Candidates negotiate blind.
Employers hold every number.
Cirqoo moves that leverage back toward the people doing the work: verified pay data, and vacancies that carry their provenance rather than arriving anonymous.
3 rules the whole thing runs on
They are constraints rather than features. Each one costs the product something, and that cost is the reason the data is worth reading.
Anonymous in public, accountable to us
You post behind an alias. The corporate domain proving it is checked once and never published, and your name is held only so abuse can be acted on.
Aggregate only, never the individual
A pay band stays hidden until ten verified submissions stand behind it. Below that a figure could identify whoever gave it, so nothing is shown at all.
Provenance travels with the data
Every vacancy carries the tier it arrived through. A community-sourced listing is never dressed as an employer-verified one, because that distinction is the product.
Where a vacancy came from
Four states, shown on every listing. The last is the only one a poster cannot choose for themselves.
- Verified Employer
- Posted through an employer account.
- Company Posted
- Submitted or scraped, then confirmed by a domain match.
- Community Sourced
- Submitted by someone, not yet corroborated.
- Suspicious
- Reported enough times to be held back. Never a tier anyone chooses.
Where to go next
A working prototype. The data is seeded, the interactions are real, and the models behind them are the ones the production schema will be generated from.