LinkedIn sells your data. Indeed sells your attention. Agencies bill the company that hires you 20–30% of your salary — making you the transaction. DirectHire is the only platform built equally for both sides — the one looking for work, and the one creating it.
Your profile is the product they sell to advertisers. Your job search is the engagement loop that keeps you scrolling. You don't pay — so you're not the customer.
1B+ members on LinkedIn alone — your data, their revenue. LinkedIn Official Blog, Oct 2023When an agency places you, the hiring company pays them 15–30% of your first-year salary. You never see that money — and the agency has every incentive to close the deal fast, not find you the right fit.
€15,000–€40,000 per placement — billed to your new employer. SHRM Recruiting Benchmarking Report, 2023; Staffing Industry Analysts, 2024You never know why you weren't called back. The recruiter never knows why the hire left in 3 months. Bad matches are invisible — and everyone loses. Except the middlemen.
74% of employers admit they've made a bad hire. CareerBuilder / Harris Poll, 2017 — replicated SHRM, 2022Not to replace humans in hiring — to give both humans a fair shot at each other.
DirectHire's AI doesn't rank by keyword density or profile completeness. It reads the depth of your experience and scores it against real job requirements — with an explained result both sides can act on.
We don't charge seekers. We don't charge recruiters per hire. We have no financial incentive to favor one side. The only thing we optimise for is the quality of the match.
Your career profile is never sold, never scraped, never shared without your knowledge. You control who sees you. When you're ready for offers — you signal it. Not the algorithm.
Our AI companion Ava builds your profile through conversation, not a form. She pushes back if something sounds inflated. Because we'd rather show a honest 70% match than a hollow 95%.
Every person who joins DirectHire — as a seeker or recruiter — makes the market slightly more honest. You are voting with your career. Use your profile to fight being commoditized by the platforms that were never on your side. Share it. Invite your companies. Invite your colleagues. The more people who leave the old system, the faster it changes.
Every feature in DirectHire was built for both sides simultaneously. Because a match only works if it's honest on both ends.
Ava, our AI companion, builds your career profile through real conversation. No forms. No keyword stuffing. The result is a digital twin of your actual professional depth — that gets matched to roles while you sleep.
Post a role and let the AI surface ranked, explained matches — not keyword results. Talk directly to the candidate. No agency in the middle, no per-hire fee, no black box ranking.
Two decades leading cross-functional energy projects, with a proven record of turning operational pain into measurable savings — directly aligned with the role's delivery mandate.
Seekers talk to Ava — she asks the real questions, not form fields. Recruiters describe their role and culture. The AI turns both into structured, comparable profiles.
Each seeker is scored against each open role. You get a percentage, a reason, and an honest gap analysis. Both sides see the same truth about the fit.
When both sides are ready, they talk. No agency forwarding your CV. No recruiter translating your answers. Just two people who already know the match is real.
Not just a better product. A different set of values built into the business model.
| LinkedIn & Indeed | Agencies | ✦ DirectHire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business model | Advertisers & employers. You are the inventory. | 20–30% salary placement fee from employer. | No placement fee. No data sold. Seekers always free. Recruiters: flat subscription, not commission. |
| Ranking | Paid promotion. Engagement bait. | Human gut. Unconscious bias. | AI merit score. Explained. Auditable. |
| Your data | Sold to advertisers. Scraped. Permanent. | Shared with clients without your control. | Never sold. You own it. You control visibility. |
| Transparency | Zero. "Not the right fit." Nothing else. | Opaque. Interests misaligned with yours. | Full report. Both sides see the same score. |
| For seekers | Traffic. Ad impressions. Engagement loop. | An invoice. Placed once, forgotten. | A person. Matched on merit. Heard. |
Every person who joins makes the market
more honest. Every company that posts
makes the search more fair.
The hiring industry is worth $700 billion a year. Most of that money flows to platforms and agencies that sit between people who need each other. DirectHire bets that when you remove the toll booth — and replace it with honest AI — both sides get a better deal. We're early. We're small. But every hire made on DirectHire is a hire that didn't enrich a middlemen. That matters.
Join DirectHire and start your direct path to the right opportunity — or the right hire.
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