Terms of use

These terms apply to the use of TalentProof. TalentProof is a trade name of Solutit, Fruitweidestraat 91, 8043 XD Zwolle, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 50836552. By creating an account, you agree to these terms and to our privacy statement.

TalentProof is for people aged 18 and over. When you create an account, you confirm that you are 18 or over; if this turns out not to be the case, we may close your account. You are responsible for the accuracy of your details and for keeping your login details secret. Report any misuse of your account to us.

You use TalentProof honestly: you submit work that you made or compiled yourself, you do not post unlawful or offensive content, and you do not misuse the platform. The use of AI tools when working on cases is expressly permitted (see article 5). If you use your own AI for this (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.), what you enter there is governed by the terms of that service, not by those of TalentProof: we do not see it and have no control over it. In the event of misuse, we may restrict access.

Companies supply cases; participants work on them. Rights to the cases supplied remain with the company that supplied them. If a company supplies a photo to go with the case, or a logo for its company profile, it warrants that it is entitled to use that photo or logo, including where people can be recognised in it, and it indemnifies TalentProof if another party nevertheless asserts rights to the photo or logo. TalentProof may reduce the size of the photo or logo, store it on its own server and display it with the case or on the company profile. TalentProof drafts the case and presents it to the company for approval. After publication, we only change it with the company's consent, except to remove personal data or unlawful content or to correct an obvious error. Employers only get full access to a solution, or contact with a participant, through the (paid) features intended for that purpose. For each case, a company chooses whether participants may put their core and summary on their profile after the results, and whether the case appears there with or without the company name; after the results, it can no longer withdraw this. If a company deletes a case after the results, the case text disappears, but a short version (title, sector, key question and description, with or without the name) remains with the work that participants put on their profile. Participants keep their own solution. During the Q&A round (see article 5), the company answers participants' questions within three days, or lets them know that it will not answer a question; an answer clarifies the case and does not change the assignment.

The following also applies to competition submissions, and you confirm it when you submit:

• AI is allowed. You may use AI tools. What is assessed is your solution as you submit it: how well it solves the problem presented. What you did yourself and what an AI did cannot be told apart, so this plays no part in the assessment. When you submit, you can voluntarily write down how you used AI. This does not count, the AI does not receive it, and the company only reads it after the results.
• Work on your profile. After the results, you may put the core and the summary of your solution on your public profile, if the company allows this for the case. Never your whole solution. You confirm that they contain no confidential information of the company and no personal data of others. If the company nevertheless reports confidential information, we take it offline immediately and decide whether it comes back.
• No confidential information. Your submission contains no trade secrets, confidential information or personal data of others.
• Only your work counts. Do not put your name, origin, religion or other personal background in your solution. The company only sees your name after the results, and the AI and the company assess what is written, not who you are.
• Editing until the case closes. Until the case closes, you can edit your submission and submit it again; the new version replaces the previous one. When the case closes, the last version you submitted counts. Changes that you saved but did not submit do not count and lapse when the case closes.
• Q&A round. While the case is running, you can ask the company two questions, up to three days before the case closes (for a short case, up to the halfway point), without your name or contact details. The company does not see who asked, may rephrase a question neutrally and answers within three days, and no later than when the case closes; all participants then see the question and the answer. The company clarifies the case but does not change the assignment; it may also leave a question unanswered, in which case you make your own assumption. If an answer comes after you submitted, you can still edit your submission.
• You remain the creator. The intellectual property in your solution remains with you. If a company buys or selects your submission through the platform, you grant that company a non-exclusive licence to use the content internally; the consideration for this is your share of the proceeds or the prize money.
• Assessment and results. When the case closes, an AI assesses all submissions at the same time, with the same answers from the Q&A round, and gives the company advice on each submission; the company confirms its shortlist itself — as many submissions as the case has winners — and then decides the ranking. Before the results are final, the company also assesses the competencies of the submissions on its shortlist, that is, of the winners, using a fixed rubric and without seeing your name; that rating appears on your profile after the results. After the case closes, you receive feedback on your competencies from the AI; if the company does not assess them, you will also see the AI's estimate after the results. Only you see it. Spelling counts towards the Communication competency, not towards the assessment of your solution; you may use tools such as a spellchecker or AI. If you think the AI misread your solution, you can ask on your submission for a person to look at it. For a case without AI, no AI assesses: the company reads and decides itself, and you receive no AI feedback; this is stated on the case in advance. A case has size limits, which are shown in the submission flow. The final results after the end of a competition are fixed.
• The bar. A submission can win a prize if it makes it plausible that it clears the case's bar: with a reasoned estimate based on the baseline, the assumptions behind it, and how it will be measured. A plan does not have to prove the future, but it does have to show why it works. The bar is at least half of the success criteria, or the number the company chose in advance, and every criterion the company made required. There is always at least one criterion of leeway. This is stated with the criteria on the case and no longer changes once anyone has submitted. The company picks the winners from the submissions that clear the bar, and cannot withdraw a prize because it finds the quality disappointing. If the company considers that a submission on its shortlist does not clear the bar, it reports this with a reason. A person at TalentProof decides, not the AI. If the submission does not clear the bar, it drops off the shortlist and the prize for that place lapses; you will see this after the results, with the reason. A case that was already running before the bar existed (8 October 2026) keeps the rules that applied then.

Paid features (such as listing a case and invitations) are paid for through our payment service provider. Prices are shown before payment. Payouts to prize winners are made in accordance with the arrangements on the platform.

Tax. Prize money, your share if a company buys your solution, and an in-kind prize may be taxable for you. In that case, you declare them yourself in your income tax return. TalentProof does not withhold any tax for you.

Participation guarantee. If, when it closes, a competition yields fewer than 5 solutions that clear the bar (they make it plausible that they meet at least half of the success criteria, see article 5), we refund the listing fee to the company that supplied the case. If the company chose a stricter bar, with a higher number or required criteria, the guarantee is still based on half. For a case that was already running before the bar existed, all fully submitted solutions count. Prize money that has not been awarded is not charged. The solutions already received remain available as normal.

When you request a case, you choose whether TalentProof may use AI: without AI, AI for talent, or with AI advice.

Without AI. If you choose a case without AI, we do not send anything from your request, the case or the solutions to an AI service. No AI drafts the case, assesses, ranks or summarises. You read the solutions yourself and choose without advice. What we do not promise by this:

• What participants do themselves. They may use AI themselves when creating their solution, as with any case; a case is public. If your information is confidential, do not put it in a public case.
• That the data never leaves TalentProof. The hosting, the email and the backups process it as normal, as set out in the privacy statement.

Switching from without AI to one of the other two is possible until the case is published, and only by you; the same applies to switching back and forth between AI for talent and with AI advice. Switching back to without AI is not possible: by then, the AI may already have worked on your case. If, for a case without AI, anything is nevertheless sent to an AI service, we will notify you within 72 hours of discovering it, stating what was sent and what we are doing about it.

AI for talent. The AI helps participants while they work on the case and gives them feedback; for this, the case and the solutions are sent to an AI service. You see nothing of the AI assessment: no advice, no scores, not even after the results. You read the solutions yourself and choose without advice. You do read what the AI drafted for a participant and the participant approved, such as the summary: that is the participant's solution.

With AI advice. If you run a case with AI advice, you use TalentProof's AI assessment. The following applies:

• You use the assessment as described in the instructions for use, and when you publish a case, you confirm that you have read them.
• You choose and assess yourself. A score or advice from the AI is never the only reason to hire or reject someone, and you do not compare scores between cases.
• Whoever chooses and assesses on your behalf knows the case and knows what the AI can and cannot do.
• You report malfunctions, strange advice and serious incidents to TalentProof as soon as possible.
• TalentProof informs participants about the AI assessment, and records which advice you saw and what you decided; for each case, you can see this accountability record yourself. If you run a case for your own employees, you inform them and your works council (ondernemingsraad) yourself in advance.
• If a participant asks for an explanation of a decision, you forward that request to TalentProof.

For each case, a company can indicate that it is open to offering talent with a good solution something: an internship or graduation project, a side job, a job or an assignment. This is shown on the case. After the first submission, the company can only extend this, not withdraw it. For each case, a participant can indicate what they are open to at that company. This is voluntary and does not count in the assessment. The company only sees it after the results, just like your name; the AI never receives it. You can always change or withdraw it.

• Introduction through TalentProof. A company is introduced to a participant through TalentProof as soon as, after the results of its case, it gets to see that participant's name, or as soon as the participant accepts a contact request from the company. Whichever of the two comes first counts.
• Match through TalentProof. If, within 12 months of the introduction, an internship, side job, job or assignment comes about between the participant and the company, or a business belonging to the company, that is a match through TalentProof. This also applies if the contact afterwards took place outside the platform.
• Reporting. If such an appointment comes about, the company or the participant reports it in the recruitment record within 30 days of the start. The other party confirms or disputes the report. In the event of a dispute, TalentProof asks both for an explanation.
• The record. TalentProof records, with a timestamp, what determines whether an appointment came about through TalentProof: participation in the case, what both sides were open to, the results, when the company viewed the solution with the participant's name, contact requests and reports. Entries can only be added. Each entry carries the fingerprint of the previous one, so that any later change is visible. The participant and the company can view and save the record; they are both notified of every report.
• Costs. There are currently no costs attached to a match through TalentProof. If costs are introduced, they will only apply to introductions made after they take effect, and they will be listed in the price list in advance.

TalentProof provides the platform “as is”. Assessments are indicative. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for decisions made on the basis of the platform.

You can terminate your account; as a participant, you do this yourself under Settings. We may terminate an account in the event of a breach of these terms. Data that we are required by law to keep is retained for the statutory period; see the retention periods in the privacy statement.

We may amend these terms. We will inform you of significant changes.