Book
Talent Marketplace
Book is the talent marketplace built into your event. Attendees publish real career profiles, hiring partners pay for tiered access, and organizers earn revenue on every dollar that flows through. A true three-sided marketplace with a page-flip yearbook UI, Stripe Connect payments, and an AI classification system that structurally cannot rank candidates.
The Problem
Conference resume books are PDF dumps nobody reads.
You ran a career-focused conference. You asked attendees to submit resumes. You compiled 400 of them into a shared Google Drive folder. You handed the link to your sponsors and said "these are your candidates."
Nobody opened the folder. The sponsors paid for access to talent and got a directory of files they'll never click through. The attendees paid the registration fee, submitted their work, and never heard from anyone. You couldn't prove the sponsorship was worth it because there was no way to track who looked at what. Everyone lost.
Resume books are bulk PDF dumps that hiring partners never actually read
Attendees get no signal that their participation mattered
Organizers leave real sponsorship revenue on the table with no funnel to prove it
How Book Works
A three-sided marketplace where attendees get discovered, partners find talent, and organizers earn revenue.
Attendees publish real profiles
Registered attendees create a career profile inside Book. They upload their resume (parsed automatically into structured data), add a headline, skills, target roles, and a photo. They control their own visibility: public, hiring-partners-only, or hidden entirely. Every profile starts as a draft and only goes live when the attendee explicitly publishes with consent.
AI organizes the book without ranking anyone
Organizers define themed category pages like "Software Engineers," "Open to Remote," or "Masters Degrees." Book's AI reads each profile's volunteered facts and classifies which categories it belongs to. Attendees can opt out of any category they don't want to appear in, and their opt-out is permanent. The AI is structurally prevented from ranking candidates.
Hiring partners pay for tiered access
Hiring partners visit a dedicated talent page for your event and pick a tier: Browse, Connect, Export, or Year-Round. They pay through Stripe Connect. Gythr takes a 15% marketplace enablement fee. The rest goes to you. No invoices, no manual tracking, no chasing sponsors for payment.
Everyone sees the full picture
Attendees see when a hiring partner signals interest in their profile. Partners see who they've viewed and who they've connected with. Organizers see the full funnel: total revenue, tier breakdowns, profile views, interests sent, and connections made. Everyone knows what happened.
Built into Book
The first talent marketplace that structurally cannot rank candidates.
Most AI classification tools secretly rank. You ask them to organize candidates and they quietly put the "best" ones at the top, usually based on data that correlates with things the AI shouldn't be weighting: schools, companies, zip codes, names. The user never sees the ranking logic. Neither does the candidate. Bias gets baked in, and nobody can find the receipts.
Book was built differently on purpose.
Three layers of safety against ranking language
- A database constraint that blocks category names containing ranking language at the storage level. You literally cannot save a category called "Top Engineers" or "Elite Candidates." The database refuses to write it.
- An app-layer blocklist that catches ranking language the database constraint might miss, with a growing list of prohibited terms.
- An explicit no-ranking instruction in the Claude system prompt that powers the classification itself, reinforcing that categories describe facts, not quality.
An organizer who genuinely wants to create a "Top Engineers" category has to fight the platform three times and lose all three fights. The answer is always no.
Facts-only classification
When Book's AI classifies a profile, it only sees what the attendee explicitly volunteered: their headline, skills, summary, target roles, location, and experience level. It never sees inferred data. It never sees data the attendee didn't share. It never has access to anything that could correlate with race, class, or gender beyond what the attendee chose to publish.
The classification is organizing, not judging.
Opt-outs are sticky
If an attendee removes themselves from a category, Book remembers that choice permanently. Re-running classification never overwrites their opt-out. Their agency is encoded in the database, not in a privacy policy they have to trust.
Every talent marketplace claims to be fair. Book is the one that can prove it in the code.
A real book, not a file dump.
Book renders as an actual interactive yearbook: two-page spreads, a realistic page curl animation, swipe-to-turn on mobile. Hiring partners browse profile cards with real photos, headlines, and skill tags. Tapping any profile opens a full-page expanded view with everything the attendee chose to share.
Searchable. Filterable. Tactile. Designed to be browsed the way people actually browse, not downloaded the way files get dumped.
Everything Book Can Do
Interactive page-flip yearbook
A real flipbook UX with two-page spreads, page curl animation, and swipe-to-turn on mobile. Search and filter by skills, role, or location. Tap any profile for the full expanded view.
Rich attendee profiles
Resume PDF upload with automatic text parsing into structured data. Headline, skills, experience level, target roles, portfolio links, and a photo. Attendees own every field.
Visibility controls with consent gating
Attendees choose between public, hiring-partners-only, or hidden. Every profile starts as a draft and requires explicit publish + consent before it goes live.
AI category pages
Organizer-defined themed pages (e.g., "Open to Remote," "Software Engineers"). AI classifies profiles into them using only volunteered facts. Structural protection against ranking language.
Sticky opt-outs
Attendees can remove themselves from any category at any time. Opt-outs are permanent and never overwritten by re-classification.
Four-tier hiring partner access
Browse (summaries only), Connect (send interest signals), Export (download resume PDFs), and Year-Round (extended access after the event ends). Organizers set the pricing.
Stripe Connect payments
Hiring partners pay directly through Stripe Connect into the organizer's account. Gythr takes a 15% marketplace enablement fee off the top. No invoicing, no manual tracking.
Interest signaling
Hiring partners can send interest signals to attendees whose profiles they want to engage with. Attendees see who's interested and decide how to respond.
Analytics dashboard
Organizers see the full funnel: total revenue, tier breakdowns, profile views, interests sent, connections made, and partner-by-partner activity.
Double-enforced access control
Every tier's access rules are enforced at both the database level (RLS policies) and the application level (helper functions). Belt and suspenders security.
Built for events where talent IS the product.
Book is a good fit for any conference with a hiring or career component, but it's built for the events where talent is the whole point. Career fairs. Community conferences with recruiting sponsors. Diaspora-focused gatherings where discoverability matters. Tech conferences whose attendees are actively looking for their next opportunity. Professional association annual meetings with job boards. University events connecting graduates to employers.
In all of those contexts, the existing resume-book model is broken. Attendees do the work, hiring partners do nothing, and organizers can't prove value. Book turns that broken model into an actual three-sided marketplace where every party is an active participant and every transaction leaves a receipt.
What's coming to Book
Book v1 is a complete marketplace, but we're not done. Features rolling out through 2026 include an AI career coach for attendees (personalized feedback and positioning for specific opportunities), anonymized browse mode (names and photos hidden until a partner signals interest), reverse job matching (partners post roles and the system surfaces relevant candidates), skills verification through peer endorsements and GitHub links, and cross-event profile portability so attendees carry their Book presence between events.
If any of these features is critical to an event you're planning, email rebecca@gythr.com. Roadmap priorities are shaped by what design partners tell us matters most.
Connected Modules
Book connects where it needs to.
Gate
Only registered attendees with confirmed tickets can publish a Book profile. Registration data seeds the initial profile fields so attendees don't start from scratch.
Signal
Book's analytics (revenue, views, interests, connections) flow into Signal's unified dashboard alongside every other event metric. The organizer sees talent marketplace performance next to ticket sales and session attendance.
Gythr Here
Attendees create and manage their Book profile through Gythr Here. Hiring partners browse the yearbook through a dedicated talent portal. Both experiences live in the same connected platform.
Book is an add-on available to any paid tier.
Book works with Plus, Pro, and Business+. Activation is free. You pay nothing until a hiring partner buys access and revenue flows through. Gythr takes a 15% marketplace enablement fee on all hiring partner access revenue processed through Book. The fee is calculated automatically at checkout through Stripe Connect. No invoicing, no manual tracking, no surprises. You only pay when you make money.
See pricing →Turn your resume book into a real marketplace.
Give your attendees real discoverability, your sponsors real talent access, and yourself real revenue. Book ships as an add-on to any paid Gythr tier. Activation is free. Get founding pricing while it lasts.