Private Peer Compensation Survey with Cryptographic Anonymity for Niche Roles
Glassdoor gives broad salary ranges that are useless for negotiation. Levels.fyi only covers tech. Blind is noisy and unstructured. Workers negotiating compensation need tight peer comparisons: same role, same seniority, same geography, same company tier. A new wave of salary transparency laws (EU Pay Transparency Directive, Virginia 2026) is creating urgency. Users want to run private, small-group salary surveys where participants get the same rich report, nobody's identity leaks, and the data is niche enough to be actionable.
Marit Health raising $3.2M for doctor-specific salary transparency validates the vertical approach. The SalaryConfidential founder on HN is using k-anonymity and privacy pass tokens, which is technically sophisticated. The simpler wedge: let any professional create a survey link, invite 4+ peers, everyone gets the report. Charge the survey creator $20-50 per survey. The regulatory tailwind from EU and US pay transparency laws means demand will only grow. Start with a specific profession (nurses, teachers, sales) to build density.
landscape (5 existing solutions)
Salary data is either too broad (Glassdoor), too narrow by industry (Levels.fyi, Marit Health), or too noisy (Blind). Nobody offers a self-service tool where any professional can spin up a private, cryptographically anonymous salary survey among a curated peer group and get a structured report. The EU Pay Transparency Directive and new US state laws are creating a regulatory tailwind that makes this increasingly urgent.