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Notes from the screening desk.
METHOD · 4 SEP 2026 · 9 MIN
What a partial score should look like.
When one of six areas can't answer, most tools quietly fill the gap. We chose to say so - in the report, the export and the shared link - and to show the score as a floor. Here's the reasoning, and the three designs we rejected.
Read →The three fraud patterns we saw most this summer.Reused photographs under new names, CVs generated from the same template, and email domains registered the week of the application.Why the badge has no color of its own.An extension lives inside someone else's interface. The badge carries its tokens, adds no column and asks for nothing from the host page.Public sources only: where we draw the line.No logins, no purchased data, no inference about protected traits. What that rules out, and why we're fine with it.
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