We've spent most of our professional lives in classrooms, boardrooms, training rooms, and far too many hiring meetings. Between us, that adds up to years in education, assessments, teacher training, school leadership, and education technology. Long enough to notice a pattern.
Schools care deeply about hiring the right educators. Yet hiring decisions are often made using CVs, referrals, gut feel, and hurried interviews — not because schools don't want better systems, but because better systems rarely exist.
We saw the gap clearly: education was becoming more data-driven everywhere except where it mattered most — hiring the people who shape classrooms every day.
Somewhere between building education products, working closely with schools, and debating hiring decisions over endless cups of coffee, we realised two things. First, this problem wasn't small. Second, it wasn't going to fix itself.
We met through our shared work in education and technology, bonded over a healthy frustration with broken hiring processes, and quickly agreed on one thing — if capability can be measured, it should be measured fairly, consistently, and at scale.
So we stopped complaining and started building.
Hyriki was born to bring structure, objectivity, and confidence to educator hiring — using data and technology not to replace human judgement, but to strengthen it.
We're still driven by the same belief that started it all: better hiring leads to better classrooms, and better classrooms change lives.