Intake · Search Patterns

Tell us how you're
actually searching.

The way you hunt for roles — the titles you type, the filters you toggle, the companies you skip past — is the clearest signal we get about what you want. Twelve minutes. No resume yet. Just the search vocabulary already in your head.

Autosaved just now 8 sections · ~15 min Only your writer reads this
Section 01 · Titles

What do you type into the search bar?

Copy the exact strings you use. Quotes and all. If you toggle between three variants, we want all three — because that tells us which versions of "you" are already out there, getting results.

Why we ask. Job titles are noisy. Two companies with identical roles will spell it four different ways. Giving us your search strings tells us which spellings the resume needs to win — and which ones to stay out of.
Section 02 · Seniority

Where do you fit on the ladder?

Approximate is fine. We use this to calibrate how many years of "senior" signal the resume has to land — and to catch you if you're punching above or below your weight.

8yrs
Individual contributor Manager Director VP Exec / C-suite Founder
Section 03 · Keywords

What words have to be in the job description?

The skills, stack, or domain language you scan for before you click apply. Be specific — "B2B SaaS" is more useful than "software." "0→1" is more useful than "ambiguity."

Why we ask. The red-flag column is the interesting one. It tells us what you don't want to rewrite yourself into — which is often more useful than the must-haves when we edit your bullets.
Section 04 · Where

What kind of company are you aiming at?

Stage, size, industry, specific companies. If you have a dream list taped to your monitor — paste it.

Fintech Healthtech B2B SaaS Consumer AI / ML Devtools Climate Marketplace Edtech Security Hardware Gov / civic Open
Pre-seed / Seed Series A–B Growth (C+) Late-stage / pre-IPO Public Bootstrapped No preference
< 25 25–100 100–500 500–2,000 2,000+
Section 05 · Non-negotiables

What has to be true for you to say yes?

The real floor, not the aspirational one. If a role doesn't meet this bar, we won't pitch you into it.

Fully remote only Hybrid (1–2 days) Hybrid (3+ days) In-office Open to anything
PT MT CT ET GMT / EU Async-only
Base salary minimum (USD)
On-target total (optional)
Section 06 · Dream roles

Paste five listings you'd actually take.

Not aspirational, not generic. Five live job postings you've found online that you'd interview for tomorrow if they'd have you. The URL is the important bit — everything else we can fill in. These five become the north star your writer aims at.

01north star
02second
03third
04fourth
05fifth
Why we ask. These five URLs are the most useful thing on this whole form. Your writer reads every one of them, pulls the exact language those teams use, and writes the resume directly against those postings. Specificity > summary, every time.
Section 07 · The platforms

Show us the sites you actually open.

The platforms where you search, the saved queries you've built up, and — the gold — links to three jobs you've bookmarked recently. Those three URLs tell us more than a ten-page questionnaire could.

LinkedIn Wellfound Otta / Welcome to the Jungle Built In Lever job boards Ashby boards Greenhouse boards YC Work at a Startup Gem / Hunt Club Newsletters (Read, Lenny's, etc.) Discord / Slack groups X / Twitter Recruiter inbox Referrals only
Copy the URL or the full query string. We'll translate them into keyword pools for your writer.
These are our proof of what "good" looks like to you. Anonymous is fine if the link is dead-simple to fetch.
Why we ask. Search URLs are the rarest, most useful thing a candidate gives us. Your saved search is literally the algorithm you've trained on yourself. We'd rather read that than a thousand words of "I'm looking for impact."
Section 08 · Cadence

How often are you in the hunt?

Last mile. How actively you're looking, how long you've been at it, and the one-sentence description of the listing you wish would show up tomorrow morning.

Daily Few times a week Weekly Monthly / passive Open but not hunting
< 1 month 1–3 months 3–6 months 6–12 months 12+ months
If you could conjure the perfect listing into your inbox tomorrow morning, what would the headline say?
Whatever version you'd send today. Your writer reads it end to end before we touch a bullet.
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Your writer reads every field before they touch the resume. The richer the intake, the sharper round one.

Why this intake, not a traditional one

We're not asking for your story.
We're asking for your search bar.

Most intake forms ask candidates to summarize themselves — what they're good at, what they want, a paragraph about their "ideal role." We've found that's where truth goes to die. So we flipped it.

01 / SEARCH VOCABULARY

Your queries are the brief.

The exact strings you type into LinkedIn are the tightest brief we'll ever get. They already have the titles, keywords, and filters that represent how you see the market.

02 / THREE REAL JDS

Bookmarked listings beat adjectives.

Three job descriptions you've saved this week tell us more about your target than any self-description could. We reverse-engineer the resume from those, not from a wish list.

03 / RED FLAGS MATTER

The words you avoid do real work.

"Red-flag keywords" is the field writers lean on hardest. Knowing what you don't want to be sold as shapes every bullet. It's the quiet half of positioning.