Hire on proof, not promises.
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Proof comes in many forms
How it works
From your job post to people who want to meet you
No pile of résumés to sort. Everyone you see has asked to be introduced, and comes with the evidence for why they fit.
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Share the role
Paste a link to your job post, or describe the role in your own words. Debby reads it into requirements that quote your text, and you approve them.
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Debby finds who fits
She reviews people who turned introductions on against your requirements. A person at Debut checks every match, and each candidate is asked first.
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Meet people who asked to meet you
You get their page with Debby’s read and the evidence behind it. Say yes and Debby emails you both.
Built so you can check Debby’s work
Every requirement points back to your posting, and every judgment points to evidence. Nothing is a score you have to take on trust.
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Bring every opening at once
Paste your careers page, or your Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever board. Debby finds the openings, and the ones you choose are kept as drafts for her to read.
Your words, quoted back
Every requirement Debby reads from your posting shows the line it came from. Change how much it matters, remove it, or add your own.
Dealbreakers are yours to set
Only what you state rules someone out. Nobody is ruled out for something they simply haven’t told Debby.
Evidence, not adjectives
A candidate’s page says how clearly each requirement is shown, and where: their résumé, their public GitHub, or their own words.
Every step on the record
The Feed keeps one line for each thing that happened on your roles, so the whole team knows where things stand.
Why teams prefer Debut to resume screens
Requirements in your own words, evidence you can check, and only people who asked to meet you. This is the app your team works in.
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Who are you hiring?
One roleFrom a careers pageWe’re hiring a founding engineer to build Debby with us. What they’ll do: ship product end to end, from the Postgres schema to the chat UI. Must have: you’ve shipped LLM features to real users, and you know Postgres well. Nice to have: early-stage experience. Austin, hybrid. Salary and equity.
What they’ll do, what they must have, where, and the pay.Ask Debby to read itFounding engineer
Austin · Hybrid · Salary and equity
Debby’s reading: A first engineer who will build Debby’s product end to end, from the database to the chat.
- Must have: Has shipped LLM features to real usersFrom your text: “you’ve shipped LLM features to real users”
- Must have: Knows Postgres wellFrom your text: “you know Postgres well”
- Strong signal: Ships product end to endFrom your text: “ship product end to end”
- Nice to have: Early-stage experienceFrom your text: “early-stage experience”
Every requirement quotes your text. You can change them on the next screen. Nothing is matched until you activate the role.
Keep as a draftWhat Debut stands for
We are too new for testimonials, so here is something better: the principles we are building on, in writing.
Work is evidence
A resume says what someone claims. A repo, a design file, a challenge submission shows how they think, decide, and finish. When the two disagree, we believe the work.
No keyword filters
Nothing on Debut auto-rejects a person for missing a buzzword. Software helps us organize; it does not get to end a conversation on its own.
A person reads everything
While Debut is early, every brief and every submission is reviewed by hand. Debby structures the process; humans make the calls. We'd rather grow slowly than review carelessly.
Challenges respect your time
If a role uses a challenge, it is short, realistic, and mirrors the actual job. No forty-hour take-homes, no spec work dressed up as evaluation.
AI fluency counts for you
How someone works with Claude, Cursor, or a spreadsheet is part of the job now. Using modern tools well is a skill we evaluate, not a shortcut we punish.
Both sides, one agent
Debby holds the context of the role and the candidate, so nothing gets lost between a job post and a first call. The company hears why someone fits. The candidate knows what the role actually needs.
Criteria before candidates
Before anyone is evaluated, the role is turned into concrete, checkable criteria. If we cannot say what strong work looks like, we are not ready to judge anyone against it.
Interviews measure interviews
Whiteboard trivia predicts whiteboard trivia. We look at the thing itself: work that resembles the job someone is being hired to do.
Show, then talk
Introductions on Debut come with the work attached. By the time two people meet, the conversation starts from evidence, not from small talk about a PDF.
Paid on outcomes
Outside our free private beta, Debut earns a success fee only when someone is hired. Not for posting roles, not for access, not for volume. Our incentive is a great hire, on both sides.
Honest by default
No invented metrics, no fake logos, no manufactured praise. The sample data in our previews is labeled as sample data. What we ship is what is true.
Early means attentive
Being a young platform is not something we hide. It means senior attention on every role, direct answers, and a process that improves with every single hire.
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General
Debut is a proof-of-work hiring platform. Companies brief Debby, our hiring agent, on what they need; candidates introduce themselves with real work; and we match the two on evidence instead of resumes.