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Story arcs

Show how you handle the job, not how you write about it.

A story arc follows one work situation from start to finish: a bid, a pour day, a new hire's first month. At each moment you pick one of five plausible options, and what happens next follows from your choice.

No answer key

Every option is something a reasonable person might do. There's no obvious right answer to pick, and choices are never shown to anyone.

A rushed choice brings a consequence you then have to handle, which shows how you recover. Each path is about six decisions and roughly ten minutes, and you can pause between moments.

When you finish, you get a short, positive summary of your style. Never a score.

A story-arc moment in the app: the moved deadline, with five options to choose from.
A real story-arc moment from the app.

How stories are used

One library for every job

The situations happen in almost any work: a deadline moves, a coworker isn't pulling their weight, a new tool nobody asked for. The wording adapts to your field: the crew and the owner, the drawing set and the client.

Managers and mentors too

Hiring managers and mentors get their own arcs about leading people, so candidates aren't the only ones described.

Checked by people who know you

People who vouch for you see a few of the same moments and say what you'd most likely do. Agreement between them and you makes your stories count with more confidence.

How much they count, honestly

Today story arcs count lightly. In our hiring simulation they barely changed results either way, which makes the matching robust to people gaming them, but also means they aren't pulling much weight yet.

They'll earn more weight only if real outcomes show they predict how hires go. Until then they mostly fill gaps where you skipped a question, and add color to what you choose to share.

No résumé. Just how you'd handle it.

Free to join. Answer the basics in a few minutes and you can be matched right away. Everything else you add makes matching better.