Anyone, from anywhere, can achieve anything.
We’re building the human capability layer for the age of AI: a trusted record of what people can actually do, verified by the people who saw the work.
When anyone can look perfect on paper, the real work is what matters.
Every application looks perfect now, and hiring still runs on self-written résumés and keyword filters. Strong people get filtered out for where they’ve been, not what they can do.
We think the answer is people who’ve done the work, vouching for people who can do it.
“What I’d be proudest of isn’t a hire. It’s creating a platform that lets someone get in who today isn’t able to.”
Soumabrata (Soum) Dasgupta
Founder, Forward Humans
I’ve spent 15 years building products and teams at AWS, Oracle and Deloitte, and watched brilliant people stay stuck because a document couldn’t describe them. Valid. is my bet that it doesn’t have to work that way.
Our expert panel is product leaders from Google, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta and Nvidia.