Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Founder & CPO at VERYFY

About

Product, design & innovation leader, and currently building what comes after the CV/portfolio: "a future where hiring runs on evidence, not credentials"

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Maker History

  • VERYFY
    VERYFYThe trust layer for hiring
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 23rd, 2026

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Building the Future of Verified Work

Over the past few months building VERYFY, we ve had countless conversations with recruiters, hiring managers, talent partners, and employers across different industries. Different companies. Different roles. Different hiring challenges. But the same frustrations kept coming up again and again. CVs don t tell us what someone can actually do. We spend too much time filtering noise. Interviews are becoming performance theatre. It s getting harder to know who s genuinely capable. What you re about to read in this carousel are real sentiments from the people making hiring decisions every day. The industry has been quietly asking for a better way to hire. A system built on proof, not polished claims. Capability, not curation. That s exactly why VERYFY exists.

Proof of work for your career

We ve spent years optimizing how people apply for jobs, but almost no time fixing how people are actually evaluated. CVs are static. Portfolios are selective. Interviews are inconsistent. VERYFY flips this. It lets professionals build verified capability profiles, so hiring decisions can be based on proof, not claims. If you ve ever felt overlooked because your experience didn t read well on paper, this is for you. https://www.veryfy.io/

VERYFY - CVs don’t prove skills. VERYFY does.

The global talent system runs on unverified claims. CVs are self-reported. Portfolios are curated. Certificates go unchecked. References are handpicked. VERYFY replaces all of it with a verified Capability Passport — "a structured proof of what professionals can actually do".
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