Badge
AI agents collect anonymous peer reviews and turn them into a portable Trust Score
Overview
Badge tries to solve a real problem: resumes are easy to embellish, and now AI can polish them even further, so recruiters are stuck trusting words on a page. Badge's fix is to skip the resume entirely and go straight to the people who actually worked with you. Install the app, give it phonebook access, and its AI agent messages your old colleagues on WhatsApp asking a handful of pointed questions. Their anonymous answers build your Trust Score over time.
It's a clever idea and it launched to a strong reception on Product Hunt, but it's brand new, launched in 2026 out of a small Bangalore team, and it asks for something a lot of apps don't: your entire contact list, plus permission to message people on your behalf without them opting in first. That's a real trust hurdle for a trust product. Pricing isn't public anywhere, the site markets everything as free right now, and independent reviews outside Product Hunt are basically nonexistent, so treat this as an early-stage bet rather than a proven category leader.
Key Features
AI-Led Outreach: An agent scans your phonebook, finds colleagues on WhatsApp, and sends them short anonymous review questions on your behalf.
Trust Score: Cumulative peer reviews are rolled into a single reputation number you can point recruiters to.
Shareable Badge: Add your verification badge to your resume, LinkedIn profile, or email signature.
Recruiter Lookup: Recruiters can paste a LinkedIn URL, phone number, or email to pull up a candidate's Trust Score in about 30 seconds.
Verification Safeguards: Reviews require confirmed work overlap, work-email or experience-letter checks, and reviewers are rate-limited to one review per contact every 3 months.
Privacy Toggles: Choose which reviews are visible publicly versus kept private on your profile.
Pricing
Starting price
Free (no paid tiers published)
Badge has not published a pricing page or paid tiers. The app and recruiter search are currently marketed as free, with the recruiter page explicitly saying "no obligation, no fees, just signal." That could change as the product matures. Disclaimer: pricing may change, confirm current pricing on Badge's own site before relying on it.
Pros
Genuinely Different Signal: Peer feedback from real colleagues is harder to fake than a resume bullet point, and reviewers praised the work-email verification step for adding credibility.
Fast Setup: Getting a first review reportedly takes about a minute, with no need to chase people or write awkward "please review me" messages yourself.
Useful For Recruiters Too: A 30-second Trust Score lookup could genuinely cut down early-stage reference-checking time.
Strong Launch Reception: Hit #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt with 482 upvotes and a 5.0 rating, though that's based on a single review at time of research.
Cons
Asks For Your Whole Phonebook: The app needs contact list access and then messages people on your behalf via WhatsApp without their prior opt-in, which is a real privacy and trust concern for a tool selling trust.
Unproven Fairness: A Product Hunt commenter flagged that one bad project or a single difficult team dynamic could unfairly skew someone's entire score, and Badge hasn't published data showing how it guards against this.
Thin Independent Track Record: Launched in 2026 with a tiny team, most visible feedback is from its own Product Hunt launch, so there's little outside verification yet.
No Public Pricing: Everything is marketed as free today with no published pricing page, so it's unclear how (or if) Badge plans to monetize, which makes long-term reliability of the product harder to judge.
What Makes It Unique
AI-Automated Reference Checks: Instead of you or a recruiter manually chasing references, Badge's AI agent does the outreach and verification automatically, turning what's usually a slow manual process into something closer to instant.
Kay Score
5.5
/ 10
Tool Information
Pricing
Free (no paid tiers published)
Category
Automation & AI Agents
Platform
Web / iOS / Android
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