| Claims |
Standardized, structured statements about a role or candidate (e.g., “must have X,” “has done Y,” “prefers Z”), designed to be comparable and computable across many dimensions. |
| Claim-Based Fit Modeling |
Natural-language driven process that collects information about roles (from companies) and skills/experience (from candidates), then produces explicit, structured “claims” about requirements, constraints, preferences, and evidence. |
| Conversational Context Exploration |
A Q&A interaction where someone interrogates an agent (role or profile) using the modeled claims and authored context; when the system can’t answer confidently, it generates follow-up questions for the author to fill gaps. |
| Agent (Role / Profile) |
A public, shareable, AI interface backed by a role or candidate’s modeled claims and context, accessible via a unique URL and continuously improved via clarifying loops. |
| Context Interrogation |
The act of asking targeted questions against an agent’s modeled context to resolve ambiguity asynchronously before spending time on live interviews. |
| Qualified Match Brief |
Ibby’s standardized, anonymized packet describing a candidate or role, surfacing the most relevant claims and context needed to decide whether to proceed. |
| Shortlist |
A small set of qualified Match Briefs (e.g., 3–7) delivered for a specific role, intentionally constrained to avoid volume-driven sifting. |
| Affirm Interest |
A deliberate system action indicating intent to proceed on a Match Brief; when both parties affirm, Ibby de-anonymizes and shares contact details to initiate scheduling. |
| Timing Neutrality |
The principle that match visibility and outcomes should not depend on who arrived first; candidates are evaluated consistently over time rather than rewarded for speed. |
| Signal Density |
A measure of how complete and decision-ready a role or candidate’s structured claims are across key dimensions, enabling reliable matching and filtering. |
| Role archetype |
a standardized role category defined by shared evaluation dimensions and a shared candidate supply pool (e.g., “Senior backend/full-stack engineer at post-seed B2B SaaS”), used for liquidity and activation thresholds. |