Why HireSignal exists

I polished my CV with AI — translation, grammar, formatting. The same kind of help every company quietly uses internally. An ATS flagged it. No human ever read it. I got a templated email.

I posted about it. Within a few days that post reached 70,000+ people and I realised I was nowhere near alone. Thousands of candidates across the EU are being rejected by software that neither they nor the companies fully understand, and most of them don't know they have legal rights against it.

They do. GDPR Article 22(3) gives every EU candidate the right to contest a decision made solely by automated processing and to demand human intervention. Article 15(1)(h) gives you the right to meaningful information about the logic involved. From 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act classifies hiring AI as high-risk, and employers will have to document everything or face fines up to €35M or 7% of global turnover.

HireSignal is the tool I wish I had had that week. It does two things:

• Generates a legally-grounded Article 22 human-review letter in 60 seconds, in English or Estonian, that you can send to any employer in the EU.
• Publishes a Human-First Score for EU employers, built from real candidate reports — not paid placements, not sentiment scraping, not a rant site.

The methodology is public, the dataset will be open, and there is no way to pay to improve a score. Companies can respond to reports, but they cannot edit or remove them.

Built in Estonia, for the EU. Free. Forever.