We built TruthHire because the hiring model was broken.
Hi, I’m Nard. Nearly a decade in talent acquisition. I currently serve as a Global Talent Acquisition Manager — building remote hiring operations from the Philippines and Latin America from the ground up. I also consult with small startups on their hiring pipelines, workflows, and team structure — reviewing what’s broken and helping them fix it. From sourcing strategy to interview rubrics to onboarding playbooks, I’ve personally designed the hiring stages international clients use to scale their remote teams. Working closely with those startups taught me one thing: founders don’t need someone to work FOR them. They need someone to work WITH them. That’s what TruthHire delivers.
Founded 2025 · Decade of TA experience · Global TA Expert + startup hiring consultant
“ Hire someone who actually cares about your work. The rest takes care of itself. “
Nard Valbuena — Founder & Global TA Expert · Founded TruthHire in 2025
The story behind TruthHire
For over a decade in talent acquisition, I watched a pattern repeat across startups: founders hire someone “smart on paper,” it doesn’t work out, the team drains for 6 months trying to make it work, then a difficult exit. The resume was right. The human wasn’t.
From my Global Talent Acquisition role at scale, I saw the same pattern from a different angle. International clients would source through cookie-cutter recruitment agencies and the same models kept failing: retainer-based agencies optimize for placement volume not quality, cost-arbitrage offshoring optimizes for cheapest English-speaker not the right human. The system was broken on both sides — buyer side AND candidate side. So I built the hiring systems myself — sourcing strategy, interview frameworks, onboarding flows. I also consulted on the side with startup founders who wanted their own hiring pipelines audited and fixed. Same broken patterns showed up everywhere. Those systems and lessons became the foundation for TruthHire.
In 2025, I started TruthHire — quietly, by referral, serving a small network of US, UK, and Australian founders within my circle. We proved the model works: vet for mindset and work ethics first, charge a flat fee, tell prospects honestly when AI is the better answer. Every placement stuck.
Today, in 2026, we’re opening that same service publicly online — for serious founders who want a partner, not a sales floor. TruthHire is young as a public company. The methodology behind it isn’t. Nearly a decade of TA work, hands-on building of hiring operations in PH and LATAM, and the systems my international clients still use daily — all of that shaped the four-pillar vetting process. Now you can hire through it too.
What TruthHire stands for
These are the lines we won’t cross. If they sound like rules other agencies should be following too — they are. We just decided to actually follow them.
Vet humans first, skills second.
Mindset, commitment, and work ethics come before any technical screen. If the human isn't right, the skills don't matter.
Honesty over the sale.
We tell prospects when AI is the better answer. We tell candidates when they're not the right fit. We lose deals this way — and we're fine with that.
Pay once, own the hire.
$1,500 total ($500 down + $1,000 on hire). No retainers, no markups, no conversion fees. Once you've paid, you own the hire forever.
A 20% pass rate is the target.
Roughly 80% of candidates who claim AI experience can't demonstrate it when asked to show recent ChatGPT history. Only the 20% who pass earn your attention.
Reference calls. Every time.
Even at $1,500, we do real reference conversations — not just checkboxes. Past managers tell us what resumes can't.
AI is a tool, not a replacement.
Every candidate uses AI tools daily. But the human running them is who delivers value. We screen for that human.
Who we serve
TruthHire isn’t built for everyone — that’s the entire point. Here’s exactly who we serve best. If you see yourself in this list, we’re probably the right partner. If you don’t, we’ll point you elsewhere during the consult.
- Bootstrapped or early-stage founders in the US, UK, or Australia building lean, high-impact teams.
- Small businesses (1-50 employees) making their first, second, or third remote hire.
- Founders who've been burned by traditional recruiting and want a more honest model.
- Teams hiring for roles where mindset and commitment matter as much as skills — EAs, ops, customer success, sales, content, dev.
- Operators who want to own the hire — direct contract, no middleman, no retainer.
- Companies open to (or already working with) talent from the Philippines or Latin America.
If you don’t see yourself in the list above, we may not be the right fit — and that’s okay. There are great tools and services for every situation. We’ll happily point you to them. (We’re new to the public market, not new to the work.)
Where we're going
TruthHire’s plan for the next 3 years isn’t to be the biggest. It’s to be the most trusted. We started serving referral clients in 2025 — small, by design. By 2028, we want to be the default answer when a founder in the US, UK, or Australia asks “how do I find someone who actually cares about my work?” — and the proof that vetting for mindset and commitment isn’t just possible at scale, it’s the only model that works long-term.
Ready to hire someone who actually cares?
Free 15-minute consult — honest answers, no pitch. If TruthHire isn’t the right fit, we’ll point you elsewhere. We don’t believe in fighting to close the wrong deal.
$1,500 total · 21-day delivery · 90-day guarantee from hire date · PH + LATAM talent
