People get jobs by being known.

Your reputation sails ahead of you.

U-Crew, superyacht crew. Live nowSuperyacht crew live and work side by side for months at sea. On U-Crew, more than 4,000 crew in 80+ countries build a reputation captains can trust before they hire.

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Founded in Poole, DorsetMembers in 80+ countriesLead investor Andy Cosslett, Chair of ITV
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The problem

Recruitment is broken.
AI has made it worse.

Candidates write CVs with AI. Recruiters read them with AI. The best keyword match wins, not the best person, and the people who could say what you are really like are never asked.

What a CV shows
What actually gets you hired
Job titles and dates
A colleague who vouches for you
Keywords that pass a filter
How you handled a bad week
A tidy list of skills
The people you looked after
70%of jobs are filled through people who already know you. All of it runs on reputation.

What we doU-Tech builds a home for every industry, where the people who know your work can see it, vouch for it and hire you for it.

Ryan Bransome in a navy suit in the cabin of a private jet
Ryan BransomeFounder of U-Tech
  • Butler of the Year
  • A decade with private families and royalty
  • Author of Butler in the Rough

Where it comes from

I never searched for a job. I got hired by who knew me.

“I watched billionaires and millionaires hire people based purely on a friend's recommendation, a warm intro, somebody they knew.”Ryan Bransome, founder

For close to a decade Ryan served private families and royalty across superyachts and private jets. Not one of them hired from a CV. They hired people they knew, or people vouched for by someone they trusted.

He wrote that down first in Butler in the Rough. Then he built U-Tech so it works for everyone, not only the well connected.

How it works

The people who know you get you hired.

Every U-Tech app is a home for one industry. You join because you belong there, not because you need a job this week. Then this happens.

  1. SeenFrom day one
  2. KnownOver weeks
  3. TrustedOver months
  4. HiredWhen it matters

Stage 1 of 4

Seen.

Join your industry's community. Follow the news, ask questions, share your work. People start to notice you.

Stage 2 of 4

Known.

Go to the events, meet the people, take on a challenge. Your name starts to mean something.

Stage 3 of 4

Trusted.

Colleagues and employers vouch for you. Your history is verified and kept on record.

Stage 4 of 4

Hired.

Roles come to you through people who already know what you can do. No cold applications.

The U-Factor

A profile of how you work, built on Plutchik's wheel of emotions. It goes with you to every U-Tech app.

The Feed

Industry news, community updates and opportunities, worth opening every day.

Verified hiring

Every job poster is a real, accountable person, and members rate recruiters.

U-Crew

Our flagship

Built first for superyacht crew.

One of the purest reputation economies on earth: close-knit, global and lived in close quarters for months at a time. U-Crew proved the model works.

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4,000+active crew members
80+countries
£0spent on advertising

The platform

One platform. Every industry.

Each app speaks its own industry's language, on one shared core. Your reputation moves with you between them.

U-Crew is live. The rest are in build, and demand decides what launches next. Tell us your industry.

Wherever the work takes you

1 / 1

Reach the top on reputation.

U-Ski, in buildEvery winter thousands of instructors, chalet hosts and lift crews look for a season. U-Ski will let their reputation travel with them from resort to resort.

The Swiss Alps

981,000young people in the UK are not in education, employment or trainingONS, April to June 2026

For students, colleges and apprentices

The first rungs of the ladder have gone. We are putting them back.

No CV needed, only an interest in an industry. Start at 16 and climb one rung at a time.

    How we run U-Tech

    Five people.
    Thirty-five industries.

    AI keeps every industry brand running day to day: the news feeds, the research, the activity. The five of us run the company. That is how a small team runs a platform this size.

    Reputation is real

    It is built from how people actually show up, and it can be recorded fairly.

    Know yourself first

    People who understand how they work make better teammates.

    Trust should travel

    A reputation earned on one boat, in one room, shouldn't vanish when you move on.

    Your data, your call

    Verified identities and member-controlled profiles. Working towards ISO 27001.

    A coastal town and harbour waking at sunrise

    The future of work will become more human, not less.

    Human connection is how people get seen, get known and get hired.

    For investors

    A company built the way work is going.

    A five-person core team, with every app run by its own AI workforce for the repeatable work. Capital goes into launching industries, not overhead.

    Seed round open

    • Proven organically. U-Crew grew to 4,000+ members in 80+ countries without paid advertising.
    • One core, many apps. Each new industry is a thin, fast layer on a shared platform.
    • EIS eligible. Full financials in our data room.

    Andy Cosslett, lead investorChair of ITV. Former CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group.

    Get in touch

    Tell us who you are and what you need.

    Bring your industry to U-Tech, put your brand in front of a trusted community, start a pilot with your college or ask for the data room.