The hiring market has a consumer protection problem.
Roughly one in four job postings online is a ghost, a duplicate, or an outright scam. Applicants absorb the cost — in time, in money, in identity exposure — while platforms collect engagement metrics on the activity. We're the side that works for the applicant.
Make every job posting prove itself.
Job platforms optimize for listings, applications, and time-on-site. Those incentives reward volume — not legitimacy. The result is a market where ghost postings stay live for months, cloned companies harvest résumés, and a "recruiter" reaching out on LinkedIn is statistically as likely to be a scammer as a hiring manager.
Sentari exists to flip that asymmetry. We build the verification layer applicants should have always had — independent, transparent, and never paid for by the companies being evaluated.
If a job won't survive a one-click trust scan, it shouldn't survive your inbox.
Four rules we won't break.
Applicants first, always
Employers and platforms pay for visibility. Applicants pay with their time. We only build for the side without a budget.
Show our work
Every score is explainable. Methodology, weights, and accuracy rates are public — even when the numbers aren't flattering.
Refuse the dark patterns
No fake urgency, no engagement metrics dressed as 'matches,' no résumé harvesting, no recruiter-funded scoring.
Aggregate, never sell
Individual scans stay private to the user. Only de-identified statistics leave the platform — and they go to journalists and regulators, not buyers.
Operators from the side that pays the price.
Trust & Safety leads, fraud researchers, labor economists, and consumer-protection journalists. No recruiter-tech executives.
Maya Okafor
Co-founder, CEO
Ex-Trust & Safety at a top-3 job board. Built fraud-detection systems for 90M+ postings.
Daniel Rhee
Co-founder, CTO
Former staff ML engineer. Published on adversarial NLP and recruiter-impersonation detection.
Lina Costa
Head of Research
Labor economist. Built the methodology behind our quarterly ghost-job index.
Ari Sundaram
Head of Trust
Decade in consumer-protection journalism. Runs our public reporting and disclosures program.
From a viral talk to a verification layer.
- 2024
Founded after Maya's TED talk on ghost jobs hit 4M views and the inbox filled with scam stories.
- Q1 2025
Closed seed round led by consumer-protection-focused fund. First 10K scans run.
- Q3 2025
Released the public scam-library and methodology. Browser extension shipped to Chrome and Firefox.
- Q1 2026
Crossed 184,000 fake jobs flagged. Verified Recruiter Program launched with 40 partner agencies.
- Now
Building applicant-side defaults the rest of the hiring market doesn't want to exist.
Help us make the hiring market honest.
Scan a job, report a scam, or partner with us on a Verified Recruiter program. Press and policy inquiries welcome.