# U-Tech | People get jobs by being known Source: https://u-tech.co.uk/ People get jobs by being known. # Your reputation sails ahead of you. **U-Crew, superyacht crew. Live now** Superyacht 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. See how it works [Read the U-Crew story](https://u-tech.co.uk/u-crew/) Founded in **Poole, Dorset** Members in **80+ countries** Lead investor **Andy Cosslett** , Chair of ITV St Barths, Caribbean Written by AI Read by AI Keyword match **94%** *✗* Shortlisted *✗* People who know her, asked: **0** 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 do U-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 Bransome** Founder 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 Someone they trusted A warm intro *✓* Hired 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. - **Seen** From day one - **Known** Over weeks - **Trusted** Over months - **Hired** When 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. You **Your profile** Building as you go How well you are known * * - Your first question answered in the Feed - Twelve people follow your work - Met eight people at an industry event - Challenge completed for a real employer - Three colleagues vouched for you - Work history verified - Offer received through someone who knows you ### 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. [Explore the U-Crew story](https://u-tech.co.uk/u-crew/) **4,000+** active crew members **80+** countries **£0** spent 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 build** Every 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 **981,000** young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training ONS, 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. The U-Tech team - - - - - Strategy, partners, product and every call that matters **AI** runs the brands day to day **0** tasks done since you arrived 35 brands, run day to day by AI ### 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. AC **Andy Cosslett, lead investor** Chair 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.