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 # Yikes, Inc. Gets $10,000 to Continue Work on Bias-Busting WordPress Plugin

 

##### Level Playing Field is a website add-on that lets companies anonymize their candidate data. An award from PNC Bank will help get the product to the finish line.

 

 

 May 24, 2018 11:20 AM ET

  ![](https://3blcdn.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/2026-08/pnc_1786855012.jpg "Tracy (right) and Mia Levesque, founders of Yikes, Inc., accepting the big check.")

 Tracy (right) and Mia Levesque, founders of Yikes, Inc., accepting the big check. 

 

[This article originally published by Technically Philly](https://technical.ly/philly/2018/05/21/yikes-inc-diversity-tech-wordpress-plugin/)

Pit two identical, fictitious resumes against each other and hiring managers are likely to offer [“John” more money than “Jennifer.”](https://www.aauw.org/2015/06/11/john-or-jennifer/)

Backed by $10,000 from the [PNC LGBT Business Award](https://www.thinkiba.com/congrats-to-2018-pnc-lgbt-business-award-winners-yikes-inc/), Fishtown-based dev shop Yikes, Inc. is hoping to change that via a bias-busting WordPressplugin called Level Playing Field (LPF).

Yikes cofounder Tracy Levesque — who co-owns the company alongside wife Mia Levesque — said the plugin will help hiring managers take a look at anonymized candidate data, stripped of gender, age and other information, in the hopes of making the process leading up to interviews as free as possible of unconscious bias.

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