matchlight
Your job hunt, triaged and ranked.
Stop doom-applying. Find the jobs that actually fit you, ranked with evidence, not vibes.
Scout searches open roles at 180+ companies and adds the ones you want with a click. Matchlight grades each one against your resume: green means apply now, yellow means read closely, red means stretch. Track your pipeline as wins, rejections, and ghostings train the matcher on what actually converts for you.
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- 1Acme Cloud · Staff Distributed Systems Engineer87%87% · High confidenceMatched against: Staff / Principal (Variant B)
Acme Cloud · remote · from $190,000 · open posting
Strong fit (87%). Strengths: skills coverage, years and scope, level, domain overlap, trajectory fit. Gap: Experience with eBPF kernel tracing.
- 8+ years distributed systems production experience
- Experience designing consensus / Raft / Paxos replication
- Experience with eBPF kernel tracing → Solid work evidence
skills coverage75%- 8+ years distributed systems production experience100%
- Experience designing consensus / Raft / Paxos replication100%
- Experience with eBPF kernel tracing25%
years and scope88%level100%domain overlap100%trajectory fit100%Judged in 340ms via Jev
Five vectors, zero vibes.
Every score breaks into the same five judgments. Expand any row in the app to see the evidence behind it.
- skills coverage
- How well your background covers the posting's must-have requirements — the average of the per-skill scores below.
- years and scope
- Years of relevant experience plus scope of past work (team size, ownership, system size) versus what the role asks.
- level
- Whether your level, from junior through staff, matches what the role asks for. A resume clearly senior to the role is capped at yellow, not celebrated — see Level fit below.
- domain overlap
- How much your industry background overlaps the role's domain.
- trajectory fit
- Whether this role continues your arc — where your career has been heading, what actually converted, and the direction you state going forward.
How it works
1 · Add Your Resumes
Paste your source text once. Create target variants (e.g., Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager) to compare different angles against the same role.
2 · Find Roles With Scout
Search open roles at 180+ companies by title, location, remote, and pay, then add the ones you like with one click. Watch the companies you care about and Scout checks them for new roles.
3 · Work the Shortlist
Open any role to inspect dimension bars, requirement-by-requirement checklists, and verified evidence scores before spending 45 minutes on an application.
Scout finds the roles for you
- 180+ company job boards — Scout reads the public Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby boards that companies post to, so you see roles straight from the source.
- Search that respects your floor — filter by title, location, remote, and minimum pay, then add a role to your jobs with one click.
- Watch the companies you care about — Scout checks their boards every few hours and new roles land in your list without you refreshing careers pages.
- Picked for you — on Pro and Power Seeker, Scout scores new roles against your resumes before you see them and learns from every "Not for me".
- Anywhere else, one click — the free bookmarklet scores a posting from any job site while you are on its page.
What you get
- Scout Job Search — search fresh openings at 180+ companies with location, remote, and minimum-pay filters. Watch a company and its new roles show up without you checking its careers page.
- Sub-Second Evaluator (Powered by Jev) — every resume against every posting, scored deterministically with calibrated confidence. No waiting on chatty LLMs or hallucinated justifications.
- Evidence, Not Vibes — detailed dimension bars and line-by-line requirement verification behind every badge. You see exactly which qualifications match and which create a gap.
- Adaptive Calibration — move roles through the saved-to-offer Kanban pipeline. Wins, rejections, and ghostings fine-tune your scoring threshold over time.
- Hard Filters Never Rescore — set strict floors for salary, remote-only policies, and excluded tech stacks. Filters cleanly exclude roles without burning re-evaluation cycles.
- Per-User Data Isolation — your resumes, evaluations, and application histories are scoped to your account. They are sent only to the scoring models that grade them, never shared with other users or employers.
- API for Power Users — on Power Seeker, send jobs in by curl, webhook, or email with a personal key and get a daily scored brief.
Simple pricing for focused job hunts.
Start free. Upgrade only when you are in active hunt mode.
Free Trial
$0
No credit card required
- Scout job search
- 10 job evaluations per month
- 2 active resume variants
- Red / Yellow / Green dimension cards
- Full Kanban board tracking
- 1-click bookmarklet
Active Hunt (Pro)
$19 / month
No long-term commitment · Cancel the day you sign an offer
- Unlimited job evaluations
- Unlimited resume variants
- Watch up to 5 companies in Scout
- Outcome calibration & learning
- Dimension gap analysis
- Cancel anytime
Power Seeker
$39 / month
For a full-time search
- Everything in Pro
- Watch up to 50 companies in Scout
- Personal API key & email ingestion
- Automated daily scored brief
- Priority evaluation queue
Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. The free plan includes Scout search and 10 job evaluations a month, with no credit card. Upgrade only when you are hunting hard.
- What happens to my resume?
- It stays in your account. It is sent only to the scoring models that grade it, never to other users or employers.
- Which jobs can Scout find?
- Open roles at 180+ companies that hire through Greenhouse, Lever, or Ashby. For any other site, use the bookmarklet to score the posting you are looking at.
- How is a role scored?
- Against each resume on five judgments, with the evidence for every requirement: green means apply now, yellow means read closely, red means stretch.
- Can I cancel anytime?
- Yes. Paid plans are month to month, so cancel the day you sign an offer.