We're going to
revolutionize
hiring learning work itself
!
Primd Aims to Transform How We Find and Fill Jobs.
Workers
- Explore and develop a robust skills portfolio through simple and engaging tasks.
- Connect with co-workers, managers, educators, and customers to build trust.
- Advance your position. Identify, demonstrate, and develop in-demand skills.
- Moving on? Take your skills with you using simple tools to help you land the next role.
Employers
- Onboard your employees for a 360-degree view of your organization's skill pool.
- Easily identify internal talent and gaps to optimize existing resources.
- Partner with trusted educators to fill gaps by developing existing talent.
- Fill your next role with ease through with smart matching and a streamlined process.
Educators
- Provide increased opportunity to students and trainees through automated discovery.
- Build your own reputation by creating nano-courses to develop and validate skills.
- Promote external offerings directly to workers and employers who want specific training.
- Get insight into new trends, helping to keep your offerings up-to-date and on brand.
Roadmap
Early April, 2025
Founding
Subsequent layoffs at Jobs For the Future, Technical Architect, Matthew Sahagian develops Primd's cooperative startup model and begins engaging other affected employees.
Late April, 2025
Initial Infrastructure
Open Source tools and resources are deployed to facilitate development and enable coordination.
May, 2025
Site Launch
Primd's primary site is launched to the public.
Late May, 2025
Skills Explorer
Workers will be able to explore and claim skills and abilities through a simple human interface. This will lay the groundwork for Primd's distributed trust model.
Early June, 2025
Community Outreach
Engaging select working-class and early partnerships to extend visibility into a skills-only approach and the availability of Primd's tools.
Late June, 2025
Pre-Release Employer Tools
Employers can begin creating organizations and onboarding employees for initial insights into their skill pools.
July, 2025
Crowdfunding
Primd launches public crowdfunding campaigns to fund ongoing and future development. Offering early-access and incentives for backers.
Cooperative
Primd aims to revolutionize hiring and learning by providing services to employers, educators, and workers that enable skills-first and skills-only approach. We believe an alternative model is possible. We also believe that workers should be treated with fairness and equality in all aspects of their work. That starts with compensation, ownership, and decision-making power.
Primd was founded on the experience of working-class people involved in public and private workforce development. Critically, Primd was founded on the back of a changing political landscape, rapidly subsiding social programs, and, subsequently, our own loss of work.
Without access to steady income and an extremely narrow funding landscape, our success is premised on creating and developing a new cooperative enterprise model. If it works, it's the world's to have and we commit to mentoring other working-class entrepreneurs looking to take a similar approach.
Our Principles
Your Time is Yours
Work as much or as little as you want or are able to. Every hour you work on a collectively recognized task or project is a share in the company's profit less special funds. At the end of every quarter the total hours worked by all members is added up, and profits are distributed in accordance with their percent contribution.
Your Time is Value
Primd can't pay salaries (yet). That doesn't mean we don't consider your time valuable. Members accept a virtual “salary.” Similar to profit-sharing, your equity stake in the company is proportional to your hours worked mediated by hour hourly salary. The “value” is determined by the aggregate of all hours at all salaries contributed.
We Are Primd
Decisions are made through a consensus model that respects the need for short-term executive decisions as well as long-term strategic decisions. You won't be voting on every little detail, but you will have the opportunity and power to affect nearly all aspects of the company's development and direction.
Our Work
We're just getting started, but that doesn't mean we got nothing to show.
FluidGraph
FluidGraph is a PHP library for working with Memgraph. Primd's prototyping and front-end code is driven by PHP, HTMX, AlpineJS, and Tailwind. We needed a fast and simple way to interact with Memgraph at an object level. After taking a look at existing options (many unmaintained and focused more on Neo4J), we took a Doctrine-inspired but novel approach to creating our own solution.
While FluidGraph is still pre-alpha, it does the basics quite well. If you're interested in checking out the code, using it yourself, or contributing: