A reference check alternative that doesn't depend on who picks up

Traditional reference checks have a built-in bias problem: the founder picks who you call. You mostly hear from people who'll say something good. Potentia takes a different approach — instead of asking someone else about the founder, it looks at the founder's own real activity, with their explicit consent.

How it's different from a reference call

• No selection bias. The founder connects their own GitHub, X, LinkedIn, and company data — not three friendly contacts they chose in advance.
• Faster. No scheduling three separate calls and waiting for callbacks — most founders connect within minutes of getting the link.
• Consistent. The same ten factors, scored the same way, for every founder — not a freeform conversation that goes wherever the reference feels like taking it.

It's not a replacement for talking to people

Reference calls are still useful for things a data connection can't tell you — how someone handles conflict, what they're like under pressure. Potentia isn't trying to replace that conversation; it's the part you'd otherwise have to reconstruct manually from public digging, done faster and with the founder's knowledge instead of without it.

See exactly what gets checked on the methodology page, or go straight to pricing — one real report is free with a new account.