Hi I'm Issa Mohamed, a computer science graduate from Carleton College with a background that does not fit neatly into one box. I have built things, written about things, and spent a lot of time thinking about how technology shapes the decisions people make and the opportunities they can access. I care about systems: how they include people, how they exclude them, and how they can be rebuilt to do better.
I built Hire Purpose because I lived the alternative.
For months I applied to jobs the way most people do: read a posting, update a resume, write a cover letter, send it into the void. No real signal about whether the company was growing or contracting. No way to know if the role had been open for six weeks because the team was expanding fast or because nobody wanted it. No indication of whether the funding had dried up two quarters ago. Just a form, a submission, and silence.
The job search industry has convinced people that the problem is their resume. It is not. The problem is information asymmetry. Companies know everything about their own health, their hiring intent, their internal priorities. Candidates know almost nothing. They are making consequential decisions: where to spend their time, their energy, their hope: on the basis of a job description written by a recruiter and a Glassdoor page that may be three years old.
Hire Purpose closes that gap. It does not help you write a better cover letter. It helps you decide whether a company deserves one at all.
Every day it pulls live job data, recent news, funding signals, and company context. It runs them through a reasoning layer tuned to your specific background and what you are actually looking for. It scores each company on whether right now, given everything knowable, this is a place worth your time.
My hope is that the people who use this spend less time on long shots and more time on genuine opportunities. That they walk into interviews already knowing the company's posture, not just its pitch deck. That they make decisions from a position of information rather than desperation.
The playing field has never been level. This is one way to tilt it.