1Major Swiss recruiter onboarded as first pilot customer
0Internal developers required to launch the MVP
100%Product engineering delivered by external Softup team
THE SHORT STORY
MatchBased is a next-generation hiring platform that goes beyond resumes by combining AI-driven skill assessments with psychologist-designed soft-skill evaluations. It helps employers quickly shortlist candidates based on validated skills and team fit, leading to faster hiring decisions, stronger team alignment, and fewer mismatches.
- CLIENT
- MatchBased GmbH
- INDUSTRY
- Technology
- DURATION
- From initial idea to MVP and pilot over multiple development sprints
- THE TEAM
- Approx. 1 Fractional CTO / PM, 2–3 Full-stack Engineers (scaled with budget)
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The challenge.
- Founder had no in-house CTO or engineering team, yet needed to build a fully functional MVP.
- The platform required a multi-tenant architecture to securely isolate company data while sharing infrastructure.
- Needed to support web and mobile access with real-time assessments and candidate communication.
- Core product logic had to blend AI-generated technical tests with behavioral science frameworks in a scalable way.
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Our approach.
- Acted as a fractional CTO and product team, translating Isabel’s vision into a technical roadmap and architecture.
- Designed a cloud-native, modular system with a service-oriented backend, Next.js frontend, and secure data separation by tenant.
- Integrated AI-powered assessments and psychologist-approved soft-skill evaluations into a cohesive candidate journey.
- Prioritized user-friendly dashboards for recruiters to view vacancies, applications, and match scores at a glance.
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What we built.
- A full MVP hiring platform featuring:
◦ Vacancy management and candidate pipelines.
◦ AI-powered candidate evaluation flows.
◦ Multi-tenant company workspaces. - Architecture (see diagram on page 5) with Next.js app, API layer, Prisma ORM, PostgreSQL RDS, S3 storage, OpenAI API, Resend Email, and AWS components like Route 53, EC2, ECR, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
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The impact.
- Isabel was able to build her product vision exactly as imagined, despite lacking internal engineering.
- Delivered a fully functioning MVP and secured a pilot with one of the biggest recruiters in Switzerland.
- Engagement allowed flexible team scaling up or down depending on budget and needs.
BEHIND THE BUILD
The technology.
- Next.JS
- Node.JS
- Prisma ORM
- PostgreSQL
- AWS RDS
- AWS EC2
- AWS Route53
- AWS S3
- AWS ECR
- AWS Cloudwatch
- AWS Secrets Manager
- OpenAI API
- Resend Email
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