Quests

The brief

Hiring contract engineers means choosing between a recruiter's fee, a marketplace's race to the bottom, or weeks of LinkedIn archaeology. Quests replaces the pipeline itself: an eight-stage hiring funnel where the first six stages (eligibility, role fit, evidence, skill verification, AI technical interview, ranking) run autonomously, and humans decide only what should never be automated.

The build

Three faces of one platform: a public site where roles are published and found, an app where contractors build verified profiles and get matched, and a company workspace where hiring runs end to end. Underneath, a system engineered for trust: every AI decision recorded, every stage explainable, every contract and payment handled in-platform.

The signature

Auditable AI hiring. Every model call logs its model and prompt version to an attribution trail; a versioned registry, programmable policy gates and appeal flows answer the EU AI Act and GDPR Article 22 with paperwork instead of a shrug. On the commercial side: tripartite contracts signed in minutes, escrow, a single monthly invoice and Stripe Connect payouts.

Built and demonstrable

Deployed across production, staging and development environments, with disaster-recovery runbooks and an infrastructure estate that can be torn down and rebuilt on demand. The operational maturity of platforms many times its age.