Your referees, on the record. Verified by us. Assembled into one report a recruiter can actually trust.
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candidates already through our early-access pilot
More interview callsSoonerWalk in knowing how to prepare
Directional results from our pilot cohort. No inflated numbers here - that would be missing the point of the product.
The problem
Everyone's resume says the same thing. Yours included.
Resumes are inflated
Every applicant "led cross-functional initiatives" , "drove 40% growth". When everyone is a superman, nobody is. Recruiters know this. They discount your resume before they finish reading.
AI reads it before a human does
Your application goes through a keyword filter first. Wrong phrasing, wrong format, wrong luck - rejected. Not by a person. By a parser. You never find out why.
Effort doesn't show
Ten years of doing good work and a fresh graduate with a well-prompted resume look identical to an ATS. The system can't tell who actually delivered. So it doesn't.
There's a different way in: let the people who worked with you do the talking - verified.
How it works
Four steps. One report that speaks for you.
1
Nominate your referees
Pick up to five people who actually know your work - former managers, peers, clients. You choose who vouches for you.
2
They answer a short, verified questionnaire
Structured questions, a few minutes each. Every referee is verified - no anonymous strangers, no fabricated praise.
3
GoodWord builds your credibility report
Responses become an anonymized report: your validated strengths, your improvement areas, presented fairly. Verified end to end.
4
Share it with recruiters who can trust it
A secure link goes with your application. Recruiters open a verified reference directly - a second layer your resume can't offer.
Up to 5referees per report
12-monthreport validity
1 linkto share everywhere
Why it works
You can't put in a good word for yourself.
That's the whole point. A claim you make about yourself is marketing. The same claim, made by someone who worked beside you and verified by us - that's evidence.
A resume is a first-person document in a world that has stopped trusting first-person documents. GoodWord is third-party by grammar and by design. The weight comes from who is saying it and from the fact that we checked.
Verified referees
Every referee confirms their identity through a secure link before a single word counts.
Anonymized & fair
Feedback is aggregated and anonymized. Balanced by design - strengths and improvement areas, not a highlight reel.
Privacy-first
Your data is yours, per India's DPDP Act. Download it, delete it, or withdraw feedback anytime.
What recruiters told us
The people doing the hiring have noticed.
Genuine feedback from hiring managers in the GoodWord early-access pilot. Anonymized, as everything here is.
It's easier for us to identify the real potential candidates, quicker.
- A hiring manager in our pilot
Since we already know a person's strengths and improvement areas, it's easy to have a real conversation with them and gauge how they think.
- A hiring manager in our pilot
GoodWord doesn't just screen candidates. It gives the hiring manager a better interview. Recruiters are moving toward trait-and-skill hiring - judging what you can actually do, not what your resume claims. A verified credibility report is exactly the input that shift needs.
The symmetry
One report. Both sides walk in prepared.
This is the part nobody else does. The same document that gets you the interview also makes the interview better - for both of you.
The candidate
Walks in knowing their validated strengths
Knows what three verified referees said they're genuinely good at
Knows their improvement areas before anyone asks
Prepares for the conversation that will actually happen - not a guessing game
The same report
prepares both sides
The hiring manager
Already knows what to probe
Sees verified strengths and improvement areas before the call
Skips the resume theatre and goes straight to substance
Has a real conversation and gauges how the candidate thinks
No other document in hiring preps both chairs at the table. That's the symmetry - and it's why interviews that start with a GoodWord go differently.
Past the AI filters
Not a hack. An Expressway.
GoodWord doesn't game the ATS or stuff keywords into your resume. It goes around the whole gauntlet: a recruiter opens a verified human reference directly. No parser in between. A candidate who put in the effort gets seen by a person.
The keyword filter was built because recruiters couldn't trust resumes at volume. Give them something they can trust, and the filter stops being the gatekeeper.
Filtered Resume → keyword parser → auto-reject
Filtered Resume → ATS score → the maybe pile
Filtered Resume → format issue → never parsed
Opened GoodWord report → recruiter reads it. Directly.
The through-line
This rewards people who put in the work.
Traditional applying rewards keyword-stuffing and prompt-polished resumes. GoodWord rewards something else: being serious enough to ask the people you worked with to vouch for you, on the record, verified. More effort in, better results out. It's supposed to work that way.
This is a sample, watermarked as one. Real reports are built only from verified referee submissions - that's the whole point.
Early access
Get on the list.
We're opening access in batches. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when yours opens.
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By joining, you agree to be contacted about GoodWord's launch. We handle your details per our Privacy Policy. No spam.
The paperwork
Straight, in writing.
What we collect, what we don't, and who answers for it. Short, because we collect very little.
Privacy Policy
Effective date: 1 July 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how GoodWord ("GoodWord", "we", "us", "our") collects and handles your personal data when you join our early-access waitlist at goodword.tech. It is written to comply with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (the "DPDP Act").
This policy covers the waitlist only. GoodWord's product - referee nominations, verified feedback, and credibility reports - is not yet open to the public. When product access opens, a separate, fuller privacy policy will govern that data, and we will ask for your consent again before collecting anything beyond what is described here.
Who is responsible for your data
The Data Fiduciary for your waitlist data is GoodWord Technologies Private Limited, operating GoodWord at goodword.tech, correspondence address Tower 4, NESCO, Goregaon East, Mumbai. A Data Fiduciary is the person who decides why and how your personal data is processed under the DPDP Act.
What we collect, and why
When you join the waitlist, we collect only what you enter in the form:
Data
Why we collect it
Your name
To address you when we contact you about access
Your email address
To notify you when your early-access slot opens, and to send you launch-related updates
Your current designation
To understand who is joining and to open access in relevant batches
The job domain you're targeting
Same - to prioritise and sequence access by domain
We do not collect anything else at this stage. We do not ask for your resume, your referees, payment details, or any sensitive personal data on the waitlist.
The basis on which we process it: your consent
We process your waitlist data on the basis of your consent, which you give by ticking the consent box and submitting the form. Under the DPDP Act, that consent is free, specific, informed, unconditional, and given by a clear affirmative action - and it is limited to the purposes listed above. We will not use your waitlist data for any new purpose without asking you again.
How long we keep it
We keep your waitlist data until the earlier of: (a) you ask us to delete it, (b) you withdraw your consent, or (c) twelve months after GoodWord's public launch, after which waitlist data that hasn't converted to an account is deleted. If you join GoodWord as a user, your data will then be governed by the product privacy policy in force at that time.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. We share it only with service providers who help us run the waitlist - for example, the tool that stores the list and the email service that sends you updates - and only to the extent they need it to provide that service to us. These providers are Data Processors acting on our instructions.
Where it's stored
Your waitlist data may be stored and processed on servers operated by our service providers, which may be located outside India. Where that happens, it is only with providers that are not in any country restricted for such transfers by the Government of India under the DPDP Act.
Your rights under the DPDP Act
As a Data Principal, you have the right to:
Access - ask us what personal data of yours we hold and how we've processed it.
Correction and updating - ask us to correct or complete inaccurate or incomplete data.
Erasure - ask us to delete your data, unless we're required to keep it by law.
Withdraw consent - withdraw your consent at any time, as easily as you gave it. Withdrawing consent means we stop processing your waitlist data and remove you from the list; it doesn't affect anything we lawfully did before you withdrew.
Grievance redressal - raise a complaint with us first (see below), and, if unsatisfied, escalate to the Data Protection Board of India.
Nominate - nominate another individual to exercise these rights on your behalf in the event of your death or incapacity.
To exercise any of these, write to our Grievance Officer at the contact below. We'll respond within a reasonable period as required by law.
Children's data
GoodWord's waitlist is intended for working professionals and is not directed at anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has submitted their data, write to us and we'll delete it.
Security
We take reasonable security safeguards to protect your waitlist data against loss, unauthorised access, and disclosure. No system is perfectly secure, but the data we hold at this stage is limited by design - the less we collect, the less there is to protect.
Cookies and analytics
This site does not set tracking or advertising cookies. We use Google Analytics in a cookieless configuration to understand aggregate traffic - how many people visit, from where, and on what kind of device. In this configuration no analytics cookies are stored on your device, and we do not use the data to identify you or to advertise to you. We also load the Inter typeface from Google Fonts, and your waitlist submission is sent to our list-storage service; neither is used to track you across other sites. If we ever move to cookie-based analytics, we'll update this notice and ask for your choice before setting any non-essential cookies.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as GoodWord develops. If we make a material change, we'll update the effective date above, and - because we have your email - we'll tell you.
Grievance Officer
For any question, request, or complaint about your data, contact our Grievance Officer:
These terms govern your use of the GoodWord website at goodword.tech and your decision to join our early-access waitlist. GoodWord is operated by GoodWord Technologies Private Limited ("GoodWord", "we", "us"). By joining the waitlist, you agree to these terms.
What GoodWord is
GoodWord is a candidate-initiated professional reference platform for job seekers in India. Candidates nominate referees, referees submit verified structured feedback, and GoodWord produces an anonymized credibility report the candidate can share with recruiters. The product is not yet live. What you are joining today is a waitlist for early access.
What the waitlist is - and isn't
Joining the waitlist registers your interest. It does not create an account, guarantee you a place in early access, guarantee a launch date, or entitle you to any service. We open access in batches at our discretion, and we may change, delay, or discontinue the early-access programme at any time.
No payment at this stage
We do not collect any payment to join the waitlist. If and when paid features launch, their pricing and terms will be presented separately and clearly before you're ever asked to pay.
Accurate information
Please give us accurate details when you join. If your information is false or misleading, we may remove you from the list.
Our intellectual property
The GoodWord name, the wordmark, the tagline "Apply with a GoodWord", the brand line "A good word travels", and all content, design, and copy on this site are the property of GoodWord and are protected by law. You may not copy, reproduce, or use them without our written permission.
Acceptable use
Don't use this site to break the law, interfere with its operation, attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, or scrape or harvest data from it. We may block access to anyone who does.
No warranties; limitation of liability
The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, GoodWord is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site or the waitlist. Because the waitlist is a free expression of interest with no service attached, our total liability in connection with it is limited accordingly.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Hyderabad, Telangana have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
Changes
We may update these terms as GoodWord develops. The current version always lives on this page, with the effective date above.
For anything at all - questions about early access, the product, or these policies: hello@goodword.tech
For data requests or complaints (access, correction, deletion, withdrawing consent), our Grievance Officer under the DPDP Act: Amulya Nidhi - grievance@goodword.tech
GoodWord is operated by GoodWord Technologies Private Limited, Tower 4, NESCO, Goregaon East, Mumbai.