01 / Screening
The degree filter is a blunt proxy
It removes most of the working population to approximate a capability you could simply measure.
For recruiters & employers
Hire verified talent, not resumes.
A resume is a claim. A credential on Alexandria is a signed record of an assessment you can open, inspect and verify yourself — without asking us, and without taking the candidate’s word for it.
Pre-launch. We are looking for a small number of employers to build this with, not to sell to.
Fewer than 1 in 700
new hires actually benefited when employers dropped degree requirements
+25%
average salary increase for workers hired without a degree, where it did take hold
+10 pts
higher retention than colleagues who held degrees
Harvard Business School Managing the Future of Work with the Burning Glass Institute, February 2024 — 11,300 large US firms, 2014–2023.
Read the evidence in full ›The problem you already have
Everyone re-tests every candidate, from scratch, forever.
Your assessment budget exists because nothing a candidate brings with them can be trusted. That work is duplicated at every company the candidate applies to, and paid for every time.
02 / Assessment
You pay to re-discover known facts
The candidate has probably proven this exact skill before. You have no way to see it, so you buy the test again.
03 / Trust
Certificates are unverifiable
A PDF badge proves nothing about who sat the assessment, or whether it was ever passed at all.
How it works
Search a skill. Check the proof yourself. Talk to the person.
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Search on skill
Query the public skill map directly — welding.pipe.6g · apply — not job titles or keywords.
Planned02
Candidate consents
Nothing is visible without the holder choosing to reveal it, and they reveal only the parts they choose.
Planned03
Verify it yourself
Check the signature with our tooling, your own, or any W3C-compliant verifier. No API call to us required.
Available in alpha04
See the whole record
Behind each credential: what was assessed, how it was scored, and the integrity signals at the time.
Available in alphaCandidate view · shared with your consentSample data
Skill
welding.pipe.6g
Bloom level: apply
Assessed
On device, 14 March 2026
Integrity score 0.94 · high
Issued by
did:key:z6Mkha…QYtP
Signature checks without us
Not shared
11 other credentials
Selective disclosure is the default
Commercially
You are the side that pays. That is deliberate.
Learners are never charged — not for courses, not for assessments, not for the credential. The commons is funded by the people who get commercial value from it, which is you, and forty per cent of what we earn goes to the educators who built the skills you are hiring on. The trade is straightforward: you get a verified talent pool that costs less to screen, and the pool stays free to grow.
Placement
PlannedPriced against the standard contingency range, and below it. The figure is not settled, so it is not published yet.
Hiring assessments
PlannedRun your own assessments on the platform, or accept credentials the candidate already holds.
Verification
PlannedPer-check verification at scale for high-volume screening. Offline checking is always free.
Nothing here is purchasable yet, and no rate card is published. When prices are settled they will appear on this page rather than in a quote that varies by who is asking.
Straight with you
Nobody has hired through this yet.
The platform is pre-launch, there are no candidates on it, and whether employers will pay for verified skill is the single biggest thing we have not proven. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
What we are looking for is a handful of design partners: employers with a real hiring problem who will tell us honestly whether this solves it. No cost during the alpha.
Everything is open source, so you can read the whole thing before you reply — how it works is written down in detail.