What is Ewance? (recruiter view)

Ewance is a skills-based recruiting platform built on top of a learning surface.

The pitch in one sentence: students ship realistic project work to earn verifiable credentials, and you hire by reading the work, not by reading a CV.

If you've used a traditional job board or applicant tracking system, here's how to map Ewance onto your mental model.

What Ewance is

• A talent pool of students and recent graduates who have completed project-shaped challenges in your field — engineering, software, business, life sciences, design, social sciences, and more.
• A portfolio surface — every candidate has a profile composed of what they've shipped, with each piece of work cryptographically tied to a tamper-evident credential.
• A search interface — filter by discipline, deliverable type, university, region, team format, and challenge sponsor.
• A messaging layer — once you find a candidate whose work fits, you reach out directly through your recruiter workspace. No bidding, no escrow.

What Ewance is not

• Not a job board. We don't list open roles. You bring the roles; we surface candidates whose shipped work matches them.
• Not a CV database. Profiles are work product first. CVs (where uploaded) are secondary.
• Not a coding-test platform. Challenges are full project briefs across many disciplines, not isolated technical exercises. Engineers do real systems work. Business students do real strategy work. Designers do real design work.
• Not a recruiter–recruiter network. Ewance is one-sided: recruiters reach students directly.

How candidates get on the platform

Students sign up directly and pick challenges from the catalogue. Each challenge is a multi-day to multi-week project — a market analysis, a software prototype, a clinical decision tree, a campaign concept, a hardware design — modelled on the kind of work professionals in that field actually do.

Submissions are reviewed against a stated rubric. When accepted, the student earns a verifiable credential anchored on a public blockchain.

This means by the time you see a candidate's profile, you're not reading their self-description. You're reading a list of project briefs they actually completed and a recruiter-verifiable record of the outcome.

Where do the challenges come from?

Two sources:

• Ewance's editorial team — the bulk of the catalogue. Briefs are designed in-house, modelled on real professional work without being transcripts of specific company projects. This keeps the catalogue broad and growing across disciplines.
• Industry partners — companies that sponsor a brief for students to solve. Sponsored briefs are even more valuable as a candidate signal because students are working on a problem shape that maps to your priorities, not a fictional scenario.

If you'd like your team's actual problem shapes in front of students, see /for-industry. Sponsored challenges surface higher in your search results: it's the most direct way to pipeline candidates whose first project on the platform is structurally close to the kind of work you'd want them to do for you.

What makes the credentials trustworthy?

Three things, in order of weight:

1. Rubric-based review. Reviewers evaluate against a published rubric. There's no hidden grading. You can read the rubric for any challenge a candidate completed and judge whether it matters for your role.

2. Verifiable signature. Every credential is cryptographically signed by Ewance. The signature can be verified offline against our public key — no API call to us is needed.

3. Public blockchain anchor. The credential's hash is anchored on Base (an Ethereum L2). The anchor is permanent and tamper-evident. Even if Ewance disappears, the credentials remain verifiable.

Practical implication: a candidate can hand you a verification URL and you (or your ATS, or an AI agent) can confirm authenticity client-side in milliseconds. No trust required.

We go into the full mechanism in Verified credentials.

What it costs to recruit on Ewance

Recruiting on Ewance is a paid subscription structured into four named tiers — Starter, Growth, Agency, and Enterprise — each shaped around a different hiring volume and integration depth. Pricing is account-gated: sign in at app.ewance.com to see the full tier breakdown, or talk to us for a 15-minute walk-through.

Sponsored challenges are a separate, custom-priced motion for recruiting teams whose talent need is structural rather than one-off — putting your team's actual problem shapes in front of students so the candidates you pipeline already have direct experience with the work. See /for-industry for sponsorship enquiries.

Next

If you're ready to see how the loop actually works in practice: How it works. If you want to skip to verification mechanics: Verified credentials.