About Vera.

Behind every letter is someone’s time.

A professor remembers the questions you kept asking after class. A manager remembers the project you saw through. A mentor remembers how you grew.

When they write a recommendation, they take those experiences and put them into words for someone who may never have met you.

For a candidate, that letter can carry years of work, growth, and trust. It is also one of the few parts of an application they cannot write for themselves.

Writing the letter should not be the start of more paperwork.

A professor supporting a graduate school applicant may be asked to submit the same recommendation five, ten, or fifteen times. Each program may have its own email, portal, form, login, and deadline.

Candidates may add institutions later. Deadlines may change. What began as a meaningful act of support can quickly become repetitive administrative work.

For an institution, that friction shows up differently. A strong application may remain incomplete because one letter arrived late or never made it through. A recommender may want to help but simply not have time to submit the same letter to every program.

None of these problems are really about the recommendation itself. They are problems with the way recommendations move.

Today, that process is scattered across inboxes, application systems, spreadsheets, and separate portals. We think there should be a better way.

We are building Vera to give recommendations a home.

Our goal is simple: less time chasing letters, repeating submissions, and tracking down missing pieces.

In Vera, candidates request and track their recommendations in one place. Recommenders write a requested letter and choose how long they stand behind it. Submitting the letter delivers it to the institutions selected in the request.

Institution reviewers can read the letters they receive, see who wrote them, and check their dates.

Candidates do not need to handle or forward the letter themselves. They choose whether to read it when making the request, and the recommender sees that choice before writing.

A recommendation is more than a document.

It is someone taking the time to remember your work, put it into words, and put their name behind you.

The system around that act should respect the candidate asking for support, the recommender giving their time and credibility, and the institution waiting to receive it.

Vera is building that system.