The difference
Two ways to reach the same job.
Skip the black hole of cold applications. Get introduced by someone who already works there, and open the same door for someone else.
Cold applications
400
sent
0
reached a person
One referral
1
sent
1
reached a person
An illustration of the difference, not measured data.
How it works
This is the product.
Not a mockup. Scroll.
Step one
Someone inside posts the role.
A real employee at the company, with the real job link. Not a recruiter, not a scraper, not an aggregator.
Step two
We read your CV against it.
A few honest sentences on what lines up and what doesn't. No score. No ranking. Nothing that could filter you out.
Step three
A person decides.
They read it, talk to you if they want to, and choose. Then they put you forward inside their company.
A listing in the feed
Senior Backend Engineer
FeaturedFintraWarsaw
Maya Kowalska
Staff Engineer · 7 referrals → 2 hires
Step one
Someone inside posts the role.
A real employee at the company, with the real job link. Not a recruiter, not a scraper, not an aggregator.
A listing in the feed
Senior Backend Engineer
FeaturedFintraWarsaw
Maya Kowalska
Staff Engineer · 7 referrals → 2 hires
Step two
We read your CV against it.
A few honest sentences on what lines up and what doesn't. No score. No ranking. Nothing that could filter you out.
What the referrer receives
Fit summary
Advisory onlySix years building payment systems in Go, most recently owning a ledger service handling reconciliation at scale. The Postgres and distributed-systems requirements are well covered. Card-scheme integration isn't evidenced anywhere in the CV.
Lines up with
- 6 years Go in production, matching the core requirement
- Owned a ledger service, direct payments-domain experience
- Postgres at scale, including schema migrations under load
Not shown in the CV
- No card-scheme or PCI experience
- No mention of team leadership
No score. No ranking. No recommendation. The referrer decides.
Step three
A person decides.
They read it, talk to you if they want to, and choose. Then they put you forward inside their company.
Once they accept
Referral request accepted
Perfect. Submitting you this afternoon.
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Both sides win.
Stop applying into the void.
Every listing here comes from someone who actually works at the company and is willing to put their name to you. Ask them directly, and a real person reads it.
- A human reads every request, nothing is auto-filtered
- A plain-language read of how you line up, before you bother anyone
- Direct chat with your referrer once they accept
Forty applications. Silence.
One referral. A conversation in three days.
Trust & safety
A door opened honestly.
We're not selling you a guarantee. We're making the introduction real.
LinkedIn-verified people
Both sides sign in through LinkedIn, so the person offering to refer you is a real, identifiable human, not an anonymous account.
Ratings both ways, blind
After a referral you rate each other, and neither sees the other's until both have submitted. That's what stops traded five-stars and revenge one-stars.
Honest about the odds
A referral isn't a guaranteed job, and we say so before you send your first one. It's a real conversation with a real person. The rest is still up to you.
Straight answers
Questions.
Does the AI decide whether I get referred?
No, and it structurally can't. It writes a few sentences about how your background lines up with the role, and that's the entire extent of it. There's no score, no ranking, and no ability to filter you out of anyone's queue. Every request reaches a human, who decides and can change their mind. If our AI service went down tomorrow, referrals would still work; you'd just see fewer summaries.
What does it cost?
Nothing, if you're looking for work. No fees, no subscription, no premium tier, not now and not later. The only thing anyone pays for is a referrer choosing to feature their listing higher in the feed, and that's optional.
How does the referrer get paid?
By their own employer. Most companies pay a referral bonus for a successful hire, and plenty of people never claim it because they don't know anyone to refer. Referly doesn't pay for placements and doesn't take a cut of one, deliberately.
Why do you need my CV?
It's the only substantial thing we have to work with. LinkedIn's sign-in gives us your name, email and photo, not your work history. Your CV is what the fit summary actually reads. A referrer can only open the file after they've accepted your request, and if you don't sign in for 12 months we delete it automatically.
Is a referral a guaranteed interview?
No. It puts you in front of a person instead of a filter, which is a genuinely different starting position, but the company still decides. We show you this before you send your first request, because a marketplace built on an overpromise doesn't last.
More detail on the AI: exactly what it does and doesn't do
The door is open.
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