CME Executive Summary
Be Seen. Get Hired.
Hiring has not fundamentally changed in decades. CME replaces resume-first recruiting with video-first hiring, trust signals, and community-driven economic reinvestment.
Investment Thesis
With the platform already built, the next phase is market activation, beginning with the 2026 World Cup as a catalyst for adoption across Business Improvement Areas and local business communities.
Why CME Exists
Hiring is one of the most important decisions a company makes. Yet the systems used to make those decisions still rely on resumes, documents that rarely reveal how someone communicates, how they think, or how they will show up in a workplace.
Employers struggle to differentiate candidates beyond credentials and keywords.
Jobseekers struggle to show who they really are through a static resume.
CME was created to change that.
CME believes hiring should be human, transparent, and connected to the communities that make businesses possible.
What CME Is
CME (“see me”) is a video-based hiring platform that allows employers and jobseekers to understand each other earlier in the hiring process.
Employers
Post CME Spots that showcase their culture and expectations.
Jobseekers
Apply with video profiles and short introduction clips.
Instead of relying solely on resumes, employers can quickly evaluate communication ability, personality, and cultural alignment.
CME helps employers see candidates sooner, and helps candidates be understood faster.
The Platform (Built & Operational)
CME is not a concept platform. The ecosystem is already built.
SmartCoach
AI-guided career navigation that helps jobseekers identify roles and industries aligned with their experience and strengths.
KindHire
A trust-driven hiring framework that introduces transparency, responsiveness, and accountability into employer-candidate communication.
CME Local
A neighborhood-based discovery system connecting jobseekers, employers, and local economic activity.
GeoAds
A location-based promotional engine allowing businesses to advertise opportunities and promotions directly within their districts.
Together these systems create a complete hiring and local economic engagement ecosystem.
The Community Impact Engine
CME introduces something no hiring platform has attempted before, the Community Impact Engine (CIE).
A portion of CME subscription revenue is reinvested into the communities that generate that hiring activity.
CME transforms hiring from a purely transactional process into a community-reinforcing economic system.
The World Cup Catalyst
The 2026 FIFA World Cup presents a unique launch moment. Host cities will experience a surge in tourism, hospitality demand, and temporary hiring needs.
CME is positioned to activate Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) as shared hiring infrastructure during this period.
Through video hiring, CME Local discovery, and Community Impact Engine initiatives, CME can convert the temporary economic surge of a global event into long-term hiring infrastructure across participating districts.
The World Cup becomes not just a moment, but a catalyst for adoption.
Technology Infrastructure
CME is built on scalable cloud infrastructure through Amazon Web Services, which has provided $25,000 in startup credits to support development and scaling.
CME is also developing a proof-of-concept for an agentic AI assistant in collaboration with RevStar. The assistant is designed to help jobseekers navigate career opportunities and assist employers in interpreting hiring signals while maintaining human decision-making at the center of hiring.
Business Model
CME operates on a subscription model for employers, with optional premium features available to jobseekers.
Employer Subscriptions
- +Video job listings
- +Candidate engagement tools
- +Hiring insights
- +Promotional visibility within CME Local
Jobseekers
Access the platform for free while gaining optional tools that enhance application visibility and differentiation.
This structure ensures broad accessibility while maintaining scalable employer-driven revenue.
Use of Funds
The $100K raise is intended to move CME from platform completion to market activation and early scale.
Funds will be allocated across the following areas:
Founder Runway
Operational stability for the founding team to focus on scaling partnerships, adoption, and platform growth during the early expansion phase.
Market Activation & Advertising
Targeted campaigns designed to onboard employers, jobseekers, and Business Improvement Areas ahead of the World Cup launch catalyst.
AI Development Support
Advancing the SmartCoach system and agentic assistant capabilities currently being explored with RevStar.
Platform Scaling & Infrastructure
Supporting cloud hosting, video storage, and technical scalability through Amazon Web Services as adoption increases.
Sales Infrastructure
Developing systems and outreach strategies to accelerate employer acquisition and district-level adoption.
Customer Success & Onboarding
Building support systems to help employers and communities effectively integrate CME into their hiring workflows.
Mobile App Completion
Finalizing the jobseeker and employer mobile applications to expand accessibility and engagement.
Security & Compliance Readiness
Ensuring platform security and regulatory readiness as adoption scales.
Data & Analytics Infrastructure
Developing analytics capabilities that provide insights into hiring activity, employer engagement, and community economic impact.
People Want to Be Seen
Not as bullet points on a resume, but as human beings with energy, personality, and potential.
Hiring is one of the few decisions that shapes both businesses and lives at the same time. Yet the systems guiding those decisions have remained impersonal for far too long.
CME is building something different.
A platform where hiring becomes more human. Where trust becomes visible. Where the economic activity created by hiring flows back into the communities that made those opportunities possible.
When employers hire through CME, they are not just filling a role. They are participating in a system designed to strengthen people, businesses, and neighborhoods at the same time.
That is the future CME is building.