Introducing TalentForge
Document real careers. Discover real talent. One platform that finally tells the truth about what people can actually do.
Free for professionals. Built for the recruiters who want better.
The Problem
An entire industry worth hundreds of billions of pounds is built on top of a document people write in a panic, once, that tells recruiters almost nothing real.
A CV is written reactively, often years after the work happened, and rarely reflects what someone genuinely did or truly achieved.
Identical formats. Buzzword-stuffed bullet points. Keyword-optimised nothingness. Recruiters can't tell candidates apart — because the format won't let them.
The best candidates often can't sell themselves on paper. Recruiters never find them. The wrong people get placed. Everyone loses.
"The entire recruitment industry — billions in revenue, thousands of tools — is still built on top of a Word document. We're fixing that."
The Solution
Two apps. One shared platform. Professionals document the work they're genuinely proud of. Recruiters discover talent based on substance, not surface.
For Professionals
TalentForge is a continuous career journal — a place where you log your work as it happens, tag it by skill and context, and build a rich record that no CV could ever replicate. When opportunity comes, your story is already written.
For Recruiters
Behind every TalentForge profile isn't a parsed CV — it's a living career record, built entry by entry, rich with context and real substance. Combined with cross-industry translation, you'll discover candidates keyword searches never could.
How It Works
Professionals log work in the moment — not retrospectively. Each entry is tagged, weighted, and stored as structured data. Over months and years, this becomes something no CV can replicate: a documented, searchable professional history.
TalentForge reads the job description and automatically pulls the most relevant entries from your career history to build a genuinely tailored application. Not a template. A case for you — made powerfully, every time.
A built-in translation layer maps skills and terminology across sectors. A logistics expert becomes visible to an operations recruiter. A finance professional surfaces for a fintech role. The talent was always there — now you can find it.
Professionals flip a switch — visible only to trusted recruiters, never broadcast publicly. No awkward LinkedIn statuses. No inbox flooding. Just a warm, private signal that the right conversation is welcome.
TalentForge isn't an ATS. It doesn't replace Bullhorn, Workday, or Greenhouse. It improves the quality of what flows into them. Better candidate profiles upstream means better placement decisions downstream — for everyone.
TalentForge App for professionals and TalentForge Discover for recruiters share a single backend infrastructure — meaning the candidate data recruiters search is always the same rich record professionals built. One truth, two lenses.
Business Model
A two-sided marketplace with network effects built in from day one.
Professionals
TalentForge is free for professionals because the product genuinely serves them — helping them document, organise, and present their careers better than anything else available. As they build profiles, they create the talent pool recruiters pay to access.
Free ForeverRecruiters
Recruiters pay for access to a quality-first, opted-in talent pool built on documented career histories. The more professionals use TalentForge, the more valuable the recruiter product becomes. The flywheel spins naturally.
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Whether you're a professional building something worth documenting, or a recruiter tired of guessing — TalentForge is being built for you.