A tough summer

The summer of 2025 was not an easy time for me. I'd like to share openly what happened here.

I joined a team in 2024 that had already worked on HR products. I met Putu there. Together, we have started working on a new vision: a recruiting system that uses agentic AI to completely rethink the application process.

However, the team I joined had a very complex past — with topics that actually had nothing to do with this new product. It is precisely these inherited issues that have made it extremely difficult to advance our vision in this structure.

During this time, I also brought Yannick into the team. We had worked closely together at Softgarden before, and I knew that with his experience in sales, he was just the right person to bring that vision forward.

But at some point, we were faced with a harsh reality: The team's complicated past made it impossible to get new funding. We would have liked to continue — but we simply had no chance anymore. We were forced to stop even though we still had so much to do.

That was a real low point. But at the same time, it's also a moment of clarity. It became clear to us that if we want to achieve this vision, we must restart it and start it unencumbered.

In the next article, you will read exactly how we succeeded — and why we are stronger and more free today than ever before.

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