The staffing company said: 'we don't have any of that data.'
They're right. We showed a demo with 18-field profiles and they
have a name and a phone number.
This ADR documents the trust path:
Phase 1 (Day 1): Work with name + phone + role. That's enough.
Phase 2 (Week 1-4): Timesheets → reliability. Calls → history.
Phase 3 (Month 2+): AI starts helping with real earned data.
Key principles:
- Never show empty fields or 0% bars
- Show what's THERE, not what's missing
- Trust indicators: 'based on 3 placements' not just 'Reliability: 87%'
- The system earns data by being useful, not by demanding it upfront
Also created sparse_workers dataset (200 workers, 74% have role,
34% have notes, 5 have ONLY name+phone) for realistic testing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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