The evidence layer for skills-based hiring.

PowerTechs produces audit-grade proof that a specific person can perform a specific task — at the moment federal dollars and employer offers became contingent on exactly that proof.

Recognized by
Backed
Approved provider
Prize awarded
$1M secured
Problem & solution

A résumé no longer proves capability.

Any candidate can now generate a resume that mirrors your job description word for word. What is written on the page says less than ever about whether the person can actually do the work. Screening harder does not fix this — it only makes the screen slower.

The only reliable evidence is performance — it identifies contenders versus pretenders. PowerTechs uncovers true skills beyond résumés, making candidates do the work first, then ranking them on what they actually demonstrated. It captures task-level performance and converts it into a verifiable, portable record of what a person can actually do.

Focus

Main use case — military-to-civilian transition.

A military résumé loses a lot on the way to a hiring team — the acronyms don't translate, and plenty of what veterans can do never gets written down, because they don't think of it as a skill worth listing.

Two candidates with the same MOS can be years apart in real capability, and neither résumé will tell you which is which.

From an unreadable military résumé to a verified, ranked skills profile
A raw military record → a verified, matched skills profile.
How it works

The platform looks like a video game.
The output is a ranked shortlist.

We assess military-connected candidates in a hands-on simulation and return a ranked shortlist mapped to a specific job description — with the evidence behind every ranking.

Operation Compass — hands-on skills assessment simulation
Operation Compass — task-level performance captured live as a skill profile.
01

Demonstrate

A game-like simulation captures task-level performance — not a self-description.

02

Skill profile

Performance becomes a verifiable profile of what the person can actually do.

03

Break down the role

We decompose the job description by skill and level so the match holds up.

04

Ranked shortlist

Candidates ranked against the role, with the evidence attached to each.

Traction

From pivot to Fort Hood in ten months.

Nov 2025
Pivot to military-to-civilian transition
Feb 2026
Product release
Apr 2026
100+ users · 10+ employers
May 2026
Austin Peay
Aug 2026
Fort Hood · +15 new employers
Pipeline · last 2 weeks

We confirmed that the core problem for these companies is building a military talent pipeline — so that's what we build for them. In the last two weeks alone we've added major names to the pipeline:

Business model

Employers pay for a ranked, evidence-backed pipeline — not for résumés.

$1,500
price per candidate
×
100
avg candidates per employer
=
$150,000
avg check per year

The candidate side is free. The payer is the employer building the pipeline.

Team

Best in Workforce, AI & cognitive science

Ksenia Solomatina
Ksenia Solomatina
Founder & CEO
  • Built & scaled a prior product to 500K+ users
  • Sorbonne
  • AI in workforce development
Alex Stolyarik
Alex Stolyarik
CPO / CTO
  • 20+ years VR/AR · Stanford
  • e-learning, metaverse & digital humans
  • Learning engineering
Todd Thurston
Todd Thurston
SME
  • 25+ years in innovative talent strategies
  • Fortune 500, incl. Panasonic