NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — April 14, 2026 — TruAlign Partners today announced the launch of CarbonCore, a new hiring model designed for small and mid-sized medical device companies building and scaling commercial teams in a more complex talent market.

The launch comes at a time when AI-generated resumes, automated outreach and rising applicant volume are reshaping how companies identify and engage talent. While those shifts have increased activity across the hiring process, they have not necessarily improved hiring accuracy. In many cases, companies are being forced to sort through more noise while the candidates most likely to succeed remain harder to identify, reach and assess through traditional recruiting approaches.

CarbonCore was developed in response to that shift. Rather than starting with inbound applications or résumé screening, the model begins by defining what success actually looks like in the role, aligning stakeholders around the requirements for performance and taking a more targeted, structured approach to market engagement and candidate evaluation.

“Hiring has changed, but most recruiting playbooks have not,” said Michelle Bohannon, Founder of TruAlign Partners. “CarbonCore was built to help companies make better decisions in a market where more activity does not always lead to better hires. It gives teams a more disciplined way to define success, engage the right talent and assess who is most likely to perform in the role.”

Unlike traditional recruiting models that rely heavily on database sourcing, applicant flow and résumé screening, CarbonCore is designed to help companies evaluate candidates against the real demands of the role and the conditions most likely to drive performance once they are hired.

The CarbonCore model is built around four core components:

Role Definition: Defines success in the role based on business objectives, stakeholder alignment and the real conditions required for performance before the search begins.

Market Activation: Applies a targeted, multi-touch engagement strategy supported by structured candidate materials that position the company, role and opportunity with greater precision and consistency.

Performance Prediction: Uses behavioral benchmarking and structured assessment to evaluate how candidates are likely to perform in the role, not simply how they appear on paper.

Decision Architecture: Provides a centralized framework for comparing candidates beyond the résumé, including interview insights, evaluation criteria and structured feedback to support stronger hiring decisions.

“For many companies, the risk in hiring does not begin once candidates enter the process. It begins much earlier, when success in the role has not been clearly defined,” Bohannon added. “CarbonCore is designed to bring more clarity and rigor to that process before the market is ever engaged.”

CarbonCore is now available to small- and mid-sized medical device companies hiring for growth-stage commercial roles.

About TruAlign Partners: TruAlign Partners is a MedTech search firm focused on helping small- and mid-sized medical device companies hire for critical growth roles. Through CarbonCore, the firm brings together performance-based role definition, targeted market engagement and structured candidate evaluation to support more effective hiring decisions in a changing talent market.