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Stories from the people getting drafted, and updates from the team building The AI Talent Draft.
- Builder's Guide
AI Cost vs Employees: Why Builders Win - Provn
AI doesn’t neatly replace employees when token costs, agent workflows, retries, review cycles, and shaky judgment turn automation into its own cost center. The real advantage at scale isn’t fewer people. It’s better builders who use AI with discipline.
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How to Get Hired as a Builder in 2026 | Provn AI
A practical hiring framework for builders, drawn from four Provn hiring leader interviews: show your work, explain your judgment, and break down live problems clearly.
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How to Get Hired as an Early Career Builder in 2026
Early-career hiring is opening again for builders who can show shipped work, AI judgment, and clear evidence of how they think.
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Sandeep Krishnamurthy on recombinant AI fluency
Our fifth and final Talent Scout webinar: Cal Poly Pomona’s Sandeep Krishnamurthy on AI as a presence rather than a tool, the shift from certifications to production, and how a student proves any of it in 2026.
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Jeff Kunins on product sense and building for a user you’ll never be
Our fourth Talent Scout webinar: Axon’s CPO and CTO Jeff Kunins on why you can’t dogfood a body camera, the one skill that survives agentic coding, and how he rebuilt the interview loop around it.
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Neal Zuckerman on what a resume can’t prove
Our third Talent Scout webinar: 20 years of hiring at BCG, the five traits that actually matter, and why a piece of paper can’t show any of them.
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Ganesh on builders, agent engineers, and proof of work
Our second Talent Scout webinar: arrivia’s Ganesh Baskaran on agentic reorgs, what a builder actually is, and the two traits that decide who he hires.
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Niki on AI slop and the broken hiring market
Our first Talent Scout webinar: why every 2026 job posting gets 500–1,000 applicants — and how scout, combine, draft fixes it.
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Introducing the Provn Talent Scout webinar series
Five live conversations with the people on the other side of the hiring table. Performance over pedigree, proof over polish.
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Hiring is broken for everyone. Today, we’re doing something about it.
The Spring 2026 Talent Draft is live as of this morning.
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Alex at Brilliant Earth
How her new boss opened the first interview: "I feel like I know you already."
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