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Pre-flight checklist

What you'll need before we start.

~15 minutes to gather, ~24 hours until your first shortlist lands. Read this once, then ping me.

4 things to gather 5 concepts to grasp ~15 min prep

What success looks like from day one: Every morning you open your queue and ~10–15 roles are waiting — researched, filtered, ready. That's the outcome. You don't tune watchlists or scoring on day one — those only help once you have a week of results to compare against. An early user told us they spent too long on optimization knobs before seeing any output, so we changed the design: get to the automated baseline first, optimize on outcomes later.

Part 1Stuff to have ready

Part 2Concepts to grasp before day 1

  1. Two URLs, two audiences

    work.velab.org/work/p/<you> is your private kitchen — queue, applications log, profile editor. <your-slug>.here.now is your dining room — polished, read-only, password-protected, what you share with mentors or recruiters. Same data underneath, different posture.

  2. The robot doesn't apply for you

    It discovers, triages, tailors. The "click submit on LinkedIn" step stays yours. Auto-apply is what ATS systems flag and what gets ghosted — the "I read the JD and chose to apply" signal is the whole point.

  3. Tailoring is on-demand, not automatic

    New roles appear on your dashboard daily. You pick the ones you actually want to apply to → send me the URL → CV + cover letter back in ~30 seconds. Tailoring 30 roles a day is wasteful and dilutes quality; tailoring 3 you actually want is the point.

  4. Keywords are the filter

    Garbage in, garbage out. If your week-1 results feel noisy or sparse, the keywords are the lever — we'll tune them. That's the normal flow, not a failure.

  5. Your data lives on a VM I own

    Not Vercel, not Google Drive, not OpenAI's servers. Your LinkedIn PDF, your applications log, your dashboard — all on ve-code. Nothing leaves unless you intentionally share your here.now URL.

Part 3What to expect

Day 1

You send PDF + keywords. By morning, your dashboard has ~10–15 roles waiting. You log in, scan, mark 1–2 worth tailoring.

Day 7

You've refined keywords once (too broad or too narrow), tailored ~3–5 CVs, applied to 2. You have a feel for which roles cluster and which don't.

Day 30

~350 discovered, ~150 passed triage, ~25 considered, ~7 applied to. Conversion is up to your background and the market — but the funnel works.

Two things you get that aren't on LinkedIn: your daily shortlist also pulls roles from company career pages and other job boards, and — for the companies you're targeting — points you to real people inside with a school/alumni tie and a suggested way to reach out. Warm intros, not cold DMs.

Part 4Be calibrated — what it WON'T do

  • Apply for you. Deliberate. Auto-apply gets you flagged.
  • Fix a sparse LinkedIn. Better PDF in = better tailoring out.
  • Find roles you didn't ask for. The keywords are the filter. Broaden them if you want broader.
  • Cold-DM recruiters on LinkedIn. Against ToS, kills your account, doesn't work anyway.
  • Promise interviews. It optimises for quality applications. Conversion is up to your background and the market.

Got everything?

Send me your PDF + keywords + locations and I'll set you up tonight. First results land within 24 hours.

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