KiHire.
One profile gives physiotherapists and occupational therapists matching courses and jobs, a direct line to colleagues who know their field and one place for their exercises. The beta is open across Germany.
- The problem
- Most employers in therapy are always short of staff, and hardly any of them have someone whose whole job is hiring. Therapists spend the day treating patients and rarely browse job boards in the evening. Courses are scattered across dozens of providers.
- The solution
- You set up a profile, starting with your profession, your area and, if you like, the courses you’ve done. From that, KiHire shows you courses and jobs that suit you. Employers can approach you, and they only learn your name once you say yes. The same profile lets you put a question to colleagues who know the subject and, if you’re a physio, keep your exercises in one place.
- How I built it
- I designed the concept and the data model, and built the matching and the pages with my AI team. The only AI in KiHire is in PhysioGPT, the exercise assistant. It plays no part in choosing therapists.
What the film shows.
The film uses sample data and fictional people. The screens below show KiHire as of October 2026.
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The home page: four things your profile does for you
Hiring in therapy is hard.
A LinkedIn Recruiter seat costs around $10,000 a year according to market reports, and recruitment agencies usually take 20 to 30% of the annual salary. A job ad only reaches people who happen to be looking. For an employer filling two or three jobs a year, none of that fits.
What your profile does for you.
Finding courses. KiHire shows you courses that suit your profile and your area, or all of them if you prefer, online courses included. One tap adds a course to your list as done, booked or on your wish list.
The job finds you. You don’t write applications. Employers see your profile without your name and send a request, and one click in the email takes you to your yes or no. Your name, phone number and email address only go to the employer after a yes. A complete profile covers eight details, from experience and working hours to salary.
Asking colleagues. A clinical question, say before a course or while you’re settling into a new job, takes three short steps. KiHire sends it to up to five colleagues who are happy to be asked about that subject. If one of them agrees, you swap contact details and carry on by email or WhatsApp, outside KiHire, and employers never see the exchange.
Your exercises in one place. Once your profile is complete, you also get PhysioGPT, an AI assistant for physiotherapy and occupational therapy. It has 97 neurology exercises in nine areas, suggests ones that fit a goal, and turns an Instagram, TikTok or YouTube link, or a photo, into an exercise of your own. You can also work through a case step by step. Before a case goes to the AI, names become initials, and addresses and phone numbers are removed. The detection doesn’t catch everything, so leave out anything that could identify a patient. Photos go to the AI unchanged; it is Claude, made by Anthropic. There is more at KiHire itself.
Next: kihire.de/physiogpt
Employers come at it from the other side. They describe a job with the same criteria therapists use for their profile. For each job they see the therapists who fit and others in the same field, and send a request.
Profiles, jobs and colleague questions are open to physiotherapists and occupational therapists; PhysioGPT is open to both. I’m still building it, and feedback from therapists and employers shapes each version.
/ tech decisions
Three decisions that mattered.
Matching
No language model
KiHire matches without a language model, the kind of AI that reads and writes text. Two things have to fit: profession and working hours. After that, KiHire scores five criteria: courses, patient groups, distance, type of employer and salary. Distance never rules a job out; it only helps decide what comes first. You can check every suggestion by hand.
Data
Courses and jobs in one database
The first version ran on Notion. Today everything sits in Supabase, a database with sign-in and background jobs built in. It holds a catalogue of around 2,000 courses from 17 providers, with dates, venues and prices (as of October 2026). You book with the provider. New suggestions and requests only come from employers who have posted their job on KiHire themselves.
Model
Free for therapists
Therapists pay nothing. Employers can post a job and see matching profiles free of charge. They pay only for each contact a therapist agrees to share, with no commission and no subscription. While the beta runs, that contact is free as well.
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