Frequently asked questions

Short answers below. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, drop us a line — we read every email.

The product

What is applinity?

applinity is a job-discovery and résumé-tailoring platform for professionals targeting Silicon Valley tech companies — across engineering, product, data, design, sales, and ops. We pull fresh rolesfrom 351 hand-picked companies’ ATSes (Workday, Greenhouse,Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Eightfold, plus direct scrapers for Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and AMD’s Jibe / Phenom), match them to your résumé, and rewrite the top of your résumé for each posting so it reads to a recruiter and an ATS like it was written for that one job. Same facts, same numbers — written for one role.

How is this different from LinkedIn / Indeed / Otta?

Three things. First, we read directly from each company’s ATS, so postings are fresh and accurate (no stale aggregator copy). Second, every role is scored against your actual résumé using cosine similarity over OpenAI embeddings, then re-scored by Claude with a one-sentence rationale — not generic “skill match” heuristics. Third, we tailor your résumé to the specific job before you submit, in about 30 seconds, with a hard rule against fabrication.

Will my tailored résumé still sound like me?

Yes. The rewrite reuses your own phrasing, your own numbers, and your own systems — nothing is invented. We never add a project, language, company, or year that you didn’t put on the original. We just pick which of your real bullets to lead with and tighten them around the keywords this posting cares about. You can compare original vs. tailored side by side before you apply.

How is tailoring different from rewriting my résumé manually?

Speed and consistency. You’d spend 20+ minutes per job pasting in the description, prompting carefully, and re-checking that nothing was made up. We do all of that in about 30 seconds, with a no-fabrication rule baked into the prompt and an ATS keyword check on the output so you can see exactly which keywords landed.

What companies do you cover?

351 hand-picked Silicon Valley companies today, and growing. Tier-1 names like NVIDIA, Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, Netflix, Cloudflare, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google. Plus high-growth: Figma, Linear, Notion, Cursor, Brex, Mercury, MongoDB, Twilio. And select hardware and semiconductors: AMD, Intel, Applied Materials, Marvell, Analog Devices. Browse the full list from /companies or from the in-app Targets page once you sign up — you pick which ones you want roles from.

I want a company you don’t cover. Can you add it?

Probably yes. If the company runs on Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, or Eightfold, we can usually add it within a day. Email hello@applinity.com with the company’s careers URL and we’ll get back to you.

What ATSes do you support?

Today: Workday CXS, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Eightfold, plus direct scrapers for Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and AMD’s Jibe / Phenom. Workable and Recruitee aren’t scraped yet but are on the list. The pipeline is US-only by design — international postings are filtered out before any DB write so the feed isn’t polluted with roles you can’t take.

How fresh are postings?

Refreshed continuously. Our ingest pipeline runs every hour (Apple every 6 hours because their feed is heavier), so a posting usually lands in the feed within an hour of going live on the company’s ATS. Each run also captures a faceted snapshot for hiring-velocity analytics. Closed roles are detected automatically and re-opened ones are reactivated.

Applying

Do I have to apply through your platform?

No. You can download your tailored résumé as a PDF and apply through whatever portal the company uses — most professionals prefer this. For Greenhouse-backed companies we also offer one-click submit so you can stay inside applinity. Either way, the tailoring is the same.

Does one-click apply work for every company?

Today: only Greenhouse-backed companies that have an API key registered. For the rest, you get a print-friendly tailored résumé to paste into the company’s portal, and a “Mark as applied” button to track the submission inside applinity. Lever and Ashby one-click submit are on the roadmap.

What happens after I submit?

Submitted applications land on /applications with a timeline of every event we recorded — the tailoring run, the POST outcome, any error from the ATS. From there you track the status as the recruiter moves through their pipeline.

What résumé file formats do you accept?

PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown — up to 8 MB. We extract the text, parse it with Claude into structured experience / skills / education, and embed it for matching. The original file is kept on file in Supabase Storage; the parsed structured form is what every other feature reads from.

Pricing & credits

What’s a Credit?

Credits are how applinity meters Claude artifacts. The artifacts are weighted:

• 1 Credit — a tailored résumé for a specific JD
• 1 Credit — a tailored cover letter
• 2 Credits — an interview & JD prep card (runs live web searches and emits a larger study card, so it costs more to generate)
• 5 Credits — a text mock interview (~30 min, 5 questions plus follow-ups, full scoring + per-question feedback)
• 10 Credits — a voice mock interview (same as text plus speech-to-text and a voice interviewer, with filler-word and pace analysis)

Claude reads the actual job description against your parsed résumé, generates the artifact, and caches the result for 30 days so re-opening on the same role is free. Pro gets 25 Credits per calendar month UTC. Free accounts get 4 Credits once, not monthly — enough for one tailored résumé, one cover letter, and one interview prep card.

When do Credits reset?

Pro’s monthly bucket resets on the 1st of each calendar month, UTC — independent of your Stripe billing date. We did it this way so annual subscribers don’t get one big pile of credits in January and nothing the rest of the year. Free’s 4 Credits don’t reset — they are a one-time trial of the artifacts, and upgrading to Pro is what turns tailoring, cover-letter, and interview-prep generation into something you can do every week.

What’s the difference between Free and Pro?

• Free. Up to the last 14 days of postings, all filters (comp, workplace, experience level, employment type), 100 results / page, match scoring on every role, weekly digest of new matches, starred companies + watchlist, and 4 one-time Credits — enough to run one tailored résumé, one cover letter, and one interview prep card before you decide. They don’t reset monthly.
• Pro ($25/mo · $20/mo billed quarterly — $60/3mo · $16.25/mo billed annually — $195/yr). Everything in Free, plus the insider data we don’t hand to freebies: comp percentile on every posting (p25 / target / p75), ATS-platform signal so you know if it’s Workday vs Greenhouse before you tailor, H-1B sponsorship filter and per-company signal, and stale / ghost-job warnings on the feed. Plus 25 Credits / month for per-job résumé tailoring, cover letter generation, interview & JD prep cards, mock interviews (text and voice with five-axis scoring), 60-day feed history, daily digest + real-time alerts, tailored PDF export, ATS keyword scoring, CSV export, 1000 results / page.

Can I cancel? Do you offer refunds?

Yes — cancel anytime via the Stripe billing portal (Settings → Manage). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; the Service stays available until then. Fees are non-refundable except where required by law, but reach out to hello@applinity.com if something’s gone sideways and we’ll work with you.

Do quarterly and annual subscribers get the same credits as monthly?

Yes — and it’s a real reset, not one big upfront pile. Pro gets 25 Credits on the 1st of every calendar month UTC regardless of whether you pay monthly, quarterly, or annually. You just pay less per month when you commit to a longer cadence (20% off quarterly, 35% off annual).

Account & data

Where is my data stored?

Supabase (Postgres + Storage), hosted on AWS US-East. Authentication cookies and session refresh tokens are managed by Supabase Auth. Stripe handles billing data — we never see card numbers. See the Privacy Policy for the full rundown.

Do you sell my data?

No. We don’t sell personal information, we don’t share your résumé with employers you didn’t apply to, and we don’t train models on your data. The third parties we work with (Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Resend, Vercel, Supabase) are processors operating on our instructions — see the Privacy Policy for the full list.

Can I delete my account?

Yes. Email hello@applinity.com from your account email and we’ll delete your résumé, parsed profile, applications, and account record within 7 days. Self-serve deletion via Settings is on the roadmap.

Who can see my résumé?

Only you, plus the employers you choose to apply to (your tailored résumé is sent to their ATS at apply time). applinity staff don’t read résumés as a routine matter; access is gated and audited via Supabase RLS.

Still curious?

Ping hello@applinity.com. The founder reads every message.