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.
proof of work from peer reviews is a smart angle 👏 how do you keep it from getting gamed?
anonymous + verified is a hard combo to actually pull off. if reviews are tied to work email verification, doesn't that make it fairly easy to narrow down who wrote what once you know the reviewer pool is 3-4 people at a small company? genuinely curious how you're handling that, not trying to be difficult
You're right when it comes to being anonymous, you're more than being honest but at the same time it could also remove accountability so how do you prevent an unfair review from ruining a person's reputation?
Such a solid concept. Traditional reference checks are so broken, and LinkedIn recommendations are usually just traded favors. Building a verified, portable 'Trust Score' makes total sense, especially when pivoting between massive orgs and indie projects. How do you guys handle the verification for freelancers or agency folks who might not have standard corporate email addresses for their reviewers? Really impressive product, upvoted!
Everyone knows LinkedIn recommendations are basically fiction at this
point. An AI quietly asking your old coworkers the awkward follow-up
questions instead of accepting "great to work with!" is such a better idea.
We thought about something like this and abandoned the project because it’ll be some kind of a popularity contest.
It’s also very hard to compute the right weightage.
Quid pro quo through engagement pods is also very likely.
tbh, smart way to collect feedback for a candidate, wondering this is more for individuals or like can be incorporate into business human resources process?
the "resumes don't show how someone actually worked" framing is spot on. we see the same problem from the skills assessment side — candidates who look identical on paper have wildly different AI proficiency when you actually observe how they work. peer reviews add a really interesting social proof layer on top of that. curious how you handle the cold start problem when someone doesn't have many connections yet?
@lokesh_motwani1 I'm curious about protability , if someone changes industires or has an uncoventional career path , does thier Badge score adapt to different hiring contexts, or is it intended to be a universal trust signal?
Really like this idea. Curious how you're handling cases where peer
reviews conflict with each other, or where someone gives an overly
generous review just to be nice — does the agent weigh reviews
differently based on any signals, or is it more straightforward
aggregation?
What makes a Badge Trust Score more valuable than traditional LinkedIn recommendations?
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!
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 465 upvotes and 274 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 (656.2k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (473.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 262.2k 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! 🙌