It startedwith a grievance
We spent years watching hiring fail from the inside: searches that surfaced the same names, piles nobody finished reading, the right person losing out to whoever knew someone. And just as long from the outside: applications that vanished, pitches for the wrong roles, ghosting where an answer should have been.
The market was never short of talent, and never short of work. It was short of a way for one to recognise the other. And most of what sits in between, the ads, the boards, the agencies, profits from that distance instead of closing it.
So we started OpenGate to close it: an intelligence that reads the whole market at once and introduces people who should already have met.
We are a small team in Brisbane. We answer our own mail.
The founders · Brisbane, 2026
opengate
A gate's whole purpose is its opening. Most of hiring's machinery works the other way, as a barrier that someone, somewhere, charges to hold shut. We put the open gate in our name so we can never forget which way ours is supposed to stand.
nouvelle
A piece of news. A short story. The French for new. She is named for all three: the news is the introduction she brings you, the story is what starts when two people take it, and the new is the part she proves again every day.
Corrections
Hiring's standard lines have run uncorrected for years. For the record:
Please attach a current resume and cover letter.
A resume is a rumour about a person. We deal in better evidence.
Only successful applicants will be contacted.
Silence is this industry's worst habit. Everyone gets an answer here.
Applications are assessed by our automated system.
Software should do the legwork. People should do the deciding.