Badge kit & sharing
Declare it. Then say it out loud.
You adopted the Commitment. These badges are how the world finds out — on your careers page, in your job postings, on your feeds. Self-declared, like a license. Free, like everything here.
The badges
HTML snippet for your careers page: <a href="https://irepprotocol.org"><img src="https://irepprotocol.org/badges/IREP_badge.png" alt="We follow the IREP Commitment" width="320"></a>
Share your commitment
Implement. Build. Contribute.
IREP is free. Forever. For everyone. Personal or commercial, an eight-person agency or a global ATS platform — nobody pays, nobody asks permission, nobody gets a bill later. That is what a commons means.
Implement
~15 MINUTES TO START
Recruiters and talent teams: the Starter Guide changes one hiring process by next Tuesday. No new software required.
Starter Guide (PDF) →The three paths →
Build
ATS · HR SOFTWARE · ANY CODER
Ship IREP-aligned features in your product — redaction pipelines, firewalled audit channels, dual-scoring workflows. It's your product; this is the open standard it can speak. Machine-readable interfaces included.
The spec →AGENTS.md & llms.txt →
Contribute & Research
RESEARCHERS · PRACTITIONERS · ANYONE
Use IREP in your work and your research — academic, personal or commercial. Pre-register a study, offer a pilot site, correct our evidence, sharpen the spec. Null results get published too.
Validation plan →Call for collaborators →
The doorway to employment shouldn't have an entrance fee. Neither does this.