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Resumes
Self-reported proximity to expertise.
A third party attests to titles and dates — never to whether the underlying skill is real.
Verification infrastructure·private beta
Proof of real skill in the AI era.
Provenant replaces resumes and staged assessments with verifiable, longitudinal evidence of how candidates actually think, build, and reason — tracked over months of real work.
CANDIDATE-CONTROLLED · LOCAL-FIRST · SOURCE-VERIFIED
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Senior Privacy Engineer
Alex Kowalski
Strong fit · advance to onsiteCryptography94%
Threat modeling88%
Distributed systems79%
86/ 100 match
overall match
EVIDENCE OVER TIME14 months · 1,847 sessions
FIRST PILOTS ACROSS THE ANALOG MUTATIONS VENTURES
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The problem
Every hiring signal is now a staged snapshot.
Resumes, coding tests, and personality assessments all assume the candidate works alone, under artificial conditions, for a fixed window. AI quietly broke that assumption — and the signals that depended on it.
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Coding interviews
Now measure prompting fluency, not depth.
With AI in the loop, timed coding snapshots no longer separate understanding from performance.
03
Personality tests
Weak, gameable, detached from real work.
Marginally predictive at best, and increasingly challenged on bias and legal compliance.
Snapshots can be rehearsed. Longitudinal reasoning is much harder to fake.
Core insight
AI commoditized output. Demonstrated judgment became the scarce signal.
Anyone can generate a polished answer in seconds. Far fewer can steer intelligence toward something true — questioning assumptions, recognising a wrong turn, and recovering from it.
That capability isn’t visible in a single test. It surfaces across months of real work: in the questions asked, the errors caught, the tradeoffs made under pressure.
REASONING TRAJECTORY18 months
2024 Q42026 Q1
Verification discipline, rising+41 pts
The candidate’s side
A standing profile, built from real work.
Candidates own a verifiable profile — an experience timeline, judgment scores, and a growth curve, all generated from their actual history. The match report employers see is a role-scoped slice of it.
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Alex Kowalski@alexk
Identity verified24
projects
1,847
sessions
rising
trajectory
EXPERIENCE
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Core Contributor✓ GitHub-verified
Sealed Sender RedesignAug 25 → Jan 26
Core Contributor · 142 commits
EVIDENCE OVER TIMEMar 2025 → May 2026
How it works
A three-stage, candidate-controlled pipeline.
The candidate’s device is untrusted by design. Evidence is verified against third parties they don’t control, and raw history never leaves their machine.
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Extract & verify
The candidate's agent surfaces evidence. Provenant independently verifies each artifact at its source — not on the candidate's machine.
Code, design & contribution history
Live deployments & shipped artifacts
Filings, registries, peer-reviewed work
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Longitudinal assessment
A neutral model assesses depth of reasoning across the verified history — mapped to the specific role and its requirements.
Reasoning depth across months
Debugging patterns under uncertainty
Learning trajectory & self-correction
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Live adaptive defense
An adaptive examiner asks the candidate to extend and defend their own past reasoning — in real time.
Probes prior decisions, not new puzzles
Detects curated or generated profiles
Confirms the thinking is genuinely theirs
Raw history stays candidate-controlled and is processed locally.
What it becomes
One reasoning fingerprint, many surfaces.
Once a candidate has a verifiable record of how they actually think — and the right to share it — the same primitive unlocks more than hiring screens.
Hiring screens.
Replace timed coding tests and personality assessments with evidence-anchored screens drawn from verified work and a live defense of reasoning.
Co-founder matching.
A reasoning fingerprint surfaces what no profile can: whose disagreement style is productive, whose blind spots complement yours.
Team formation.
Make tacit “who works well with whom” knowledge legible, so teams compose on how people reason — not org-chart proximity.
Intellectual connection.
A way to find the people you’d genuinely think well with — collaborators, co-authors, advisors. A layer on the graph, never standalone.
The substrate is the same. Hiring is where we start.
The future of hiring is proof, not performance.
Provenant is rolling out to a small cohort of engineering teams and design partners. Request access to put verified, longitudinal evidence in front of your next hire.
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