Recruiting teams are drowning in applications
Recruiting teams are drowning in applications. What they do not have is any signal on which ones are real. AI resume tools and mass-apply bots now reach 75% of job seekers globally. YC-funded tools send 1,500 applications per day per user. Every ATS ingests them without distinction. Every stage in hiring has a dedicated tool except one: there is no layer that evaluates the quality of what arrived before anyone touches it. Sentriq is that layer. We sit pre-submission, upstream of your ATS, and surface behavioral signals on whether an application is worth a recruiter's time: keystroke dynamics, application construction patterns, timing anomalies, cross-platform consistency. Platform-agnostic. Zero infrastructure change. The category is Application Intelligence for Talent Acquisition. Think of it as a Candidate Hiring Captcha. At the extreme end, the same gap enables state-sponsored operatives and synthetic identities to pass background checks and enter enterprise headcount. But the daily problem is simpler: enterprise recruiters cannot tell which 10 applications in a stack of 200 are worth a call. Samuel Kemper (CEO, HR operator and former ATS practitioner) Seed round open. sentriq.co