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DPRK operatives, fake candidates, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted cheating are now common in the contingent labor market. We help staffing, services, and the F500 catch them before they get hired and monitor them after they start their jobs.\nCompany highlights:\nTalent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 14 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics\n\nWell-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more\n\nTraction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with hundreds of customers - including the largest staffing firm in the world and multiple large enterprises\n\nMarket opportunity: Our customers are both the suppliers of short-term \"contingent\" labor and the buyers of that labor. 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