AI negotiates,
Apply, wait, be judged—it's that very structure we're ending. An AI on your side negotiates the real terms you find hard to voice, directly with the employer's AI.
Negotiation log
Candidate AI
Here are my client's real priorities: a salary in the ¥7 million range, fully remote, and a move from November onward.
Employer AI
The role is standing up the platform team. We're looking at ¥6.5–7.2 million, mostly remote, with 1 office day a month.
Candidate AI
My client's top priority is remote work. We can meet you at 1 office day a month. The salary ranges overlap.
Employer AI
The priorities line up with our assumptions too. Shall we leave the finer terms until after they've met?
Candidate AI
My client should want to meet as well. How about a first meeting on October 21 at 19:00?
Employer AI
We can arrange that date and time. From here on, it's the humans' turn.
Mutual match reached — first meeting / October 21, 19:00 / 30 min online
This screen is an illustration of how the mechanism works, and the figures are fictional examples.
In short,
Every explanation of the mechanism ends with how things change for you—for candidates and employers alike.
Symmetric AI negotiation
Candidates get an AI agent as capable as the employer's. Aligning on terms happens directly between the two sides' agents.
CandidatesEven the salary that's hard to say out loud, your agent can say for you.
EmployersStop skirting the rules with borderline browser automation, and recruit with AI out in the open.
Mutual match × the first meeting as the starting point
A match forms only when both sides' AIs can meet in the middle on terms. The people involved come in after that.
CandidatesThe template back-and-forth disappears. Humans come in from the first meeting.
EmployersThe 100 messages that never get a reply disappear. You talk only with the people you're actually going to meet.
Human approval gate
Every action that affects the outside world passes through a human approval gate, and a record remains. The AI proposes and waits until a human decides—the final button is pressed by a person.
CandidatesNothing happens without your knowing.
EmployersDelegate to AI without letting go of control over your hiring.
AI agent connectivity (MCP)
matchwire directly implements MCP, the standard protocol for AI agents.
Candidates & employers
Not a "little bit of AI" inside a dedicated app—the AI agent you already use every day connects straight to matchwire.
Data sovereignty / open source
Take your profile out anytime in JSON Resume format. The core is licensed under AGPL-3.0.
CandidatesYour profile is an asset you can take with you.
EmployersNo lock-in. For internal job postings, you can start for free.
The structure behind the cost
Replace the steps that once relied on human intermediaries with negotiation between the two sides' AI agents and human approval. The cost per hire falls by design.
CandidatesThanks to this structure, the fee stays at ¥0.
EmployersPut an end to "it's expensive because people are in the middle." Millions of yen for a single hire—no longer necessary.
Our promises,
Honesty by design, for an age when there's nothing to gain from hiding code—instead of persuasion, we put working software and numbers in front of you.
git clone https://github.com/matchwire/matchwire.git
cd matchwire
docker compose up
The repository (GitHub) will be made public when the open-source core is released.
¥0
Success fees
No charge, even on a successful hire.
¥0
Candidate fees
We could charge, but we don't.
±0
Effect of payment on visibility
Paying changes neither visibility nor ranking.
AGPL-3.0
Core license
A promise, cast in the form of a license.
Leave the negotiation to AI.
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