About Luminid
Hiring decided by evidence, not claims
Luminid lets people prove what they can do and carry that proof anywhere. Do the work once. Carry the proof everywhere.
The mission
“To make the job market fairer for everyone by replacing claims with evidence.”
What Luminid is
Prove it once. Carry it everywhere.
Do a short piece of real work
You complete a realistic work task in about twenty minutes. Handling a difficult client. Working through a decision with data. Closing a deal. Real work, not trivia.
Get scored against documented criteria
Your response is scored against reviewed criteria at a fixed bar that is the same for everyone. Meet it and you earn a verified skill, backed by quoted evidence from your own work.
Carry the proof anywhere
The verification lives on your profile and travels with you. Onto your resume, your applications, your next opportunity. Anyone can check it in thirty seconds.
The one thing we will not blur
A Luminid verification makes exactly one claim.
“Demonstrated this skill in a work sample, scored against reviewed criteria, at a fixed threshold, with quoted evidence.”
It never says qualified, vetted, or ready. Under-claiming on purpose is what keeps the proof trustworthy, and trustworthy proof is the entire point.
Gabriel Golfin Araya
Founder, Luminid
The founder
Why Luminid exists
I spent seven years recruiting, at companies from Amazon and Grupo Bimbo to firms in legal services. I watched the same pattern everywhere. Capable people filtered out for reasons that had nothing to do with the work. Resumes that told one story while the actual capability told another. Decisions made in seconds on signals that never predicted performance.
The research had been clear for decades. How someone performs on a sample of the real work predicts job success far better than a resume, a degree, or years of experience. Yet the entire hiring software industry was built around the resume, the signal that works the worst. Luminid exists to close that gap.
I am building it from Costa Rica. Latin America is where I am from and where I did most of my recruiting, and it taught me how much talent gets sorted out by pedigree, borders, and accents that were never about the work. Luminid is built so the work speaks first.
The principles
What will not move
Luminid grows and changes. These do not. When a decision is hard, they settle it.
Honesty is the moat
The product wins by being the one place a claim is actually checkable. We never invent, inflate, or quietly edit. The moment we exaggerate, the proof is worth nothing.
The claim stays narrow
Our audience and our ambition grow. The claim a verification makes never does. It states what a person demonstrated, and nothing more.
No dark patterns
No fake urgency, no manufactured scarcity, no invented counts or logos. Honest empty states. You always know what a click will do before you click it.
Momentum, not compulsion
We celebrate real milestones, a first verification, a completed track. We never use streaks, points, or leaderboards that rank people. Dignity over dopamine.
Where we are
Early, and honest about it
Luminid is a young product. The library of skills you can verify is growing, the outcome data that will prove the methodology is still accumulating, and we would rather tell you that plainly than pretend otherwise.
What is already true today. The methodology is published in full, from the scoring formula to the fixed threshold to the limits of what we can validate. Every material change is tracked in the open.
Anything else, write to hello@luminid.org. Inquiries are read and answered by Gabriel directly.
See it for yourself
The fastest way to understand Luminid is to prove one skill.
Free. No account for the first try.