Product updates
The 30 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
The website builder can now build your site with Claude Sonnet or Claude Opus; pick either from the model menu beside the chat. Otto's quick chats, in the cancel window and on the Help page, now run on a faster model too, so they get back to you sooner.
The Mac Assistant's listen control now says Start listening in words, and its hint matches the capture mode you chose. If you approve a call while capture is set to Manual, it tells you exactly how to start recording. Download the latest Mac Assistant from your Assistant page to get the fix.
Opening your Resume page straight from a link or a bookmark now fetches what the page needs right away instead of after it has drawn, so it is ready to use sooner. Other pages load as before.
When an employer emails you a screening questionnaire, it now appears under Next steps in your Mailbox, instead of being filed as a confirmation. So the questions still waiting on you are easy to pick out from what is only an acknowledgement.
On an interview, you can now upload the transcript file a call tool saved (.txt, .vtt or .srt), then read it before saving. Timings are left out when it saves, so it becomes the spoken lines that your interview summaries, briefing and notes already use.
If your own file is the resume sent with every job, the resume choice and each job's resume line now say so plainly: your file is sent exactly as you made it, unchanged for that job. No more guessing whether it is tailored on the way.
The resume studio's save bar now has Undo and Redo, on a phone and on a computer, with Ctrl+Z and Shift+Ctrl+Z, Cmd on a Mac. Starting over, clearing or saving begins a fresh history, so Undo only reaches back through the edits you are making and never into a resume you already saved.
On the Applications page, each job's row now starts and ends where the list's headings do, so a starred row no longer sits out of line or runs over its star. The star keeps its own room at the right of the row, and a row's trailing labels keep theirs.
When a job's posting can no longer be opened, its details now show the description we already had for that job instead of saying the posting is unavailable. On a job that was never sent, the Resume tab now says plainly that no resume was sent for it.
Where a search change uses up your queue refresh, a note beside Save now says when your next refresh arrives and, while going back to the search you had before is free, that it saves now. You can decide before saving instead of finding out afterwards.
Your voice copy now sits under your assistant's answering choice in Account, with one status line and the control you need: set it up, or switch it on and off. Setting it up opens a short guide: agree, record about a minute, then play your greeting and switch it on. Once it's made, the same row plays your greeting, and ⋯ holds Record again, How we use your voice and Remove my voice.
On your phone you can now swipe a job in your Queue from anywhere on its row, including the company name and More, and you can do it right away when your Queue opens. Swipe right to apply, left to pass. Swipes also start sooner and move more smoothly.
Your LinkedIn messages now live in the app: read each conversation, reply right there, and let Otto draft a reply you can edit and send. With Full auto on, replies you don't need to change go out for you. Connect your LinkedIn account in the tab to try it.
Your LinkedIn tab, Website and Dashboard now show your numbers sooner when you open the app on one of them, and once one has loaded in the background, switching to it from another page is close to instant. Pages on your personal website also reach visitors a little sooner.
When you make a copy of your voice for your recruiter line, it now starts switched off. Play your greeting first, then switch on Answer calls in my voice in Account when you're happy with it. Until then your assistant answers in its standard voice. A copy you make again keeps the switch as you left it.
The Help page no longer waits for your Queue to load before it opens, so Otto's chat and the quick fixes appear up to a few seconds sooner.
We read again the descriptions of jobs that were missing their details, which brought back about 160 matches, and when a first reading of a job's description finds no details in it, we now read it again before keeping it. When an employer's career site moves to a new address, we now look for the new address and follow it, so its jobs stay in your matches.
Our team now sees what Applystead earns and spends exactly as our payment provider and suppliers report it, so we can plan with real numbers. Nothing changes in your account.
Every Premium recruiter line can make a copy of your voice: open the card in Account, agree, record about a minute, and your assistant answers recruiters in it, in your own words. If a recruiter talks over the assistant, the call note now keeps every reply they heard instead of dropping some of them.
Otto now gathers the overview of your search while you read the Help page, so your first question there is answered sooner. When one of his replies doesn't come out right, he now tries again on his own before answering you.
Your LinkedIn tab now opens on one search score and the fixes that raise it most, with Fix all for me beside it; your weekly results and messages sit together under Activity. Your Website puts building, visitors and search in their own tabs. On your Dashboard, How employers find you shows both search scores, your website visits and your next best fix, one tap away from fixing it.
Your Queue is calmer and easier to scan. A short summary sits under its title, and each job in the list is shorter, with small icons in place of long lines of text, so you see more jobs at once.
When you ask Otto on the Help page where to find something, his answer now comes with a button that takes you there, including your Dashboard and New jobs. When there's nothing to open, like connecting an AI assistant, he tells you where to go instead.
We now match roles from more tech, startup and remote-work job boards to the same job on the employer's own careers site, so your application is prepared for that job and sent to the employer directly.
Applystead's homepage has a cleaner first screen, and Otto is back on it: he greets you beside an example morning and walks you through how it works. Its numbers now count every active job posting we track, more than 15 million, next to the companies hiring and the applications sent through Applystead.
Auto still applies to at most two jobs at the same employer in 30 days, and still pauses at an employer for 60 days after it replies to you or turns you down. Every step that applies the two-job limit now reads it from one place. Nothing changes in your account.
When you ask Otto a few questions in a row, in Ask Otto or on the Help page, he now reuses the overview of your search he put together for your first question instead of building it again, so his next answers arrive sooner. The application and reply counts in that overview are the same ones your Dashboard shows.
On Premium, when your assistant picks up a recruiter's call, it speaks its answers in your voice copy, sentence by sentence. The Your voice on calls card in Account is also simpler: agree, record about a minute, make your copy, then play your greeting to hear it.
Our team now sees more clearly, day by day and week by week, what happens after we send applications, so we can spot sooner what helps you hear back from employers. Nothing changes in your account.
Otto's chat on the Help page now looks and works like Ask Otto. On a phone it opens full screen above your keyboard; on a larger screen quick links to Membership, Applications and Your answers sit beside it. He suggests what to ask next, he can take you to more places in your workspace, and Open in Ask Otto carries your conversation over.