Blockchain-powered Talent Assessment: Unbiased Precision Hiring

Talent evaluation is hard

And it’s a silent business killer

Information asymmetry
Irrelevant information
Everybody lies
Cognitive and systemic biases
Complex due diligence
Flawed decision frameworks
75%Startups Fail
¼Of the failures are due to poor hiring
>60%Startups suffer critical management team dysfunction
Founders (and funds) lose money, time, drive

Our solution

Make Assessment Criteria Explicit

  • Allow assessors to set their own criteria, tailored for particular situations and based on their specific expertise
  • Enable users to create their own metrics and rulesets or “fork” and refine existing ones
  • Compare different assessment standards easily, choose what best fits their needs
  • Incentivize system-wide assessment quality improvement over time via economical competition

Make Participants’ Reputation Transparent and Multidimensional

  • There’s no single “true” metric of reputation: 5-star Uber driver is unlikely to also be a 5-star heart surgeon
  • Provide detailed profiles with insights across various reputation dimensions
  • Consolidate multiple assessments into a single, user-friendly view
  • Empower informed decisions with full participant histories and cross-referenced evaluations

Kuvio’s approach to reputation assessment reduces bias, increases trust, and delivers more accurate matches between talent and opportunity in a well-scalable manner — far beyond traditional recruitment screening methods

What Kuvio offers

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Incentivizing quality through competition

  • Assessors compete based on the quality of their judgments
  • Reputation and rewards are tied to their assessment accuracy
  • Continuous improvement driven by market dynamics
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Leveraging collective intelligence

  • State-of-the-art decision theory and rank aggregation algorithms
  • Plurality of opinions is being turned into fair and balanced assessments
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Embracing subjective fairness

  • Assessments are based on factual statements, recorded and verified on-chain
  • No single "objectively best" score; any perspectives can be considered
  • Each consumer is free to pick and combine multiple arbitrary assessments to their, unique and task-specific, subjectively-best scoring system
  • Transparent, equal treatment for all participants is ensured by on-chain data
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Inclusive expertise

  • Kuvio is agnostic wrt its experts’ type, be it individuals, collectives, “pure” algorithms, or human-AI collaborations
  • All treated equally by the platform
  • Diverse expertise fosters a robust assessment ecosystem

AI in Kuvio: Harnessing the Upside, Mitigating the Risks

AI is already disrupting recruitment: extracting datapoints from CVs, analyzing 1000s of commits in Github profiles, automating interview scheduling… In Kuvio, platform mechanics are encouraging responsible AI adoption while mitigating potential downsides:

Expert autonomy

Our assessors choose their own tools, AI or otherwise. We aim to provide integration points for these tools both in UX and via API

Performance-based rankings

Real-time rating system for experts incentivizes accuracy of the results, and is agnostic to the tools and methods chosen

Blockchain adaptability

Agent-agnostic design would accommodate AI-augumented humans (and eventually — even “pure” AIs) in any role: assessor, manager, or candidate

Integration on the platform’s side

Preventing scam and misuse, breaking down language barriers, predicting ebbs and flows of the supply-demand balance on the platform.

Jobs being automated away?
There is a new industry popping up every week, and you need to hire for that?
A Great Skill Shift is underway?
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No worries, being a decentralized, self-stabilizing tokenomics system Kuvio will help you survive even the direst of the possible outcomes.

Team

Alexander Slesarev

Alexander Slesarev, Dr.
(Rice University, TX, USA)

Having both an academic science background and almost a decade of experience as a serial high-tech entrepreneur, Alex is uniquely equipped for his role of CTO, combining academic rigor with knowledge of all the subtleties of startup upbringing.

Kirill Pimenov

Kirill Pimenov
(MSc, MSU, Russia)

Former CISO at Parity Technologies, Kirill augments deep knowledge of the blockchain and cryptographic designs with being a first-hand witness of multiple blockchain communities emerging and struggling with reputational problems.

Pion Medvedeva

Pion Medvedeva, Adj. Prof.
(Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

With years and years of management consulting, teaching and running her own businesses, it was Pion's interest in upscaling social structures coordination which brought her to the blockchain space and eventually — to the CEO position of the Kuvio project.

Anto Kaipiainen

Anto Kaipiainen
(MSE, JYU School of Business and Economics, Finland)

Combining backgrounds in both finance, legal and tech, our CFO Anto makes us confident we're operating within the bounds of law and regulation, no matter how bespoke and novel our business models might be.

Informing our path to Kuvio

YourJustice

  • Co-founded by Pion in 2020, YourJustice was a decentralized reputation and dispute resolution service.
  • Successfully reached MVP stage, with 20+ DAOs actively exploring it for governance applications.
  • While it demonstrated strong potential, the project was ultimately paused after hitting key technical and market onboarding challenges.

Key Insights

  • Onboarding complexity: Introducing projects to a generic “decentralized reputation” system proved difficult, as the concept required significant user education and adoption hurdles.
  • Validated need: However, once users understood the value of decentralized reputation, their demand for such a system became clear and strong.
  • Task-specific frameworks are the way forward: Tailoring decentralized reputation systems for specific use cases — which requires very different way of working on both UI/UX and token economics fronts — has far greater potential.
  • Technical Limitations: Running such a system on top of an Ethereum L1 smart contract is prohibitively expensive and doesn’t scale that well.

Kuvio

  • A Fresh Start: Kuvio was designed from a fresh perspective, building on the lessons learned but addressing the critical scalability and user adoption challenges that YourJustice encountered.
  • Targeted Approach: By focusing on our specific usecase (startup team assessment and recruiting), and choosing to build on its own, flexible blockchain foundations (using Substrate framework), Kuvio is much better positioned to meet market needs.
  • Independent Yet Informed: While independent from YourJustice in terms of team, code, and IP, Kuvio’s vision is a direct response to the valuable insights gained during the YourJustice journey.

Strategic growth and revenue playbook

We’re balancing three key stakeholder categories: Consumers (startups, VCs, etc.), Experts (assessors), and Talent.
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Consumers

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Experts

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Talent supply

KUVIO
Scouting
Hiring services
Job matching
Audit
Certificates

Recap

We’re targeting $1,000,000 / month in revenue within 12–18 months.
Using multiple revenue streams will not only fund our growth but also serve as a calibration mechanism to balance demand, supply, and platform liveness.

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Startups

Main consumer for assessments; provide vital feedback on assessors’ performance
$400,000 monthly revenue
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VC firms

Long-term subscribers, who also onboard their portfolio teams
$350,000 monthly revenue
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Recruiters

Both provide and consume assessments, to amortize for ebbs and flows in their workload
$100,000 monthly revenue
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Job seekers

Come for career advice, stay to participate in worldwide blockchain-powered job market
$120,000 monthly revenue

Interested? Confused? Willing to know more?