A shorter honest digest beats a padded one

A job search that comes to you

There is no dashboard to check. You tell it about yourself once, in a chat, and from the next morning the right roles come to you. Everything else happens in the same conversation.

For job seekers

Behind it

Job search is hours of scrolling for minutes of signal

Someone looking for a finance or consulting role checks the same five sites every day, wades through the same reposted listings, and applies to whatever looks close enough. In a poll of a few hundred job seekers, searching across many sources came up as the biggest time sink by far.

The obvious product is a feed that ranks jobs for you. The hard part is trust. A list that is mostly right but sometimes sends a fresher a Vice President role does more harm than no list at all, because after the first bad one nobody reads the rest.

How I got there

Three passes, in the order they happened.

From every posting to a handful

Four steps, cheapest first. Each one only sees what the one before it let through, so the expensive model calls are spent on very few postings.

The live test that changed the design

In an early test, a seeker with two years of experience was shown a Senior Software Engineer role and a 12 to 16 year leadership role. The cause was upstream: one source gave a title and nothing else, so experience was blank on every posting, the lenient filter let them all through, and matching fell back to title similarity, which cannot tell junior from senior. Then the model wrote a confident reason for each mismatch.

Three fixes followed. A deterministic guard drops clearly senior titles for junior seekers. The verification pass was added after curation. And postings with no job description at all are kept out, a rule on the defect rather than a ban on any one source.

The guard is deliberately narrow

It fires only on unambiguous markers and only for juniors. Anything ambiguous goes on to the verification pass, which has the whole profile.

# 'lead'/'leader'/'manager' are deliberately EXCLUDED - too ambiguous
# ('Lead Generation', 'Associate Manager', 'Team Lead') - and left to verification.
_SENIOR_MARKERS = (
    " senior ", " sr. ", " sr ", " staff ", " principal ", " head of ", " head, ",
    " director", " vp ", " vp, ", " vice president", " president", " chief ",
)

def is_senior_title(title: str) -> bool:
    t = f" {title.lower().strip()} "
    # 'Chief of Staff' is an early-career founder's-office role, not a C-suite seat.
    if "chief of staff" in t:
        return False
    return any(marker in t for marker in _SENIOR_MARKERS)

Written down before they were built

Every real choice has a short design record: what was decided, what else was considered, and why.

What OnePercentJobs came down to: