Great people in wrong places
We got tired of it. So we built what was missing
The problem wasn't effort
We were meeting exceptional people
And still sending them… nowhere
Meanwhile, companies were paying €10k+
for candidates they barely understood, from agencies they barely knew
And when it failed? They paid again
Candidates stuck in pipelines Companies paying for noise No one seeing the market as a whole
Because mapping trajectories at scale is impossible for a human
If someone belongs somewhere, we get them there
Whether you're our client or not
"I kept meeting incredible candidates and having nowhere right to send them. The problem wasn't effort, it was information. We were guessing. I wanted to stop guessing"
LinkedIn →
A job title says almost nothing. It erases the context, the environment, the trajectory, everything that makes someone thrive in one place rather than another. We built a system that rebuilds what actually matters: not to decide for you, but to make the invisible visible. The technology is complex. The result is simple: the right person, in the right place.
We don't use the market's data. We build our own
Sectoral ontologies, trajectory mapping, hiring pattern analysis, built from scratch because nothing else captured the complexity of real recruiting
We analyze companies the way they analyze candidates
Who they hired. Where those people came from. Who stayed. Who left. The patterns that job descriptions can't capture
We only reach out when the match is real
No spray and pray. No volume. One candidate, one company, one reason to connect. That's the standard
€200 per hire goes to open source
We co-founded giftos.tech, a platform to fund and support open-source projects. For every hire made through Merky, we contribute €200 to the open-source ecosystem
It's not charity. It's who we are. Our intelligence runs on open-source models, self-hosted. Giving back is part of the system