A Tough Summer

The summer of 2025 wasn’t easy for me. I want to share openly what happened.

In 2024, I joined a team that had already been working on HR products. That’s where I met Putu. Together, we started working on a new vision: a recruiting system powered by agentic AI that would completely rethink the application process.

The team I joined, however, came with a very complex past – with issues that had nothing to do with this new product. Those legacies made it extremely difficult to push our vision forward within the existing structure.

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

But eventually, we faced a hard reality: the complicated past of the team made it impossible to secure new funding. We would have loved to continue – but we simply had no chance. We were forced to stop, even though we still had so much we wanted to build.

That was a real low point. But at the same time, it was also a moment of clarity. We realized that if we truly wanted to bring this vision to life, we had to start fresh and unburdened.

In the next article, you’ll read how we managed exactly that – and why today we’re stronger and freer than ever before.