Sector brief · April 2026
Primary profile: Person (/u/)
HR and hiring
Hiring stacks are caught between scale and fairness. Gartner's public survey showed only about a quarter of candidates believed AI would evaluate them fairly.[4] Employers fear synthetic resumes. Cryptographic attestations buy more ground here than stacking keyword filters.[1]
Market context
Grand View Research and similar shops forecast AI in HR reaching roughly $15B by 2030. Parallel recruitment-tech forecasts show sustained spend on automation and matching.[3]
Trust metrics are weak: Gartner reported ~26% candidate confidence in fair AI evaluation in mid-2025.[4] That pushes buyers toward verified signals instead of scraped profiles.[5]
Structural gaps
Where incumbents sit
HireEZ mines public web data. Paradox handles high-volume chat scheduling. Moonhub-style tools sit inside Salesforce. The open space is a portable, verified candidate record any compliant agent can query with proofs.[6]
Building on more.md (implementation map)
Person entities (`/u`) as the canonical candidate record
Represent candidates as `/u` entities. Schools and employers issue W3C VCs to the candidate DID so skills trace to named issuers instead of resting on candidate self-assertion.[1]
Identity and trust gates for recruiters
Unlock sensitive facets only when the requesting agent presents acceptable proofs, reducing over-collection and resale risk.[4]
Markdown and TOON for scoring agents
Serve structured facts so evaluation models burn tokens on substance and far fewer on unpicking layout.[2]
Competitive context
Names below appear in third-party sources listed under References. The contrast column sketches where an agent-first build on more.md sits relative to each player. Complement in some layers, substitute in others.
| Player | Position in market | Contrast with more.md-shaped build |
|---|---|---|
| HireEZ | Outbound recruiting with web sourcing. | Unverified scrape vs cryptographic attestations. |
| Paradox | Conversational scheduling and screening. | Chat UX vs canonical EEP profile graph. |
| Moonhub | AI sourcing embedded in Salesforce ecosystems. | Walled garden vs open REST for ATS agents. |