We built a product. Validated it. Integrated it.
In one week.
Here’s what that actually looked like.
For the past year, we’ve been obsessed with one person.
The job seeker. The one sending 200 applications into silence. Qualified on paper. Invisible in practice. The one who just needed someone to tell them what was actually going wrong.
Theo was built for them.
5,000+ mock interviews. Real retention. People coming back not because they had to but because it made them genuinely better.
We thought we were solving hiring.
Turns out we were only solving half of it.
A recruiter told me something that broke my brain.
“I have 200 applicants. I can interview maybe 15. I have absolutely no idea if those are the right 15.”
That’s not a candidate problem.
That’s a signal problem. And nobody was fixing it.
So we flew the whole team into Menlo Park.
The days were beautiful chaos.
Engineers shipping. Integrations breaking. Designers redesigning at 3pm what they built at 9am. The kind of energy that only exists when everyone’s in the same room, everyone’s bought in, and nobody’s going home until it works.
The nights were mine.
Calling in personal favors at midnight. Recruiting leaders picking up because they trusted me enough to talk. I wasn’t pitching. I was listening. Furiously taking notes. Hypothesis forming in real time.
Last call done. Data collected.
I opened the PRD.
Somewhere around midnight everything clicked.
Hiring is broken on both sides.
Theo helps candidates show up better. But the recruiter still drowns in 200 resumes, 15 interview slots, and zero real signal on who actually deserves the time.
That’s the gap.
That’s Synthia.
Synthia interviews every candidate before your hiring team spends a single minute, and delivers a structured, evidence-backed report so your hiring manager knows exactly who’s worth the next conversation.
Not a video questionnaire. Not an AI score. Not “strong communicator” vibes.
Actual signal. Transcript-backed. Defensible.
We built it in a week.
Validated it with real recruiters. Integrated it. Showed it to hiring managers who said the thing every PM lives for:
“This changes how we decide.”
None of this happens without the people who showed up and refused to leave until it was right.
Bani. Sumanta. Xiaohua. Rahul. Abraham. Qimei. Sreenidhi.
Late nights. Hard pushes. Zero complaints.
You built something real. The world’s about to see it.
Hiring has always been broken on both sides.
We’re finally fixing both.
Synthia is coming.