Bearings

Professional pages only. No social networks, nothing about age, family, or health. Every person links to the page they were found on, and Bearings reopens that page to confirm the name. Nothing is sent from here: you send outreach yourself, and anyone can ask to be removed.

Front door

The one page every applicant and every sourced prospect passes through before a recruiter spends time on them. Two minutes on a phone. It is running live on the left: finish it and your own result lands below.

Came through the door

What it checks, and what each check costs a real person

A field nobody can see. Form-filling scripts fill it. People never know it exists. Cost to a person: none.
Speed and touch. Finishing in under 20 seconds, or without a single tap, scroll, or keystroke. Cost: none.
A note only a language model reads. The written question carries an off-screen instruction to work in the word "kelp." It also rides along if the question is copied into another tool. Cost: none.
Typed or pasted. Whether the answer arrived keystroke by keystroke with corrections, or in one paste after leaving the page. Dictation counts as typing. Cost: none.
Voice note instead. Fifteen seconds, spoken. Easier than typing for most people on a phone, and expensive to fake at volume. Cost: optional.
One made-up credential. The experience list includes a certification that doesn't exist. Mass applications tick everything. Cost: none.
One-tap location. Browser location, with consent, reduced to miles from the office. Far away with a stated plan to move reads as honest. Cost: one tap, skippable.
Clock and call slot. The device's timezone, and what hour a Pacific-time slot is where they are. Cost: none.

About this prototype

All people shown are fictional. Funnel counts are illustrative.
The front door is real code: the location, clock, typing, paste, and voice checks actually run. When this is served from the Bearings server or Vercel, results are stored there and need the passcode to read. Opened as a plain file, they stay in this browser. A text-message code (Twilio Verify or similar) is not built yet.
Sourcing shows sample people until you run a search. A search reads public professional pages, never social networks, and reopens each page it cites (obeying the site's robots.txt) to confirm the name is there.
Assessments are pre-written here. In production a model reads the evidence and writes the paragraph.
Nothing is auto-declined at any tier. Signals are reasons to look, not verdicts. Passing is a recruiter's action and reversible.