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No 014
It looked like judgment.

A thousand applications a year, forty reviewers, a few weeks of calendar time. Everyone assumed it needed human judgment. It needed a rubric applied consistently…

JimmyJimmy Roman
Jul 16 · 5 min
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No 014The teardown

It looked like judgment. It was a rubric.

The full application-review teardown: what the process was, why it looked un-automatable, what the rubric turned out to be, where the person stays in the loop — and how to spot the same shape wearing different clothes in your own business.

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1,000+applications a year
40reviewers, 1–2 hrs each
$23,000a year, recovered
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