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Release notes, build updates, and the occasional note about how the work actually goes.

HireNextAI adds reasoning to every shortlist

Every ranked candidate now shows the reasoning next to the score. If you disagree with the machine, at least you can disagree with something specific.

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Cuttor build notes: what actually counts as junk

A temp file is not always safe to delete. Here is the list we trust, the list we leave alone, and the one that took us three weeks to get right.

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Why the forum is readable without an account

Most answers already exist in someone else's thread. Putting a login in front of them helps nobody, so we did not.

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Designing the domain marketplace

We spent a week reading transfer horror stories. Almost all of them came down to the same thing: nobody would say where the domain actually was.

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HireNextAI: pipelines and notes

Every candidate, every note, every stage, one view. It sounds obvious. It took three attempts.

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One account across every product

Nobody notices the account system when it works. This is a note about the least glamorous thing we build, and why it had to come first.

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