Founding member waitlist is open

Laid off isn't the end of the story.
It's where yours starts.

Between roles, quietly exploring a move, or entering the field: build a profile that proves what you can do, and get discovered by businesses hiring right now. Tech first; every profession welcome.

I'm ready for what's nextI'm hiring talent

Building something instead? Recruit your team on ALO ARK →

What a member profile proves: evidence over claims. This one is the founder's own, live on the platform today, sealed reference included.

On TrueUp's tracker, more than 187,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 so far, against more than 245,000 across all of 2025, and if the current daily pace holds, 2026 lands near 265,000 by year's end.
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Source: TrueUp tech layoffs tracker, September 2026. The year-end figure is pace arithmetic from its current daily rate, not a forecast.
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Source: Greenhouse and Glassdoor analyses of ghost job postings.
1 in 5 listings is a ghostfake or long-dead job posts waste months; ALO ARK has no listings, only real, available people
300 founding placesa hundred professionals, a hundred builders, a hundred businesses, numbered forever
Step one: know your runway.Before the job search comes the money question: how many months am I working with? Pick your city, put in your real numbers, and get the answer in two minutes. Free, no sign-up, no email wall. Then come back for step two: where you land next.
Open the Runway Calculator →

Money never buys visibility.

Paid tiers add tools, never ranking, never position. Permanent, and written into how search works.

Evidence over claims.

No resume theater. Field notes, real work, verified vouches: a profile that shows, not says.

No judgment gates.

Nobody reviews you in. Your effort is the only bar: a complete profile earns standing here.

How it works

Three sides. One handshake.

Professionals prove what they can do. Builders assemble the team around what they're building. Businesses discover people ready to move.

For professionals Free to join

You bring the experience. We make sure the right people see the proof.

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Start your profile in five minutesThen build your evidence at your pace: field notes (hard questions, answered in your own words), work samples, verified references, a video intro if you want one.
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Complete it, earn PlusA fully built profile unlocks the Plus tier free while you search. Founding members lock in six months.
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Find each other. Get discovered.Search the member directory to team up and trade leads, while verified businesses reach out through ALO ARK. Your contact info stays private until you say yes.

Students are welcome from day one: a free student tier with vetted mentors, practice interviews, and First Season by ALO ARK, so they finish school with a profile full of proof, not an empty resume.

For builders The builder's side

Here to build? List the project, name the roles, and recruit your team from inside the community, whether building is the whole plan or the next move.

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List the projectDescribe what you're building and where it's headed. Your idea becomes a destination members can find.
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Declare the deal upfrontPaid, equity, volunteer, or exploratory: every listing states its arrangement. No free-work bait.
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Recruit on evidenceApplications arrive with full evidence profiles, so you choose teammates on proof, not promises.

Student builders are welcome too: join a team or list your own project, with every arrangement declared up front. Shipped work becomes proof on your profile.

For businesses Hire direct

A network of proven, available-now professionals. No recruiter fees, wherever you hire from, even if the right person means relocating them.

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Verify your companyA quick company-email check keeps the network clean and trusted.
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Search real evidenceFilter by skill, seniority, and availability, then hear how candidates think, see their work, and read verified references before you ever reach out.
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Connect and hireRequest an intro through the platform and talk directly. Full-time, contract, or project-based.
The student tier · launches with the platformFree while you study, evidenced by the time you finish.

Free while enrolled. A dedicated student tier at no cost for as long as you're enrolled, enrollment verified. Full membership, student standing.

First Season by ALO ARK. A guided first season that turns coursework, projects, and first work terms into sealed evidence, so you finish school with a profile full of proof, not an empty resume.

Vetted mentors. Experienced members volunteer to mentor, each approved through a vetting process. Mentoring earns standing, never ranking.

Practice interviews. Rehearse on the same structured, rubric-scored engine businesses will use, before the sitting that counts.

Student builders are welcome in Build Teams too. To take a place, join the waitlist and choose "I'm a student, still studying."

One handshake, close up

Scroll through it once

The whole machine, played out between two cards. Nobody in this scene is named, because the scene is yours to step into.

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A profile is finished

A professional sets down the work they do, how they like to work, and when they can start. The card fills in, and the availability light goes on.

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The evidence arrives sealed

A reference is sealed by its giver and verified through the giver's own email domain, never typed by the profile owner. A work sample and field notes settle in beside it.

03

A business searches

A verified business asks for the skill, the place, and available now. The shelf answers with people who are actually reachable, in an order money cannot move.

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An introduction is requested

The business reaches across the middle. The professional sees who is asking and why. Contact stays private: a masked address, nothing revealed yet.

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Acceptance is the handshake

The professional says yes, and only then is contact shared. Both sides chose this, so the first conversation starts warm. Evidence in, noise out, one handshake at a time.

The product

This is what evidence looks like

Every capture below is the live product; real screens from the founder's own account and the member directory.

The evidence strip. A profile opens with what's real: sealed references, field notes, work samples. Counted, not claimed.
A sealed reference. Written and confirmed by the person giving it, from their own inbox, domain shown. The profile owner can't edit a word.
A field note. A hard question answered in the member's own words. This is what judgment looks like on a page; no resume carries it.
Work samples. Real work, linked and described. The first sample listed is this page itself, live and taking signups.
The passport card. The record is yours: download it, share only the sections you choose, and revoke any share in one tap.
The directory. Search by function, availability, and work style. Ordered by recent activity, and nobody can pay to appear here more often.

Tap any capture to read it at full size.

Field notes

Hard questions, answered in your own words

Resumes list keywords. Field notes capture judgment: how you think, decide, and repair. Three of the questions in the live bank, exactly as members see them:

From the question bank

“Describe a time you disagreed with the room. What did you do, and how did it end?”

From the question bank

“Tell us about a project that failed. What would you do differently today?”

From the question bank

“What's the most useful piece of criticism you've ever received, and what did you do with it?”

A staff engineer and a sales lead answer the same question from different worlds, and that difference is exactly what a hiring reader needs to see. Members answer in writing, at their own pace, and pick the questions where they have a real story.

Build Teams

Build the project. Recruit the team.

The builder's side of ALO ARK: members with something to build list the project and recruit the team from inside the community, and members who haven't found the right role build one instead. A project here is not a post on a board; it is a running build.

List the project

Describe what you're building and where it's headed. Your idea becomes a destination other members can find.

Name the roles, declare the deal

Every listing states its arrangement upfront: paid, equity, volunteer, or exploratory. No free-work bait.

Recruit on evidence

Applications arrive with full evidence profiles, so you choose teammates on proof, not promises.

Illustrative exampleLedgerline · a cash-flow companion for trades contractors

Journeyman electricians run six-figure books in a notes app. Ledgerline turns invoices, holdbacks, and seasonal gaps into one honest picture. Listed by a member between roles, building instead of waiting.

The team, wired
Ledgerlinethe project
FounderListed by a memberbuilding between roles
FilledFull-stack developerPaid contract
OpenProduct designerEquity
OpenGrowth partnerRevenue share, exploratory
The plan, runningThe same project as a running plan: five pieces of the build on a timeline, each tied to a role, with a shipped milestone sealed as evidence on every contributor's profile.

Every listing declares its arrangement up front, and applications arrive as full evidence profiles. This example is illustrative; the first real listings belong to founding members.

Inside every live projectThe board is where a project starts. The engine is why it finishes.

One workspace. The team, the roles, the conversation, and the plan live in one place from day one, on the same rails members already use to meet and message.

The plan on a timeline. Milestones sit on a Gantt view, each tied to a role, so motion is visible, ownership is named, and a stall has nowhere to hide.

Milestones become proof. Ship a piece of the build and it lands as evidence on every contributor's profile, with the project page carrying the record.

Only live projects. Every new project runs free and fully equipped for its first thirty days; keeping it on the board is a commitment its owner renews. Nothing here sits abandoned, so every open role is real.

And the shelf keeps growing: the tools a build needs on its way to market, from company registration to first revenue, arrive inside the same workspace.

Joining Build Teams is free for every member. Keeping a listed project on the board is a paid commitment, which is why everything in Build Teams is live and purposeful. ALO ARK is the engine behind every build; the project and the team are yours.

For businesses

Hiring without the pile

The standard funnel wastes everyone's time on both ends. This one starts from evidence and ends in a handshake. Search people, not job applications.

The way it works everywhere else
  1. Post the job ad
  2. Five hundred applications arrive, most from people who are not really available
  3. Keyword screening throws out good people with bad resumes
  4. A recruiter closes the gap for a fifth of first-year salary
The way it works on ALO ARK
  1. Search people who are actually available, by skill and location, including those open to relocating
  2. Read the evidence: field notes, work samples, a video introduction
  3. Check references sealed by the people who gave them
  4. Request an introduction; contact details move when the member accepts
What you get, plainly
  • Find talent without posting a job.
  • Search people who have already said they're open to opportunity.
  • Read how they think, in their own words, before any interview.
  • See references sealed by the people who gave them, before reaching out.
  • Contact only the people you actually want to meet.
Arriving with employer accessThe structured interview, owned on both sides

For Professionals. Members who choose to can sit one structured, rubric-scored interview and keep the result as sealed evidence: the rubric is public, the answers are theirs, and they decide who sees it. Sat once, shared with any business they accept.

For Businesses. Read a real interview before you ever book one. Then run your own: build a structured interview for your role on the same engine and administer it to candidates who accept, with the results held by both sides. Vetting you can inspect, never a black-box score.

Arriving with employer accessThe hiring brief: verified intent, never a posting

For Professionals. Every opportunity that finds you on ALO ARK is one somebody genuinely intends to fill. A brief expires after about thirty days unless the business reconfirms it, so nothing stale ever reaches you.

For Businesses. Employer access means declaring a requisition for a real open position, not simply creating a job listing. You write a private hiring brief: the role, its reporting level, whether the position is approved and budgeted, the compensation range, location and arrangement, start date, the capabilities required, who is hiring, and when you expect to decide. It never becomes a public listing. ALO ARK reads it and surfaces the members whose evidence and availability fit, and the introductions begin from there.

The commercial terms, stated plainly

Professionals join free, with paid tiers that add tools rather than visibility. Businesses pay for access: subscription plans, plus a flat fee per confirmed hire. No percentage of salary, and no pay to rank, on either side of the table. Plans and prices are announced before employer access opens.

Join the waitlist as a business →
Why ALO ARK

Built for this moment, and here's the mechanism

Layoff trackers count the numbers. ALO ARK is for the people behind them. Every promise below is shown with its machinery, live in code today, not a roadmap.

Availability-first

Every profile is someone genuinely open to opportunity, and availability is a real state, not a stale checkbox. Profiles that go quiet hide themselves automatically; activity restores them.

Available nowlast confirmed 4 days agoOpen to conversationsNot availablegone quiet? the profile steps out of view until its owner is back

Evidence, not claims

Field notes, real work samples, and references sealed by the people who gave them: from their own inbox, email domain shown, withdrawable at any time.

✓sealed by its giver, never typed by the profile owner · verified via their own email domain

Money never buys visibility

Paid tiers add tools, never ranking. Search runs on your evidence, your filters, and confirmed availability, never on payment.

paid tier
the order never moves for money; a paid tier changes the toolbar, not the list

Quiet by design

No feed, no engagement games, no notification storms, quiet hours built in. Exploring while employed? Name who shouldn't find you and your profile leaves their view entirely.

hidden from: yourco.comno result · no count · no "hidden" placeholder

Privacy by default

Businesses are verified before they can search or contact anyone; no recruiter or staffing agency accounts. Your contact details move only when you accept an introduction.

•••••@•••••→shared when you accept

Evidence Passport

Your verified record, owned by you: download it as a document and as data, share it through private links that carry only the sections you choose, and see every time one is opened. Every passport share can be revoked in one tap. And it grows with you: every new seal, field note, and work sample is yours the moment it lands.

aloark.com/passport/••••••→revoked · dead that instanteach link carries only the sections you chose · every open lands in a ledger only you see

For every stage

Between roles, quietly exploring a move, or entering the field, with target locations and remote preference stated, so "would you move for the right role?" is answered before anyone asks it.

Between rolesQuietly exploringEntering the fieldAnywhere in CanadaOpen to international relocation
Straight answers

The fair objections

If you're skeptical, you're who this was built for. Four objections, answered plainly.

"Isn't this just another LinkedIn?"

LinkedIn is a feed you perform on. ALO ARK has no feed, no followers, and no engagement mechanics: it's a bank of evidence with three doors: get found, find work, build a team.

"Do employers actually post jobs here?"

No, and that's deliberate. Job listings produced the pile: five hundred applications into a void. Here, verified businesses search people who are actually available and request an introduction, and you decide. Employer access opens at Phase III, once there are enough members here to be worth searching, and founding businesses are in line for it now.

"Can anyone pay to appear first?"

No. Money never buys visibility on ALO ARK. Paid tiers add tools, not ranking.

"Do recruiters end up with my contact details?"

Recruiter and staffing agency accounts are excluded from the launch scope entirely. Your contact details sit behind your consent, they move only when you accept an introduction. And quiet search goes further: name the companies, domains, and people who shouldn't find you, and they don't.

The path

Where this goes from here

Phase IThe founding registers

The waitlist is open now, and early movers claim the founding registers inside it: three registers of one hundred each, first access when doors open, and a voice in what gets built.

Phase IIMember beta · this fall

Founding members enter first, onboarded personally by the founder, and build their evidence profiles: field notes, work samples, sealed references, Build Teams.

Phase IIIEmployer access

Verified businesses come in once member density makes the search worth running. The structured interview arrives with them: candidate-owned, rubric-scored vetting evidence. Quality first, then scale.

Member beta opens this fall. Employer access is earned, not scheduled; it opens when there are enough members to be worth searching. Founding members hear first, in their inbox.

Founding members

Be in the first hundred of your register

First access when doors openOnboarded personally by the founderA verified record you own: download it, share it on your terms, take it with youFounding badgeA voice in what ALO ARK becomesComplete your profile, get the Plus tier free for a limited time

Three founding registers, and each fills once: a hundred professionals, a hundred builders, a hundred businesses. Every founding member keeps a numbered place in their register, № 001–100, forever. And what you claim here is an Evidence Passport, not a profile: your verified record, yours to download, share, and revoke from the first day.

Businesses verifiedReferences sealed by their giversAvailability kept freshContact private until you accept

01You
02Direction
03Your founding place

Free to join. No spam, just your invite when doors open. We store your name and email to manage the waitlist. Privacy

Sian Reid, founder of ALO ARK
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I know the walk to that office. I've been called in, taken through the motions, and heard the words "we're letting you go." The anxiety and the disbelief are real. And I've watched them hit people I respect, twice, even three times in two years.

So I built the thing I wished had existed on those days. That is ALO ARK, a bank of real talent, proven by real work, where professionals in motion find each other, get found, and if the right door doesn't open, build one together. Here's to every success story that starts here… Read the full letter →

Sian Reid, Founder · Message me directly →

Sian spent his career in entrepreneurship and Canadian banking, in the latter most recently at Royal Bank of Canada, and has been on both sides of career disruption: hiring, being hired, rebuilding, and starting again. His current work is designing, writing, and building ALO ARK.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers

When do doors open?

Member beta opens this fall, and the waitlist is the way in. Invites arrive by email in the order the line formed: founding members first, in register order, then the rest of the waitlist in the order they joined.

What does it cost?

Joining, and earning Plus. Joining is free. Fully complete your profile and you earn the Plus tier free for a limited time while you search: renewed monthly by staying active, for a set number of months locked in when you join. Founding members lock in six; everyone after gets the term shown at signup. Students hold a dedicated free tier, enrollment verified, for as long as they study.

The paid side. Paid tiers run $6.99 to $24.99 a month, starting at less than two coffees with identity verification included, and they add tools, never visibility. Businesses pay for search access.

I'm a student. What do I get?

A dedicated free tier from day one, at no cost for as long as you're enrolled, enrollment verified. It carries First Season by ALO ARK, a guided first season that turns coursework, projects, and first work terms into sealed evidence; vetted mentors, experienced members approved through a vetting process; and practice interviews on the same structured engine businesses use. Student builders can join Build Teams as well. You finish school with a profile full of proof, not an empty resume.

How is this different from LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a claims-based profile, i.e. what you say about yourself. ALO ARK is evidence-based: field notes (hard questions answered in your own words), real work samples, references verified by the people who gave them. No feed, no engagement games, no ghost listings. And two things will never happen here: resume theater, and paying for placement.

Who can see my profile?

You decide: visible to the whole network, to verified businesses only, or hidden while you build. Your email and phone are never shown; intro requests come through ALO ARK until you choose to connect.

I wasn't laid off. Can I join?

Yes. ALO ARK is for professionals in motion: between roles, quietly exploring your next move while employed, or entering the workforce for the first time. If that's you, you belong.

Do you have job listings?

No, and that's deliberate. Roughly one in five job posts on the big platforms is a "ghost", per Greenhouse and Glassdoor analyses, these are never meant to be filled, or are long dead. Four in ten hiring managers admit their company has advertised one (Columbia Law Review, 2025). And applications disappear into screening software that rejects most people without a word. ALO ARK inverts the whole model: there are no listings and no application pile. Verified businesses search real, available people and request an introduction; you accept or decline.

What is Build Teams?

The builder's side of ALO ARK. Any member with something to build lists the project, names the roles they need, and recruits from inside the community; and when the right role hasn't appeared, members build one instead. Every listing declares its arrangement upfront: paid, equity, volunteer, or exploratory. No free-work bait. Applications arrive with full evidence profiles, so teams form on proof, not promises. Joining a team is free for every member; keeping a listed project on the board is a paid commitment, which is why everything in Build Teams is live and purposeful. ALO ARK is the engine behind every build; the project and the team are yours.

What does it cost businesses?

Founding businesses get free early access while we build. The model is decided: subscription plans plus a flat fee per confirmed hire, with no percentage of salary. Plans and prices are announced before employer access opens.

The founding registers

Read this far? You're exactly who this was built for.

One hundred numbered places in each register, filling in order. Your number waits.

Take your founding place →

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