Built in Aberdeen, for the people the CV pile filters out

MicroInterns started with a familiar problem seen from an unfamiliar angle: an international student in Aberdeen watching capable people get screened out before anyone looked at what they could actually do. Applicant tracking systems have always rewarded CV formatting over proof of work, and generated applications have made it worse. When a convincing CV takes seconds to produce, neither the software nor the person behind it can tell which claims are true.

On the other side of the same city sat startups and small businesses with a list of real, useful projects nobody had time to run: too small to justify a hire, too big to keep ignoring. The two shortages fit together once the unit of work is a project rather than a job.

It is not just skills that matter. Even AI can do skills. What matters is whether the person aligns with the mission and the values.

That is the whole idea. A scoped brief, one to four weeks, paid, with up to three students delivering in parallel in a managed workspace. The startup compares the results, and the students keep the proof either way.