The original Kleoverse
Kleoverse began as a Web3 Proof-of-Talent product for professional reputation, portfolios and work in decentralized communities.
Built for what people can actually do.
Kleoverse started in 2021 with a simple belief: people should be discovered for their capabilities, not for how well they fit into a resume.
THE OLD SIGNALS
Proxies, not people.
For decades, opportunity has been built around proxies: titles, degrees, company names, keywords and self-reported profiles. They tell part of the story, but rarely the full reality of someone’s work.
Job titles
Degrees
Company names
Keywords
Polished resumes
Self-reported profiles
“You should not have to become good at writing resumes to prove you are good at your work.”
COMPANY EVOLUTION · UPDATED 26 OCTOBER 2026
One mission, a new product chapter.
Historical articles and directories may describe the original Kleoverse. This timeline distinguishes that chapter from the product being built today.
Identity technology developed further
The Kleoverse technology and product history continued through ForteAI while work expanded toward adaptive profiles and AI-assisted talent discovery.
Kleoverse for the AI era
Following a 2026 ownership change, Jan Valkonen began rebuilding Kleoverse as a user-controlled professional identity layer for people, companies and AI agents. This website describes that current product.
THE MISSION, UNCHANGED SINCE 2021
Enable anyone, anywhere, to be discovered for what they can actually do and gain access to the opportunities they deserve.
For companies, this points to a different way to find talent: looking for evidence of capability instead of filtering resumes. Company-side discovery is an early pilot today.
Principles
The website and product should feel like the first experience of using Kleoverse: calm, concrete, useful, and controlled by the person.
01The person before the dataA representation should begin with the person's story, then use evidence and provenance where they help.
02Control alwaysPeople decide what different audiences can see, and can revoke focused sharing when needed.
03Reality without reductionDistinguish what is stated, observed, supported, inferred or independently verified, without reducing a person to a score.
What Kleoverse is not.
Clear boundaries matter. Kleoverse should never drift into a system that judges people or hides control from them.
We do not present people as scores.
We do not make supporting material the identity.
We do not treat the Agent as the authority.
We do not silently cross data domains or reveal private evidence.
We are not a job board, an applicant tracking system or a social network.
FROM THE FOUNDER
Why I’m building Kleoverse
It started with my daughter.
In 2024, I watched my 20-year-old daughter navigate a job market that kept asking her to prove herself through resumes, cover letters, repetitive forms, and systems that knew remarkably little about what she could actually do.
I started ForteAI because I thought the resume was the problem.
I eventually realized the problem was much bigger.
Our professional identities are fragmented across resumes, profiles, portfolios, freelancer platforms, recruitment systems, and closed ecosystems.
Kleoverse is my attempt to change that — one living, user-controlled professional identity grounded in reality and evidence.
The technology has changed. The reason I’m building it hasn’t.
— Jan Valkonen, Founder & CEO, KleoverseRead the founder story →THE JOURNEYFigures from Kleoverse records, October 2026.
2021The first KleoverseProfessional profiles for Web3. 114,897 legacy profile records.
2022ForteAIAI recruitment that didn't depend on resumes and cover letters.
2026Kleoverse, rebuiltA living, evidence-grounded identity you control.
TODAYSign-up is open29,767 people signed up before launch.