Getting started
How does it actually work, from sign-up onwards?
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After you join and pay, you complete one detailed onboarding form — about you, your targets, and your standard answers to the questions applications ask. We use it to build your private client workbook. From then on, every working day a trained specialist finds and scores live roles against your CV, re-engineers and tailors your CV and cover letter for each one (truthfully), applies in your name, and logs it. You get a weekly progress update and a bespoke interview playbook whenever an interview lands. You focus only on the interviews — we handle everything else.
Which roles, locations and salaries do you cover?
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Almost any professional role with a clear, advertised brief. Our engine is role-agnostic: business analysis, change and transformation, project and product management, delivery and Scrum, marketing and comms, sales and business development, finance and accounting, HR and people, operations and supply chain, legal and compliance, data, design, IT, cyber and engineering, consulting — and plenty beyond. Primarily UK-based (including UK-remote and hybrid), typically around £50k+ or £300/day+ for contracts. Our rule of thumb: if the role is advertised, has a real job description, and a sharp tailored CV helps win it, we can run your search for it. The exceptions where we're a weaker fit: very senior C-suite roles (usually filled by headhunters, not applications), and portfolio- or audition-led creative roles where a CV isn't the main lever. Not sure you fit? Run the free CV & match tool, or just ask us.
How much of my time will this actually take?
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Almost none — that's the entire point. After the one-time onboarding form, your only regular job is to turn up to interviews. The occasional ‘Answer needed’ question takes seconds and the rare ‘finish it yourself’ step takes a few minutes. Most members spend just a few minutes a week glancing at their dashboard.
Will I ever have to do anything myself?
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Occasionally, yes — and your dashboard makes both cases effortless. The first is a quick answer: an application asks a screening question only you can answer — your salary expectations, notice period, whether you hold a certain clearance. We flag it as ‘Answer needed’, you type the answer once, we finish and submit, and we save it so we never have to ask again. The second is finish it yourself: a small number of employers require a step only you can complete — a bespoke assessment, a recorded video answer, or a declaration you personally sign. We do all the groundwork and your tailored CV is already attached; your dashboard gives you a short guided walkthrough to complete just that final step. Both are the exception, and nothing is ever abandoned or made up.
How it actually works
Why do you apply daily instead of all at once?
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Because timing beats volume. A job you reach on day one or two converts far better than the same job reached two weeks later — industry data shows applications in the first couple of days see markedly higher interview rates, and most offers go to people who applied within the first few days. Roles are usually reviewed on a rolling basis and shortlisted before they close, so being early and well-matched matters more than being loud. Applying every working day means we catch the newest, best-fitting roles while they're fresh (never wasting your name on a months-old posting that may already be filled), keep every application properly tailored rather than rushed, and keep your applications looking like a real person's — big automated bursts are exactly what gets accounts flagged. Match, don't spray — and be early, not just loud.
Do you just use LinkedIn “Easy Apply”?
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We use it where it's the right route, but not in the way you're probably imagining, and it's worth explaining because this is where most services quietly cut the corner.
The one-click part of Easy Apply is the submission. It is not the work. Before anything is submitted, whether it's a one-click form or a forty-field company portal, we've read the posting, scored it against your real experience, rewritten your CV around what that specific employer asked for, run it through our integrity check, and had a person review it. The route changes. The standard never does.
So “Easy Apply” isn't easy here, and that's the entire point. A bot firing your one generic CV at three hundred easy-apply forms is competing against people who tailored, and losing to them quietly. We'd rather send far fewer, every one of them built to be read.
We also don't limit ourselves to the easy routes. A lot of the best-matched roles only exist on the employer's own portal, which is exactly what automated tools skip.
The one-click part of Easy Apply is the submission. It is not the work. Before anything is submitted, whether it's a one-click form or a forty-field company portal, we've read the posting, scored it against your real experience, rewritten your CV around what that specific employer asked for, run it through our integrity check, and had a person review it. The route changes. The standard never does.
So “Easy Apply” isn't easy here, and that's the entire point. A bot firing your one generic CV at three hundred easy-apply forms is competing against people who tailored, and losing to them quietly. We'd rather send far fewer, every one of them built to be read.
We also don't limit ourselves to the easy routes. A lot of the best-matched roles only exist on the employer's own portal, which is exactly what automated tools skip.
Whose email do you apply from?
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We set up a dedicated job-search email used only for your search, kept completely separate from your personal inbox. We apply and create any needed job-board or company accounts from it. Login details live in an encrypted vault — never in a spreadsheet — and access is revoked the moment your search ends.
Is it really me applying — and is that allowed?
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Yes. With your explicit consent, we apply in your name using your real experience, exactly as if you'd done it yourself — just without the hours and the toll. It's like asking a trusted expert to help you apply, done properly and at scale.
Is this just a bot that mass-applies?
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No — and that's the whole point. Bots spray generic applications and get accounts banned. We use AI to do the heavy lifting (matching, tailoring, research) but a trained human submits and quality-checks every application. Quality and honesty are the product.
Will you invent anything on my CV or applications?
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Never. We have strict anti-fabrication rules: we only reframe your real experience into language that fits each role, and your notice period, salary and answers are always your real ones. Everything stays interview-defensible — because you're the one who has to defend it.
Volumes, matches and results
How many applications will you make?
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Honestly: it varies, and we would rather give you a real range than a number we would then have to defend.
Managed Campaign typically runs 120–200 tailored applications a month. Try us once is around 50 for £99, over roughly two weeks.
Those are ranges, not promises. The real figure depends entirely on how many genuinely suitable roles are live for your profile that month. In a broad field you will be at the top of that range. In a narrow niche you will honestly be below it.
We deliberately don't guarantee a number, and that is not us hedging. Any service that guarantees volume has only one way to hit it on a quiet month, which is to apply to roles you would never take. That is the single thing we promise never to do, so guaranteeing a figure would put those two promises in direct conflict.
What you get instead: every application visible on your dashboard, an honest conversation inside the first fortnight if your niche is thin, and the ability to cancel any time — including the day you're hired.
Managed Campaign typically runs 120–200 tailored applications a month. Try us once is around 50 for £99, over roughly two weeks.
Those are ranges, not promises. The real figure depends entirely on how many genuinely suitable roles are live for your profile that month. In a broad field you will be at the top of that range. In a narrow niche you will honestly be below it.
We deliberately don't guarantee a number, and that is not us hedging. Any service that guarantees volume has only one way to hit it on a quiet month, which is to apply to roles you would never take. That is the single thing we promise never to do, so guaranteeing a figure would put those two promises in direct conflict.
What you get instead: every application visible on your dashboard, an honest conversation inside the first fortnight if your niche is thin, and the ability to cancel any time — including the day you're hired.
What if you can't find enough good matches for me?
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Then we tell you, early and plainly. That is the whole answer, and it is the most important promise on this page.
Some searches are genuinely narrow. A specialist title, a small sector, a specific region, a rare combination of skills — in those cases there may only be a handful of properly suitable roles live in a given week, and no amount of effort invents more. We would far rather hit 60 excellent applications than 250 mediocre ones.
What happens instead of padding:
1. You hear from us within the first fortnight, not at the end of the month when the number looks disappointing. We'll show you what we're seeing and how thin it genuinely is.
2. We come with options, not just a problem. Usually it's one of: widening the title range to genuine adjacents you may not have considered, opening the geography or remote radius, revisiting a salary floor that's sitting above the market for that role, or targeting a sector where your experience transfers more readily than you'd expect. Every one of those is your decision, not ours.
3. If it still doesn't work, we say so. If we don't believe we can serve you well, we would rather refund you and part on good terms than take a monthly fee for a search we can't run properly.
A padded number costs you more than an honest low one. It puts your name on postings you'd never accept, burns applications on roles that were never going to land, and — worst of all — gives you a completely false picture of your own market. The count is the last thing we protect. The quality is the first.
Some searches are genuinely narrow. A specialist title, a small sector, a specific region, a rare combination of skills — in those cases there may only be a handful of properly suitable roles live in a given week, and no amount of effort invents more. We would far rather hit 60 excellent applications than 250 mediocre ones.
What happens instead of padding:
1. You hear from us within the first fortnight, not at the end of the month when the number looks disappointing. We'll show you what we're seeing and how thin it genuinely is.
2. We come with options, not just a problem. Usually it's one of: widening the title range to genuine adjacents you may not have considered, opening the geography or remote radius, revisiting a salary floor that's sitting above the market for that role, or targeting a sector where your experience transfers more readily than you'd expect. Every one of those is your decision, not ours.
3. If it still doesn't work, we say so. If we don't believe we can serve you well, we would rather refund you and part on good terms than take a monthly fee for a search we can't run properly.
A padded number costs you more than an honest low one. It puts your name on postings you'd never accept, burns applications on roles that were never going to land, and — worst of all — gives you a completely false picture of your own market. The count is the last thing we protect. The quality is the first.
Is there any guarantee if it doesn't work out?
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Yes — your first two weeks are risk-free. If we haven't started applying for you, or you're simply not happy, your first month is on us. We can't promise a specific job (nobody honestly can — the market decides that), but we can promise we'll get to work properly and treat your search like it's our own. And because there's no lock-in, you're never trapped.
What happens when I get an interview?
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The moment an interview is booked, we build you a company-researched, fully-scripted playbook: company intelligence, the interviewers where we can find them, model answers mapped to what that employer actually says it values, tough-question prep, delivery coaching, and salary negotiation.
It opens with the exact CV that employer is holding, so you are never sitting there guessing which version they read. That one detail matters more than people expect.
On Managed Campaign playbooks are unlimited — every interview, every time, for as long as you're with us. Try us once includes one, which covers a first-stage conversation inside the three-week window.
This is the kind of preparation a career coach charges hundreds a session for. And it is deliberately the last thing we do, because it's the handover: we cannot sit in the room with you, so we make sure you walk in with everything we could possibly have put in your hands.
It opens with the exact CV that employer is holding, so you are never sitting there guessing which version they read. That one detail matters more than people expect.
On Managed Campaign playbooks are unlimited — every interview, every time, for as long as you're with us. Try us once includes one, which covers a first-stage conversation inside the three-week window.
This is the kind of preparation a career coach charges hundreds a session for. And it is deliberately the last thing we do, because it's the handover: we cannot sit in the room with you, so we make sure you walk in with everything we could possibly have put in your hands.
What happens when I land the job?
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You tell us, we stop, and you cancel — no notice period, no fuss. That's the whole point: most members are with us only until they're hired. And we'll be cheering you on.
What it costs
Do I have to commit to a monthly subscription?
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No. There are two ways in and neither one traps you. Try us once is £99 as a single payment for around 50 tailored applications, delivered over about two weeks. Nothing renews, nothing recurs — when they're done it simply ends, and you decide from there. Upgrade within 14 days and we credit the £99 against your first month. Managed Campaign is £199 a month for typically 120–200 applications — an honest range, not a promise, because the real number depends on how many suitable roles are live for you. Cancel any time, including the day you're hired. We built the one-off deliberately, because telling someone who has just lost their job to commit to a monthly bill before they've seen a single application land is not a fair ask. Start with 50, watch what comes back, then choose.
What's actually different between “Try us once” and Managed?
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The quality of every individual application is identical. Same match scoring, same CV rewrite, same integrity check, same human reading it before it goes. We don't run a cheaper standard for cheaper customers — there's only one standard.
What differs is volume and everything that surrounds the applications:
Try us once (£99) is around 50 applications, your dashboard, your dedicated search email, the full undisclosed-salary protocol, and one interview playbook. Your search spec is set once at the start. When they're done, it ends — nothing renews.
Managed Campaign (£199/mo) adds the things that only make sense over time: typically 120–200 applications a month, unlimited interview playbooks, your spec re-tuned every week based on what's actually getting responses, a weekly progress review from your specialist, the ability to send us a job link whenever you spot one, your founding price locked for life, and our written delivery promise.
The honest way to think about it: the one-off proves we can do the work. The subscription is where a search actually gets run — because the tuning between week one and week six is usually what turns applications into interviews.
What differs is volume and everything that surrounds the applications:
Try us once (£99) is around 50 applications, your dashboard, your dedicated search email, the full undisclosed-salary protocol, and one interview playbook. Your search spec is set once at the start. When they're done, it ends — nothing renews.
Managed Campaign (£199/mo) adds the things that only make sense over time: typically 120–200 applications a month, unlimited interview playbooks, your spec re-tuned every week based on what's actually getting responses, a weekly progress review from your specialist, the ability to send us a job link whenever you spot one, your founding price locked for life, and our written delivery promise.
The honest way to think about it: the one-off proves we can do the work. The subscription is where a search actually gets run — because the tuning between week one and week six is usually what turns applications into interviews.
Can I cancel? Will my price ever go up?
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Cancel anytime — including the day you're hired. And your founding price never rises: even when we raise prices for new members, you keep your rate for as long as you're with us.
Your data, your name, your control
How is my personal data protected?
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We follow UK GDPR: we collect only what your search needs, store any credentials in an encrypted vault, never sell your data, and delete it (and revoke email access) when your engagement ends. You can withdraw consent at any time.
How will I see what's happening?
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You get your own private dashboard showing every application and where it stands — submitted, answer needed, finish yourself, salary to confirm, employer responded, interview, offer — newest first, with filters and search. It's also where you answer any flagged questions, mark anything you've finished yourself, and tell us the moment a recruiter has been in touch.
It refreshes once every 24 hours, on every working day. That is a deliberate choice, not a limitation we're dressing up. We could have built a live feed. We didn't, because a live feed is a thing you check at 2am, and the entire point of handing this over is that you stop doing that. One honest update a day tells you everything a live one would, without turning your search into something you compulsively refresh.
On Managed Campaign you also get a short weekly review from your specialist — what landed, what's coming, and what we're changing about your search based on what's actually getting responses.
It refreshes once every 24 hours, on every working day. That is a deliberate choice, not a limitation we're dressing up. We could have built a live feed. We didn't, because a live feed is a thing you check at 2am, and the entire point of handing this over is that you stop doing that. One honest update a day tells you everything a live one would, without turning your search into something you compulsively refresh.
On Managed Campaign you also get a short weekly review from your specialist — what landed, what's coming, and what we're changing about your search based on what's actually getting responses.
What happens with jobs that don't advertise a salary?
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Around 59% of UK adverts show no pay at all (Adzuna, May 2026), so if we skipped them we'd be hiding more than half the market from you. Instead we estimate the realistic band first, from the seniority, sector, location and comparable live roles. If an honest estimate can't clear the floor you set at onboarding, we skip it and tell you why. If it can, we apply and mark it Salary to confirm on your dashboard with our estimate next to it, so you always know which applications have a verified number behind them. Then, the moment there's a human on the other end, we ask for the band in writing — always before you agree to an interview. If it clears your floor we tell you and you take the meeting. If it doesn't, we withdraw you courteously and you never lose the morning. Some employers still refuse to say, and when that happens we bring it to you with our estimate and a recommendation rather than deciding for you. If you'd rather we skipped undisclosed roles entirely, there's a setting for that at onboarding.
What if a recruiter contacts me directly, by phone or text?
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They will — your applications carry your own phone number, so recruiters can reach you directly. That's a good thing. The one thing we ask: whenever a recruiter contacts you directly, forward the email or drop us a quick message. We'll update your tracker and build your interview playbook straight away. A call to your phone is the one thing we can't see — so this small step keeps your progress accurate and gets you world-class prep.
What if I find a job myself that I'd like you to apply to?
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You never have to search — that's our job. But if you come across a role you'd love, just send us the link from your dashboard (as many as you like). We screen each one against your criteria and apply for the ones that fit, then show you the status right there. You point us at it; we handle the rest — the screening, the tailoring, the applying.
How we compare
How is this different from cheap auto-appliers or reverse recruiters?
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Auto-appliers spray generic applications and get accounts banned; reverse recruiters do it properly but charge £1,500+ a month. We're the missing middle — done-for-you and quality-led like a reverse recruiter, at a fraction of the price, because AI does the heavy lifting and a real person checks the quality.
You rest. We apply. You interview.
Two ways in, both published, neither one traps you. Try it once for £99, or hand the whole search over from £199 a month — and cancel the day you’re hired.
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