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.

99 percent of Fortune 500 companies are screening you with software. One lawsuit just pulled back the curtain. You apply for a job. You wait. You hear nothing. You assume the role was filled. It is rarely that simple anymore. The 99 percent number is finally official. According to Jobscan and confirmed across multiple 2026 industry analyses including Kickresume, CVCraft, and Zety, 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies now use applicant tracking systems to screen resumes. Around

Two numbers from the last six months tell the story of hiring in 2026. Forty-six percent of job seekers say their trust in the hiring process has dropped over the past year. Ninety-one percent of recruiters report catching candidate deception. The Greenhouse 2025 AI in Hiring Report calls this an "AI doom loop." That feels generous. It is a trust collapse. Both sides are using AI. Neither side knows. Forty-one percent of candidates admit to hacking AI screeners with prompt in