Our story

Hiring should be decided by proof, not resumes.

ControlTheMarket replaces guesswork with evidence. Candidates complete short, job-like tasks; companies hire on objective, side-by-side performance. The result is faster, fairer hiring — and teams that perform from day one.

2,400+
Companies hiring
180,000+
Skills assessments run
41%
Faster time-to-hire
94%
Would hire this way again
The ControlTheMarket team at work

Why we built this

We were hiring managers ourselves — and tired of resumes that said everything and proved nothing. Great builders were getting filtered out by keywords, while polished CVs sailed through to roles they couldn't do.

So we flipped the process. Instead of asking people what they've done, we let them show it: a focused, realistic task, scored against a consistent rubric. Today thousands of teams use ControlTheMarket to make their hardest hires with confidence — and tens of thousands of candidates have been hired on the strength of their work, not their wording.

What we stand for

The principles behind every assessment, ranking and hire on the platform.

Proof over pedigree

A resume tells you where someone has been. A real task shows you what they can do. We score the work, not the wording.

Fair by design

Every candidate gets the same brief and the same rubric. Structured, bias-aware scoring gives overlooked talent a real shot.

Trust through transparency

Companies see exactly how a score was reached. Candidates keep a portfolio of verified work they own and can reuse.

Hire in days, not months

Send a task, review ranked submissions, make an offer. Teams cut weeks of screening calls down to a single afternoon.

“We replaced three rounds of screening calls with one task on ControlTheMarket. Our time-to-hire dropped from six weeks to nine days, and the people we hired are measurably stronger.”
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Priya Nair
VP Talent, Northwind Labs

Meet the team

Engineers, recruiters and behavioural scientists fixing the most important decision a company makes.

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Maya Rodriguez

Co-founder & CEO

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David Chen

Co-founder & CTO

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Aisha Okafor

VP of Product

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Liam Walsh

Head of Talent Science

Hire your next role on proof.

Start free — no credit card required. Post a task today and review your first ranked submissions this week.