Hire on proof, not promises.
Tell Debby who you need. Debut finds relevant candidates, reviews real work, and introduces the strongest fits.
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- Pipeline
- Roles
- Candidates
- Founding Engineer
- Product Designer
- Data Analyst
- Founding engineer brief
- Challenge: onboarding flow
- Work review: ETL pipeline
- Shortlist: design roles
- Intro notes: data analyst
- Portfolio follow-up
- Criteria: growth marketer
Proof comes in many forms
How it works
Everything around hiring, in one agent
Debby learns the role, gathers the evidence, and drafts the next step — hiring is more than reading resumes.
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Brief the role
Tell Debby what the person needs to accomplish, not just the title you need to fill.
Review real work
Debut collects portfolios, projects, existing work, or a short role-specific challenge and reviews it against clear criteria.
Meet the strongest candidates
Receive a concise, human-reviewed shortlist with the evidence attached. You pay when you hire.
Every angle of a candidate, in one dossier
What they built, how they think, and how they work with modern tools — evidence in one place, not scattered across a PDF.
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From brief to shortlist
Debby runs each role as a clear process: the brief becomes criteria, submissions get reviewed against them, and strong work branches straight toward an introduction — with a person checking every step.
Review challenge submission
Reads the work against the role criteria.
Draft intro to the company
Summary and work links, ready for review.
Request follow-up sample
Asks for one more piece of evidence.
Suggested criteria
Debby turns a role brief into concrete, checkable criteria — the questions that actually predict whether someone can do the job.
Evidence from anywhere
Repos, design files, case studies, spreadsheets, live sites — whatever form a candidate's best work takes, it attaches to their profile and travels with them.
Ask Debby
Ask about any role or candidate and get an answer grounded in the brief and the submitted work, with the evidence attached.
Here's the quick rundown:
Amara's submission handles the retry edge cases the brief called out, with tests, and her writeup explains the trade-offs.
Two others advanced; the full comparison is attached.
The hiring timeline
Every brief, submission, review, and introduction in one clean vertical timeline — so both sides always know where things stand.
Sofia Rivera submitted a challenge1 hour agoOnboarding flow challenge
Product designer role
Nicole SmithattachedWDesign system v2as evidence5 hours agoWhy teams prefer Debut to resume screens
Real work over keyword matches, evidence over claims, and an agent that explains why someone fits — not just that they applied.
Product preview · Sample data
- Pipeline
- Roles
- Candidates
- Founding Engineer
- Product Designer
- Data Analyst
- Founding engineer brief
- Challenge: onboarding flow
- Work review: ETL pipeline
- Shortlist: design roles
- Intro notes: data analyst
- Portfolio follow-up
- Criteria: growth marketer
Ask about your candidates
- Pipeline
- Roles
- Candidates
- Founding Engineer
- Product Designer
- Data Analyst
- Founding engineer brief
- Challenge: onboarding flow
- Work review: ETL pipeline
- Shortlist: design roles
- Intro notes: data analyst
- Portfolio follow-up
- Criteria: growth marketer
Hiring process- Pipeline
- Roles
- Candidates
- Founding Engineer
- Product Designer
- Data Analyst
- Founding engineer brief
- Challenge: onboarding flow
- Work review: ETL pipeline
- Shortlist: design roles
- Intro notes: data analyst
- Portfolio follow-up
- Criteria: growth marketer
- Pipeline
- Roles
- Candidates
- Founding Engineer
- Product Designer
- Data Analyst
- Founding engineer brief
- Challenge: onboarding flow
- Work review: ETL pipeline
- Shortlist: design roles
- Intro notes: data analyst
- Portfolio follow-up
- Criteria: growth marketer
What Debut stands for
We are too new for testimonials, so here is something better: the principles we are building on, in writing.
Work is evidence
A resume says what someone claims. A repo, a design file, a challenge submission shows how they think, decide, and finish. When the two disagree, we believe the work.
No keyword filters
Nothing on Debut auto-rejects a person for missing a buzzword. Software helps us organize; it does not get to end a conversation on its own.
A person reads everything
While Debut is early, every brief and every submission is reviewed by hand. Debby structures the process; humans make the calls. We'd rather grow slowly than review carelessly.
Challenges respect your time
If a role uses a challenge, it is short, realistic, and mirrors the actual job. No forty-hour take-homes, no spec work dressed up as evaluation.
AI fluency counts for you
How someone works with Claude, Cursor, or a spreadsheet is part of the job now. Using modern tools well is a skill we evaluate, not a shortcut we punish.
Both sides, one agent
Debby holds the context of the role and the candidate, so nothing gets lost between a job post and a first call. The company hears why someone fits. The candidate knows what the role actually needs.
Criteria before candidates
Before anyone is evaluated, the role is turned into concrete, checkable criteria. If we cannot say what strong work looks like, we are not ready to judge anyone against it.
Interviews measure interviews
Whiteboard trivia predicts whiteboard trivia. We look at the thing itself: work that resembles the job someone is being hired to do.
Show, then talk
Introductions on Debut come with the work attached. By the time two people meet, the conversation starts from evidence, not from small talk about a PDF.
Paid on outcomes
Debut earns a success fee when someone is hired. Not for posting roles, not for access, not for volume. Our incentive is a great hire, on both sides.
Honest by default
No invented metrics, no fake logos, no manufactured praise. The sample data in our previews is labeled as sample data. What we ship is what is true.
Early means attentive
Being a young platform is not something we hide. It means senior attention on every role, direct answers, and a process that improves with every single hire.
FAQs
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General
Debut is a proof-of-work hiring platform. Companies brief Debby, our hiring agent, on what they need; candidates introduce themselves with real work; and we match the two on evidence instead of resumes.