Your best work is buried in a PDF. Let’s winkle it out.
winkle out v. — to prise out something that was hidden. It is, as it turns out, the job.
Anyone can write “React” on a page.Winkle marks the ones you showed.
Free to start. No card. You choose who sees it.
Nobody is reading it properly.
Not because they are lazy. Because a document that asserts and cannot be checked is not something anyone can read properly.
- You are screened on keywords by someone who has forty of these to get through.
- Every interview starts from zero. You explain the same four years, again.
- The thing that would settle it — the migration you ran, the outage you fixed — never fits on the page.
You cannot verify yourself.
That is the part that makes it worth anything. A badge you can award yourself is a badge nobody trusts — least of all the person you are trying to convince.
You
Claim what you can do.
Skills, roles, the work you have shipped. Same as any profile — this part costs you nothing and proves nothing.
Winkle
Goes looking for the evidence.
What you demonstrate in an interview, what your work shows, what holds up when it is checked against a timeline. Consent first, and a record of the consent.
The record
Only what was shown flips.
A verified skill carries its source and its date. Anything unproven stays a claim and says so — it is never quietly upgraded, and a failed check degrades to unverifiable rather than inventing a verdict.
One link. Three ways in.
Everybody else is going to attach a PDF and hope somebody opens it. You are going to send one address and let them decide how they want to meet you.
Amara Okafor
Senior Backend Engineer · Lagos
Ledger rewrite
Go · Postgres
Payout engine
Kafka
Design system
TypeScript
Same address every time. They pick the tab.
Laid out by you. Not by a form.
Your banner, your links, the work in the order you want it read. Every other profile on the internet is a template with your name dropped into it — this is a page you actually composed, and it is the first thing anybody lands on.
- Your own banner and photo
- Projects in your order
- Live at one public address
Ninety seconds of you, out loud.
Record short clips once and they work forever. Reorder them, put the best one first, hide the one you have gone off. Somebody meets you before they decide whether to spend an hour on you — and nobody has ever been hired for their formatting.
- Clip by clip, re-recordable
- Reorder, hide, publish, unpublish
- You can see who watched
It writes the first draft. You make it good.
It reads the history you already entered and drafts the whole thing — summary, achievements phrased like achievements, the skills that match. In about the time it takes to make coffee. Then keep several, one per kind of role, and stop rewriting the same page at midnight.
- Drafted from your own history
- Yours to edit, line by line
- Keep several, side by side
The public page a jobseeker gets, with its three faces. Illustrative — a rendering of the interface with invented data, not anyone’s record.
What you walk away holding.
Not a profile you fill in and never see again. Open one.
Verified once
Proof that outlives the application.
One record
reused
- Senior Backend · PaystackInterviewing
- Platform Engineer · FlutterwaveIn review
- Backend Engineer · MoniepointApplied
The interview
Stop explaining your CV to strangers.
Your interview
45 min
Already proven — not asked again
- Walk me through your CV
- Tell me about React
- Rate yourself, 1–10
Asked instead
- The migration you ran at 4M users
- Why you dropped Kafka for SQS
Your page
One link instead of six attachments.
Your page
winkle.co/p/amara
One link. It carries the verified skills with it, so nobody has to take the rest on trust.
After the offer
Signed, logged, approved, paid.
After the offer
week 14
- Contract signede-signed · 2 Apr
- Hours logged32.5h this week
- Week approvedby the employer
- Invoicedon the approved hours
You log the hours. They approve the week. Nobody reconstructs a timesheet from memory on a Friday.
And it is a place you can stand.
Every application you have out, what each employer did with it, what is proven and what is still only claimed — and the one switch that decides whether anybody can find you at all.
Your record
What you have shown, what you have only said, and where it has been read.
Verified skills
5
Still claimed
2
Profile opens
12
Reel views
48
Skills
5 verified · 2 claimedVerified
Claimed
A skill flips when it is demonstrated, and carries the source and date it was demonstrated on. You cannot flip one yourself — which is the only reason the word is worth anything to the person reading it.
Where it has gone
All applicationsSenior Backend Engineer
Paystack
Thu, 10:00
Platform Engineer
Flutterwave
Read 2d ago
Backend Engineer
Moniepoint
Sent 5d ago
Who can find you
Open to opportunities
On — you appear in employer search
Turn it off and you are not in the index at all. Nothing is scraped, and no employer sees a profile you did not opt in with.
The jobseeker’s side of the same console the hiring team uses. Illustrative — a rendering of the interface with invented data, not anyone’s record.
You are not being given a profile. You are being given a desk.
Twelve tools, all of them yours the day you sign up. Not a waitlist, not a demo, not four of them with the rest greyed out behind an upgrade.
The record
The half of a CV a stranger can actually check.
- Verified skills carry a source and a date
- Claims stay claims, and say so
- Nobody can hand you a verification — not even us
The portfolio
A page you composed, not a form you completed.
- Your banner, photo and links
- Projects in the order you want them read
- Live at one public address
The reel
Ninety seconds of you, before anyone books an hour.
- Short clips, recorded once
- Reorder, hide or unpublish any of them
- See who actually watched
The CV builder
First draft in under a minute. Then it is yours.
- Drafted from the history you already entered
- Edited line by line by you
- Keep several, one per kind of role
The interview
An hour spent on what nobody has seen yet.
- Practice questions that are never saved
- Nothing records until you agree
- Graded on a rubric, decided by a person
The tracker
Every application, and what was done with it.
- Stages, dates and contacts in one board
- Roles saved off the board, and an archive
- No spreadsheet, no browser tabs
The calendar
A link people book. On hours you chose.
- Bookable meeting types and real availability
- Approve, decline or cancel a booking
- Interviews land in it by themselves
The inbox
Employer messages, attached to the right role.
- Threads sit on the application they belong to
- A notification for every event
- Nothing about you moves silently
The contract
Read it, argue it, sign it, keep the file.
- Question a clause or propose a change first
- Sign it here — typed or drawn
- Executed PDF with a hash anyone can verify
The hours
Logged the day you worked them.
- Time booked against the engagement
- Weeks you submit, then watch approved
- A dispute arrives with its reason attached
The signals
Who watched, who saved you, who endorsed you.
- Reel views, week by week
- Employers who put you in their pool
- Invites and outcomes in one feed
The switch
Nobody sees you until you say so.
- Off means out of the search entirely
- No scraped index behind it
- Export it all, or delete it
And three things you will not find: a badge you can buy, a score that follows you from one employer to the next, and any way to have a skill verified on request. The third one is why the other twelve are worth anything.
You will write nothing twice.
The point of a record is that it accumulates. Nothing here asks you to say the same thing to a second stranger.
None of this is a productivity trick. It is just what happens once the thing you are being judged on is finally stored properly.
- Rewrite the whole CV for this oneDuplicate it, change the two lines that matter
- Explain the same four years to a strangerThe interview skips whatever is already proven
- Attach a portfolio, a CV and a reelOne address carries all three
- Eight emails to agree on an hourThey book a slot you already said yes to
- Chase somebody for the signed copyIt is in your contracts, with a hash on it
- Reconstruct last week on a FridayThe hours were logged the day you worked them
- Wonder whether anybody opened itYou can see who watched and who saved you
- Start from nothing at the next companyThe record is already there, and it is yours
What you get in writing.
Nobody sees you until you say so.
Not opted in, not in the search. No scraped profile, no back door, no “we found you anyway”.
The interview stops repeating your CV.
Whatever is already proven is skipped. The hour goes on what nobody has seen yet — which is the part you actually want to be asked about.
Flags are flags. Never verdicts.
An interview is recorded, and if something is noticed it is stored as a timestamped moment a person can go and watch — not as a score against you. Nothing auto-rejects, no keystrokes are logged, and nothing is graded as guilt.
The record is yours to take.
Verified once, and it stays verified for the next role and the one after — it does not belong to whoever happened to interview you.
The catch, if you are looking for it.
Fair. Anything that offers to judge you has earned the suspicion. Here is what it does, including the parts that are not flattering.
Hiring, rather than looking?
The same record, read from the other side — verified skills, interviews that test the gap, and a trail from first search to approved hours.
Stop being taken at your word.
Being believed is not the same as being proven. Build the record once, and the next four employers can check it in a wink.
Build your recordFree to start. No card. Delete it whenever you like.