[ For Candidates ]

Your AI,
your advocate.

You shouldn't have to be your own recruiter, your own salary negotiator, and your own career coach all at once. Nugget gives you an agent that does the work — under your rules.

Your AI sits next to you. — human and AI agent operating together
[ For Candidates // co-pilot mode ]

Your AI sits next to you.

In every interview, the Candidate Agent runs a quiet co-pilot — surfacing psychometric drift, prosody cues, and structure prompts. You stay human. It handles the receipts.

HOLO_PANEL // CANDIDATE_COPILOTtap or focus a marker to inspect live signals
[ Skill cx-zones // co-train · live config ]

Two agents. Different training surfaces.

Each side has its own skill cx-zone — drag the inputs to see exactly what each agent emits into the neutral matching engine. Skills expand to show the co-training rubric. Your inputs are saved locally — refresh without losing your config.

CX_ZONE // CANDIDATE
Principal: candidate

Candidate Agent

Trains on the candidate's own story, samples and references. Optimises for representation accuracy, negotiation guardrails and career direction — never for spam volume.

Configurable inputs
180k
60%
70%
90%
→ outputs to matching engine
{
  "candidate.floor.k": 180,
  "candidate.equity.comfort": 0.6,
  "candidate.geo.flex": 0.7,
  "candidate.truth.discipline": 0.9,
  "candidate.signals": [
    "narrative",
    "star_whisper",
    "claim_ledger",
    "career_lookahead"
  ]
}
CX_ZONE // MERCHANT
Principal: hiring org

Merchant HR Agent

Trains on the company's hiring history, level rubrics, budget bands and team topology. Optimises for fit + retention, not pipeline vanity metrics.

Configurable inputs
220k
55%
70%
→ outputs to matching engine
{
  "merchant.budget.ceiling.k": 220,
  "merchant.equity.pool": 0.55,
  "merchant.level.target": "IC5",
  "merchant.retention.weight": 0.7,
  "merchant.signals": [
    "jd_intent",
    "level_calibration",
    "topology_fit",
    "adverse_impact"
  ]
}
match.negotiation
78/100
match.confidence
80/100
match.gate
PASS
[ Domain Specialisation // peer-reviewed stack ]

Both agents are trained on verified science.

Behaviour. Forensics. Vitals. I/O. Every signal Nugget computes is traceable to a citation — so a hiring decision can be defended in front of a board, a regulator, or a candidate's lawyer.

[ 01 ] Behavioural ScienceCITED

Big-Five at the speech-act layer

We don't run gamified tests. Open-vocabulary conversational analysis maps utterances to FFM trait estimates, regulatory focus, and motivational orientation — calibrated against >1.4M labelled interview transcripts.

Techniques applied
  • ›IPIP-NEO open-vocabulary mapping
  • ›Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins) tagging
  • ›Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci) motive split
  • ›Conscientiousness × tenure interaction modelling
Literature3 cards · click to expand
[ 02 ] Forensic & Truth SciencesCITED

Claim verification with statement-validity protocols

Every spoken claim is routed through statement-validity analysis (SVA / CBCA cues), source triangulation, and deepfake forensic checks before it scores. Inflated claims aren't rejected — they're downweighted with an explainable trace.

Techniques applied
  • ›Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA)
  • ›Reality Monitoring (Johnson & Raye) markers
  • ›Liveness + face-swap forensic detection (FaceForensics++)
  • ›Cross-source temporal consistency graphs
Literature3 cards · click to expand
[ 03 ] Vitals — rPPG & Voice BiomarkersCITED

Non-contact physiology from camera and mic

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) recovers heart rate, HRV and respiration from facial micro-colour shifts during video. Combined with prosodic features (jitter, shimmer, pause structure) we model arousal, regulation and presence — opt-in, on-device by default.

Techniques applied
  • ›POS / CHROM rPPG signal extraction
  • ›HRV time-domain (RMSSD) + frequency-domain (LF/HF)
  • ›Prosody: jitter, shimmer, speaking-rate variance
  • ›On-device inference; raw video never leaves the client
Literature3 cards · click to expand
[ 04 ] Industrial / Organisational ScienceCITED

Predictive validity over interview theater

Selection science is brutal about what predicts performance. Nugget weights structured work-sample evidence and cognitive-task signal far above unstructured interview impressions — and surfaces the validity coefficient behind every match.

Techniques applied
  • ›Structured behavioural sampling (Campion 1997)
  • ›Work-sample test scoring (highest single-predictor validity)
  • ›g-loaded reasoning probes calibrated per role family
  • ›Adverse-impact monitoring per EEOC 4/5ths rule
Literature3 cards · click to expand
Candidate portrait — real human in interview
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UPTIME: 247d // OFFERS_NEGOTIATED: 3

[ 01 ]PROMISE
Always-on advocacy
Your agent works the market 24/7 — even while you're heads-down at your current job.
[ 02 ]PROMISE
You set the floor
Salary, location, mission, manager type. Your agent never breaks the rules you set.
[ 03 ]PROMISE
Truth in both directions
Inflated JD? Your agent flags it. Inflated CV? It'll flag that too. We don't help anyone lie.
[ 04 ]PROMISE
Lifelong memory
Years from now, the agent still knows your story — and the next negotiation starts from there.
[ Reserve agent access ]

Provision your agent.

Limited beta. We onboard candidates in cohorts — your agent ships within 14 days of access.