Badge gives an AI agent that collects peer reviews to build proof of work. For job seekers - The agent connects to your contacts, requests anonymous reviews from your past colleagues, and builds a verified, portable trust score. score. For hiring managers - Badge gives you a 30 second reference checks on candidates, collecting authentic feedback from their actual coworkers to replace unreliable, AI-generated resumes and LinkedIn Recommendations.
I'm Lokesh. Over the last 15 years, I've hired hundreds of engineers and interviewed even more candidates.
One thing kept bothering me.
Resumes tell me what someone claims they did. They rarely tell me how they actually worked.
Today that's an even bigger problem because AI can generate polished resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles in minutes. Every candidate looks impressive on paper, making it harder than ever for recruiters to separate signal from noise.
At the same time, professionals have another problem.
The people who have actually worked with them know they're great, but that proof stays buried inside company 360° feedback systems, Slack messages, or forgotten performance reviews. Every new job search starts from scratch.
That's why I built Badge.
Badge uses AI agents to collect anonymous peer reviews from people you've actually worked with and turns them into a portable proof of work that recruiters can trust.
What makes Badge different?
Unlike LinkedIn recommendations...
Reviews are anonymous, so people are far more honest.
AI agents guide reviewers with targeted questions, making reviews detailed instead of generic.
Reviews are verified through work email verification (or employment verification), reducing fake or exchanged recommendations.
Every review contributes to a Trust Score that summarizes how you collaborate, communicate, and deliver, not just what skills you list on a resume.
For professionals
Instead of asking colleagues to write public recommendations, simply invite them through Badge.
In just a few minutes you can:
✅ Build a verified Trust Score ✅ Showcase real proof of work ✅ Share your Badge on your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio or email signature ✅ Grow your professional reputation over time as more verified reviews come in
For recruiters & hiring managers
Instead of relying only on resumes or spending hours doing reference checks...
You can quickly understand how someone performs in real teams.
Badge helps surface:
• Communication style • Collaboration • Ownership • Reliability • Strengths • Areas for improvement
Think of it as a much richer hiring signal before investing hours in interviews or reference calls.
Who is Badge for?
👩💻 Software engineers 🎨 Designers 📈 Product managers 📢 Marketers 🎯 Sales professionals 🧑💼 Consultants & freelancers 🏢 Anyone whose reputation is built through the people they've worked with
If you'd like to try it: Paste a LinkedIn URL or email to check a candidate's reviews or build your professional reputation by giving your first review. Here’s the link >> https://getbadge.app/ or if you want to look for proof of work for your next hire here is the link >> https://getbadge.in/recruiter/
I'll be here throughout launch day to answer every question, collect feedback, and discuss where we're taking Badge next.
The work-email verification anchor is the right call — keeps reviewers accountable without exposing them to politics. Curious: how do you handle the case where all of someone's reviewers come from a single employer? Does the trust score surface any signal about review-pool diversity?
Continuous peer review as proof-of-work is a clever inversion of the reference letter. What stops it drifting into LinkedIn-endorsement inflation where everyone five-stars each other? Genuinely curious how the incentive design handles that.
One thing worth stress-testing: Raaghav mentioned a reviewer's own score rises and they get a 24h recruiter boost for leaving a review. Incentivized reviews are exactly how vouch systems get gamed. Two people who both want that boost can quietly agree to review each other well, and anonymity means no accountability for the puffery. Org-email verification proves they worked together, not that the praise is honest. Do you down-weight when a pair reviews each other close in time, or look for reciprocal clusters?
Love this: proof of work instead of resume claims. Feedback that's already out there (Slack threads, old reviews) just never gets surfaced. Curious how you keep people motivated to actually respond once it's anonymous. Congrats on the launch!
What prevents fake or biased reviews from affecting someone's Trust Score?
Super interesting concept. Is there an option to provide feedback publicly?
The anonymous review angle is really clever. One thing I'm curious about is portability. Do you see Trust Scores eventually becoming something ATS platforms can pull directly, kind of like a credit score?
Congrats on the launch!
The timing for this is right. I have watched the resume lose its signal value this year (200+ applications per role, most AI-polished, all reading identical), and the honest answer to what replaces it has always been some form of verifiable work. Peer reviews collected by agents is an interesting take on that. One question: how do you keep the peer reviews themselves from becoming the next gameable artifact, once people know an agent is collecting them?
Anonymous review part is really interesting. It reminds me of the good old times, when people used to comment on your wall anonymously. Would a person be able to share a link on their linked profile or like in a post for requesting reviews from all their colleagues ? Or does it have to be a single link for an individual?
Really like this, turning verified peer feedback into a portable trust score flips the whole resume game, since anonymous reviews from real coworkers are much harder to fake than a polished LinkedIn profile.
@raaghav_naraayan_m_v pairing anonymous submission with work-email verification is smart to fix the honesty problem LinkedIn recommendations have. but how does that work for freelancers and consultants who move between short-term clients rather than a single employer? curious whether you can build a meaningful Trust Score without one fixed email
The trust score concept is solid, and seeing real feedback pulled from past coworkers feels way more honest than polished LinkedIn recommendations. Curious how it handles people who don't respond promptly.
Really interesting take the shift from generic praise to verified peer reviews makes a lot of sense.
Curious: how do you handle the cold-start problem for someone brand new with zero prior colleagues to vouch for them? That's usually the hardest part in any trust/reputation system.
Connected my LinkedIn and got three reviews back within a day, all from people I hadn't talked to in years. The trust score concept feels actually useful instead of gimmicky.
Really liked how it just messages your old coworkers quietly in the background and you get a trust score without having to chase anyone down yourself. Felt less awkward than asking for references directly.
How does Badge verify that peer reviews are authentic and representative while preventing biased, coordinated, or fraudulent feedback from influencing a candidate's trust score?
Curious how it handles the awkward part where old coworkers ignore the request, does the trust score just tank or does it factor in response rates somehow?
background checks / references are notoriously unreliable. Stale, outdated, fake, shallow etc. So its definitly a pain to try and solve. I think maybe connecting it more to linkedin could be useful. Like a review from a strong linkedin profile goes a lot longer than 10 goood reviews from noob profiles etc.
how does badge handle situations where someone’s past coworkers just dont respond, or worse, quietly say something not so great - does that drag the score down unfairly?
About Badge on Product Hunt
“AI agents collect peer reviews to generate proof of work”
Badge launched on Product Hunt on July 7th, 2026 and earned 402 upvotes and 239 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Badge gives an AI agent that collects peer reviews to build proof of work. For job seekers - The agent connects to your contacts, requests anonymous reviews from your past colleagues, and builds a verified, portable trust score. score. For hiring managers - Badge gives you a 30 second reference checks on candidates, collecting authentic feedback from their actual coworkers to replace unreliable, AI-generated resumes and LinkedIn Recommendations.
Badge was featured in Hiring (15.4k followers), Productivity (655.5k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (472.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 257.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Badge?
Badge was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Lokesh. Over the last 15 years, I've hired hundreds of engineers and interviewed even more candidates.
One thing kept bothering me.
Resumes tell me what someone claims they did. They rarely tell me how they actually worked.
Today that's an even bigger problem because AI can generate polished resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles in minutes. Every candidate looks impressive on paper, making it harder than ever for recruiters to separate signal from noise.
At the same time, professionals have another problem.
The people who have actually worked with them know they're great, but that proof stays buried inside company 360° feedback systems, Slack messages, or forgotten performance reviews. Every new job search starts from scratch.
That's why I built Badge.
Badge uses AI agents to collect anonymous peer reviews from people you've actually worked with and turns them into a portable proof of work that recruiters can trust.
What makes Badge different?
Unlike LinkedIn recommendations...
Reviews are anonymous, so people are far more honest.
AI agents guide reviewers with targeted questions, making reviews detailed instead of generic.
Reviews are verified through work email verification (or employment verification), reducing fake or exchanged recommendations.
Every review contributes to a Trust Score that summarizes how you collaborate, communicate, and deliver, not just what skills you list on a resume.
For professionals
Instead of asking colleagues to write public recommendations, simply invite them through Badge.
In just a few minutes you can:
✅ Build a verified Trust Score
✅ Showcase real proof of work
✅ Share your Badge on your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio or email signature
✅ Grow your professional reputation over time as more verified reviews come in
For recruiters & hiring managers
Instead of relying only on resumes or spending hours doing reference checks...
You can quickly understand how someone performs in real teams.
Badge helps surface:
• Communication style
• Collaboration
• Ownership
• Reliability
• Strengths
• Areas for improvement
Think of it as a much richer hiring signal before investing hours in interviews or reference calls.
Who is Badge for?
👩💻 Software engineers
🎨 Designers
📈 Product managers
📢 Marketers
🎯 Sales professionals
🧑💼 Consultants & freelancers
🏢 Anyone whose reputation is built through the people they've worked with
If you'd like to try it: Paste a LinkedIn URL or email to check a candidate's reviews or build your professional reputation by giving your first review. Here’s the link >> https://getbadge.app/ or if you want to look for proof of work for your next hire here is the link >> https://getbadge.in/recruiter/
I'll be here throughout launch day to answer every question, collect feedback, and discuss where we're taking Badge next.
Thank you for checking us out! 🙌