Every first role
deserves a first class start.
Nobody's first job
should be decided by a
WhatsApp group or a spreadsheet.
FirstRole is building the connective tissue between 40 million students, 50,000 colleges, and every employer who wants to hire them intelligently, transparently, at scale.
Campus hiring is still analog in a digital first economy.
Drives are run on WhatsApp. Shortlists live in Excel. Students chase PDFs. Recruiters fly blind. Colleges have no feedback loop to what the market wants. The result: mismatched talent, ghosted offers, and careers decided by luck.
One ecosystem.
Four roles.
One AI
brain.
The placement market has always been fragmented across three sides of a triangle. We collapse it into a single, role aware system where every action a skill update, a JD scrape, an offer signals the whole ecosystem in real time.
A LinkedIn, a tutor, a coach in one app.
Verified profiles. AI matched jobs. On device proctored mock interviews. A readiness pulse that tells them and their college exactly where they stand. Gamified with XP, streaks, and leaderboards so prep feels less like pressure and more like progress.
Two portals. One placement graph.
College · TPO
From chaos to cockpit. Branch×semester heatmaps, year over year trends, NAAC ready reports, recruiter CRM, and a weekly AI Market Pulse brief that tells the placement cell exactly which skills their students lack this week.
Employer · Recruiter
Talent, searchable in English. Ask: "Final year CS, Tier-1, React+Node, 8.5+ CGPA, open to remote." Get a ranked list in seconds. Run proctored aptitude tests. Ship mock kits per role. Only verified employers get candidate contact.
24 AI surfaces.
One gateway. Cached. Quota aware. Secure.
Every AI call flows through a single edge function gateway hierarchically metered, response cached, and model routed between Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and GPT-5 per task.
Built for scale, trust, and intelligence from day one.
- Initial JS bundle halved · 480→240 KB
- Realtime channels capped per user
- AI response cache · ~40% fewer calls
- Edge-function worker pools + pooler
- Row level security on every table
- AES GCM client secure storage
- OTP on every privileged session
- 9+ layers of exam proctoring
- Personalized JD scraping per student
- Auto-match on job insert + daily cron
- On-device face detection · 80% less load
- Weekly AI market-pulse per college
India graduates a city every year.
Nobody owns the first
role.
LinkedIn is for the already employed. Naukri is for the already experienced. FirstRole owns the moment before both, the first job, for the next billion workers.
Three sided SaaS.
Net revenue on every side of the triangle.
AI mock interviews, job matching, practice, portfolio. Premium upskilling courses unlock à la carte.
- Unlimited job matching
- Mock interviews & skill-gap coaching
- College leaderboard & streaks
Tiered by headcount. The platform replaces spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and one FTE of manual reporting.
- NAAC / NIRF reports & analytics
- Bulk invites, drives, recruiter CRM
- Weekly AI Market Pulse brief
- Dedicated onboarding & support
Tiered access to the verified student pool. Success fee on confirmed first year hires.
- Talent AI search & auto match
- Aptitude tests & mock kits
- Verified recruiter candidate reveal
From placement platform to
the career
graph.
Help us build the
first mile of every career.
We're raising our seed round to deepen the AI graph, ship native mobile, and onboard the first 500 institutions in India. If you believe the next billion workers deserve better than a WhatsApp group, let's talk.