Acanetic
A job register built only for UK academic work.
Omnitholos designed, built and launched Acanetic in 2026.
acanetic.co.uk(opens in a new tab)- Platforms:
- Web
- Tags:
- Web app
- Matching engine
- Two-sided marketplace
The brief
UK universities, colleges and research institutes post academic roles described in academic vocabulary: subject, study level, a named role such as external examiner, and contract length. Scholars build free profiles in the same vocabulary and receive ranked matches.
Decisions worth explaining
A taxonomy, not tags
An academic taxonomy is the data model instead of free-text tags, so posts and people are described in the same vocabulary and can be matched on it.
Matching, not keyword search
A matching engine scores every scholar against every active post and shows a match percentage, instead of relying on keyword search.
One email, two roles
One email address can hold both a scholar account and an institution account, because the same person often wears both hats.
What we built
Product
- React web app
- Two-sided onboarding for scholars and institutions
- Job posting and applications with CV and certificate uploads
- Saved jobs
- Messaging between scholars and institutions
Backend
- Express API with MongoDB
- Email verification and notifications
- Recommendation engine scoring every scholar against every active post, with a match percentage
Operations
- Separate admin dashboard for moderation, verification, analytics and activity logs
- Staging and production environments
Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- Node
- Express
- MongoDB
- Cloudinary
- Resend
- Railway