Built by someone who spent 30 years hiring for what matters.

For 30 years I built and led technology teams, most recently as a CIO. I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of engineers, product managers, and analysts. Over the last two years I watched an old truth become impossible to ignore: the credentials the market rewards are drifting further and further from the skills the market actually needs.

I saw it in the resumes — polished degrees and certifications that told me almost nothing about how someone thinks. I saw it in the interviews — junior candidates who could produce beautiful code with Claude but couldn't reason about tradeoffs. I saw it on my own teams — senior engineers with 20 years of experience learning to work alongside AI in real time, no manual, no playbook.

Earlier this year I stepped back from full-time operating work — with the time and space to think seriously about what to build next.

ForgeCoach is that answer. It's the credential I wish existed when I was hiring — one that tests applied judgment and communication under pressure, not memorization. One that anyone — employer, peer, customer — can verify in seconds. And one built around a market view that's continuously re-scored against where the world is actually going, not where a curriculum was frozen five years ago.

The 30-year hiring lens is baked into every part of the product. If it wouldn't have told me something useful about a candidate, it doesn't ship.