Product updates
The 21 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
When an employer invites you to an interview, the card beside your job queue now asks how Applystead is working for you. Rate it from 1 to 5 stars and add a few words if you like. It is published only if you tick the box and choose the name shown with it. Pick “Not now” and we won’t ask again about that invitation.
Even more questions on employers' forms are now completed from the details you've already given us: follow-ups that don't apply to you, signature and acknowledgement boxes, eligibility questions worded unusually, and lists where several choices apply. Written answers are checked against your resume and redone when needed, and a profile update still re-checks only the applications it can help.
A company page's locations and role cards, a role page's list of where the employer hires and a job page's location now read like place names: "Sydney, Australia" and "Remote (United States)" instead of a country code, a bare "US" or a state written twice. What you saved in your searches, questions and applications is unchanged.
The homepage now leads with one button and its terms, shows the product in drawings instead of walls of text, and puts how it works and the tour up front. The trial and the price sit in one plan card. On a phone the page is about 40% shorter, with a menu in the header and a bar that follows you to start your free trial.
Moving the pay or match minimum now updates how many jobs your settings let through while you drag, and changing a setting shows its new number straight away. The numbers from your last search are there the moment the settings open, before this visit's job data is ready.
When a job asks for a skill your profile partly covers, like AWS when it asks for AWS Lambda, your match now says the skill is partly on your profile instead of missing: on the queue row, the job page's skill pickers, your application record, Otto's answers and Why this match?. The pickers offer those skills in their own group, so you add the exact skill only when it is true.
The pass that re-reads postings whose skills and other details were still missing now runs every hour, so more postings carry their skills when they reach your queue, and more of them show a match score.
The checkboxes on the review step of setup could be drawn larger than intended on some phones. They now keep their proper size and shape, and the choices and checkboxes on the plan and Membership screens and where you set up a domain of your own are drawn the same way.
When we tailor your resume to a job, a skill the job asks for is now suggested only for a role that already shows related work, so an older role no longer picks up tools it never used. Skills still lists the job's keywords. Resume studio's "Only claim tools I've used" now explains both sides: Off lets each job's tools appear in your experience; On keeps only tools your profile or resume lists.
Some employers' forms ask whether you want full-time, part-time, or temporary or contract work. When we don't already know, Applications › Questions now asks you once, and your answer is used on the applications that need it.
Some On and Off choices and checkboxes were drawn stretched or oversized on phones and in the dark theme, such as Off under "Summary on resumes made for each job" in Auto apply's resume settings. They now keep their round or square shape there and across the queue, Resume studio, the Mailbox and the Calendar, and the choices on our privacy request form sit beside their labels again.
We laid the groundwork for paying without leaving the page, and added a check that tells us if setup ever starts taking more steps again. Nothing changes for you yet.
Queue options now shows where your Auto apply settings sit between conservative and full blast. Drag the new minimum pay slider or the match slider and the count follows as you move, so you see how many jobs each one leaves out before you save. Jobs that don't list pay stay in. Each switch says what it adds or leaves out, and your AI agent and the developer API can read the same numbers.
Setup's last step is shorter: work status, a short checklist and, if still unanswered, relocation are one tap each. Where automatic applying is offered, you choose there whether Applystead applies for you or you approve each application. Sign-in shows one-tap options first and keeps you signed in for 30 days. After checkout your membership appears by itself.
When a new question applies to you, it now shows up in Applications › Questions much sooner, and the check that keeps your questions up to date finishes faster.
A connected AI agent, or your own code with an API key, can now ask the Assistant a question, with text of its own for that one question or about a meeting on your calendar. It can read and change your context and system prompt, keep a call transcript you have permission to keep and file the current call under an interview. Pairing a device and recording stay with you.
Some employers' forms need a legal first and last name. When we have only one name for you, Applications › Questions now asks for your legal name once, and your answer is used on the applications that need it.
Some employers' forms need the month and year you started and finished your most recent job. When your profile gives only the years, Applications › Questions now asks you once, and the dates are saved to your experience and used on the applications that need them.
Recruiters reach you on your own Applystead number. If a number keeps calling with spam, open Calls & texts, press Block next to a call or text from it, and its calls and texts stop reaching you. Blocked numbers are listed on the same screen, each with Unblock beside it if you change your mind.
Interviews now has Remove from Interviews: open the interview and choose it from More, or press it in the interview's side panel, and we ask before anything changes. The emails stay in your Mailbox, and any round you added to your calendar stays there.
The demo that creators use to show Applystead with sample data now opens an interview's briefing from Today, Calendar and the Assistant, the way your own workspace does. Nothing changes in your own workspace.