We're rewiring how ambition meets opportunity.
Someone, right now, is right for a job they may never get.
Not because they cannot do the work. Their skills are buried in a hiring process built to filter, not find. We knew that feeling, and we decided to change it.
So we built SkillNode. A platform that makes real skills easier to see and the right fit easier to find.
Keegan, Sriharish & Jaidon
Founders of SkillNode
SkillNode
The anti-resume.
- Established
- 2025
- Based in
- Toronto, CA
- Founders
- Three students
- Stage
- Live · beta
- Funding
- Self-funded
Talent, not tactics,
determines opportunity.
Our North Star
What broke us
Every student we knew
was hitting the same walls.
Sent 80+ applications.
Heard back from four. Two were automated rejections.
Did everything the system asked.
Matched the keywords and still got filtered out.
Lost Sundays to ATS robots.
Hours spent guessing what a machine wanted.
Knew we could do the work.
We could not prove it before the interview we never got.
How it started
Three moments.
Then a product.
Summer 2025
We saw the problem firsthand
University students were buried under unverified postings and invisible filters. The gap between talent and opportunity was real, and it was growing.
noreply@company.com
Regarding your application
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, after careful review, we've decided to move forward with other candidates...
Winter 2025
We decided to build the solution
We built SkillNode to connect students with credible opportunities and help them prove their fit before the interview.
What's broken with applying:
- ✓ATS keyword bingo
- ✓Ghost interviews
- -Resume black holes
- -“Who you know”
- ...19 more
Early 2026
We discovered it actually works
When we stopped optimizing the resume and focused on the connection, the problem changed shape. We are just getting started.
$ git init
Initialized empty repository
$ git commit -m "let's go"
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
$ npm run dev
ready http://localhost:3000
$
The three of us
Meet us.
Three students, still in school, building the tool we needed.
What we believe
Three things we hold to,
even when it's hard.
Being great at the work should be enough.
What you can do should matter more than how well you apply. We build every feature to close that gap.
Real skills beat polished resumes.
A resume is a marketing asset. We care about what is underneath, and we built the tools to surface it.
Students deserve better than waiting.
The job search should not feel like shouting into a void. We ship fast because real people are waiting for a fair chance.
If any of that sounded familiar, we built this for you.
SkillNode is free while we're in beta. Take two minutes, build your node, and let your real skills speak for themselves.
If it's broken, tell us. If it works, tell a friend. We're still in school, and we read every email.
Thanks for reading this far.
Keegan, Sriharish & Jaidon