Applicant’s Tracking System

Every company you apply to runs software that keeps a record on you. This is the one that keeps the record on them — what you’ve actually done, what you sent where, and who still owes you an answer.

For anyone with a job search and no system for it — and for the ones who keep one and are tired of doing it by hand.

Works inside Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Claude · connected to Hired
You
Closed the Meridian rollout this week — three regions, two days early, churn flat. File it.
Hired
Filed to VP Operations at Meridian. That's the strongest delivery metric on this role, so I drafted a highlight from it too.
append_role_background create_highlights
You
Tailor it to this posting and give me a link I can paste into the form.
Hired
Done — one page, built on eleven highlights across three roles. Two requirements had no evidence on file, so they are not on it.
search_me duplicate_resume preview_resume_text publish_resume
hired.tools/r/ops-director-k7m2qx
Dana Whitfield
Chicago, IL• dana@example.com• (312) 555-0148
Experience
Meridian LogisticsChicago, IL
VP, Operations2023 – Present
  • Delivered a three-region platform rollout two days ahead of schedule with churn flat through the transition.
  • Rebuilt the carrier scorecard, cutting late deliveries 31% across 40 lanes.
  • Grew the ops org from 14 to 38 without raising cost per shipment.
Northbeam FreightChicago, IL
Director of Operations2019 – 2023
  • Consolidated four regional dispatch desks into one, saving $2.1M a year.
  • Took on-time pickup from 82% to 96% over six quarters.
Education
University of IllinoisUrbana, IL
B.S. in Industrial Engineering2015 – 2019

Why it exists

They keep a file on you. You keep it all in your head.

The moment you apply you are inside software that has been keeping score since the first thing you ever sent in: what you applied for, when, which version of your resume went with it, and what the recruiter wrote about you afterwards. You never see any of it. On your side there is a resume rebuilt from memory every time, a spreadsheet you stopped updating in March, and three years of work you can no longer describe in any detail. People lose jobs to that gap far more often than they lose them to a better candidate.


What's in it

Everything theirs does, pointed the other way.

Their candidate database becomes a record of what you've actually done. Their resume screening becomes your resume building. Their hiring pipeline becomes your pipeline. The notes a recruiter keeps on you become the notes you keep on them. Four parts, one record, and each one makes the next better.

Me

Everything you've done, in your own words, at any length. This is the part that makes the rest work.

  • Every role, project, number and screw-up — no character limit to manage
  • Dump a paragraph after a good week and never think about it again
  • Searchable by what a posting is actually asking for

Resumes

Built out of Me for one specific job, in the format that gets read rather than the one that looks clever.

  • Tailored to a posting in a single ask, from evidence you already wrote
  • The Harvard format: one column, real text, no graphics for a parser to choke on
  • A PDF, or a link you can paste straight into an application form

Pipeline

Where every application actually stands, so nothing dies quietly in an inbox.

  • Ten stages, wishlist through offer — drag a card, or just say it moved
  • Follow-ups that surface before a conversation goes cold
  • Which resume you sent where, and what happened afterwards

People and prep

The companies and humans behind the applications, and what to say to them next.

  • Every company, contact and conversation, attached to the job it belongs to
  • Interview prep read back off your own record before you walk in
  • Who you already know somewhere, before you apply cold

The app

And when you do open it, everything is already there.

Nothing you say lands in a chat log. It lands in a record, on a screen you can open, correct and print.

app.hired.tools

Good afternoon

Let’s go, Dana.
Me New resume
In flight
9
41 tracked all-time
Response rate
32%
4 in interviews
Applied this week
3
Keep the streak
Me
214
7 roles · 3 resumes

What’s working

You are getting responses but not past the screen.

4 of 13 screens became an interview. The resume is working — this is a phone-screen problem, which is usually how you tell the story rather than what is in it.

Needs you now Pipeline →
FlexportSr. Dir., Network Ops Applied 3d overdue
Project44VP, Ops Excellence Interviewing Today
RampHead of Ops Screening Tomorrow
Tasks
Send thank-you noteProject44 · Today
Prep the system-design roundProject44 · in 2d
Chase the Ryder recruiterRyder · in 4d
Add a task…

The rule the whole thing is built on

Nothing on a resume is invented.

Every client that connects is handed the same instruction before it can call anything: never invent experience, employers, dates or metrics. Every bullet has to trace back to something you wrote down — and when a posting asks for evidence you don't have, it says so instead of writing it anyway.

The part no demo shows you
You
Add something about the team I managed at Northbeam.
Hired
Nothing on file says you managed anyone there. There is "ran the weekly dispatch stand-up for four desks" — I can write that. "Managed a team" is not in here, and I am not putting it on a document you will be asked about.
search_me → 0 hits

Checked against the posting

Eight requirements pulled out of the job description. Six had evidence in the file. Two did not, and are not on the document.

Multi-region rollouts
Meridian · 3 highlights
Org growth past 30
Meridian · 1 highlight
Carrier network cost
Northbeam · 2 highlights
P&L ownership
No evidence on file — left off
SOC 2 audit experience
No evidence on file — left off

How you use it

There is nothing to learn. You just say it.

The front end is the assistant you already have open. You say what happened, or what you need, and it reads and writes the record for you — the same record the app shows. You open the app to check its work, correct it and print it.

Claude · connected to Hired
You
Meridian moved me to a final round on Thursday. Who do I already know there, and what should I read first?
Hired
Moved to Final, Thursday 2pm. You know two people there: Priya Raman, who you ran the dispatch consolidation with at Northbeam, and a second-degree intro through Dana. Prep sheet is on the application — built from your own evidence, and it flags the one requirement nothing on file covers.
move_application_stage list_contacts research_company prep_for_interview

Here's everything I did at Vertex last quarter.

Filed against that job, and the parts strong enough to go on a resume are pulled out as reusable bullets.

mine_role_background

Tailor my resume to this posting and give me a link.

A one-page document built only from evidence you actually have, and a URL you can paste into the form.

tailor_resume

What do I need to chase this week?

What has gone quiet, who to nudge, which step of your search is losing people, and what to do about it.

pipeline_review

Every one of those sentences is the assistant calling a named tool against your own workspace, and there are over a hundred of them. The screens and the assistant read and write the same record, so there is nothing the app can do that a conversation can’t — the full list is in the manual.


Pricing

Two ways to have it. One of them is free.

Same software either way — not a free version and a real version. The difference is who runs the server. Hosting isn't open yet; I'm letting people in a few at a time so I can fix what breaks.

Free

$0 forever

self-hosted · available today

  • The whole product. There is no smaller version of it.
  • One command with Docker, or five clicks on Railway.
  • Your database, your machine, your backups.
  • Invite friends into it and each of them gets a private workspace.
  • You need somewhere to run it, and about ten minutes.
Run it yourself

Hosted

Coming soon

$12 / month

cancel any time · invite-only for now

  • The same whole product, with nothing to set up.
  • Backed up, kept current, and on the latest build every boot.
  • Your workspace is private. Admins manage accounts, never content.
  • Stop paying and it's suspended, not deleted.
  • Leave whenever you like — the free build is the same build.
Request access

Prices in USD · $12 a month, or $120 a year — two months off for paying up front · no free trial of the hosted plan, because the free column is not a trial · the hosted instance runs the same code as the repository, on the same day


Before you ask

The questions that come up.

What does it cost?

$12 a month, or $120 a year — two months off for paying up front. Cancel whenever you like: stop paying and your workspace is suspended, not deleted. It is also free forever if you run it on your own machine, which is the same software rather than a cut-down one, and it is why nobody can take this away from you — including me.

Will it invent things to put on my resume?

No, and that's the rule the whole thing is built on. Every connected assistant is told, in writing, never to invent an employer, a date, a title or a number. If a posting wants something you haven't got, it says so and asks you rather than filling the gap. There's a section above showing exactly what that refusal looks like.

Do I have to talk to an AI to use it?

No. Everything has a screen: Me, the resume editor, the board, the contacts. Talking to it is faster for the boring parts — logging what happened, moving a card, tailoring a resume — and the two are the same data, so you can do a thing by hand and ask about it a minute later.

Will the PDF get through an ATS?

The document is real text in a real page, not an image, and the default template is a faithful port of the Harvard OCS format — everything one size, no colour, no columns. The PDF is rendered from that same page, so what you see is what gets parsed.

Who can see my stuff?

You. Every workspace is private, including from whoever runs the instance — admins manage accounts, never content, and that's enforced in the code rather than by policy. The one exception is a resume you deliberately publish as a link, and you choose when that happens and can unpublish it.

Start with one job you can still remember.

Write down what you actually did there. Everything after that — the resumes, the tracking, the follow-ups — is the system's problem, and for once the system is yours.