This app ran on a real job search before it was an app.

In the first week of June 2026 I found out that the contract my whole team worked under at Microsoft wasn't being renewed — everyone would be let go at the end of the month. The next week, instead of opening a spreadsheet, I started building a process: first a checklist, then a set of small specialized agents, then guardrails strict enough that one of them grew into an independent truth-check on everything the others wrote.

Then I opened every profile I had — LinkedIn, Dice, ZipRecruiter, Indeed, Torc — and the calls started: at least two recruiters every working day, for two months straight. Most of those roles were wrong. Wrong city, wrong stack, wrong rate, or a requisition I'd already been submitted to through someone else — staffing vendors shop the same role under different wording, and a duplicate submission can quietly disqualify you from a role you were a real fit for. Saying no became its own workflow: I drafted sixty-eight decline messages through a fast lane that never touched the full pipeline, so the hours stayed with the roles that deserved them.

Those roles went through the system. Each one was fit-scored against my actual, verified background before any resume got written — forty-three were scored, and sixteen of those I passed on when the honest answer was a low number. Every tailored resume was checked by an independent reviewer whose only job was to catch anything overstated, because a resume that honestly matches seven of ten requirements loses to one that dishonestly claims all ten — until the interview, where the dishonest one falls apart. Every submission went into a tracker that caught the vendor duplicates. And still, most applications ended the same way: silence. No rejection, no feedback — just nothing, for weeks, from roles I was genuinely qualified for.

The interviews were where the approach paid off. I prepped every round from the same ground truth — the job description, the company, the interviewers' own backgrounds, and my real record — and walked in with nothing to keep straight, because everything on the resume was simply true.

In August it turned: three offers. I accepted the first at the start of the month, and two weeks later two more arrived on the same day. I chose the full-time role over a higher-paying long-term contract — the same kind of honest tradeoff, made visible, that this whole system exists to support.

My wife, my brother-in-law, and close friends watched all of this happen and kept saying the same thing: put it in other people's hands. So I did. Groundtruth is that system, made usable by someone other than me — now in beta with the people who pushed me to build it.

It will tell you a role is a poor fit. It will refuse to claim a skill you don't have, and it will show you — keyword by keyword — what it left out on purpose. That costs some match-score vanity. It buys you interviews you can walk into without a story to keep straight.

— Mihail, founder