Employers can’t trust what they read anymore
91%of US recruiters claim finding deceptive applications
Generative AI can now write resumes, CVs, and cover letters with a single prompt.
Greenhouse, 2025 AI in Hiring Report
Build the next generation better.
A platform that prepares students for a career, not just a degree.
Critical Point Software is building Project Keystone: a platform that builds a student’s unique profile in real time, prepares them for the career ahead, and gives employers an applicant profile they can trust in the age of AI.
The handoff from college to career isn't working.
Students are being prepared for a degree, not a career.
Only 54%of employers say colleges are graduating students with the skills their business needs
Most students don’t think about their career path until it’s time to apply.
Lumina Foundation and Gallup, “Aligning Education and Work,” employer survey of 2,000, March 2026.
Universities are being asked to prove a degree pays off.
19%of majors pay within 10% of a high school diploma.
New federal rules cut off student loans to programs whose graduates earn too little.
New York Fed, The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates, February 2026; One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025.
What employers want
Art Morrish
Former director of DARPA, VP of Raytheon, and CEO of Aspire
From a business perspective, I love the idea of hiring someone who has focused on maximizing their skills and experiences, not their GPA.”
Supporting Keystone
“I think building a way to maximize skills is a fantastic idea.”
Value inertia
“In my experience, hiring new graduates meant training for upwards of a year before they really started providing value.”
In conversation with Eric Wolfson, 2026. Quoted with permission.
Product overview
Build strong candidates
Student dashboard
- Built-in career preparation
- Opportunity match maker
- Automated profile builder
- Employer interest trends
- Student body analytics
- More informed decisions
- At-a-glance candidate insight
- Painless talent acquisition
- National talent pool
How trust is established
Every item on a record carries its source. Only items the university backs are marked verified. Verified items are designed to be issued as Open Badges and W3C Verifiable Credentials, so an employer can check one without calling the registrar.
Two layers of trust. Three parts.
Every item on a record is either self-reported or verified by the university. The platform is designed as three parts around that record.
- A front end for students, university administrators and employers
- A trust mechanism, so a verified item stays verified
- A back end for the data and for each student's career building
Framing from the September 2026 company overview.
Every item says where it came from.
Four levels, from the student's own word to the university's signature.
Self-reported
The student wrote it. Nobody else has checked it. It stays on the record, because a person is more than their coursework.
Imported
Brought in from another system, with its original label kept.
Vouched for by a named person
An instructor or adviser looked at the work and confirmed what it shows.
Signed by the university
The university signs it, and that signature stays with the record.
The four levels from the September 17 workshop and copy deck version 4.
Why us
One founder knows the schools and students. The other knows the systems.
Eric Wolfson
Co-founder and CEO
- PhD in organic chemistry, The Ohio State University, 2021.
- A decade of experience teaching and coaching university STEM students.
- Former senior R&D chemist (DuPont, Adhesives Research).
Josh Standiford
Co-founder and technical lead
- Backend and AI engineer.
- Startups from first funding through more than one acquisition.
- Owns the stack and all production code.
Where we are
Five phases. Each one unlocks the next inflection point.
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Phase 0
Is this worth building?
Done- Ideation, scoping, and positioning
- Market research & preliminary customer discussions
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Phase 1
Does anyone want it?
Under way- Interest and a warm referral at a university academic support office
- More university and employer conversations
- Raising a first round
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Phase 2
Build it
Next- Student, admin, and employer front-end
- Stand up backend
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Phase 3
Pilot it
Planned- One university, real students, a full term
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Phase 4
Launch
Planned- Scale team as needed
- Partner with more universities
Build the next generation better.
Let’s talk about how this can help your school.