I built an AI that helped people understand why their job search wasn't working. 1,012 users and 12,479 conversations in under a month — solo, no funding. This is the story.
I'm Sun Dahan — a lawyer who became a marketer who became a builder. Former VP Marketing at Talenya, an AI talent-sourcing company acquired by Paycor (NASDAQ: PYCR).
I kept seeing the same thing: people don't lose out because they lack skills. They lose because they don't understand how the other side actually thinks, decides, and rejects.
So I built HireIntel — an AI that answered job-search questions from the recruiter's side of the table. Not motivation. Strategy.
About 28% of the people who landed signed up.
No team. No funding. No engineers. Just modern AI tools and a few intense weeks — from idea to a live product with real users and national press.
The code was never the hard part. Anyone can wire up a chatbot. The hard part was knowing what to put inside it — and that came from years on the inside of how hiring actually works.
To really understand hiring, you have to see it from both chairs. So I built for both.
An AI that helped job seekers understand how recruiters actually think — and stop guessing.
An AI that ranked a stack of CVs in seconds — scores, red flags, and a ready-to-send pitch — the way a hiring manager really reads them.
Two tools, two sides, one obsession: making hiring make sense.
HireIntel was featured on national TV and in the Israeli press.
“Can't find a job? An Israeli with recruiting experience built an AI tool to help.”
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HireIntel was an experiment — and it did what experiments are supposed to do. It taught me something real.
The biggest lesson: the hardest part of any career isn't the skills. It's helping a person put their own value into words. That changed how I work.
The product has done its job. What it taught me is in everything I build now.
I now work with people one-on-one on their job search and their next career move — using everything HireIntel taught me.
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