picked.
Log inPost a role
Financial services
/industries/financial-services
Fintech hiring,
with the audit trail.
Hiring at a regulated firm has a paperwork tax. When the FCA, the PRA, BaFin, or the AMF asks for evidence that your hiring is fair, "we tried" on a spreadsheet does not survive. Picked runs every stage on an explicit, calibrated rubric. Every decision is logged. Every fairness report is one click. Data stays in the EU. SOC 2 in progress.
Post a regulated-role hire for freeRead the trust hub →
EU data residency·audit per decision·fairness report per role
What you said, last quarter
Three things financial services leaders told us.
Mon 10:15
"The FCA asked for evidence of fair hiring across a regulated population. We sent them a 40-page report that took two months to write. They sent back a follow-up that took another six weeks."
· Head of compliance · Payments firm, FCA-regulated
Wed 13:30
"Senior quant hiring takes us nine months on average. The rubric is implicit. The bar is in three peoples' heads. They retire and we lose the bar with them."
· Head of quant hiring · Asset manager, London
Thu 18:45
"Procurement asked where the candidate data lives. The vendor said 'AWS'. Procurement asked which region. The vendor took two weeks to find out. We did not buy."
· Head of talent · Insurtech, EU-regulated
How Picked addresses each
Three answers. One pipeline.
Fairness report, one click, per role and per quarter.
Per-role and per-stage adverse-impact analysis, 4/5ths rule applied per protected group, exportable as a PDF for your regulator. The report shows the rubric, the weights, the scores by group, the flags, and the redress actions taken. We publish our own audit summary annually on /trust/fairness.
↓ Decision engine
The rubric is explicit, defensible, calibrated.
The bar for a quant role, a risk role, a compliance role is encoded in a rubric framework you tune once and reuse across cycles. Senior people retiring does not lose the bar. The rubric is calibrated against eight years of psychometric science from Neuroworx, with construct-validity work documented in the model cards.
↓ Decision engine and assessment
EU data residency. Sub-processors short and inspectable.
Every service runs in London (Vercel lhr1, Supabase eu-west-2, LiveKit EU, Resend EU). The sub-processor list is on the trust hub with purpose, region, and DPA reference. We do not move candidate data to the US. SOC 2 Type II is in progress with Prescient Assurance and Drata.
↓ Infrastructure and trust hub
What Friday looks like
One audit,
one click.
6
regulated roles open
100%
decisions with audit trail
4/5ths
rule applied per protected group, per role
0
candidate complaints unresolved
From the beta
"The FCA fairness audit used to take two months and a consultant. We ran it from Picked in twenty minutes. The report covered six roles, three protected categories, and the redress actions. The compliance director signed it off without changes."
HO
Head of compliance
Payments firm, FCA-regulated, 220 people
Quotes paraphrased from beta sessions, May 2026. Named, consented quotes ship with V1.
For financial services, the alternative is:
Workday Recruiting
$30k to $50k per year, annual contract
Enterprise-grade workflow. Fairness reporting requires custom build.
Specialist fintech recruiter
25% to 30% of first-year salary
Senior hires only. Quality varies. No audit by default.
Internal team plus consultant fairness audits
$75k loaded cost per recruiter plus $15k per audit cycle
The audit is a project, not a feature.
Picked.ai
$0.99 per AI-vetted candidate
Fairness audit per role, per click. EU data residency. First 50 free.
Audit. Built in.
One role.
One audit.
Post a regulated-role hire for freeRead the trust hub →
picked.
The AI-native replacement for inbound hiring. For the hiring manager, not HR.
© 2026 Picked · Made in London · Three finalists in forty-eight hours.
Fintech hiring with the audit trail your regulator wants · Picked.ai