About Workers’ Rebellion
Why This Exists
Automated rejection emails go out to qualified people who were never seen by a human. Sometimes that filtering is deliberate. Sometimes “efficient” and “invisible to the people it rejects” just turned out to be the same design goal.
But this isn’t only about the resume that never gets read. It’s about what happens to your body while you’re still employed and still “productive” — sitting through back-to-back meetings that could have been an email, day after day, because the culture treats stillness as commitment and movement as a distraction. In-office jobs make this worse: no standing up between calls, no walking the block during a break, just hours of sitting because someone decided that’s what dedication looks like.
During the exact stretch of applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing back from almost none of them, I had a health scare, and it made me look hard at what long days of sitting do to people. The body keeps score, even when the org chart doesn’t.
Workers’ Rebellion started because both of those experiences made someone angry enough to build something instead of just absorbing it. Not a startup pitch. Not a “disruption” story. Just a straightforward reaction to watching a broken system grind down qualified people — before they’re hired, and after — and calling it normal.
What We’re Building
The first thing built was a job search tracker, because the first problem worth solving was seeing the pattern: which applications got a fast answer, which went unanswered, and which led to a conversation with a person. Data instead of guessing.
We’re starting with software. We have future plans, and we’ll share them when we reach the right phase. A small brand that announces its plans before the groundwork is in place is handing a roadmap to anyone who wants to beat it to the punch.
How We Operate
We’re honest that we’re a startup, not an established charity with a track record. Revenue goes through four phases — recouping startup costs, sustaining the person running this, funding new offerings, and eventually formal profit-sharing with cause organizations — and we publish which phase we’re in every quarter. No promises we can’t back up yet.
Read the full breakdown of how the money works →What We Believe
Eleven core values, no exceptions, no cherry-picking.
Read the full manifesto →A Note on How This Gets Built
In the spirit of transparency: this project uses AI tools throughout. The Job Search Tracker — the actual software, every feature, every fix — was built with Claude, session by session, with every requirement, every QA pass, and every change driven by a founder who isn’t a coder and had no budget to hire one. This website’s code and copy started the same way. Gemini and Venice handled early logo concepts.
None of that means the AI is running the show. Every decision, every value on this site, every judgment call about what’s right and what isn’t — that’s a person, not a generated output. Nothing here gets published or shipped without someone actually meaning it.
We’re aware people have real, valid concerns about AI — its environmental footprint, the data centers behind it, how it’s trained, who it displaces. Those concerns are worth taking seriously, and this note isn’t here to wave them away. Climate and environmental impact already sit inside our own values (see Core Value #09), and part of what we intend to fund down the line includes climate and environmental causes — which is exactly why we’re not going to pretend this tension doesn’t exist. We’re just being honest that right now, with the resources we actually have, AI is one of the tools in the toolbox — used to build something a job-searching, budget-constrained person couldn’t otherwise afford to build, not to screen someone out the way an ATS does.
Where We’re Headed
Software first, and it’s already built. Future plans will be shared when we reach the right phase.