Recruiters ask AI first — what does it say about you?

What does AI
say about you?

In 10 seconds, see the verbatim answer an AI agent returns when a recruiter asks about you. Then see what changes when it has your Open-Shadow profile as context.

No account, no uploadVerbatim AI responseOpen-source
+Add LinkedIn URL (optional, improves disambiguation)

Helps disambiguate common names. Not stored, not sent to LinkedIn.

No account, no PDF, no email. Streams live from Gemini.

Jordan T. Smith
Shadow-verified

New York, NY · English · French

Jordan T. Smith

Full-Stack Engineer & OSS Contributor

Currently at

S

Stripe

Senior Software Engineer · 2022–Now

Open to opportunities

Remote · EU/US · Full-time

About

Building developer tools and distributed systems at scale. 8+ years shipping product across fintech and climate-tech. Passionate about open protocols and machine-readable data.

Skills

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgresDockerRustGraphQLRedisTerraformPython

2022Present

Senior Software Engineer

Stripe

New York, NY

Led the redesign of the payment intent reconciliation pipeline, reducing P99 latency by 62%. Authored the internal TypeScript SDK used by 40+ teams. Mentored 4 junior engineers through structured bi-weekly 1:1s.

20202022

Software Engineer

Watershed

San Francisco, CA

Built the emissions data ingestion layer from scratch, processing 500M+ rows/year across 30 supply-chain data sources. Designed the schema that became the foundation of the public API.

20182020

Frontend Engineer

Alan

Paris, FR

Shipped the claims management dashboard used daily by 200+ ops agents. Reduced form-submission errors by 38% through inline validation redesign.

Education

M.Sc.

Computer Science

École Polytechnique

2018

Project · 2024

Rust · Postgres · WAL

pg-stream

Zero-copy logical replication consumer for Postgres. Streams WAL events as structured JSON with sub-millisecond lag. 1.4k GitHub stars.

Project · 2023

TypeScript · JSON Schema · Zod

llms-schema

Open spec + validator for the llms.txt talent profile format. Powers structured extraction for 3 commercial AI sourcing tools.

Contact

inlinkedin.com/in/jordan-t-smith

@••••@•••.com

ghgithub.com/jordan-t-smith

Native indexing supported by

OpenAIAnthropicPerplexityTollBitEightfold

Open-source and built on the llms.txt spec.View on GitHub →

How it works

From PDF to protocol in under a minute.

Drop your LinkedIn export. We hash it, structure it, publish it. One URL, three endpoints — one for humans, two for agents.

01
~5s

Upload & anchor

Drop your LinkedIn PDF. We hash it on upload to create a verified, tamper-proof source of truth.

PDF

linkedin_export_2026.pdf

sha256:eb3cc1a7…d93e8c

02
~30s

Extract & structure

Our LLM reads the PDF and emits your structured llms.txt layer and Bento grid simultaneously — no free-form rewrites.

llms.txt

name:Jordan T. Smith

headline:Full-Stack Engineer

skills:TypeScript,React,Rust

role:Sr. Engineer@Stripe|2022–Now

llms-full:/jordan-t-smith/llms-full.txt

03
instant

Publish

Ship one URL. Three endpoints: a Bento for humans, a public llms.txt, and a gated llms-full.txt for verified recruiters.

open-shadow.com/jordan-t-smith
/Bento · humans
/llms.txtpublic
/llms-full.txtgated · TollBit

One file in. One URL out. Read by every human and every agent.

Agents are already sourcing. Without you.

AI recruitment tools have quietly replaced human sourcers for first-pass screening. Your LinkedIn PDF isn't in any of their databases — and you don't know it.

AI agents are the new gatekeepers — and you don't exist to them.

Sourcing agents don't scroll LinkedIn. They query structured endpoints. No llms.txt, no match — you're skipped before a human ever sees your name.

Agent source querysenior rust engineer · Paris · open
LinkedIn-only

GET /in/jordan-t-smith

→ 403 · auth required

fallback: pdf parse

→ partial · 3 fields missing

Skipped from ranking
With Open-Shadow

GET /jordan-t-smith/paris/llms.txt

→ 200 · 142 tokens

score: 89/100 · match

contact verified ✓

Queued for outreach
senior rust engineer · paris

2 results · grounded in machine-readable profiles

Jordan T. Smith

Sr. Engineer @ Stripe · Rust · Postgres

89

/100

Clément Roux

Staff @ Doctolib · Rust · distributed

84

/100

Verified talent, ranked. No more ghost profiles.

Shadow-Badge guarantees every field is 1:1 with a locked source document — no LLM rewrites, no stale data. Your agents return candidates you can act on without a human double-check.

Shadow-Badge

1:1 lossless extraction, cryptographically linked to source

answer difference

The same model returns a cold, pattern-matched blur without your profile — and a precise, grounded, current brief with it. Two answers to the same question, side by side.

See the before/after →

Before & after

Same model. Same question. Two different answers.

Here's what Gemini says about a typical engineer — first cold, then when it has their Open-Shadow profile attached as context. An illustrative example; run a real one on yourself above.

Before · Gemini asked coldgemini-2.5-flash-lite

Same model, no context. Whatever Gemini can stitch together from training data.

Jordan T. Smith

Jordan T. Smith appears to be a seasoned technology professional, likely with a background in full-stack development. Based on common name patterns, he may have experience across the US tech ecosystem, possibly including startups and established firms.

His toolkit probably covers the mainstream stack — JavaScript, Python, cloud platforms, maybe some modern frameworks. He likely has over a decade of experience and may have moved into senior IC or leadership roles.

Without more specific information, I can't confirm his current employer, recent projects, or specific achievements. There are likely several professionals with this name — further disambiguation would help.

Pattern-matched guesses. A plausible-sounding blur. Exactly what recruiters get today.

After · Gemini + Open-Shadowgemini-2.5-flash-lite

Same model, same question — now with Jordan's machine-readable profile attached.

Jordan T. Smith

Jordan T. Smith is a Senior Engineer at Stripe (since 2022) based in New York, specializing in Rust and distributed systems. Over 11 years in the industry, he's moved from mobile (iOS at Square) to infrastructure at scale.

AreaSpecifics
Current roleSr. Engineer @ Stripe · NYC · since 2022
Core stackRust, Postgres, Kafka, TypeScript
Notable impactLed Payments Core Rust migration — p99 latency −40%

Beyond the core platform work, he maintains two open-source Rust crates (tokio-timeout, query-span) and has spoken at RustConf 2024 on latency budgeting. Distinctive profile: infra depth combined with a systems-design clarity rare at his level.

Every claim grounded in Jordan's Open-Shadow llms.txt. No invention, no pattern-matching.

Now see what it says about you.

Same setup. Your name, your context, verbatim AI response.

Scan yourself

Before you claim your slug.

The real questions — on data, privacy, legal, and price.

What is llms.txt?+

A plain-text file that describes you in a format AI agents can read instantly — no PDF parsing, no HTML scraping. It looks like this:

name:Jordan T. Smith

headline:Sr. Engineer

skills:TypeScript,React,Rust

Think of it as your robots.txt, but for your career.

Is it free?+

Yes. Upload your PDF, get your profile, share your link — all free. Recruiters pay micro-fees via TollBit when their agents access the premium llms-full.txt layer. Candidates never pay.

Where is my data stored? Can I delete it?+

All profiles live in an EU-region Supabase instance (Frankfurt). Your data is yours — export or delete any time from your dashboard. Deletion is full: profile row, source PDF, and hash chain removed. GDPR-compliant by design, not retrofit.

region: eu-central-1gdpr: compliant
Is my contact info public?+

You control every field individually. Each contact field can be set to one of three modes:

PublicVerified agents onlyNobody

Phone, email, and custom links each have their own toggle. Nothing is exposed unless you opt in.

Can I stay anonymous?+

Yes. Shadow Mode hides your name, photo, and contact info on the public Bento page. Your llms.txt is served as name:anonymous. Only verified recruiter agents with a TollBit token can access your routing data in the gated layer.

What if my name is common? Can someone else take my slug?+

Slugs are city-scoped: /jordan-t-smith/new-york and /jordan-t-smith/paris coexist. Within a single city, first-claim wins, but collisions are resolved by matching the source PDF hash and LinkedIn URL. Claim early if you're worried.

How do AI agents actually find profiles?+

Every profile publishes a llms.txt at a predictable URL. Agents discover profiles two ways:

  1. Direct crawl — the agent fetches /name/city/llms.txt
  2. Semantic search — the API matches a query against pgvector embeddings and returns ranked profiles

Both return pure structured data — zero HTML to parse.

What does this cost my team?+

The public llms.txt layer is free — any agent can read it. The gated llms-full.txt is metered via TollBit at roughly $0.002 per crawl, with volume discounts above 100k reads/month. No seat licenses, no minimums. Pay only when your agents read.

llms.txtfreellms-full.txt~$0.002 / crawlseat licensesnone
What does the Shadow-Badge guarantee?+

It means the profile is a 1:1 lossless extraction from a locked source document. Specifically:

  • Every field traces back to the original PDF
  • Source hash is stored — any tampering breaks the chain
  • No LLM rewrites, no AI embellishments, no parser guesses

Your agents can act on this data without a human double-checking it.

Won't LinkedIn block or sue you for this?+

No. Open-Shadow never scrapes LinkedIn. You initiate the export from LinkedIn yourself and upload the PDF — under hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (9th Cir. 2022) that's your data to share. We don't query LinkedIn APIs, reverse-engineer, or proxy. The wedge is that you own the document.

Still missing something? Open an issue on GitHub or email us.

What does AI
say about you?

See the verbatim AI answer. Then upload your PDF to see how it changes.

+Add LinkedIn URL (optional, improves disambiguation)

Helps disambiguate common names. Not stored, not sent to LinkedIn.

No account, no PDF, no email. Streams live from Gemini.

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