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Experience

The moments that matter: pitching, asking, guiding, celebrating.

Pitching a developer

One portable sheet, readable top to bottom at phone width with zero interaction.

Ada Lovelace

@ada

Ships compilers on weekends

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RustConfirmed at StripeTop 3%14-week streak
  • Rust query engine, 4.1k stars, sole maintainer

    https://github.com/ada/query-engine
  • Incremental WebAssembly linker

    https://github.com/ada/wasm-linker

Asking for a job description

Intake is a conversation: the user writes a sentence and the system echoes back what it understood as chips.

Rust Senior Europe Open source
Looking for senior Rust engineers in Europe with public open source work, ranked for reachability.

Guided workflows

First runs get coachmarks anchored to what they explain, never a dimmed overlay or a spotlight.

Search

One sentence in.

Filters

Chips echo the parse.

Results

Provenance on every claim.

Onboarding

First run is a short floating flow, not a form. Four steps, one line each, pineapples marking the way. Skip what does not apply, jump back to anything you finished, and the garden bursts when you are done.

Meet your workspace

Celebration

Celebration is the garden growing, where the evidence itself is the reward.

Grace Hopper

@grace

Found. 847 contributions nobody was looking at.

3445 contributions this year
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COBOL internalsHidden gem
  • Dataflow compiler, quietly maintained for six years

    https://github.com/grace/flow-matic

Decks and reports

Exported pages are editorial: one idea per page, a display headline of eight words or fewer, and no card soup.

A RevealCard in a PDF is the same component tree, POSTed to the render worker and captured server side.

POST /render
{
  "component": "RevealCard",
  "props": {
    "name": "Ada Lovelace",
    "handle": "ada",
    "verdict": "Ships compilers on weekends",
    "score": 96,
    "scoreLine": "96th percentile of systems engineers at this stage",
    "signals": [
      { "label": "Rust", "trust": "github" },
      { "label": "Top 3%", "trust": "score" }
    ],
    "repos": [
      { "name": "query-engine", "url": "https://github.com/ada/query-engine" }
    ],
    "weeks": [[{ "date": "2025-07-06", "count": 12 }]]
  }
}

Long-form intake

When the ask is bigger than one sentence, intake becomes a set of numbered steps with a clear commitment at the top and a single launch at the bottom.

50 Emails / day

Once the search launches, Agent Mode emails 50 matching developers every business day until the role is filled.

01 Job description Paste the full posting. The agent reads it before anything else.
02 Basics Title, location, and how the team works.
03 Sell the candidate What makes this role worth a reply. The agent works these into outreach.
Selling points
  • Ship compilers, not tickets
  • Fully remote-friendly team
Enter to add, Backspace on an empty field to remove the last one.
04 Hard filters Non-negotiables. A developer missing any of these is never contacted.
Hard filters
  • 3+ years Rust
  • Public open-source work
Launching starts the GitHub search immediately. Outreach begins within 24 hours.

Future

EXPERIMENTAL Not shipped. Sketches of where the system points.

Signal Market

A watchlist that reads like a ticker board: momentum per developer, their pipeline stage, and a live tape of what just moved. Composed from TrendSpark, StagePill, and ActivityTicker.

Tape
linus wasm-linker +24%
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Ada Chen @adachen
+12.4%
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Grace Okafor @grace
-3.2%
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Linus Ivanova @linus
+24.1%
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Dennis Silva @dennis
-1.6%
RP
Radia Patel @radia
+9.8%
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Bjarne Haugen @bjarne
+5.4%
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Katherine Kim @katherine
-14.2%
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Guido Moreau @guido
+7.1%

Garden ambient hero

A full-bleed living backdrop: the contribution garden and a green glow behind a display headline, both decorative and aria-hidden.

Proof of work, alive.

Every green cell is a real contribution. The garden is the pitch.

EXPERIMENTAL THE LAB →

Sketches for the agentic internet

Nine running experiments that push these components past what ships today: a hire that happens on its own, proof of code as currency, the pitch kit as an API, the full dossier motion end to end, and the whole signal atlas laid out as one wall. Nothing there is committed. Everything is where the system is going.