Case study 09 · Career tech

WorkApply

Job hunting means typing the same details into a hundred forms. WorkApply finds the jobs that fit, writes a tailored application for each, and applies for you.

Product
AI job-search autopilot
Industry
Career tech, consumer
What we did
Product design, matching engine, web app
Stage
Working product, pre-seed
WorkApply
Senior Frontend EngineerLumen Health · Remote · US
86%
Full-stack EngineerParcel & Co · Austin, TX · Hybrid
81%
React Native DeveloperTidewater · Remote · US
74%
Staff Platform EngineerNorthwind Labs · Boston, MA
58%
Data EngineerBrightline · Chicago, IL
49%
Lumen Health
Senior Frontend Engineer

Remote · US · $140K–$165K

86%
Why it matches your resume
✓ React✓ TypeScript✓ Design systems✓ TestingHealthcare
Tailored application

“I've spent six years building React and TypeScript products, most recently a design system used by four product teams. I care about tests as much as pixels, and I'd love to bring that to Lumen Health.”

Strong match. Auto-apply would send this within 24 hours, unless you stop it.

Try it: open a job to see why it matches, thumb a job up or down, then switch auto-apply on and open Applications. The jobs are fictional.

10×

more relevant applications sent, in a fraction of the time.

1 resume

uploaded once. No more retyping the same details.

24 hrs

to stop any automatic application before it is sent.

1 tracker

for every application, from queued to offer.

01The problem

Job hunting is a full-time job.With no pay and no replies.

The same name, address and work history typed into one application form after another. Hundreds of applications sent into silence. And a good share of the listings were never real jobs in the first place.

Industry figures as cited by WorkApply: LinkedIn via NYT and eWeek (2025), Greenhouse 2024 State of Job Hunting, Ashby Talent Trends (2024).

02How it works

From resume to applied.Without the forms.

Tap any step to see what happens there. Matching and the automatic form filling are the hard parts, and where most of the work went.

Step 2

Read. The resume is read into a structured profile: skills, years, titles and the kind of work the person has actually done.

03The detail that matters

Autopilot,with your hand on the switch.

An app that applies to jobs in your name has to earn trust. Nobody wants to discover they applied to a role they would never take.

So nothing is sent the moment it is matched. Strong matches wait 24 hours, every score shows the skills behind it, a thumbs-down removes a job and teaches the matcher, and auto-apply turns off with one switch.

Match
Shows its reasons

Every score lists the skills that match and the ones that are missing.

Wait
24 hours to stop it

Strong matches are queued, not sent. Any one can be cancelled before it goes.

You
Teach and decide

Thumbs up or down sharpen the matching. Auto-apply switches off any time.

04How we built it

The hard partis the forms.

Writing a cover letter is the easy bit. The hard bit is that every company uses a different application system, each asking the same questions in a different way, on a different page, with different required fields.

So the core of WorkApply is a profile answered once and mapped onto each form, plus matching that gets sharper from what the job seeker likes, skips, and hears back from.

Step 1

Profile

Resume parsing into a structured profile, plus preferences for role, place and pay.

Step 2

Jobs

Collecting fresh listings from across the web, every day.

Step 3

Matching

A score per job with matching and missing skills, tuned by thumbs up and down.

Step 4

Applying

Tailored applications, form filling, the 24-hour queue and the tracker.

For the technical reader.

Resume parsing

AI turns any resume layout into structured skills, titles and experience.

Matching engine

Scores each job against the profile and explains the score in skills.

Form auto-fill

One answered profile mapped onto many different application systems.

Next.js app

Job queue, job details, auto-apply controls and the applications tracker.

Common questions

What is WorkApply?

An AI job-search autopilot. It reads a resume once, finds roles that fit, tailors each application and applies for the job seeker.

How are jobs matched?

Each job gets a score against the profile, with the matching and missing skills shown. Thumbs up and down sharpen the matching.

Can an automatic application be stopped?

Yes. Strong matches wait 24 hours before they are sent, and auto-apply turns off with one switch.

How are applications tracked?

One tracker shows every application from queued to applied, interviewing and offer.

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