Hey, It's Akash
Building Subtribe
AI infrastructure for hiring decisions.
Here's the tension I sit with: resumes are a terrible proxy for capability. They reward polish over substance, keywords over insight. I know this.
And yet - the product I'm building screens resumes.
Not because changing the system is impossible. Because changing it requires leverage, and leverage requires trust. You don't get to redesign how companies evaluate talent by showing up with a manifesto. You get there by solving the problem they have today - 2,000+ applications per role, no way to find signal in the noise - and earning the right to shift what they value.
Right now: AI that ranks candidates in minutes and shows exactly why. Next: video interviews that assess how people actually think. And then... the paradigm shifts. How talent is discovered, how capability is recognized, how opportunity finds the right builder. Efficiency for everyone involved - a system that rewards real skill and pushes everyone to sharpen or adapt. Because believe it or not, work is changing.
The approach isn't just data on a resume. It's psychology - how humans actually signal competence, how decisions really get made, how capability shows up when you know what to look for. Most hiring tools optimize for keywords. We're building for the game underneath.
The bet is calculated: solve the immediate pain, build the relationship, then introduce better primitives for evaluating capability.
You change systems from the inside. But you have to get inside first.
Let's see how it goes.