver a bounded flow of decision-ready shortlists."
- "Bounded flow" prevents the system from sliding back into triage
- "Decision-ready" means structured, interrogable claims
- "Shortlist delivery" makes time-to-first-value an explicit product promise
Why now¶
Two things became simultaneously true:
- LLM UX makes conversational intake and interrogation natural.
- The market is saturated with volume; reliability and follow-through are the scarce differentiators.
