Applyable
A job-application platform that tailors your real resume to each job ad, scores it against ATS keyword matching with pure maths (no AI guesswork), drafts a cover letter and outreach email, and finds the right recruiter to send it to.
Overview
Applyable takes your real resume and reshapes it — never rewrites it from scratch — to mirror the language of each job ad you apply to. It scores the result against an ATS keyword model, drafts a matching cover letter and recruiter outreach email, and tracks every application on a dashboard.
Students sign in with Google or email, keep a dynamic profile (skills, experience, projects, education), and generate a fresh, tailored application per job in minutes instead of hours.
Two Deployables
Frontend — Next.js App Router with Clerk auth and a shadcn UI. Talks to Supabase directly for all CRUD (profile, jobs, analytics) using the signed-in user's own token, and only calls the backend for generation and recruiter research.
Backend — FastAPI. Handles the heavy server-side work: Gemini-based tailoring, the ATS optimisation loop, LaTeX-to-PDF compilation, company research, and the recruiter/email finder. Verifies the Clerk JWT on every request.
Data and generated files live in Supabase — Postgres with row-level security, plus a private Storage bucket for the compiled PDFs.
How AI Is Used — Kept Cheap on Purpose
Resume tailoring
Never generated from scratch. Your LaTeX template and your real profile are the source of truth — Gemini only reorders and rephrases existing content to mirror the job ad's keywords.
ATS scoring
Pure maths — weighted keyword coverage and cosine similarity, plus format checks. No AI in the loop, so it's free and deterministic.
Cover letter + outreach email
Gemini writes these — the one place generation genuinely earns its keep.
Recruiter email discovery
A waterfall: cache lookup, then a free MX/SMTP pattern probe, then Gemini grounded search as a last resort. Verified patterns are cached in a shared table, so once one student resolves a company, every student benefits.
Product Surface
Dashboard
Application analytics — totals, status breakdown, average ATS score, response rate, recent activity.
Job tracker
List view with inline status, a generation form for new applications, and a detail page with ATS breakdown, recruiter contact, outreach email, and PDF downloads.
Profile editor
Fully dynamic — basics, skills, experience, projects, education, certifications, and personal attributes.
Stack
Frontend app, direct Supabase CRUD, Clerk-authenticated
Component library for the dashboard and forms
Server-side generation, ATS scoring, and recruiter research
Data store and private file storage, with Clerk as a third-party auth provider
Resume tailoring, cover letter and outreach drafting, grounded recruiter search
Resume template compiled to PDF server-side