Who we are

About us

Building the consent-first professional identity layer for an AI-native labor market — from Taipei to the world.

The problem

Talent data is locked away.

HuMetric started with a pain its founder lived first-hand. Working at Asia’s largest headhunting group, Paul watched recruiters spend six-plus hours a week — a full workday — scrolling profiles on expensive recruiter seats and old databases, while too many profiles and applications arrived for manual review. On the other side, applicants broad-apply because they cannot stand out or be searched by LLMs and AI agents. AI could help both sides, but it has no lawful, public talent platform to access, verify and diligence.

Our answer

People stay in control.

Every existing option was broken. Platform data is locked in walled gardens. Third-party data brokers are legally murky. Scraping is a lawsuit. So we’re building the missing layer: an open, consent-first professional identity layer where people submit their own data, control exactly what is visible to whom, and public profile reads are logged — queryable by humans and AI agents alike, like a public LinkedIn, Google Maps and GitHub for human talent.

We’re built in Taipei, starting from the talent market we know best — Taiwan’s engineers, semiconductor talent and bilingual professionals — with infrastructure designed from day one for the global, AI-native labor market.

The team

Built across product and engineering.

Paul Yao

Founder & CEO

National Taiwan University, Political Science

[email protected]LinkedIn ↗Knovy ↗Amen ↗

Founder building HuMetric from the recruiting problem he lived first-hand at Asia’s largest headhunting group, covering PE and VC talent markets.

Founder in the NTU Garage accelerator; co-founder and HR lead of NTU’s first VC and startup club, selected 40 members from 120+ applicants, and led NTU Political Science’s 100+ student organization.

Previously built Knovy, an intent-driven AI agent productivity tool exhibited at Meet Taipei with interest from Silicon Valley and Taiwan investors, and shipped Amen, a prayer-based social app, as solo product owner and developer.

Archi Zhang

Co-founder & CTO

M.S. & B.E., Electronic and Computer Engineering, NTUST

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗Personal site ↗

Yes, the technical guy on the team.

AI Engineer @ Trend Micro; built the context layer and AIOps for internal BI agents.

Former co-founder and CTO of INTEVIA AI, where he owned the full stack for Knovy across Electron, React, a Python backend, the database, and the website.

Former speech-AI researcher published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Bowen Chen

Co-founder & CPO

National Taiwan University, Information Management

[email protected]LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗Personal site ↗

Product and engineering lead who ships consumer products end to end.

Co-founder and CTO of SuperB Software Technology, building DOGTOR, a K-12 learning app with 8k+ users that ranked #4 in App Store Education three days running and reached 55% day-2 and 25% day-30 retention with paying users.

Software engineering intern at LINE Taiwan, building AI-native chatbots with evaluated RAG and full-stack features for LINE Official Account verification in Go and Vue.

Maintains National Taiwan University’s course selection system and allocation algorithm at million-user scale.

Previously applied RAG and RLHF to improve medical LLM responses at Academia Sinica.

Work with us

Join us as an early recruiter partner, design partner, or teammate.

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