The rarest hiring signal in the world is the judgment of people who've actually done the work. Secondframe lets field experts package their knowledge into real-world simulations, with your name and rating on every single run.
Named authorship on every run · Public profile & ratings · Revenue share as the marketplace matures
“For a decade, a clean GitHub profile was the best proxy we had for engineering judgment. That's breaking now that AI writes most of the code, so a tidy commit history just proves you can prompt well, not that you'd survive a 2am outage. The judgment that actually matters never shows up in a diff. It only shows up in the room, and this program exists to give it somewhere else to live.”
Work simulations are not just for engineering. Every domain where high-stakes decisions are made under ambiguity is a candidate for simulation-based hiring and development.
Incident Response is live today. System Design, Architecture Review, and simulations for Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing are on the roadmap.
A guided, four-step journey from your expertise to a live, credited scenario.
Use our guided builder to craft a realistic workplace situation: a system outage, a product decision, a team conflict. You define the context, the actors, and the tension.
Our content team reviews your scenario for realism and rigour. We work with you to sharpen evaluation rubrics so every candidate response is scored consistently.
Your scenario is published to the Secondframe marketplace. Companies discover and assign it to candidates. You're credited as the expert author on every run.
Every run carries your name, role, and rating. Your public author profile compounds with every company that assigns your scenario, and top-performing scenarios may earn revenue share as the marketplace matures.
Scenarios are evergreen. Once live, they compound: companies keep assigning them month after month, and every run carries your byline.
| Scenarios live | Illustrative runs / month | Illustrative hiring-team reach |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50–200 | 10–40 |
| 5 | 250–1K | 50–200 |
| 15 | 750–3K | 150–600 |
| 30 | 1.5K–6K | 300–1,200 |
A Secondframe scenario isn't a quiz or a case study. It's a live simulation: a candidate responds to real actors (played by AI) inside a realistic workplace environment. Your job is to design the situation they walk into.
Hey, we just got a P0 alert. Error rate is 43% across the checkout service. I've been on-call for 18 hours. What do we do first?
Before assuming it's a DB issue, what was the deploy time vs alert time delta?
Deploy was 3:31 AM, alert fired at 3:43. Rollback takes 8 minutes...
You've spent 15 years in incident channels. A scenario capturing that judgment takes you an afternoon to draft, and your name travels with every team that runs it.
Most interviewers can't tell a good security call from a textbook answer. Your scenario becomes the thing that teaches hiring teams the difference, with your byline on it.
Your domain knowledge is a product. Package a decade of hard decisions into a credited scenario, and let your author profile do the proving for you.
We review every application to ensure quality. Most applicants get a decision within 5 business days.
We are not accepting contributor applications at this moment. Thank you for your interest in Secondframe.