Methodology — ReLoop.me · How a read is produced, and why it holds

ReLoop.me Methodology. ReLoop.me is an EU-built Capability Intelligence platform that interprets job descriptions and professional histories as structured evidence rather than keyword lists, summaries, or generic AI output. This page explains how a read is produced and why the method holds: every read runs as independent layered passes that can disagree with the document and with each other; inflation and claim strength are judged by a separate pass, never by the model that wrote the summary; every read is classified on a fixed interpretation vocabulary so any role or profile is comparable to any other where that assignment is stable; every read outputs structured capability data, not just prose; and every read runs through an automated quality-control pass before delivery, while human calibration continuously sharpens the system itself. Role Intel, seven euros, reads what a job description actually demands. Profile Intel, nineteen euros, reads what a professional history actually proves. Role times Profile, a direct structured comparison of both sides, is in development. The defensible asset is the system, not any single report: a fixed vocabulary, a rule set that grows by encoding every corrected failure, two-sided comparability, and a neutral incentive model in which both sides pay for clarity rather than one side paying for advantage. ReLoop.me publicly shows what each report contains, what each signal means, and what actually reproduces on identical input — and keeps proprietary the prompt chains, ontology-assignment rules, weighting logic, pay-derivation tables, calibration corpus, QA rules, and matching logic. It is a decision-support layer, not a decision-maker. Roles are mapped to ESCO, the European Commission's classification of skills, competences and occupations: AI models propose mappings, a person checks them, and only checked exact matches appear on a Role Intel read, since 5 October 2026.

Methodology · Capability Intelligence

The method behind

the read

ReLoop.me doesn't summarise CVs or job descriptions — it interprets them as evidence, through a fixed, calibrated system. This page explains how a report is produced, what it returns, and why the method holds — without handing over the engine.

AI-assistedAutomated QCHuman-calibrated systemEvidence-firstGDPR-awareLast updated 20 Oct 2026
Not a prompt wrapper
What every ReLoop.me read produces
The plain readthe signal beneath the wording
Evidence mapevidenced vs asserted vs inferred
Calibrated classificationa fixed, comparable vocabulary
Pay signalnet-aware, assumptions named
Decision layerwhat to do — never who you are
The report is the visible artifact. The interpretation system behind it is the product.
The starting point

Hiring is data-rich and interpretation-poor.

Both sides of the market now optimise their documents.
CVs are polished, job descriptions are inflated, and generative AI makes both cheaper to produce and harder to trust. The rare value isn't more noise — it's a calibrated, objective way to read through the noise. Nonlinearity is where the method proves its value: a system that can interpret through career breaks, pivots, and parallel jobs fairly reads every career more accurately.

The methodology rests on one thesis: hiring is data-rich and interpretation-poor. CVs compress real capability into titles and keywords, and parental leaves, health breaks and sector pivots read as defects to systems trained on straight-line careers; nonlinear careers are the method's proving ground, because a system that reads them fairly reads every career more accurately; job descriptions stack several jobs under one title; and generative AI amplifies both, making every document sound more competent without making the evidence stronger. ReLoop.me's method is built to interpret through that distortion, consistently and on both sides.

CVs compress

Capability gets flattened.

Operating range, judgement, scope, and cross-functional work get reduced to titles, timelines, and keywords — and a parental leave, a health break, or a sector pivot reads as a defect to algorithms trained on straight lines.

JDs inflate

One title hides 3 jobs.

Strategic, hands-on, senior, autonomous, under-scoped, and underpaid can all live in one posting — and nothing in the posting itself tells you which.

AI amplifies both

Everyone sounds more competent now.

Generic AI improves wording on demand. It doesn't tell you whether the evidence underneath is strong, thin, inflated, or about to be misread.

The solution isn't another tool that polishes really well.
It's a fixed interpretive layer that reads both sides the same way.

How a ReLoop.me read is produced

One document in. Multiple layers applied.

Every read — role or profile — runs through the same protocol. The specific prompts, weights, and sequence stay closed; the properties of the system are public, because they're what makes the output trustworthy.

Document→ Layered Interpretation→ Separate Audit→ Ontology mapping→ Automated QC pass→ Structured data + Report Delivery

How a ReLoop.me read is produced, in five steps. One, independent layered passes: the document is read several times from different analytical angles, and the layers are allowed to disagree with the document and with each other — disagreement between layers is signal, not error. Two, a separate judge: inflation and claim strength are scored by a pass that did not write the summary, because a model is the wrong auditor of its own output. Three, a fixed vocabulary: every read is classified against a fixed set of profile types, career patterns, capability levels and role archetypes, each archetype defined in writing and applied by a model — which is what makes one read comparable to another wherever that assignment is stable, and what reproduces is measured and reported, not assumed. Four, structured data underneath: every report is prose on top of structured capability data — the data is the durable output, the report is its interface. Five, calibrated quality control: every read is checked against the system's own rules by an automated quality-control pass before delivery, so nothing ships as raw model output. Human calibration runs separately, as a feedback loop on the system itself — real reads are reviewed, misjudgements are found, and each correction is encoded back into the rules the engine runs on, so every read is shaped by the corrections learned from the reads before it. Underneath the report sits a structured data layer with typed fields such as profile type, career pattern, capability levels with their evidence basis, misread risk, and a pay signal framed by EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970; the published fragment is simplified and the real schema stays closed.

Independent layered passes
The document is read several times, each pass from a different analytical angle — structure, demand, classification, transfer, pay, market signal.
The layers are allowed to disagree with the document and with each other. Disagreement is signal, not error: a "Head of" title contradicted by zero reports is exactly the kind of finding a single-pass summary smooths over.
A separate filter for inflation
Claim strength and inflation are scored by a different AI instance that did not write the summary. A model is the wrong auditor of its own output — so the read and the audit of the read are structurally separated, and the audit returns a severity with the justification, not just a label.
A fixed vocabulary — applied by a model
Every read is classified against a fixed vocabulary: seven role archetypes, a fixed seniority ladder, and a defined set of capability levels. Each archetype now reaches the model with a written definition and evidence tests — defined, not yet validated at runtime. Two things worth saying plainly rather than burying. The vocabulary is fixed, but a language model applies it — so the same input does not always land on the same label. What reproduces and what doesn't is measured in the FAQ below. And one field, the gap type, is still free text rather than a fixed list; closing it is on the roadmap, and until it's closed it isn't claimed as a vocabulary.
Structured data underneath
Every report is prose on top of structured capability data — typed fields, not paragraphs. The report is the interface; the data is the durable output. It's the same data that will let a role and a profile be compared directly, and that powers everything ReLoop.me builds next.
Automated QC, human-calibrated system
No read ships as raw model output. Every read runs through an automated quality-control pass that checks it against the system's own rules — band logic, the claims-vs-evidence audit, and structure are validated before delivery. The human layer isn't a person re-typing reports; it's calibration: real reads are reviewed, the system's misjudgements are found, and each fix is encoded back into the rules the engine runs on. So every read is shaped by the corrections learned from the reads before it — a rule set that compounds, not a prompt that doesn't.
A public standard underneath
Roles are mapped to ESCO, the European Commission's classification of skills, competences and occupations. AI models propose a mapping; a person checks it; only checked mappings reach a report, and the code is read from that table — no model call — so the same title always gets the same code. Since 5 October 2026 a Role Intel read shows the ESCO occupation when the title has a checked exact match. Coverage is still small, so most reads don't show one yet.
What the structured layer looks likeIllustrative
{
  "profile_type":    "Operator × Connector",
  "career_pattern":  "Crossover",
  "capability":      { "name": "Cross-functional Delivery", "level": "Expert", "basis": "evidenced" },
  "misread_risk":    { "type": "non-recency", "counter_signal": "named" },
  "pay_signal":      { "frame": "EU 2023/970", "assumptions": "named" }
}

A fragment, simplified — field names are illustrative and values come from the public sample read. The real schema, its assignment rules, and its weightings stay closed.

One boundary applies across all of it: Profile Intel and Role Intel are strictly separate analytical objects. A profile read never judges a role; a role read never judges a person.
Only Role × Profile — the dedicated comparison layer — brings the two together, deliberately and with both datasets in hand.

The method, applied

Same protocol. Two analytical objects.

Role Intel reads the role side; Profile Intel reads the person side.
Each fragment below shows what the protocol does that a paraphrase can't: it names what the document implies, hides, inflates, or proves.

The method applied as two products. Role Intel, seven euros, one-time, delivered by email, reads one job description and returns the role stated plainly, true seniority and scope versus the title, an inflation read with reasons, the capability demand the role genuinely carries, transferability across backgrounds, and a directional, net-aware pay signal indexed by role family, location and seniority band and framed by EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970, stating whether its pay-range rules are law or best practice in the market priced. Example: a Head of Digital posting promising strategic leadership and a competitive salary reads as director-scope breadth carried in a senior individual-contributor seat with no team, no budget, and no pay range. Profile Intel, nineteen euros, one-time, delivered by email, reads one CV or career history and returns how the profile lands in the market, evidence-levelled capabilities, claims weighed against evidence, where the profile is likely misread and how to counter it, and a pay context. Example: a CV listing marketing, communications, product work, consulting and a career break reads as a cross-functional growth and translation profile with senior signal and broad transferability, likely misread because of its nonlinearity. Role times Profile, the direct structured comparison of one profile against one role, is in development; it is the only layer that compares the two sides. Since October 2026, when a job description publishes a pay range, Role Intel states where that range sits against ReLoop.me's estimate for the scope described — below, at the low end, within, or above; contract, board, fellowship and volunteer postings get no employment-salary comparison; and the role's ESCO occupation code appears when the title has a checked exact match.

Role Intel

One job description in. What the role actually demands out — read as a market signal, not a wishlist.

The JD says

Head of Digital. Strategic leader. Hands-on. Competitive salary. Build the function and execute campaigns.

ReLoop.me reads

Director-scope breadth carried in a senior-IC seat — no team, no budget, no pay range, and execution-heavy daily work.

scope inflation: highseniority ambiguitypay opacityoperator–builder seat
The role stated plainly — the real weekly work, stripped of JD language
True seniority and scope, versus the title — with the mismatch named
An inflation read with reasons, scored by a separate pass
The capability demand the seat genuinely carries, anchored to JD evidence
A directional, net-aware pay signal — indexed by role family, location and seniority band, opacity flagged, and whether EU 2023/970's pay-range rules are law or still best practice in the market it priced. Contract, board, fellowship and volunteer postings are named as such and get no employment-salary comparison
Where a published pay range sits against ReLoop.me's estimate for the scope described — below, at the low end, within, or above
The role's ESCO occupation code, when the title has a checked exact match
Profile Intel

One career history in. What the evidence actually proves out — and where the market is likely to misread it.

The CV says

Marketing, product work, consulting, B2B tech, civic tech, and a career break.

ReLoop.me reads

A cross-functional growth and translation profile with senior signal and broad transferability — likely misread due to nonlinearity

transferability: highnon-recency riskpositioning gappay context needed
How the profile lands in the market — its current positioning, stated plainly
Capabilities levelled by evidence strength, not by self-description
Every headline claim weighed: evidenced, partial, or too thin to carry
Where the profile is likely misread — and the counter-signal to lead with
A pay context by role family, seniority, and market — assumptions named
Role × Profile In development The only layer that compares the two sides: one profile's structured data read directly against one role's — a capability fit, not a keyword score, and never a personality match. You can run a manual, limited preview by testing how a Role Intel read overlaps with a Profile Intel read.

Fragments are illustrative. The calibration and the complete read sit in the paid products.

Why it holds
Any AI can imitate a report. Duh. But it's hard to imitate the logic.

A single ReLoop.me report can easily be approximated by AI — and that's fine, because the report was never the asset.
What can't be easily approximated is what sits behind it: a repeatable interpretation protocol whose output gets more comparable, more calibrated, and more valuable with every read it produces.

The structural difference
An AI model gives each user a one-off opinion. ReLoop.me gives every user a position inside one comparable system — and a self-generated read carries no third-party weight, however well it's written. The signature is the product.
A fixed vocabulary. Profile types, career patterns, capability levels, and role archetypes — named publicly as categories, assigned by rules that stay closed. Fixed and public is not the same claim as fully enforced; what reproduces is stated in the FAQ below.
Every failure becomes a rule. When a read goes wrong, the fix ships as code, not a note in a document — the changelog below is that record. Rules compound; a prompt doesn't.
Two-sided comparability. Roles and profiles land in the same structured vocabulary — the precondition for honest matching that no one-sided tool can reach.
A neutral incentive model. Both sides pay for clarity; neither pays for advantage. Tools paid by one side of the table structurally can't make this claim.
A third-party signature. An independent, calibrated read carries credential weight a self-generated one can't — same intelligence, opposite incentive.

Why the method holds. Any general model can imitate a single report; none can really imitate the system behind it. Layers compound: a fixed vocabulary of profile types, career patterns, capability levels and role archetypes, named publicly but assigned by closed rules and by a model, so what reproduces is measured rather than assumed; a rule set that grows every time a failure is found and encoded as a fix, recorded in the changelog; two-sided comparability, with roles and profiles classified in the same structured vocabulary; a neutral incentive model in which both sides pay for clarity and neither pays for advantage; and a third-party signature — an independent calibrated read carries credential weight that a self-generated read cannot, regardless of quality.

Transparency boundary

Open enough to trust. Closed enough to defend.

The boundary is drawn by design, not by vagueness:
everything a user needs to judge a ReLoop.me read is public.

ReLoop.me publicly shows what each report contains, what each signal means, how evidence, claims, ambiguity and risk are kept separate, what a report can and cannot decide, what actually reproduces on identical input, and the beta status, the QC pass, and the calibration process. It keeps proprietary the prompt chains and orchestration, the ontology-assignment rules, the weighting and threshold logic, the pay-derivation tables, the calibration corpus and QA rules, and the Role times Profile matching logic.

Shown publicly

  • What each report contains, section by section
  • What each signal and classification means
  • How evidence, claims, ambiguity, and risk are kept separate
  • What a report can and cannot decide
  • What actually reproduces on identical input, and what doesn't yet
  • Beta status, the QC and calibration process, and product boundaries

Kept proprietary

  • Prompt chains and orchestration
  • Ontology-assignment rules
  • Weighting and threshold logic
  • Pay-derivation tables
  • The calibration corpus and QA rules
  • Role × Profile matching logic

Transparency earns the trust. The boundary protects the engine.

This page states the properties of the system. The full technical record — every vocabulary value, every delivery-gate rule, every measured reproducibility figure, dated — is hand-maintained at briefs.reloop.me/methodology. This page is the pitch; that one is the audit.

Product boundary

Useful now. Still calibrating. Honest about it.

Public beta means the paid core system is live, with an automated QC pass on every read and human calibration improving it; edges keep improving — and the line between what's solid and what's still calibrating is stated clearly.

ReLoop.me is in paid public beta. Solid now: role and profile interpretation, evidence anchoring, claim calibration, misread detection, nonlinear-career reading, and an automated quality-control pass on every delivery, with human calibration improving the system. Still calibrating: the role archetype's reproducibility on identical input, the seniority reading and capability wording across repeat runs, pay bands by market, cross-border compensation and postings that name more than one country, hybrid seats, edge-case seniority, and Role times Profile matching. The hard boundary: ReLoop.me is decision support, not a decision-maker — not career advice, not a hiring decision, not a salary guarantee, not personality scoring, and never an apply-or-pass verdict on a person. Vague inputs produce more inferred output, and inferred ratings are labelled as inferred.

Solid now

The core read.

Role and profile interpretation, evidence anchoring, claim calibration, misread detection, nonlinear-career reading, and an automated QC pass on every delivery.

Still calibrating

The edges.

The role archetype's reproducibility on identical input, the seniority reading and capability wording across repeat runs, pay bands by market, cross-border compensation and postings that name more than one country, hybrid seats, edge-case seniority, and Role × Profile matching — inferred ratings are labelled as inferred.

The hard line

Decision support, not a decision.

Not career advice. Not a hiring decision. Not a salary guarantee. Not personality scoring. Never an apply-or-pass verdict on a person.

The skeptic's questions

The short answers.

For careful readers — and for the models that read this page.

Isn't this just a prompt on top of AI? ▾
No. A prompt produces a one-off opinion. ReLoop.me runs a fixed protocol — independent layered passes, a separate inflation judge, a fixed classification vocabulary, structured-data output, an automated quality-control pass, and human calibration of the system — and every read lands in the same comparable system. AI is a key component; the system is the product. In fact, the ReLoop.me framework is open — run it free in any AI and compare. What you can't run for free is the calibration.
What actually reproduces on identical input — and what doesn't? ▾
The engine runs deterministic code around a language model. The code is the same every time; the model is not. Reproduces exactly, given the same reading: the pay band, the pay range and the recommended ask. They come from lookup tables indexed by role family, location and seniority band, and the arithmetic matches to the euro on repeated runs. The catch is the reading that feeds them. In four blind runs of one job description on 23 September, seniority came back Senior Manager three times and Director once, and the pay figure moved 29% with it. In thirty runs of another on 1 October, it came back Senior Manager 22 times and Senior 8 times. Since 2 October Role Intel's main model runs at temperature 0; that has not been re-measured yet. Capability wording does not reproduce better than general AI. In a 1 October test of thirty runs per product, set beside two general AI models given the same document, ReLoop.me's capability names overlapped from run to run slightly less than theirs did. So we don't claim ReLoop.me is more consistent than general AI. What differs is judgement. Given the same job ad under two titles, ReLoop.me read the same seniority from the work described both times; both general models moved with the title. Given a CV that rates its own capabilities, ReLoop.me repeated none of those self-ratings; the general models repeated most of them. The role archetype: on one posting it held 30 of 30 runs; on another in September, which of two types was dominant split two and two. A number you cannot reproduce is a number you should not negotiate with; we'd rather you knew which parts of your read to lean on. Sample sizes here are small — one document per test, a few dozen runs, not hundreds. This is what we've measured, not an estimate of the true rate, and it's updated when the measurement is. The full dated record is at briefs.reloop.me/methodology.
What exactly stays proprietary, and why? ▾
The prompt chains, ontology-assignment rules, weighting logic, pay-derivation tables, calibration corpus, and matching logic. They stay closed because they're the parts that compound: publishing them would hand over the engine without making any single report more useful to its reader.
How do you keep the read honest instead of flattering? ▾
Structurally. Claim strength is judged by a pass that didn't write the summary; evidence, assertion, and inference are kept in separate fields; thin signal is labelled thin; an automated quality-control pass checks every read against the system's rules before delivery; and human calibration improves those rules over time — not tuned to what would feel good to receive.
Does it tell people whether to apply, or whom to hire? ▾
No. Role Intel reads the role; Profile Intel reads the profile; neither issues an apply-or-pass verdict on a person. Only Role × Profile — in development — compares the two sides directly, and even there the output is a structured capability fit, not a decision made for you. When a posting publishes a pay range, Role Intel says where it sits against our estimate for the scope described — a position, not a recommendation.
Where does the pay signal come from — and is it a guarantee? ▾
The figure is a lookup, not a prediction. Role family, location and seniority band index a table of net monthly EUR figures maintained by ReLoop.me, presented in the context of EU Directive 2023/970 on pay transparency. It's directional: it tells you roughly where a role sits, and flags when a posting is silent about pay. What it is not: a market survey, a salary benchmark bought from a data provider, or a prediction of what you'll be offered. The tables are ours. Rows corrected so far were checked against public salary data and direct market knowledge, and every read labels its band Calibrated (inside the table's high-confidence coverage) or Estimated (outside that coverage, or adjusted for scope). What can move it: the seniority band and the market the engine assigns. If either is wrong, the figure moves with it. Where the engine is inferring seniority rather than reading it from the title, the read says so; where a posting names more than one country, the read prices one market and names it — check that it's yours. When a posting publishes its own range, Role Intel says where that range sits against ReLoop.me's estimate for the scope described — below, at the low end, within, or above. That compares two figures; it isn't a market fact. Contract, board, fellowship and volunteer postings get no salary comparison at all, because employment salary tables don't apply to them.
Does the EU Pay Transparency Directive give me a right to the pay range? ▾
It depends on where the job is. Directive 2023/970 gives candidates the right to be told the starting pay or its range before the interview, and stops employers asking about pay history — but those rights bind employers only once a member state writes them into national law. The deadline was 7 June 2026, and not every country met it. Every Role Intel read states whether the rules are law or best practice in the market it priced. Where they're law, the missing range is something you're entitled to ask for; where they're best practice, it's still the fairest first question.
Does ReLoop.me use a standard classification? ▾
Yes. ESCO, the European Commission's classification of skills, competences and occupations (v1.2.1). Since 5 October 2026 a Role Intel read shows the role's ESCO occupation when the job title matches a mapping a person has checked as an exact match; closest-family matches are stored, not shown. AI models propose mappings, a person decides, and a weekly loop proposes codes for terms that weren't covered. Most titles don't have a checked mapping yet, so most reads don't show a code yet. Profile Intel looks codes up without showing them, for now. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission; the Commission does not endorse ReLoop.me.
Under the hood

The engine, in full detail.

For an overview of the engine (every classification vocabulary, delivery-gate rule and measured reproducibility figure, dated), see the technical methodology.

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