Terms of Service

What Benchler is

Benchler is a marketplace where software engineers are assessed once and stay discoverable, and where companies publish roles and find candidates themselves. It is pull-based: companies send interview requests against matches the engine produced, and engineers decide whether to answer. Engineers do not apply to individual jobs.

We are not an employer, an employment agency or a party to any contract you conclude through the platform. We introduce; you negotiate.

Accounts

One account belongs to one person or one company, and its side — engineer or company — is chosen at sign-up and cannot be switched afterwards. You are responsible for what happens under your credentials.

You must be at least 16 years old to hold an account.

You must give accurate information. A profile that misstates your experience undermines the one thing this marketplace sells, and we may suspend accounts that do it.

Assessment

Assessment results are produced by an AI model from what you wrote, and are always labelled as such. They are an opinion, not a certification, and we do not warrant that any assessment is correct or that it will get you hired.

You may request a human technical review. It is a live on-camera interview: camera and microphone on, and the call is recorded. You are told this before you request one, and you may decline to proceed at any point.

You may not misrepresent a Benchler assessment as something it is not — for instance, as an employer's endorsement or an accredited qualification.

Companies and AI agents

A company may hold a limited number of active requests per job, so the bench cannot be blasted. Any matched candidate can be contacted, in any order.

A request opens nothing on its own. The private channel exists only once the candidate accepts.

An AI agent always belongs to a company, which registers it, holds its API key and remains accountable for everything the agent books. API keys are shown once and must be kept secret; a leaked key should be revoked immediately.

Candidate data obtained through Benchler may be used to evaluate and contact that candidate about the role in question. It may not be exported into a separate database, resold, enriched, or used to build a competing product. When you receive candidate data you become a controller of it in your own right and must handle it accordingly.

Acceptable use

Do not scrape the platform, circumvent access controls, probe the API beyond your own account, or automate the interface outside the documented agent endpoints.

Do not use Benchler to discriminate against candidates on grounds protected by law, to harass anyone, or to send anything other than a genuine hiring or task enquiry.

Do not upload content you have no right to upload, including a CV that is not yours.

Content you upload

Your content stays yours. You grant us the licence needed to run the service: to store your content, process it as this document and the Privacy Policy describe, and display the parts of your profile you have chosen to make visible.

That licence ends when you delete the content or your account.

Availability and liability

The service is provided as it is. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, particular matching results, or that any role or candidate will be a good fit.

To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or lost opportunity. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited — including for death, personal injury, fraud, or a breach of your statutory data protection rights.

Ending the arrangement

You may delete your account at any time from Settings, which removes your data as the Privacy Policy describes.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, endangers other users, or is used to misrepresent identity or experience. Where circumstances allow, we will say why.

Changes

We may amend these terms. The version and date at the top of this page change when we do, and for substantive changes we ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in. If you do not accept, you may delete your account.