For Employers & Recruiters

Scoutica is a Two-Sided AI Talent Marketplace. While candidates use the protocol to protect their data and host their Skill Cards, employers use it to find talent programmatically — without recruiter fees, LinkedIn subscriptions, or spamming candidate inboxes.

The Architecture

When you hire through Scoutica, your Agent communicates directly with the Candidate’s Agent.

1. You publish structured job roles (role.json).
2. Your agent queries the decentralized Scoutica Registry for candidates matching your required skills.
3. Your agent evaluates the returned Candidate Cards (Zone 1 data) and ranks them using deterministic scoring.
4. If a candidate is a strong match, your agent issues an opportunity.offer payload directly to their API endpoint.
5. The Candidate’s agent screens your offer against their rules.yaml (e.g., minimum salary). If your offer passes their filters, the human candidate is notified.

Step 1: Scaffold your Organization

Every hiring entity must have a Recruiter Card. Run this in a dedicated organizational repository (e.g. your company’s GitHub):

scoutica org init

This interactive wizard creates recruiter_profile.json and hiring_rules.yaml.

Step 2: Establish Trust (Domain Verification)

To prevent spam and impersonation, Candidate Agents require proof of identity.

scoutica org verify --domain yourcompany.com

The CLI will generate a SHA-256 hash. Add this as a TXT record to your DNS settings. Once verified, candidate agents will trust your messages.

Step 3: Create a Job Posting

Instead of an unstructured prose job description, Scoutica uses precise JSON schemas.

scoutica role create

This creates a file in roles/<slug>.json outlining the title, exact salary band, required hard skills, and expiration date.

Step 4: Publish to the Mesh

scoutica role validate roles/
scoutica org publish

This pushes your Recruiter Card to GitHub, syncing it with the decentralized index.

Step 5: Start Sourcing

(Note: The decentralized API index is currently in early-access. To test it today, run queries via the CLI!)

You can now use your own AI agent (or the CLI) to scan for candidates:

scoutica jobs search --skills "Python, PyTorch" --seniority "senior"

Because candidates own their data, you are never charged for finding them. If you make a match, you communicate via the protocols defined in message.schema.json.