I lost my job in February. So I built AI Applyd
Hi, I'm Ava. Solo founder. I got laid off, opened my laptop on Saturday, and started clicking apply buttons. By Sunday I had sent 47 applications by hand. I had 3 callbacks. Job hunting is hard, especially when you're tired, so I built the tool I needed. Now you can use it too.
47 applications by hand. 3 callbacks. Then I tried something else.
By the 30th cover letter I was tired and typing 'I am excited to apply for this great opportunity' on autopilot. So I spent a weekend writing a small tool that filled out forms from my resume and tailored each cover letter to the actual company. I applied to 20 jobs with it and got 3 callbacks. Same callback count as the 47 I had typed by hand the week before, in a fraction of the time. The tool, freshly run for each application, was mentioning a specific project from the company's blog. I was writing 'great opportunity'. It was doing better than me because I was exhausted. That was the moment I knew this was worth building properly.
The first version was rough. It only worked on a couple of job sites and broke often. I shipped it anyway because the alternative was clicking apply buttons all weekend.
The product, in 90 seconds
No marketing fluff. Here's what AI Applyd actually does for you.
Resume scoring
Paste a job description. Get a real score against the systems companies use to filter resumes (called ATS) in about 30 seconds. See which keywords your resume is missing so you can fix them before you apply.
AI auto-apply
Works on most major job sites. We submit the application for you in the background while you do something better with your evening.
Resume and cover letters
Tailors your resume to each job. Writes a cover letter that mentions the actual company. Most recruiters skim cover letters, but some companies score them, so we still write good ones. Long-answer questions get filled from your real history, not generic filler.
Application tracker
Every submission lands in your dashboard with proof, the match score at the time, and a clear status. You always know what went out and what came back.
Free tier: 20K tokens, 10 ATS scores, 5 resume tailors, 5 cover letters, 1 AI apply per month. No credit card. Score your resume in 60 seconds without signing up.
No 30-person team. No VC roadmap. Just me.
I wrote the resume parser, the job matcher, the auto-apply pipeline, the billing system, the dashboard, and this paragraph. I read every support ticket. If you email me at 2 AM about a job application that broke, you're emailing me, not a queue. What I believe: apply to fewer jobs better, not more jobs sloppy. That's a feature, not a startup phase I plan to outgrow.
A few things AI Applyd won't do
I'd rather you sign up knowing what to expect than sign up on a promise I can't keep. Here's the honest list.
Send 500 applications a day
I capped applies at 50 a day on purpose. Free tier sends 1. Paid sends roughly 100 to 300 a month. Sending 500 a day is what gets your account flagged. We send fewer, with a much better fit.
Spray and pray
If your resume says backend engineer and the job is sales, we skip it. The match score is visible so you can override it. I would rather lose the subscription than send an application that hurts your chances.
Promise it works every time
Job sites break sometimes. When the agent gets stuck, it stops, logs what it saw, and tells you. No fake confirmations, no pretending it worked when it did not.
Sell your data
Your resume is yours. I do not sell it to recruiters, data brokers, or ad networks. The business runs on subscriptions. That is the whole revenue model.
Interview prep that knows the actual questions
Generic interview prep isn't very useful. When a callback comes in, AI Applyd builds a prep sheet from the job description, the company, and your resume, so the questions are the ones you'll actually be asked. Next up: salary negotiation help for the reply email you've never written before and can't afford to write badly. No quarterly roadmap. I ship what I needed when I was getting ghosted.
I still use AI Applyd. Not to find a new job, but to stay calibrated on what the market pays for what I do. It runs in the background and tells me when something interesting comes up. Yes, the founder using her own product is a biased data point. I use it anyway.
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