On the record · Edition 412

The job hunt,
finally edited.

Job-CoPilot was built in an Amsterdam flat in the autumn of 2025, out of frustration with a job market that wastes time on both sides of the table.

The problem

The modern job hunt is a volume game played by everyone who shouldn't be playing it. Senior engineers spray 200 CVs a month. Hiring managers drown in 3,000 applications per role. Recruiters filter with keywords that barely read the résumé. The result is a market where nobody reads carefully.

We started asking a smaller question: what if one person had an editor? Not a recruiter, not a coach — an editor. Someone who read every posting carefully, scored the shape of the fit against your own shape, and handed back a tailored answer.

"An editor, not a recruiter. Somebody who reads carefully."

The approach

Job-CoPilot is built on careful reading. Every posting is scored 0–100 against your profile, with a one-paragraph rationale you can actually evaluate. Every tailored CV is generated with the job description open in the model's context, not a template.

We use Gemini for reasoning because it's genuinely good at long-context work. We don't hallucinate companies or roles. We don't invent numbers on your CV.

The interface is editorial on purpose. A job hunt is an intimate thing — we thought it deserved a quieter room than the usual job-board strip mall.

The principles

Three rules we
won't bend.

Every product ships with a spine. These are ours — enforced in design reviews, PR reviews, and pricing changes.

01

Your data is yours

We don't sell CVs. We don't train on your profile. You can export everything, then delete, in two clicks.

02

No dark patterns

No fake deadlines, no "47 others viewing", no guilt nudges. The product has to earn a click the honest way.

03

Quiet by default

We email when you ask us to. Nothing else. The only streak we track is the one you start yourself.

The team

Small, senior,
and in the room.

A tiny team with one advisor on call. You'll talk to one of us if you write in.

TN

Tuan Nguyen

Founder · Product

Data architect turned founder. Shipped data platforms at Rabobank and Adivi. Writes the weekly engineering notes.

AG

Alice Graves

Career coach · Advisor

A decade in recruitment across start-ups and Fortune 500s. Now a career coach helping people design careers they love — and shaping the coaching voice behind the co-pilot.

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