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TailorFit: what I built while trying to get hired myself

I was deep in my own job search, staring down hundreds of applications, doing what most people do: reusing one generic resume because tailoring each one by hand is too much work. So I built a workflow with Claude to speed it up. It grew into a full platform for tracking both the applications and the career story behind them.

01
Background and Angles, not just resumesYour work history lives in one place, called your Background. Angles are lightweight overlays on top of it, one per job type, so the same experience can lead with different things depending on whether you're applying for a senior IC role or a management one. No rewriting from scratch every time.
02
Logging work like it's social media, not a spreadsheetNobody writes down what they did at work until they need a resume, and by then half of it is forgotten. So you can just vent or brag in plain language, something like "shipped a gnarly migration this week and it went way better than expected," and it gets parsed into a real, usable work event.
03
An AI tailoring pipeline that doesn't hangThe first version streamed the response live, which worked fine until a slow generation ran past the function timeout and left people staring at a stuck spinner with no error and no way to retry. Rebuilt it as a background job with polling so long generations finish cleanly.
04
A lot more than a resume generatorA Chrome extension that tracks jobs while you browse, a public MCP server so your own AI client can query your data directly, a status page with real per-feature AI latency pulled from production instead of synthetic pings, credit-based billing instead of flat per-generation pricing. Built and shipped solo.

Where it started

The workflow came before the product. Mid search, I started dumping my whole work history into Claude as word vomit: half-remembered projects, metrics I had to go dig up, context that only made sense in my own head. Claude and a couple of other AI agents would parse that into something usable, then tailor a resume and write a specific, custom cover letter for whatever role I was looking at next. It worked, but it lived entirely in scattered chats and local files, and every new application meant re-explaining myself from zero. TailorFit is that workflow rebuilt as an actual product: the brain dump becomes a structured Background once, and every resume, cover letter, and job analysis after that draws from it instead of starting over.

Tracking the search

Applications
Company / RoleStageTagsFill
Vertex RoboticsDesign Systems LeadScreeningNo JD25%
Lumen HealthSenior Product DesignerOfferNo JD25%
Cascade RoboticsPrincipal DesignerRejectedNo JD25%
Beacon AnalyticsSenior Product DesignerInterviewNo JD75%

Recreated from the real product (generic demo data). Every application carries a completeness score, plus the stage pills, tags, and filters shown in the real tracker.

What the AI actually reads

Job analysis, on a real application

Must-haves

  • 6+ years product design experience
  • Expertise with complex B2B data products

Highlights

Remote-friendly arrangement, B2B data product expertise is a specialized, high-demand skill set.

Watch out

No explicit compensation range, vague on team structure and reporting.

Question to ask

What's the current design team structure, and who would I report to?

Recreated from the real product (generic demo data). Tai reads the job listing itself and pulls out must-haves, red flags, and market context, not just keyword matches.

Making the pitch, not just the app

A tool nobody can find is a tool nobody uses, so the marketing site got the same attention as the product. The homepage leads with the actual problem instead of a generic AI pitch, and pricing is built around credits instead of a flat per-generation cap, so an occasional job seeker and someone running a hundred applications both pay for what they actually use.

Homepage
Early access, free to start

Your background qualifies you for more than you're applying for.

Most searches are too narrow and too hard to keep track of. TailorFit builds a real professional profile from your experience, sizes up every role you're looking at, and keeps everything organized from the first application to the final interview.

Get started freeSee how it works

No credit card required. 7-day free trial, then free forever.

Recreated from the real homepage, real copy. The headline is the whole positioning: this isn't about applying faster, it's about applying like you actually mean it.

Pricing

Simple, credit-based pricing

Every account starts with a 7-day free trial. Every AI feature runs on credits from a monthly allowance, and topping up with a one-time pack never expires.

Free

$0forever

5 credits / mo

Starter

$9/ month

25 credits / mo

Pro

$22/ month

75 credits / mo

Recreated from the real pricing page. Credit costs are tuned per action (a full interview prep pack costs more than a thank-you email) instead of charging the same for everything.

Running it like a business, not a side project

A product with real subscribers needs real operating visibility, so there's a second application entirely: an admin dashboard behind its own separate login, with no shared session against the main app. It tracks revenue, subscriber tiers, AI usage, and the actual cost of every generation, not just what users see.

Admin: revenue overview

$75.00

Est. MRR

4

Paid subscribers

1

Starter subs

3

Pro subs

Tier distribution

Free 17% · Starter 17% · Pro 50%

Recreated from the real admin dashboard (generic demo data). Same panel also tracks total generations, tokens burned, and estimated AI cost, all pulled from production rather than estimated after the fact.

Admin: credit economy
ActionCredits
Resume tailoring2
Cover letter2
Interview prep pack2
Interview session5
Screening questions1
Thank-you email1

Recreated from the real billing config. Every credit cost is editable from this screen, so pricing can move with actual AI spend instead of a hardcoded guess from launch day.

It doesn't remove the busywork of applying. It removes the excuse to only have one resume.