James Akpan

James Akpan

Product engineer, building CmdRound
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Product engineer, about six years building for the web. I built waiter.now, a restaurant ordering system that has processed over ₦200M, and MostCracked, a global leaderboard for Claude Code. Now I'm building CmdRound, an assessment platform for hiring managers. It finds the engineers who can use artificial intelligence to implement industry-standard work in your codebase. Candidates work in Claude Code, and the team gets a score and a replay of every call they made.

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  • CmdRound
    CmdRoundAssess how engineers build with artificial intelligence
    Oct 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 10th, 2021

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CmdRound - Assess how engineers build with artificial intelligence

CmdRound is an assessment platform for hiring managers. You send a candidate a link and they get 55 minutes with Claude Code to implement industry-standard work in a real codebase. Each task is tailor-made to measure how good a candidate is at combining their engineering skills with agents. At the end of the assessment you get a score on four plain questions and a replay of every call they made. Scoring is rule-based, with no LLM judge. $49 for 10 candidates, one-time, lasts a year.
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