How Job Finder works

Job Finder lives on your Dashboard at /creatives/agents/. It looks for work that fits you, including opportunities that are not published on this platform. It is marked Beta.

In the community feed a Job Finder card can start the same search without leaving the feed. You can dismiss that card; it does not run a search on its own.

Browse versus Job Finder

Browsing /jobs/ is a free search over what managers published here. Job Finder is an AI run that also searches beyond the platform and assesses each result against your profile. It draws on your pen balance, and the cost is shown on the button before you start.

Before your first run, the Dashboard shows a free preview of what is on the platform right now, starting with listings matched to you.

It all starts from your search profile

Every run — manual or automatic — searches from your search profile: what you do, how far to look, where, your level, extra keywords, and websites to watch. You build it once, check it, and edit it any time. Until it is complete, the Job Finder tile says Needs a search profile — build it below, and a run cannot start. See the article on your Job Finder search profile.

If you searched before the profile was required and never built one, the Dashboard can offer Start from your last search — one tap, free, and you can change every field afterwards. Your first build from the portfolio stays free.

Starting a run

• Search Now in the Job Finder settings starts a run straight away. It always searches the web, and the button shows the full price.
• Automatic Search runs it for you daily, weekly, or monthly. A scheduled run that only checks listings already on the platform (no web search) is charged the lower check price; the setting shows how many pens come back when that happens. A run that finds nothing is refunded.
• Spotty can start a run for you. It proposes it as a card first, with the full price, and the run uses your search profile exactly like the button, whatever you typed in the chat.
• A Companion helper can check on a schedule without searching the web. That check is free. If it finds something worth a paid search or a draft, it leaves a card for you to approve. See the article on job helpers.

Only one AI search runs at a time: while Client Finder is running, Job Finder waits.

Where it looks

A run first looks near you and, when your profile allows it, further afield, and delivers everything as one list. If you chose Around my city and only a country is under Where, it searches that country and the profile card asks you to add your city. A place we cannot put in a country cannot be kept to either — add the country, for example "Hebden Bridge, UK".

While it runs

You see Job search started. You can leave the page — you get a notification when results are ready, usually within a few minutes, by email and in the app, with a link straight to that run's results. Stop job search cancels the run and refunds the pens.

The notification tells you what came back, for example how many jobs and how many leads to check. If the cheaper check price applied, it also says how many pens that search actually cost.

Reading the results

Job Results can be shown as a List, sorted by best fit, or By day, where each day shows its newest run first and keeps each run together. Each result shows the title, company and city or Remote, where it was found, when, and a match percentage. Badges tell you more:

• Agency listing — published on The Pending.
• Account required — the source site needs a login.
• Lead — not confirmed — a promising post that may not be a confirmed job yet. Check it before investing time.

Check dates and location yourself — listings elsewhere on the web go stale, and the finder flags what it can but cannot guarantee an external post is still open.

Working the list

• Set a status per result: Open, Application Planned, Applied, or Not for now.
• Give a thumbs-up for a Good match, or a thumbs-down and pick what was off: wrong discipline, stale listing, wrong location, low quality, duplicate, or something else. A listing you thumb down is kept out of your later runs.
• Archive results you are done with, or delete them permanently. Archived ones stay under the Archived tab.

If a run disappoints

• No results at all — the pens are refunded automatically.
• Poor results — a thumbs-down with a specific note can refund the run, and so can thumbing down two different results from the same run.
• Wrong kind of work — fix your search profile, then run again. Most bad runs are profile problems.
• Nothing new for a while — the search profile card offers to widen the search. See the search profile article.

Turning a result into an application

Open the Application Assistant on your Dashboard: your current results are listed there with a Generate button that drafts an application letter and an outreach email aimed at that job. You can also paste the result's link into its URL tab. Edit the drafts before sending.