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I knew I’d built the wrong thing the first time I watched a recruiter hesitate over a single field. The UI was “working”—the extractor was returning data—but the moment the company name landed wrong, everything downstream became fragile. Not because ...

I knew something was wrong the first time the chat did exactly what I built it to do. A recruiter asked a simple, forward-moving question—and the system responded with a clarifying question that technically improved precision… while practically block...

By Menno Drescher | 24 October 2025 | 12 min read Introduction: The $1,080,000 Problem A while back, I sat in a meeting with a frustrated VP of Project Management at a mid-size consulting firm. Her team was drowning in documentation. "We have 12 sen...
