Real eyes
both sides.

There used to be a way to tell. A cover letter that knew the company. A resume tuned to the role. A reply that came back the same week. None of it was a guarantee, but it was signal — it told you someone had paid attention.

AI killed the signal. Candidates now fire off a hundred applications in an afternoon without reading any of the job descriptions. Hiring managers auto-reject a thousand resumes before lunch without reading any of them either. The motions still look right. The signal is gone.

Now both sides are guessing. Real interest looks the same as fake interest. A serious applicant looks the same as a bot. The only way out is for both sides to put something real on the line — something that can’t be faked, because it costs money.

Candidates put down a small refundable deposit to apply. Around $20 on a $100k role. Think of it as a deposit that only costs you when it produces value. If the employer interviews you, the deposit covers the cost of their real time on your application — and you’ll typically earn credits that more than cover it. If they reject you with useful feedback, you pay half. If they ghost you or send a form rejection, you get every penny back plus Ctrlsee credits funded by the penalty that employer pays for wasting people’s time.

Employers pay fees that grow the longer a posting is open and the more applicants they ignore. A focused role closed in 10 days costs almost nothing. A rogue posting collecting 500 applicants over two months gets expensive fast. Companies that hire someone or close their posting on time get most of their fees refunded. Employers also earn a small credit for every real-reason rejection they write.

Interviewed-but-not-hired candidates earn a share of the per-posting pool — often more than the original deposit, recognizing that they invested real time and didn’t get the job.

The worse the employer behaves, the more candidates earn.