Stage One

Do you use AI to vet CVs?

Here’s a real example from a job ad I saw recently:

🔍 “Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analysing your skills, experience, and achievements.”
📊 “It compares your profile to the job’s requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.”
🎯 “We automatically shortlist the top 3 candidates for the role.”

Sounds smart, right?

Except… here’s what happens in reality:

❌ AI struggles to understand context
❌ Misses skills described in different wording
❌ Ignores important experience
❌ Sometimes even skips over entire CV sections

The result? Great candidates get filtered out, and companies waste time.
👉 And this isn’t just a recruitment problem.

Across projects, businesses lose time and money when bad systems make bad decisions.

That’s why we built Stage One.

With Stage One, there’s no need for screening or hiring delays. You get instant, on-demand UX, UI, and user research support from senior professionals:
✅ No HR
✅ No contracts
✅ No IR35
✅ Independent experts (no hand-holding needed)

And you can start risk-free: if our work doesn’t save your project development time, you don’t pay. Plus, you can scale up, down, or cancel anytime.

Are you recruiting design professionals? Don’t rely on ATS checkers.

Yesterday, we tested ATS CV/resume reading tools.

It failed on every single CV:
❌ Couldn’t understand context
❌ Missed different wording for the same skills
❌ Couldn’t read PDFs properly
❌ Struggled with company names and links
❌ Even missed contact details

Basically, it was worse than useless.

And here’s the kicker: these CVs were well laid out, clear, and full of great experience.

The tool still got it wrong.

➡️ Which raises the bigger point: how many businesses are making decisions based on broken systems, wasting time, and filtering out the right people?

That’s exactly why we built Stage One.

Instead of relying on clunky processes or rushing to hire, we give software teams instant, on-demand access to senior UX, UI, and user research support, no contracts, no HR, no delays.

So your projects get done faster, with fewer errors, and without recruitment headaches.

Curious, have you ever lost a great candidate or wasted time because of a broken system like this?

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