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VERA

Verified · Explainable · Responsible Assessment

An honest account of building an AI hiring assessment platform from scratch — the architecture decisions, the things that broke, the research behind the fairness philosophy, and why this product exists at all. Written as it gets built.

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01
Why I Built VERA: The 2AM Rejection That Started Everything
The origin story — an unexplained automated rejection, and what it revealed about how broken AI hiring tools really are.
Jul 3 2026 ↗
02
VERA's Architecture: FastAPI, Gemini 2.5, and the Scoring Pipeline
How the backend is structured — the two-pass LLM framework generator, the scoring pipeline, and why Gemini 2.5 Pro handles assessment while Flash handles generation.
Jul 7 2026 ↗
03
The 429 Wall: Hidden Regional Quotas, a Data Residency Tradeoff, and the 16-Second UX Ceiling
VERA's production environment ground to a halt mid-interview. The culprit was a regional quota we couldn't even see.
Jul 8 2026 ↗