Questions people ask first.

No. Everything is guided: you fill out forms and click buttons. The AI work happens behind the scenes. And if you are an experienced AI user, the profile artifacts Candidlyst builds will make your own prompting elsewhere faster and more accurate too.

No. Candidlyst tailors from your real career history. You build a Master Resume Bank once (there's a guided builder for this), and every generated resume pulls from that real material. It doesn't invent experience, it helps you express experience you've actually had more effectively for each specific role.

The Digest is a compact summary used only for scoring jobs, so the AI doesn't unfairly flag a skill gap you don't actually have. The Resume Bank is a much larger, detailed document used only for generating resumes and cover letters. Keeping them separate keeps both jobs accurate and fast.

No tool can guarantee that. What it gives you is an honest, specific simulation of how your application would likely be evaluated, so you can fix real gaps before you apply, instead of guessing.

The scores are a starting point built from criteria you define, not a black box. You can see exactly why a job scored the way it did, and you're always free to override it.

If you change your Job Preferences, your scoring weights, your Background Digest, or your location or salary settings after a job has already been analyzed, that job's score won't reflect your new settings until you reanalyze it. Reanalyzing lets you re-score already-analyzed jobs against your current preferences, without starting over, at a reduced credit cost.

The manual entry option is for jobs that didn't go through Candidlyst's scoring process at all, most commonly, an old application you submitted before you started using the tool, or a job you applied to some other way and just want tracked alongside everything else. Add it manually with whatever details you have (title, company, dates, notes, even the resume and cover letter you used if you still have them), and it shows up in your Library with the rest of your applications, so your full job search history lives in one place instead of being split between Candidlyst and memory.

Yes, always. The builders create a helpful starting framework, but every resulting document lives in an editable field in Settings. You can adjust anything by hand at any time, whether that's a quick fix or a full rewrite.

No Candidlyst server or account database stores your career information. Your job preferences, resume bank, and application history are saved locally in your own browser. That said, using Candidlyst's AI features necessarily means the relevant content (a job posting, your resume bank, and so on) is sent to the AI provider (Anthropic) to be processed each time you run an action. Candidlyst doesn't retain that content afterward, but it isn't accurate to say your data "never leaves your computer," since sending it to the AI is how the tool actually works. Full export and import options let you back everything up or move it to a new machine whenever you want.

You'll be prompted to purchase more. The tool doesn't process further requests until you do. No surprise overage charges.

No. Candidlyst does not search the web for jobs, scrape job boards, or decide what opportunities you should pursue. You bring the jobs. Candidlyst helps you evaluate fit, tailor credible application materials, run ATS checks, and track what happens.

The planned marketplace will be optional and opt-in. Recruiters will not see your Master Resume Bank, full resume, name, or contact details. They will see anonymous profile cards based on relevant experience, and they can send a reach-out request. You decide whether to respond.