Sandery Insights

Research on how professional markets understand people.

Evidence, practitioner observation and Sandery interpretation on professional information, human capability, work and talent markets.

Research note 08Professional intelligenceSeptember 2026

When Everything Can Be Generated, Evidence Becomes the Scarce Asset

AI is making professional claims cheaper to produce and harder to trust. The next hiring architecture will need evidence beneath the representation.

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Research note 07Decision architectureSeptember 2026

The Job Description Is Not the Job

AI is becoming extraordinarily good at matching two polished abstractions. Better hiring begins by understanding the work beneath the vacancy.

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Research note 06Decision architectureSeptember 2026

The Most Consequential Person in Hiring May Be the Least Qualified to Assess the Work

Recruiters decide who experts get to assess. The first gate can determine the quality of every decision that follows.

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Research note 05Professional intelligenceSeptember 2026

The CV Is Becoming Obsolete

AI is making the CV better as marketing and worse as information. The document may survive, but it should no longer be where professional intelligence lives.

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Research note 04Professional intelligenceAugust 2026

Garbage In, Generated Out

AI can transform a CV, tailor an application and optimise a match. It cannot recover career evidence that was never captured.

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Research note 03Professional signalsAugust 2026

AI Can Write the Perfect Cold Message. That Is Why It Is Becoming Worthless.

As personalised communication becomes easier to manufacture at scale, it becomes weaker evidence of genuine interest. The scarce asset is shifting from access to credibility.

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Research note 02Decision architectureAugust 2026

Process Inflation and the Diffusion of Accountability

Hiring has become more sophisticated procedurally without necessarily becoming more sophisticated epistemically.

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Research note 01Market thesisAugust 2026

The Market Has More Information About People Than Ever. It Understands Them Less.

AI is raising the floor of professional performance while weakening many of the signals historically used to distinguish exceptional people.

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