Field notes on building modern HR tech.
Essays, benchmarks, and playbooks for hiring teams who'd rather work than be sold to.
ATS vs HRMS: Why You Shouldn't Be Buying Two in 2026
The handover from ATS to HRMS is where most companies leak data, time, and candidate experience. Here's the data, the architecture, and the operating model that wins.
Async Video Interviews: What Completion Rates Actually Look Like in 2026
Internal benchmarks across 40,000+ Screeq interviews. The candidate-experience verdict, the segments where async wins outright, and the ones where it doesn't.
AI CV Screening Without the Bias Lawsuits: A 2026 Compliance Map
NYC AEDT, EU AI Act, EEOC guidance, UK Equality Act — the regulations that actually constrain AI screening, and the operating model that ships within all of them.
The First 90 Days: An Onboarding Template That Actually Reduces Attrition
First-year attrition costs 30–50% of salary. Here's the day-by-day, week-by-week structure that we recommend to every Screeq customer, with the metrics that matter at each stage.
Performance Reviews Without the Pain: A 2026 Operating Model
Annual reviews don't work — the meta-analyses are unanimous. The alternative isn't 'no reviews', it's continuous, lightweight, structured feedback. Here's the cadence and the tooling.
Global Hiring in 2026: The Compliance Map
EOR vs entity vs contractor — the practical decision tree, the cost curves, and where each model falls apart at scale.
The 4 Diversity Hiring Funnel Metrics That Matter
Stop reporting on hire-rate alone. The earlier metrics tell you whether your funnel is fair — and where to invest to make it fairer.
A Remote Work Policy Template Built for 2026
Hybrid mandates are rising. Here's a policy framework that respects autonomy and the business — and survives a return-to-office push.
Rejection Emails That Make Candidates Reapply
82% of rejected candidates never hear back. The 18% who do — and feel respected — are 2.7× more likely to refer. Here's the template, the science, and the operating model.
HR Tech Stack Consolidation: The 2025 Reset
The average mid-market company runs 11 HR tools. Most can collapse to 3 — here's the pattern, the savings, and the migration path.
Interview Scoring Rubrics That Actually Reduce Bias
Structured interviews predict performance 2.5× better than unstructured. Here's the rubric format we ship with Screeq, the calibration cadence, and the failure modes to avoid.
Career Site Conversion: 2025 Benchmarks
Apply-start to apply-complete is where most career sites bleed candidates. Median conversion: 12%. Top quartile: 38%. Here's what separates the two.
The Complete Guide to AI in Recruiting (2026)
What AI in hiring actually does in 2026 — what works, what's regulated, and the operating model that gets the gains without the lawsuits.
ATS Buyer's Guide: The 2026 Mid-Market Edition
A working framework for picking an ATS in 2026. The questions to ask vendors, the trap features to ignore, and the 7 things that actually matter at 50–500 employees.