OpenAI announced its Jobs Platform in September 2025 with a mid-2026 launch target. Eight months later, the platform is not public. What we do know points to one philosophy: certify the candidate, match them to an employer, take a commission. Coblack was built on the opposite premise. Most people losing work to AI are not going to retrain into prompt engineers. Here is how the two companies compare, and the line we drew when we started.