About PureSignal
Recruitment has a truth problem, for candidates.
Recruitment has a truth problem, for recruiters.
In 2026, the professional hiring market runs on fiction. Candidates use AI to manufacture CVs they've never lived. Recruiters use AI to generate job descriptions for roles that don't exist. Agencies charge 20% to pass unverified applications through an unverified filter. And everyone involved (candidates, hiring managers, recruiters) knows the system is broken but has no alternative.
We built PureSignal because we think the answer isn't more AI. It's better signal. A way to verify that the experience on a CV was actually lived, that a job description describes a real need, and that both sides of the market are held to the same standard of honesty.
The best candidates shouldn't lose to the best liars. The best employers shouldn't pay a premium for uncertainty.
Who we are
Thirty years of building things that work.
PureSignal is built by DSC, a company with a three-decade track record in high-quality technology solutions. Products we've created are used by millions of people worldwide. We're not a startup hoping the model works. We're engineers who've shipped at scale, applying that experience to a market that badly needs it.
We're independent. We're privately held. We don't optimise for clicks, engagement, or transaction volume. We optimise for matches that actually work, because that's the only thing that creates lasting value for both sides of the market.
What we do for candidates
Your time matters. Stop wasting it.
The current system asks you to spray 200 applications into a void and hope that a keyword bot picks you out. You hear nothing back. You never learn why. Meanwhile, someone with a fictional CV and a better prompt gets the interview you deserved.
PureSignal changes this. You tell us exactly what you're looking for: role, location, work arrangement, salary, the things that actually matter to you. We match you to genuine opportunities that fit your precise requirements. Real matches, not keyword coincidences, delivered to your inbox when you want them.
Your CV gets analysed before a recruiter ever sees it. You see how it reads, where the gaps are, what might raise questions. No more guessing why you're being filtered out. And when you complete the Signal Pulse, a short, unscripted conversation about your actual experience, your profile carries an independently verified authenticity score. If you've lived the experience, you prove it once. Then it works for you across every application.
No more cover letters tailored to each role. No more competing with AI-generated fiction. Your verified signal does the work.
Free for candidates. Always. Not a trial. Not a feature-limited tier. The full candidate toolset (CV analysis, integrity validation, requirement matching, job market monitoring) is free and stays free.
What we do for recruiters
Hiring is a series of judgment calls made under uncertainty. PureSignal gives you better evidence at every one.
Write tighter job descriptions and analyse them before you publish. Take applications through your portal, a shareable link, or a dedicated email, without a per-applicant cap.
Every CV that enters your pipeline runs through forensic integrity analysis: timeline collisions, role inflation, pedigree drift, AI-generated content detection. The Fact-Mapper aligns each application to your actual job requirements, evidence to need, not keywords to keywords. Validate experience live, with AI-cheating detection, so the person in front of you matches the CV in your inbox.
Each candidate carries a Pure Signal score: a composite authenticity and fit rating that tells you, at a glance, who deserves a closer look.
Free to start, three jobs, 30 days, all features. After that, a flat monthly fee. No per-hire commission. No percentage of salary. Predictable cost, sharper hiring.
Why we can charge less
The economics are simple.
An agency assigns a human to do what software can do faster, more consistently, and at scale. An agency consultant might manage 15–20 roles at a time and rely on their network, their judgement, and a few phone calls to screen candidates. That's expensive because it's manual, and inconsistent because it depends on the individual.
PureSignal's Integrity Engine analyses a CV in seconds. The Signal Pulse verifies operational fluency in a single session. The Fact-Mapper produces evidence-based alignment between candidate and role in real time. None of this requires a human intermediary. The quality is higher because it's systematic, and the cost is lower because it scales.
We're not anti-agency. Good agencies do genuinely useful work, particularly for executive search and highly specialised roles. But for the vast majority of professional hiring, the agency model is a £12,000 solution to a problem that can be solved better for a fraction of that.
What we're not
We don't fit in an existing box.
Not an agency. Agencies charge a percentage for acting as a middleman. We verify integrity and let both sides connect directly. No commission, no gatekeeping.
Not a job board. Job boards aggregate volume and sell visibility. We don't charge to post or to apply. We surface quality: verified candidates matched to genuine roles.
Not an ATS. Applicant tracking systems manage workflow. We provide the integrity layer that sits before and alongside your existing ATS, not a replacement for it.
Why free for candidates
Charging candidates to prove they're honest is perverse. The people who suffer most from the current system, experienced professionals being outcompeted by AI-generated fiction, shouldn't have to pay to fix a problem they didn't create.
Free candidate tools also solve a practical problem: the platform only works if verified candidates are on it. Removing every barrier to entry means the talent pool grows as fast as the product is useful. And because every candidate tool delivers standalone value (CV analysis, integrity validation, market monitoring, requirement matching) people stay because it's worth using, not because they're locked in.
The name
PureSignal. In engineering, "pure signal" is the information you actually want, stripped of noise, distortion, and interference. That's what we do for hiring. We remove the noise (the fabricated CVs, the keyword games, the ghosting, the guesswork) and surface the signal that matters: can this person actually do this job?
How we operate
Four commitments.
Integrity first. Every feature we build is tested against one question: does this make the hiring process more honest? If it doesn't, we don't ship it.
Both sides equal. Candidates and recruiters are held to the same standards. Mandatory feedback. Mutual accountability. Neither side gets to ghost the other.
Efficiency over engagement. We don't want you spending more time on PureSignal. We want you spending less time hiring, and getting better results when you do. For candidates: less time applying, more time interviewing for roles that actually fit. For recruiters: less time screening, more time with candidates who are genuinely qualified.
Earned trust. We don't ask you to trust our algorithms. We show you the evidence, explain our reasoning, and let you decide. The verification is transparent, not a black box.
The long game
A market that gets better, not louder.
The endgame is a virtuous cycle. The best candidates come to PureSignal because it's where the genuine opportunities are: roles that match their actual requirements, at companies that have to respond. The best employers come because it's where the verified talent is: people whose experience has been independently validated, not just self-reported.
Each side's presence makes the platform more valuable to the other. Not through network-effect gimmicks, but because quality attracts quality.
We're not there yet. Phase 1 is about proving that each tool is useful on its own: that candidates get real matches, real CV insight, and real market intelligence before a recruiter ever enters the picture, and that recruiters get real integrity data before they invest in an interview. The network effect comes later, and it comes because both sides chose to stay.
See for yourself
Free for candidates. Always. Not a trial, not a feature-limited tier. The full candidate toolset is free and stays free.
Free screening tools for small companies. Affordable subscriptions for everyone else. No per-hire commission, no percentage of salary.