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Candidate Lemon Platform · Singapore

Stop hiring lemons.

Lemon Man is the shared reliability check for temp, daily-rated and short-contract staff. Every no-show, every last-minute bail, every suspicious MC — scored, shared, and following the worker to their next interview.

Request pilot access → Meet the Lemon Score

踩到柠檬，脚会很酸。 Step on a lemon, your legs ache. Hire one, and so does your whole roster.

0 / 1000
Sour — handle with care
No-shows · 12 mo3 logged
Last-minute bails2 logged
Flagged by4 employers
Lemon Man, the mascot, holding a magnifying glass
S$211–1,072
What one no-show shift actually costs you
1–3%
Of the workforce are fundamental lemons
21M
Estimated lemons across SEA's 700M people
0
Places an employer can warn the next employer — until now
Economics 101

A "lemon" is the economic term for a bad deal you can't spot in advance.

Nobel laureate George Akerlof used it for used cars: when buyers can't tell good from bad, the market fills with lemons and the peaches get squeezed out.

Hiring temp staff is the exact same market. A reliable worker and a serial no-show look identical on a résumé. You only find out which one you bought after the shift is already missed — and the client is already on the phone.

Lemon Man fixes the information gap. We don't make hiring decisions for you. We just make sure the lemon can't hide.

The five classic lemon traits

Chronically late
Shows up when the rush is already over.
Last-minute bailer
Promised the shift, vanished the morning of.
Suspicious MC
Medical leave with a pattern that smells off.
Q4 leave-clearer
Burns the year's medical leave every December.
Data-secrecy breacher
Carries one employer's data straight to the next.
The lemon rogues' gallery: five unreliable-worker types — the late one, the bailer, the fake-MC, the leave-clearer and the data sneak

The usual suspects — five lemons you don't want on your roster.

Two problems · one squeeze

The review game has been rigged against employers. We're un-rigging it.

Problem 01

Some people are lemons

A worker fired for no-shows at one agency simply walks into the next, same identity, clean slate. The lemon rolls on. No record ever follows them.

Problem 02

The reviews only point one way

Workers rate you on Glassdoor, Google Maps, TikTok. You rate them... nowhere. Lemon Man restores the balance: employers pool performance records, across the globe.

Boss confessions

You're not the only one squeezed.

Real grouses, fictionalised and anonymised. Same lemons, different roster.

Composites, not real individuals — based on documented Singapore patterns.

The mechanism

Meet the Lemon Score.

One number, 0 to 1000. Low is a peach. High is a lemon. It works like a demerit system — severity in, expiry out.

  • Each logged incident adds points by severity
  • Two employers flag the same trait? The score jumps — quadratically
  • 6–12 clean months and no new uploads? The score ripens back down
Try the score calculator →
Lemon Score band
0 · PeachA bit zestySour1000 · Pucker up

This worker sits at 720 — firmly sour. Three employers will see the same number before they say yes.

Why employers squeeze

Hard power and soft power. You get both.

A balance scale: the lemon side weighed down by consequences, the peach floating free
Hard power

The information itself

A searchable database of individuals — name plus last 4 of NRIC. Look up a candidate, see their past bad records and traits before you commit a single shift.

Soft power

The fear of the squeeze

Once workers know the platform exists, they behave. The mere chance of being lemoned rebalances the moral hazard — and nudges the whole market toward peaches.

Both directions are live: workers can counter-review employers too. Damage cuts both ways — which keeps everyone honest. More on that in The Squeeze.

The lemon-detector trophy Lemon detector · live

This month's sharpest lemon detectors.

Every verified upload earns a spot on the board. Catch the most lemons, top the leaderboard, wear it like a badge.

"You side-stepped a lemon!" is a good day. "You planted a lemon tree" — too many lemons hired — is the board you don't want to be on.

Top lemon detectors

SAMPLE
1Eastside ManpowerF&B · events staffing312 caught
2Harbourfront Crew Co.logistics · warehouse268 caught
3Reddot Event HandsMICE · concerts241 caught
4Lion City Securityguarding · crowd control198 caught

"How many lemons do you have?" should be a question every employer can actually answer.

The Lemon Man marketing principle

Founding pilot · Singapore

Be a founding lemon detector.

We're squeezing together a pilot cohort of staffing, F&B, security and logistics operators. Drop a work email and we'll be in touch.