Pursuit. Job applications, organized and tailored by AI from your real experience.
A SaaS product I'm developing. Track every application on one board, see how well you fit each role, and draft a tailored resume, cover letter and form answers, all from your own profile.
- Started October 2026
- Next.js · Supabase · Claude API
Every screen is the real app, running an invented demo account. Every name, company and posting is made up.
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- Intro Meet Pursuit, a job search assistant I'm building: your applications, organized and tailored by AI from your real experience.
- The problem Job hunting means a spreadsheet, a dozen open tabs, and a resume rewritten for every posting. And most AI tools fill the gaps by inventing experience you don't have.
- Track Pursuit starts with a board. Drag an application to its next stage, and the timeline, follow-up reminders and funnel stats keep themselves up to date.
- Fit For any posting, it scores how well you fit. Each requirement is marked met, partly met or not met, with the line from your profile that backs it up.
- Tailor Then it tailors your resume from lines you already wrote: picked, reordered and reworded, never invented, with every change shown before you export.
- Write Cover letters and form answers work the same way. Anything only you can say is left as a blank to fill, and every claim is checked against your profile.
- Where it stands Pursuit is still in development, and it's getting better every week.
- Outro Pursuit.
Most AI resume tools will happily invent your experience
Pursuit won't. Everything it writes traces back to something you wrote, and anything it can't trace is cut, or left as a blank for you to fill.
At a recruitment agency I built the employer side of this: candidates matched against a job, with a reason for every match. Pursuit is the other side of the same table. See the shortlisting system
What it does
Four jobs, in the order a job search needs them. The tracker works without AI; the other three are where it comes in.
01 Track
A board that keeps its own records
Drag applications between stages you name yourself. The timeline, follow-up reminders and funnel stats keep themselves up to date, and pasting a job link fills in the details.
02 Fit
A fit score where every point is explained
Each requirement in the posting is marked met, partly met or not met, with the line from your profile that backs it up. The same inputs always give the same score, and you can overrule any verdict.
03 Tailor
A resume per job, built only from what you wrote
Your profile's lines are picked, reordered and reworded for the role, never invented. Every change shows as a diff you can edit before exporting to PDF or Word.
04 Write
Cover letters and answers with blanks instead of invention
Anything only you can say is left as a blank with a hint, every claim is checked against your profile, and form answers stay inside the word limit.
Built like it will have paying users
It doesn't yet. These are the parts that are hard to add later, so they went in first.
Multi-tenant from the first table
Row-level security on every table, with tests proving one account can never read or link to another's data.
Billing enforced in the database
AI actions spend prepaid credits, settled at what they actually cost. The ledger can't overspend or charge twice.
Every AI call accounted for
Cost, speed and outcome are logged per user and per feature. Prompts and responses are never stored.
Measured, not guessed
Models were chosen against labelled evaluation sets. Outputs are validated before anyone sees them, and a failed request costs nothing.
- Postgres tables, all with row-level security
- 33Postgres tables, all with row-level security
- RLS policies, tested for cross-user isolation
- 96RLS policies, tested for cross-user isolation
- unit tests passing
- 290unit tests passing
- end-to-end flows, run in CI
- 6end-to-end flows, run in CI
Where it stands
Not launched, no users yet. The product works end to end; what's left is mostly the business around it.
Built
- Application tracker, dashboard and follow-ups
- Master profile with PDF and Word export
- AI fit evaluation
- Tailored resumes, cover letters and form answers
- Prepaid credits, enforced in the database
Next
- Credits page and checkout
- Interview practice from the job description
- Job recommendations