What shipped, when, and why it matters for your search.
The one-page sheet you keep on a second monitor is now a proper document, with a named header and obvious open, download, and print actions.
Each job's kit walks the application as three stages with one focused block at a time, and the Apply stage ends at a submit gate only you can click. RoleReady never submits for you.
The side rail now shows only the cards that make sense for where the job actually is, and there is one clear place to tailor a resume instead of several.
Generate a one-page interview brief from your resume and the job description, then read it in the app, print it, or download the PDF for your second monitor.
Type a sentence like 'add a contact at Stripe' and it happens. The AI Assistant became Quick Actions with a pinned sidebar entry, 10 free runs a day, and a review step before anything runs.
Tabs are now Experience, Skills, Education, and Projects & more, and the readiness panel keeps suggesting next steps instead of disappearing at 100%.
AI results now tell you when they were built from your Knowledge Bank, so filling it in visibly pays off.
All metered features now appear in the plan tables, the resume tailor shows its meter before you hit the limit, and the 40-job wall opens the plan dialog instead of a dead-end toast.
Filter chips for event type and status, a Schedule round action that opens the event dialog right where you are, and a faster first load.
One shared extraction clock across the web app and the extension, plus a status strip on the job page that shows real progress while intelligence runs.
Job pages embedded from Greenhouse no longer produce empty captures or an eternal loading spinner.
New accounts get one welcome at a time, the flow stops re-asking what it already knows, sign-up lands on the app instead of a 404, and the password meter agrees with the submit button.
Each AI task now uses the model and tier its live benchmarks justify: the best model per tier, and 13 tasks moved down a tier where quality held while cost and latency dropped.
The Resume Builder nav now opens your full resume list instead of a blank editor, with one New Resume dialog that lets you pick the template up front.
Autosave keeps your work, snapshots land quietly in history without a naming dialog, and you can rename any snapshot from the history list.
New material in a tailored resume is marked NEW with a legend instead of blocking the result, and anything you explicitly ask for stays unlabeled.
Drag sections into your own order, override headings, and shared page-break rules keep entries from splitting awkwardly across pages.
Install and verify the extension, review your capture history, and manage the controls that actually exist, all pointed at the real Chrome Web Store listing.
Six onboarding fixes: the auth loop, welcome bounce, the seeded starter job, the board tour, the checklist, and a mobile tip.
The standard board layout no longer squeezes four columns into the space of five.
All AI calls now run through Google Vertex AI, with the previous provider kept as a documented emergency fallback. Prompts and outputs are unchanged.
A single in-app preview with its own zoom and page count, and PDF generation no longer blocks autosave.
Session undo and redo with a safety toast on deletes, Enter adds bullets, sections reorder fully, and the editor keeps your place.
The builder gained an embedded font set and a paper size choice, so PDFs render the same everywhere.
The calendar's add-event modal was restructured, and new events default to the timezone on your profile.
Satoshi plus the system stack is now the app's only sans, for a sharper and more consistent look.
The calendar, Knowledge Bank, assistant, and the audited gap routes now fall into an error boundary with a recovery path instead of a blank page.
A lazy-loading pass cut first-load weight on home, job detail, calendar, board, documents, and every route's toasts, and a per-route bundle budget keeps it there.
Database-backed rate limiting, a server-side session gate, cached session reads, and a much smaller auth client on every route.
Job share links got real link previews and IP rate limiting, redirects carry security headers, and API errors return static copy instead of raw internals.
Job-Fit Analyzer, Offer Advisor, Answer Coach, and outreach email flows now have full journeys against the real stack, alongside an accessibility sweep of every route.
Every template renders from shared section primitives with parity goldens, and splitting registry metadata from PDF components cut 1.5 MB from resume routes.
Board reads ship a slim list projection, the board fetches your jobs once per load, the app shell streams in, and finishing onboarding no longer waits on an email.
Deterministic parse failures stopped burning retries, double-triggered jobs are idempotent, duplicate job context stopped being re-sent into prompts, and every call's details land on its task record.
The live app runs on Cloud Run with Terraform-owned Cloud SQL, monitoring, and budgets, plus a one-command flow for production database work.
A redesigned avatar picker with a hero preview, rebalanced step layouts, and less redundant reassurance copy.
A remediation pass removed leftover AI-isms: decorative sparkle, overpromising copy, and needless motion.
An unvalidatable session cookie no longer bounces you between pages; you land signed out with a working sign-in.
All 22 AI functions run on an owned runtime with prompts and outputs kept byte-identical, and the external code-generation dependency is gone.
A fully containerized local stack brings the app, database, and background workers up together.
Four hardening waves shipped: dependency bumps and secret removal, PII and token leaks stopped in telemetry, persisted-output sanitization, and stricter validation on Knowledge Bank, upload, and admin routes.
Board rendering was stabilized and the home page does far less work under your newest jobs.
Capturing the same posting under a different URL can no longer create a second copy of a job you already track.
Several API paths stopped swallowing failures into empty or null results and now report what went wrong.
Resume tailoring got a focused studio: segmented focus controls, inline launch, Knowledge Bank readiness in view, and one tabbed panel for every create flow.
The Cloud Run serving layer got a two-tier hardening pass across probes, budgets, and observability.
Retired the Company Research case study from the personal site; no product behavior changed.
A new /chrome page lets you set autofill preferences and keep a library of saved answers to reuse across applications.
Board advanced filters moved into a compact popover, with active filter chips that stay neatly inside the header.
Long board columns now fetch cards a few at a time as you scroll, so large boards open faster.
Each board card now shows a direct link to the job's application page.
Moving many cards at once now handles partial failures gracefully instead of stalling.
BambooHR, Workable, and CareerPuck postings now capture correctly in the extension.
The applying-resume picker now prioritizes resumes already tied to the job you are viewing.
The idle rate-limit storm across providers is settled, follower-triggered refreshes are stopped, and clear markers show when your board is syncing.
Resume tailoring now preserves your real titles, employers, and dates instead of rewriting them.
The McDowell template no longer overlaps the Experience section and lines up with its reference layout.
The Brave-powered company research integration is more resilient to cache poisoning, rate limits, latency spikes, and silent failures.
The old production Cloud SQL instance was removed from Terraform now that it is no longer in use.
The resume assistant now runs analysis, tailoring, and saving in a single flow, with a clear Saving stage so you know it landed.
Your chosen template, paper size, font, and accent color are saved as defaults for new resumes.
Company logos now appear next to documents in the command palette and across surfaces.
Late-loading ATS forms fill correctly, start-date maps properly, Workday false positives are dropped, and failed captures report a clear error instead of timing out.
Checkout and out-of-band plan changes now show as soon as you return focus to the app.
Files, contacts, events, and boards now stay in sync across your open tabs.
Workspace setup and role-kit status surfaces got a cleaner, clearer redesign.
Adaptive idle backoff for change detection and a higher job-mutation rate mean your moves register faster, with friendlier messaging when rate limits apply.
Contact saves, board edits, and Knowledge Bank deletes now show a clear error instead of failing silently.
Knowledge-bank AI jobs now run with explicit owners for cleaner tracking.
AI output contracts were hardened and the generation contract locked, with stronger provider and test boundaries.
Similar-jobs and duplicate scans read less data, ownership and surface upserts are batched, and AI-job stats compute in a single pass.
Placeholder-only inputs gained accessible names, and experience and education fields now pair with visible labels.
URL-check and extraction responses use no-store headers, and full URLs are redacted from similar-jobs logs.
Company research now has an Ask AI prompt built right into the card.
The job detail overview now shows the documents tied to that role in a compact rail.
Interview prep got a reworked hierarchy that is easier to follow.
A polish pass cleaned up the calendar views.
Greenhouse URLs are recognized, there is a force-capture option, review-first autofill is more correct, and the sidebar matches the brand.
A tune-up refined the shared type hierarchy across the app.
A Vertex AI provider came online with token refresh, and the bio generation pipeline was repaired.
Server URL fetches gained SSRF protection, CSP was tightened, markdown and JSON-LD are sanitized, and debug routes are disabled in production.
The analytics dashboard was redesigned to surface actionable search insights.
Knowledge Bank bios got a wider display and can now be generated with AI.
Collapsed Home rail panels now use folder-tab headers with dense previews, and Active Interviews is more useful collapsed.
The assistant command palette gained v2 command plan graphs.
Interview rounds now use the same labels across the calendar, timeline, and prep.
Settings stopped spamming the server, retries transient rate limits calmly, and a Google Calendar status hiccup no longer breaks the page.
The old interview-events API and its data-access layer were removed.
Managing resumes got the same list, search, and sort you already use for documents, so every resume lives in one consistent place.
Job-Fit, Interview Coach, and Offer Advisor now share a consistent Try again path when a run doesn't complete.
A polish pass cleaned up labels, type sizing, and mobile rhythm across the job detail and interview prep views.
A new Forest palette joins the theme options for a calmer, nature-toned look across the app.
When the Active Interviews section on Home is collapsed, it now shows compact cards with the company logo, role, timing, and round.
Job class is now a dropdown instead of a click-cycle, the grab cursor only appears on draggable cards, advanced filters show as chips, and a sticky banner warns you about duplicate captures.
Long-running AI tasks now show calmer 'still working' messaging and can keep going past the usual timeout, with clearer usage indicators on more tools.
Reopening either tool brings back your most recent result instead of starting from blank.
Generating a strategy now shows real progress, per-round prep asks before it starts, and stale prep is flagged when you update round intel.
Resume previews render faster, each resume shows a real template thumbnail, and mobile sections expand more predictably.
Upload limits now match between client and server, 'Finalizing' shows as a clear progress label, and the PDF toolbar is back.
Top-offer ranking now guards against mistyped comp, salary isn't prefilled from the posting, and labels clarify average time to first interview, counteroffer deltas, and the period each headline covers.
Offers and Analytics are easier to reach, search works on touch, the activity feed opens as a bottom sheet, profile links save mid-welcome-flow, and sign-up password errors show inline.
Captures now show progress and clearer errors, surface the target board name, and open the app in a smarter tab.
The standalone Autopilot product is gone. Its capabilities (tailored resume, cover letter, outreach, interview prep, and form-fill assist) live on in each job's Application Kit, Interview Prep tab, and Home automations.
The legacy GitLab CI configuration was retired in favor of the primary pipeline, reducing duplicate CI noise.
The assistant is built right into the home page and the command palette, with smart, data-aware starters. The standalone assistant page is gone.
All your resumes in one grid with duplicate, download, and delete, plus full mobile support, design controls, and reliable section collapsing in the editor.
A single app-wide type scale makes titles, labels, and body copy line up across every screen.
Every major area now has dedicated loading and recovery states, so interruptions feel clearer and easier to recover from.
Land on a job page that's already on your board under a different URL and the sidebar offers a 'Looks like [X]. Link it?' prompt with no AI call required.
The board now opens with a raised title-and-search header and per-stage icons in empty columns, so the kanban is easier to scan and navigate.
Company logos show right on the card with a hover tooltip for the company name.
A centered AI prompt, a full-width opportunities bar, and a clearer section flow make the dashboard easier to scan.
AI-assisted flows were tuned for clearer, more consistent output across the product.
The analytics dashboard now fetches only the columns it needs, so it loads noticeably quicker.
Behind-the-scenes protections were tightened for billing, scheduled jobs, and service-to-service workflows.
A cleaner visual hierarchy with a proper type scale and better centering makes the job detail page easier to scan.
A redundant link icon and a duplicated company-name pill are gone, so document cards read more cleanly at a glance.
Status-change warnings and other recoverable issues now show a visible toast, so you know when something needs attention.
Offer details now stay protected if the editor cannot load the latest data.
Data exports now show a clear status and recovery path if something needs to be retried.
Interview Prep handles incomplete generated context more gracefully.
Assistant actions now handle a wider range of job states without interrupting the workflow.
Email links now point to the right public destination across environments.
Mobile dropdowns and inputs are easier to use on iPhone-sized screens.
The extension is better at linking related job pages to the right existing role.
More of the test suite now runs under strict type checking to catch regressions earlier.
Unused code paths were removed and diagnostic logging was made more consistent.
AI usage checks now happen earlier, so the app can give clearer feedback before work starts.
Profile updates now go through stricter validation before they are saved.
Production code gained stronger type coverage across the remaining loose edges.
The production release path now has a more consistent build and deploy process.
Ask things like "what are my roles this week" or "show my contacts" and get rich, actionable result cards right in the command palette.
Add, edit, reorder, and delete prep categories and items yourself, not just the AI-suggested ones.
The side menu now slides in from the left, and a new bottom tab bar gives one-tap access to your main sections.
A new button on the home board preview takes you straight to the full job board.
The board no longer renders every card at once. It pages with "Show more," and column headers now show counts.
Search "Stripe" to find every document tied to Stripe.
Knowledge Bank, Documents, and Contacts lists now cap long sections with a consistent "Show more / less".
Times now display as AM/PM across the app instead of a 24-hour clock.
A consistency pass across headers, detail views, edit dialogs, buttons, and empty/loading states.
Faster page loads and quicker data throughout.
Improved keyboard navigation, focus states, and screen-reader support.
The browser extension captures more job pages dependably, with better autofill and a cleaner sidebar.
A broad round of cleanup made everyday workflows steadier across the app.
Monitoring is focused on essential, privacy-conscious error signals instead of behavior playback.
Responsive layouts, proper tap targets, and readable text across every screen.
A clearer prep plan with readiness tracking and in-place editing.
The first-run experience is more stable, with several small edge cases cleaned up.
The document library gained smarter organization, preview flows, and clearer file actions for resumes, letters, and supporting docs.
Skills, experience, education, credentials, and goals now feed more of the app's tailoring and interview-prep context.
Job detail moved toward a focused workspace for role insight, documents, contacts, notes, and activity.
Tailoring flows became better at reusing the right job and profile context before generating a resume.
When a document cannot be previewed inline, the app now offers a clearer fallback.
Long-running AI and document tasks became easier for the app to track and recover.
The job-bank experience added a discovery feed, richer search filters, and a preview-before-add workflow.
Events, reminders, and job-linked scheduling became more useful for interviews and follow-ups.
The extension and server capture paths got better parsing, safer fallbacks, and cleaner source tracking.
Resume, cover-letter, and email generation flows now pull from a more consistent job and profile context.
Older saved records and incomplete generated context now load more gracefully.
More save and update paths now validate inputs and return more consistent responses.
Job fit, outreach, interview coaching, and LinkedIn improvement flows became available as focused AI workspaces.
Offer comparison and advisor surfaces helped organize compensation, tradeoffs, and next steps.
Pipeline, source, momentum, and effort-payoff views made the job search easier to inspect at a glance.
Contact records, follow-up cues, and job-linked networking context became easier to maintain.
Sign-in, onboarding, and redirects became more predictable across browser sessions.
Plan-sensitive features now check access more consistently before starting work.
The core job board, saved roles, application stages, and job-detail workspace came online as the base job-search command center.
Early document generation flows helped turn a saved job into tailored application materials.
Skills, experience, and career goals began flowing into AI prompts and application workflows.
Status columns, sorting, and job metadata became clearer so active searches were easier to manage.
Job capture became better at handling missing company details, related URLs, and incomplete postings.
The core systems behind accounts, billing, background work, and AI features became more stable.
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