About SUNCHAL

One standard. Three ways it reaches you.

SUNCHAL exists because the signals employers rely on stopped working. Resumes are generated, take-home tests are outsourced and online assessments are gamed. We replaced the signal: every professional on our network has sat a live evaluation of work they genuinely produced, with a senior expert from their own field who signs their name to the result.

Work with usHow verification works

A named senior expert behind every verified professional.

The standard

A hallmark, not a keyword match.

A hallmark has always meant something specific: a qualified assayer personally tested the metal and put their mark on it. The mark is worth exactly as much as the person behind it, which is why it has survived for centuries where self-declared quality has not.

SUNCHAL applies the same idea to professional skill. A candidate brings work they actually did: a system they built, a set of accounts they closed, a hiring round they ran. A senior practitioner in that same discipline examines it live, in conversation, and signs a report that carries their name.

  • Real work, not a toy exercise

    The evaluation starts from something the candidate genuinely produced and has to defend in detail.

  • Live, with a human being

    A conversation with a senior professional from the same field. Never an auto-graded test, never multiple choice.

  • Signed by a named expert

    The report carries the evaluator's name and seniority. Accountability with a name attached is the whole basis of how SUNCHAL operates.

  • A record you can audit

    Every verified professional carries their evaluation record, so a hiring manager can see what was examined and who examined it.

A SUNCHAL certificate of authenticity, signed and sealed by the evaluating expert

Companies hire on demonstrated skill. Candidates are judged on what they can actually do. Both sides get the same standard.

What we do

Three lines of work. One source of quality.

Each one is downstream of the same evaluation. That is why they belong to one company rather than three, and why a company hiring through us and a company having work delivered by us are drawing from exactly the same pool.

01

AI-native verified hiring

Hire people an expert has personally verified, with a shortlist in 48 hours.

You brief the role; we return a shortlist of professionals who have each passed a live evaluation with a senior expert in their field. Every candidate arrives with their evaluation record and the name of the person who signed it, so the first interview starts from evidence rather than from a document anyone could have generated. We use AI where it genuinely helps: matching a brief to the right verified people, and cutting the administrative load around scheduling and screening, and never to make the judgement itself. The judgement stays with a named human.

  • Shortlist within 48 hours of the brief
  • Evaluation record and auditor name with every candidate
  • Contingency fee, 10–12% CTC, charged only on a successful placement
  • 90-day replacement assurance
See how hiring worksPost a role
A hiring manager reviewing a verified candidate profile
A hiring team in discussion over a shortlist
An interview in progress with a verified candidate
02

Custom software development

A delivery team assembled around your brief, led by a named senior engineer.

For a defined piece of work we assemble a team from the same verified pool and put a senior specialist at its head, accountable for the outcome. Capability spans product engineering, AI integration, product design, data and platform engineering, and technical growth, assembled around what the project actually requires rather than whoever happens to be free. Because the team comes from the hiring pool, anyone who impresses you on the work can be converted to a permanent hire on standard placement terms.

  • Every engineer evaluated before they touch your project
  • One named senior lead who owns delivery
  • Scoped to a defined outcome and duration, not an open retainer
  • Convert any team member to a permanent hire
Explore our servicesHow delivery works
An engineer working on a production system
A delivery team working through an architecture problem together
Code under review on a developer's screen
03

Candidate mentorship programme

Senior practitioners who get people genuinely ready, then verification is free.

Verification itself costs a candidate nothing; it is sponsored by our hiring partners, and anyone ready to walk a senior professional through their real work can take it today. The mentorship programme is for the people who are not ready yet. Working practitioners in the candidate's own discipline close the actual gaps: portfolio and project depth, the ability to defend technical decisions under questioning, interview practice with someone who does the job: over a structured track. It is optional by design, and we say so plainly rather than selling preparation to people who do not need it.

  • Free verification, sponsored by hiring partners, no payment required
  • Mentors are working senior practitioners, not career coaches
  • Structured tracks over 3, 6 or 12 months for those who want them
  • Mock interviews, portfolio review and priority matching
Explore the programmeMeet our mentors
A candidate working through their portfolio with a senior mentor

Who we serve

Every business function, not just engineering.

A senior expert exists in every discipline, which means the evaluation works in every discipline. The evaluator is always someone who does the candidate's job at a senior level.

Engineering & Technology

Backend, frontend, mobile, data, infrastructure and AI systems: assessed on architecture and production judgement, not syntax recall.

Finance & Accounting

Closes, consolidation, audit, FP&A and controls, examined against the books and statements the candidate actually produced.

HR & People

Talent acquisition, HR operations and people partnering, assessed on hiring rounds run and processes genuinely owned.

Operations & Supply Chain

Planning, procurement, logistics and process improvement, examined on real operational problems and what changed as a result.

Sales & Marketing

Pipeline, growth, content and performance marketing, assessed on campaigns and revenue motions the candidate ran themselves.

Proof of work

We run production systems of our own.

The clearest evidence that a delivery team can build something is that it already has. These are products SUNCHAL designed, built and operates: architecture decisions, production incidents and everything in between. They are owned or co-founded, not client work.

See what we've builtFollow the Build Log

Free and open

Most of what we make costs nothing to use.

Verification is free for candidates. So is everything below, no account required for the tools.

ATS resume checker

See how an applicant tracking system actually parses your resume before a company's does.

Check a resume

Developer tools

JSON and YAML validators that run entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded.

Open the tools

Curated job board

Open roles across every business function we cover, not only engineering.

Browse jobs

Careers blog & live events

Practical writing on hiring and careers, plus sessions run by senior practitioners.

Read the blog

Our promise

Careful about what we promise.

A badge is only worth the person behind it. That is also why we do not sell outcomes we cannot control. We make specialists genuinely worth deploying, and we put a named expert behind every one of them.

Our promise

We don't sell placement guarantees. We make specialists genuinely worth deploying, and we put a named expert behind every one of them.

Where to next

Tell us which side of the table you're on.

Every route below goes to a page that answers in full, rather than to a contact form.

I want to hire verified people

Brief a role and get a shortlist of evaluated professionals within 48 hours.

For companies

I want work delivered

Scope a project and have it built by a team led by a named senior specialist.

Software & services

I want to get verified

Take the free evaluation with a senior professional from your own field.

For candidates

I want to evaluate others

Senior practitioners who want to assess and mentor people in their own discipline.

Join as a mentor