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HyrLink SLM 25.7M Core · 2026
Zero-Trust Enclave Active
SLIDE 01 Executive Summary

The AI-Native Platform Making Hiring Human Again

HyrLink realigns enterprise recruitment and candidates career narratives to resurface what technology is forgetting at lightspeed...it was built to assist humans, not replace them.

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Domain Specific AI

HyrLink is powered by 2 Domain-Specific AI, making sure your data is safe, and you have the tools to surface your true value, safely

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Agentic Candidate Tools

HyrLink is built to empower candidates with tools anywhere they go

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Zero-Trust Architecture

Your data is only as safe as your weakest link and we didn't make any

25.7M
Training Records
8
Security Defense Layers
145
Resumes/sec Throughput
0
Plaintext Data at Rest
SLIDE 02 The Problem

The Hiring System Is Fundamentally Broken

A $215B industry running on technology that treats candidates as keyword databases and buries human potential under ATS cold logic.

😤 Job Seekers Face:

  • Resume black holes — no feedback, no signal, no context.
  • Static summaries that erase career growth stories.
  • AI-generated generic applications make standing out impossible.
  • No pre-application signal on whether a role is actually a fit.
  • Ghost applications — 73% never receive a human response.

📊 TA Professionals Face:

  • Drowning in thousands of AI-spammed generic applications.
  • Lacking depth on high-potential passive candidates.
  • Keyword matching misses narrative strength and adaptability.
  • No 24/7 pre-screen — bottlenecked by human scheduling.
  • Confidentiality risks using 3rd-party LLM APIs for candidate data.

The root cause: the industry adopted general-purpose AI tools that were never trained on hiring data and expose confidential candidate data to third-party models — a catastrophic GDPR / CCPA liability that forces companies to spend even more on to protect!

SLIDE 03 The Solution

The HyrLink Engine

A containerized hiring intelligence platform where every component speaks a different security-optimized language and every data operation is cryptographically audited.

🔒 Air-Gapped Secure Enclave — Zero External Egress
📖 Career Narrative
👥 Candidate Pool
🎯 Skill Validation
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Go — Speed + Security

With the speed and security of Go, HyrLink is able to protect your data no matter where you are.

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Python — AI Orchestration

Our secure and fast ephemeral agents mean you don't need to wait for traffic, we'll have an agent ready to help you anytime.

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C — Zero-Remnant Security

Zero Remnant Security means we don't have your data even if they did try to break in. All PII is wiped from the system the moment we're finished with it.

🔒 Air-Gapped Secure Enclave — Zero External Egress
🛡️ AI Security
🤖 Agentic Chatbot
💼 Candidate Passport
SLIDE 04 Security Architecture

8-Layer Zero-Trust Defense

HyrLink offers enterprise-level security for everyone on day one — not bolted on after a breach.

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Prompt Injection Defense

HyrLink's OWASP-aligned regex patterns strip all LLM hijacking vectors before data enters the network.

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HMAC-SHA256 Payload Signing

Every sanitized payload is cryptographically signed with a timestamp. In-transit tampering is cryptographically detectable.

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Zone-Based RBAC

Candidate and enterprise zones operate under separate route policies. Cross-zone access triggers a BREACH alarm and HTTP 403.

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Ephemeral OTP Keys

Single-use HMAC-signed tokens scoped to agent + task + container. 30-second TTL. Burned-key replay prevention registry.

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Application-Layer Encryption

SHA256-CTR stream cipher with per-record random IVs before any database write. The DB is useless without the derived keys.

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Cryptographic Shredding

OS-pinned memory overwrite + fsync + delete. No remnant data in swap, cache, or file system buffers.

SLIDE 05 Candidate Tools

Your Agentic Chatbot at name.hyrlink.me

2 tools for the candidate that's NOT on-site every minute of the day.

https://adrian-sousa.hyrlink.me

Enterprise TA teams can interact with your agentic tools at any hour to evaluate fit, review validated skills, and book a human interview with zero scheduling friction.

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The Agentic Chatbot

The Agentic Chatbot talks to professional recruiters for you, so they know your history and can schedule a meeting or call with you.

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The Agentic Passport

The Agentic Passport makes sure that recruiters know what skills can you prove thanks to our Dynamic Skill Validation.

Candidate tools operate within the zero-trust enclave. No candidate data leaks to third-party model providers — keeping your career data private, cryptographically secured, and fully under your control.

SLIDE 06 Evaluation Engine

The 4-Pillar Scoring Matrix

HyrLink replaces keyword matching with a multi-dimensional narrative intelligence score trained on 4.9 million real hiring outcomes.

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Role Alignment

Relevance to core job requirements, and role-specific terminology — not generic dictionaries.

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Skill Validation

Verified technical and leadership skill density — distinguishing claimed skills from demonstrated ones via evidence in narrative context.

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Experience Depth

Demonstrated impact, scope of ownership, and career progression velocity — goes beyond job titles to measure delivered outcomes.

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Career Narrative

Clarity of professional journey, ability to communicate growth through setbacks, and resilience orientation — the dimension no ATS system has ever measured.

SLIDE 07 Market Opportunity

A $215B Market Ripe for Disruption

The global HR Technology market is projected to reach $215B by 2028 — and the AI-native recruiting segment is its fastest-growing, most underserved layer.

$215B
Global HR Tech Market by 2028
$34B
AI Recruiting Tools SAM
67%
of Enterprises Investing in AI TA (2027)

Why Now?

⚖️ Regulatory Pressure

Most AI Hiring Tools are going to market without fully understanding the implications of GDPR Article 22 and its requirements for explainable AI in hiring decisions. CCPA, Illinois BIPA, and NYC Local Law 144 are redefining acceptable use of candidate data in AI systems — creating immediate demand for privacy-first platforms.

🚨 AI-Spam Crisis

As generic AI enables mass application spam, TA teams need signal-filtered pipelines more urgently than ever. HyrLink's skill-validation pre-screening directly solves the signal-to-noise collapse in modern recruiting.

SLIDE 08 Competitive Advantage

Competitive Advantage Matrix

No existing platform combines fine-tuned recruiting AI, agentic candidate tools, zero-trust security, and narrative intelligence scoring in a single product.

Capability HyrLink ✦ Greenhouse JobRight Eightfold AI Teal
Fine-tuned Recruiting SLM ✅ 25.7M Records ❌ Static ❌ Static ❌ "Redirected LLM" ❌ General LLM
Agentic Candidate Tools ✅ Native ❌ ❌ ❌ Enterprise Only ❌ Resumes Only
Zero-Trust Containerized AI ✅ 8 Layers ❌ ❌ Cloud SaaS ✅ Enterprise level ❌ 3rd Party
4-Pillar Narrative Scoring ✅ ❌ Generic ATS ❌ Only Skill Matching ❌ 0-5 Skill validation ❌ Generic ATS
Candidate Data Never Leaves Enclave ✅ Air-Gapped ❌ ❌ ❌ Used for marketing and training ❌ API Exposed
Cryptographic Shredding ✅ C + Go ❌ ❌ ❌ data stays on network for marketing ❌
SLIDE 09 Traction & Benchmarks

Built, Benchmarked, and Battle-Hardened

The full zero-trust pipeline has been load-tested at scale with cryptographic lifecycle guarantees and zero failures across all runs.

10,000
Resumes processed in single test run (0 failures)
145/s
Peak cryptographic throughput (10k scale test)
25.7M
Records in SLM training corpus

Pipeline Benchmark

Scale Total Time Avg/Resume Throughput Failures
100 resumes ~4.2s 420ms ~23 res/sec 0
1,000 resumes 6.9s 137ms ~62.44 res/sec 0
10,000 resumes 160s 799ms ~145.12 res/sec 0

* Subprocess overhead at 10k scale is an artifact of dev-mode binary invocation. In production containers, Go services run as persistent daemons — projecting 500+ res/sec at 10k scale.

SLIDE 10 Business Model

Dual-Sided Revenue Model

HyrLink monetizes both sides of the hiring marketplace with a premium SaaS + usage-based hybrid that aligns incentives with outcomes.

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Enterprise TA Hub

Per-seat SaaS subscription for Talent Acquisition teams. Includes AI candidate pipeline, proxy interview access, 4-pillar scoring, and passive pool discovery.

Pricing starts at $750/seat/mo
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Candidate Pro Tier

Premium individual subscription unlocking AI proxy deployment, narrative resume engine, role-fit analysis, and proxy subdomain at name.hyrlink.me.

$35.99/mo

Use of Funds

Hiring & Salary 30%
Sales & Enterprise GTM 30%
Engineering & Infrastructure 25%
Legal, Compliance & Security Audits 15%
SLIDE 11 The Ask

Join the Zero-Trust Future of Hiring

We are raising our pre-seed round on a SAFE to bring the world's first privacy-native, AI-powered hiring platform to enterprise TA teams globally.

$250K
SAFE Target
18mo
Runway to 500 Enterprise Seats
Q3 '27
Projected ARR Positive

HyrLink is ready to scale

The architecture is built. The model is trained. The security is hardened. We're looking for partners who understand that the future of hiring is private, intelligent, and human.

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