The GoodStrat Strategy Team, London Tuesday 17th March 2026

To neutralise the “industrial-scale rot” of global hiring, your vetting process must shift from a posture of trust but verify to one of hostile interrogation. The goal is to break the “proxy” (where a different person speaks or codes) and the “emulator” (where the candidate uses AI or pre-written scripts).

Here is a three-stage, “Zero-Trust” technical vetting framework.

The GoodStrat Strategy Team, London Tuesday 17th March 2026

The Global Grift: The Industrialisation of Technical Fraud –

The digital gold rush has ended not in a utopia of global connectivity, but in a sprawling, multi-jurisdictional wasteland of institutionalised deception. As remote work dismantled the physical perimeter of the office, it simultaneously liquidated the last vestiges of vetting. We are currently witnessing the “Great Dilution”, an era where the global supply of IT talent is being systematically poisoned by industrial-scale charlatanry.