Build the future of iMessage.
We're a small team building the infrastructure that lets any business reach people on iMessage. Leasing agents, consumer apps, developers, real estate, restaurants. If you want to do the best work of your career on hard problems in AI, distributed systems, and product, we want to hear from you.
Chert is iMessage infrastructure. We give businesses one API to send blue bubbles, build AI-driven threads, and reach people on the channel they actually open. Behind every blue bubble is a person deciding whether to trust the message in front of them. That moment is what we care about.
We're building the emotional layer of trust between humans and AI.
Every person on the team ships. We are deliberately small. The bar for joining is high, the autonomy is real, and the work shows up in customers' hands within days.
Three rules. That's it.
No OKR cascades, no quarterly planning theater. Just three ideas we hold each other to.
Quality over process.
We bias toward the work, not the rituals. Decisions are small, reversible, and made by the person closest to the problem.
Ship every week.
Customers feel us moving. Every week something new lands in production: a model, a feature, a fix, a thread that finally converts.
Hire for taste.
Judgment is the bottleneck. We look for people who notice the half-degree off, who care how a sentence reads, who can tell when something is almost right.
No standing roles. We hire when we meet you.
We don't keep a long list of req IDs. If you're exceptional at one of the archetypes below, or something we haven't named yet, reach out.
Tell us what you've built and why Chert.
Tell us what
you've built.
Drop your resume, a portfolio, a repo, a Loom. Whatever shows us the work, we read everything that comes in.