When we launched Recroot.app, I genuinely thought we had it figured out.

Build something useful, run some ads, watch it grow. I thought thats how other products grew. I assumed it would work for us.

It didn't.

Nobody teaches introverts or even experienced professionals how to survive workplace conversations.

Not because they didn t know their work.
Not because they weren t talented.

But because pressure changes how people communicate.

Recently, we ran a simple experiment.

We took the exact same workplace conversation and asked both ChatGPT and Recroot to review it.

The conversation wasn't an interview.

It was a manager asking an employee why a project was delayed.

One challenge we faced while building Recroot:

We store candidate/user videos, interview recordings, resumes, and personal information.

Like most startups, we don't have an unlimited security budget.

But that doesn't change our responsibility to protect user data.

A harsh reality about modern workplaces:

Being good at your job is often not enough anymore.

Research from Harvard and Stanford suggests that up to 85% of career success comes from communication and people skills, while technical skills account for only around 15%. Yet most people spend years improving technical skills and almost no time practising high-pressure conversations.